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I use syncthing but not as peer to peer, but as client-server-client. My phone takes images so large - 108MP - that my normal service (an instance of Up1 paste

I use syncthing but not as peer to peer, but as client-server-client. My phone takes images so large - 108MP - that my normal service (an instance of Up1 pastebin) hangs on complex scenes while encrypting in android Chrome. Installed syncthing on a VM I already had with public facing httpd and I can just hit "share to syncthing". The linking part isn't automated, I type it by hand then copy and paste to recipients. I looked around for another way to do this, including ssh, and syncthing fit the bill and has been running fine for about 2 years. I have no idea what it's doing on the backend, though, and now I am wondering if my "node" is passing traffic for people who are not me... I still prefer my pastebin service, even if it won't accept the largest images from my phone, because you can zoom forever, for some reason, whereas windows viewer, syncthing direct jpeg mime type, etc, will not actually let you zoom 1:1 or beyond on 108 megapixel images. This also ignores the fact that my pastebin only has 200MB of tmpfs storage available, so perhaps 2 crazy images before I have to reboot it... Still worth the zooming, though.

tecleandor 5y ago
> I have no idea what it's doing on the backend, though, and now I am wondering if my "node" is passing traffic for people who are not me... AFAIK it shouldn't unless you're a relay: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html
bradstewart 5y ago
108MP phone camera? Wow. Do you find usable detail in images that large from a phone?
- genewitch 5y ago
  i've taken pictures, standing in the middle of a road, of cars at least a quarter of a mile away, and you can zoom so far in you can crop out the front end of a car and see what type it is. it looks like a very high iso low resolution image, but it's enough. The crop area is like 4 pixels on a 1080p screen when viewed fullscreen. in my opinion on a smaller screen, and especially oled, the unzoomed and uncropped pictures always look better than the other cameras the phone has, but it takes longer to take and save the shot, there's no "pro" mode, and the files, as mentioned, are massive, embarrassingly so.

tecleandor 5y ago

> I have no idea what it's doing on the backend, though, and now I am wondering if my "node" is passing traffic for people who are not me... AFAIK it shouldn't unless you're a relay: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html

bradstewart 5y ago

108MP phone camera? Wow. Do you find usable detail in images that large from a phone?

genewitch 5y ago
i've taken pictures, standing in the middle of a road, of cars at least a quarter of a mile away, and you can zoom so far in you can crop out the front end of a car and see what type it is. it looks like a very high iso low resolution image, but it's enough. The crop area is like 4 pixels on a 1080p screen when viewed fullscreen. in my opinion on a smaller screen, and especially oled, the unzoomed and uncropped pictures always look better than the other cameras the phone has, but it takes longer to take and save the shot, there's no "pro" mode, and the files, as mentioned, are massive, embarrassingly so.