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There are SO MANY of these out there and none of them are interoperable. Can't a few of the devs get together and define an open standard for nearby sharing so
by franga2000 3y ago
There are SO MANY of these out there and none of them are interoperable. Can't a few of the devs get together and define an open standard for nearby sharing so the Apple users finally stop (rightly) laughing at us?
- gooob 3y agossh/sftp is interoperable
- franga2000 3y agoHere we go again... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- dredmorbius 3y agoOT: Responding on a now-threadlocked submission of yours: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36966205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36966205> That's worth retrying as it didn't get picked up. I'm still thinking through further responses though it's quite similar to concepts I've been promoting on HN for years now: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10077674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10077674> 8 y.a. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893033> & <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26822263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26822263> 2 y.a. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182022> 7 months ago
- akvadrako 3y agoApple's version isn't interoperable either. We already have standards for local networks: mDNS + FTP / SMB / WebDAV.
- franga2000 3y agoNone of those are for sending files, they provide remote access to a filesystem. The find-connect-mount-browse workflow is good for many situations, but for when I want to send a photo to a friend sitting across the table from me, it's simply unusable.