Re[2]: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-06-01 Thread Michael Grant
Dan Ritter wrote: The web browser technology called WebRTC does that quite well, but for security reasons -- nobody wants a self-perpetuating worm -- you need an intermediary device to introduce the two participants but not to actually transfer the file. And so there is snapdrop.net, which you c

Re: Re[2]: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-06-01 Thread songbird
Michael Grant wrote: ... > I have long been plagued by the problem if sitting in a room or on a > boat with someone, 2 devices right next to one another, and no trivially > easy way to send a file from one device to the other without say first > uploading it to some mutual third party (e.g. what

Re[2]: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-06-01 Thread Michael Grant
I use sshfs, works great to let me drop files on my server from my desktop. But I wouldn't call that "file sharing". I probably would call that a "network disk" or "remote mount". There's probably some formal definition out there, but when I think of file sharing, I think of someone profferin