I wonder if cosmopolitan libc[0] could be leveraged to create an actually portable executable™ without a rewrite, looks like someone has figured out compiling python 3.11.4 with it[1]

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

[1] https://ahgamut.github.io/2021/07/13/ape-python/

It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.

  "In another situation a user might wish to transfer files between two hosts, neither of which is a local host."

“Race the beam”

That’s really cool. I’ve never seen that work before.

Sounds like...BitTorrent.

Could be useful when launching a Doom shareware release.

I really didn't think I need this software but the video is so good that I'm gonna try hard to find a use case.

You might like NNCP which was written precisely to support severely constrained or even cut down down networks.

It would be even more impressive if he rebooted the server in the meantime.

Heh... I have one... have always wanted to make a little solar-powered "library" on my front-lawn...

(You know, like the neighbourhood "take-a-book, leave-a-book" little libraries, except for... digital content... It would fly an appropriate "skull + crossbones" flag...)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great self hosted, open source, solution to that problem?

If you think the readme is fun, check out the demo video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

Thanks for the tip, I really did enjoy my scroll of the readme. This bit here really tickled me and set expectations so well:

> inverse linux philosophy -- do all the things, and do an okay job

Obviously, that is not this

If you're looking for security and stability, I would personally avoid this.

I took a glance at the code and it's... not great. It's absolutely full of short, meaningless 1-2 letter variable and function names that make it very hard to read and understand if you're not the original author. Wouldn't be surprised if it's full of security holes that will never be found.

This is just good software

This section of the readme really sets the expectation clearly:

> inverse linux philosophy -- do all the things, and do an okay job > - quick drop-in service to get a lot of features in a pinch > - some of the alternatives might be a better fit for you

This includes a link to this doco in the repo which is an incredible source of info: https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/vers...

I really like this idea; I’ve made crappy versions myself a few times…. Maybe this one will stick.

(For others, it’s a method to follow people across multiple services without being a normal feed. A person who updates only shows up once.)

FTP/SFTP support resuming file uploads

Ohh that would be cool! Love syncthing but I wish the relay and discovery servers would be part of the same/main syncthing binary.

I've also seen quite a few semi-technical youtubers make videos about it but not mentioning that it uses public relay and discovery servers usually by default (but maybe that depends on the distro). It's not a bad thing but something one should know before using it.

This made me laugh and now I feel bad. Somehow I didn't expect HN users to be using antivirus software.

In the vid author says they started this pre useful LLMs (2019) on their phone.

Hey o/

Yup, this is 97% just me hacking away in vscode -- I use pylance and the debugger but have everything else disabled, easier to focus that way. The only time I use any sort of AI/LLM is for translating new strings into Chinese, since it seems decently capable at that :-)

The remaining 2% is friends coming up with new usecases/features, and sometimes finding bugs.

But now that the project got way more attention than I'd anticipated, pullrequests have started appearing, so it doesn't look like those statistics will stay true for much longer! Really cool having more eyes on it spotting the things I overlooked, really enjoying that.

Yeah, I'm fairly certain you could run it on an android device using termux.

You'll likely need to root the phone to get the OS not to kill the termux process due to idleness though.