Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by cryo on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:39PM (#23742300)

Private file access between computers. Even in 2020 it appears that building a connection between machines (macOS, Linux and Windows) requires a miracle if you don't like to share everything with cloud providers.

cryo file mangager is an attempt to get rid of the hassle: https://cryonet.io

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by isaacimagine on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:48PM (#23742370)

There's also syncthing: https://syncthing.net/.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by genuinebyte on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:16PM (#23743011)

I've recently setup Syncthing and it worked great. I'd appreciate if it allowed me to cut out all relays and just connect directly to my servers, but maybe I just haven't found out how to do that yet.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by cryo on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:10AM (#23745721)

You can run your own relay servers.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by dcow on Sunday July 05, 2020 @06:14PM (#23742563)

Check out https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ which is basically just a tool to help people do password authenticated key exchange when establishing ephemeral connections.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by drusepth on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:49AM (#23746183)

I recently used magic-wormhole [1] for this. It was a 1-line command that gave me a keyphrase that I told to someone else. They typed the same command on their end, put in the keyphrase, and received my file.

No IPs, no forwarding ports or files. It was a magical experience and Just Worked.

[1] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by a1369209993 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:31PM (#23743113)

> building a connection between machines (macOS, Linux and Windows) requires a miracle if you don't like to share everything with cloud providers.

Technically bittorrent + any file encryption format works fine, although it's not something a nontechnical user would ever figure out without either step-by-step instructions or said miracle.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by betimsl on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:45PM (#23742338)

Don't forget to check https://upspin.io/ out :)

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by cryo on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:48PM (#23742361)

Indeed I'd like to add https://onionshare.org which also provides a non cloud solution to share files privatly.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by caymanjim on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:22PM (#23744390)

In addition to the other suggestions, you can run Nextcloud on any machine you control and sync to computers, mobile devices, etc.

This is a well-solved problem.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by cryo on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:05AM (#23745697)

It is, but only for technical skilled people. It's not that simple to setup and understand for regular 'Dropbox' users.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by devchris10 on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:24AM (#23748883)

siacoin

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