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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by colinsane on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:10PM (#37907952)
funny thing: i recently happened into the solution to that age-old question of "how do i transfer some file(s) between two computers in the same room". i now run an anonymous FTP server on my laptop, open to the LAN. prior to this Dropbox _was_ one of the solutions, but recently i've used that FTP server for the job several times with both Linux and Windows users.

yet, you jest.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by jtriangle on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:15PM (#37907994)
Samba also works just fine for that job.
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by bee_rider on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:45PM (#37908772)
Sometimes I’ll just throw up

    python -m http.server
In a directory as a lazy way to transfer a file (especially to my phone).

It is not encrypted, and I wouldn’t be that surprised if it was also vulnerable in some ways, but it sure is easy (and it is only for lan, and pretty brief).

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by jasonladuke0311 on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:18PM (#37909082)
Exactly what I do as well
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by quesera on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:46PM (#37909907)
If you're fortunate enough to have Ruby installed, you can save three full keystrokes:

  ruby -run -e httpd
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by bsder on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:55PM (#37908871)
The keywords you want for that file transfer are "Magic Wormhole".

Yes, it works on Windows, Linux, and OS X.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by foresto on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:18PM (#37909086)
Magic Wormhole is great, but sometimes unbearably slow for bulk transfers. (I imagine the public relay server used for the common NAT-to-NAT case is sometimes overloaded.)
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by bsder on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:24PM (#37909149)
His comment was: "how do i transfer some file(s) between two computers in the same room".

All the problems with NAT traversal should be avoided in that case.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by foresto on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:26PM (#37909168)
Fair, but my comment is for other readers, too.

(Also, being in the same room doesn't always mean direct connection is allowed. I've seen wifi networks that forbid it.)

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by vonjuice on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:32PM (#37909801)
Did you try syncthing?
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