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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by touseefliaqat on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:24PM (#38504526)
Magic Wormhole: https://magic-wormhole.io/ An easy and secure file transfer program. I use it almost everyday since I discovered it. Author has a very good video on it at pycon-2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrTqQw0_3c
Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by jhot on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:36PM (#38504579)
I used to do some professional services work, and magic wormhole was one of the most reliable ways for me to get files to clients who's companies blocked traditional file sharing hosts like Dropbox and Google Drive.
Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by lannisterstark on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:00PM (#38504700)
Check out croc, I've been using it for years, and it works pretty great too!

https://github.com/schollz/croc

Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by glitchcrab on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:55PM (#38521427)
I moved from Croc to wormhole-william as the author of Croc has dodged a bunch of security-related questions in various issues and I didn't feel comfortable continuing to use it.

There was this fun little number a couple of years back https://redrocket.club/posts/croc/

Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by nikshepsvn on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:03PM (#38504718)
seems like its down
Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by no-reply on Sunday December 03, 2023 @12:15AM (#38505029)
Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by stock_toaster on Sunday December 03, 2023 @12:25AM (#38505070)
wormhole-william[1] is a nice version in Go, compatible with the original version, with an easy to install release binary.

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by mentos on Sunday December 03, 2023 @07:51AM (#38506712)
Curious if there’s any web based implementation yet? I guess it’s more of a hassle to ask the receiving party to open up the sending session when you can just provide them an asynchronous link to a hosted file (Dropbox, mega, etc)