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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by smallerize on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:22AM (#43343566)
It can be, if you send files larger than 5GB. https://wormhole.app/faq
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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by toomim on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:37PM (#43349876)
Yeah, it uses webtorrent behind the scenes: https://webtorrent.io

...which is freaking awesome torrent software, by the way.

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Re:Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser by jeffhuys on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:54AM (#43351714)
It's okay - 99% of the video files I download have to be opened in VLC, though :/

But still, being able to almost immediately stream, even if through VLC, is pretty nice.

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