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Re:Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a ... by HanClinto on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:52AM (#48236751)
If the phone had broken comms, how did you get the code onto the phone to run?
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Re:Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a ... by Chant-I-CRW on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:15PM (#48237931)
In ye olden days we used cables to sync all of our apps and data to our phones.
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Re:Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a ... by wongarsu on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:34PM (#48238196)
But why not move the data over that cable? Some kind of iOS thing that made that more complicated than pushing an app to the phone?
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Re:Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a ... by rmunn on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:47AM (#48244769)
Not OP, but I'm guessing by running the code on itself, i.e. turning the code into a QR code (or a series of them), then scanning those QR codes on the phone and reassembling them using a text-editing app on the phone.
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Re:Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a ... by unprovable on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:47AM (#48245327)
With great difficulty...
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