[visil]

Absolutely amazing piece of software, the kind that makes you wish you had a use-case for that. Kudos to devs for taking security seriously, too.

By the way, the youtube video showcases this project really well.

[jjkaczor]

Heh... I have one... have always wanted to make a little solar-powered "library" on my front-lawn...

(You know, like the neighbourhood "take-a-book, leave-a-book" little libraries, except for... digital content... It would fly an appropriate "skull + crossbones" flag...)

[alias_neo]

I've wanted to do something like this, but I live within WiFi range of a school and am concerned someone would put something "harmful" on there so have never done so.

I created a PirateBox on a little GliNet router a while back with the intention of sharing public domain content but didn't do so beyond having a quick play around with it myself.

[NKosmatos]

And like most things nowadays, it would get filled with highly illegal content within hours of you putting it there. The good old (innocent) days are gone and the society we’re living is not mature/educated enough for such ideas.

[MostlyStable]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great self hosted, open source, solution to that problem?

[mhuffman]

I have been having a lot of luck with Blip[0] recently regarding phone <-> laptop file transfer. My biggest issue so far is that it does support iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows ... but not Linux.

[0]https://blip.net/

[3036e4]

Termux and python -m http.server. I use that embarrassingly often, except for cases where I can just use scp or rsync (e.g. between two Android devices that both have Termux installed and I have bothered to copy the public ssh key from one to the other).

[sanroot99]

A very simple shell script:https://github.com/sancoderhost/ShareFiles

[brewtide]

If you have not tried "localsend" I would highly recommend.

[fc417fc802]

$kdeconnect-cli -d somedevice --share somefile

[wintermutestwin]

?? Airdrop works well.