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by kjkjadksj 895 days ago
Because the problem doesn’t exist. Non tech folk use stuff like imessage to send things and rarely deal with large files at all beyond images or video. That works fine for them. Tech people use proven existing tooling like rsync or ftp. The only market that exist for this I’d guess is resumeware which explains why these projects are all built then abandoned.
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IshKebab 894 days ago
Tech people don't use rsync or FTP because those are terrible solutions. FTP is insecure and requires setting up a server. Rsync requires an account on both machines.

In my experience companies usually end up paying for a service that solves this problem for their employees. Yes really.

Anyway I would suggest using

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

or RustDesk. RustDesk has a nice GUI and file transfer has a really nice two pane file explorer view but that is obviously not great for transferring files to people you don't fully trust.

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Aachen 895 days ago
> Non tech folk use stuff like [messengers] to send things

Yes, and tech folks too, but what about if you're not already connected friends? You don't want to invite your entire audience at a conference to send them slides.

You either need to already have a website and say "click on News and find the entry for today", have them type over some long URL with perfect accuracy, or use a link shortener to the same effect. It always requires having hosting, unless there exists file sharing services. That's the problem these things solve.

Also mind that there are size limits in most messengers on the order of a few hundred megabytes. You don't run into them that often, but whatcha gonna do when you do? A dedicated file sharing service that supports in the gigabytes range solves that situation as well.

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layer8 894 days ago
You SFTP your slides to your self-hosted webspace and share a link like https://www.mydomain.example/public/foo-talk-slides.pdf.
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reactordev 894 days ago
Sure, only if https://icantfindanametoregistertosavemylife.com wasn’t taken.
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layer8 894 days ago
Lots of available choices: https://www.checkdomain.net/en/domains/search/?domain=reacto...

And we were presuming self-hosting anyway.

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