HCTP: Hypercar Transfer Protocol. Someone make an RFC
Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Randall Munroe shows us how it’s done:
Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend’s laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.
xavier666@lemm.ee 1 month ago
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sad that this XKCD from 2011 is still just as accurate today…
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 month ago
Only because IPv6 and self-hosting is not mainstream yet. But if it were commonplace for everyone’s home to have something as simple as a public file server or SSH server, then this problem would be trivialized.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
Opera tried to make self-hosting mainstream back in 2009 with Opera Unite, but regular people just weren’t interested. It was a web server built in to the browser, which had a few apps like a whiteboard, a way to write notes, file transfers, etc.
Also, IPv6 is already mainstream in some countries. In the USA, several of the mobile networks are IPv6-only, using 464XLAT to allow connections to legacy IPv4-only servers. Comcast/Xfinity was also the first ISP to roll out IPv6 at a wide scale, and the majority of their customers had IPv6 connectivity way back in 2014 or so.
anivia@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Not quite, we now have options like wormhole that make it pretty simple
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just send it over telegram. Even Whatsapp allows that size I assume.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
For sure, let me just make an account, install the app, find and add them- wait, he drove over with a USB? Alright.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who is not already using Telegram and/or Whatsapp?