I prefer bashupload.com or transfer.sh for this. Both alternatives have worked well for me.
Alternatively, you can check out magic wormhole (for a more secure transfer of files between two terminals): https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html...
How I share files from the terminal:
python -m http.server 8000
I wish there was a command line program like this, but one that would make a torrent of that file [1] and return a magnet link for the torrent.
The next weak point is the centralization around the tracker. You can solve this by sharing all the tracker information on Nostr [2], maybe?
Don't kids these days know how to use netcat? You only need the other's ip. No need to involve a third party.
I wanted to learn a bit of Go and I wrote a simple client for it: https://github.com/overflowy/null-pointer-uploader
Oh, this is a file stash with curl instructions. I was thinking a little more like:
Listener:
nc -l 19000|bzip2 -d|dd bs=16M of=/dev/sdb
https://www.ndchost.com/wiki/server-administration/netcat-ov...
Props to the person hosting this, reminds me of the early days of the net. It’s interesting that *.rar files are banned but other archives are not. My guess is that it was to stop some bot from uploading warez, or maybe due to password protection. It would be trivial to re-compress it again in another format, so it seems like a constant whack-a-mole game to me.
Is there anything actually problematic with file hosting “related to cryptocurrency”? Or is it disallowed on just ideological grounds?
I dont understand something. There are countless forums and sites that ask for donations for hosting costs, and then on the other hand there are countless anon fileupload sites like this which happily store gigs of files/user without asking for money or putting up ads.
Whats the incentive for these sites? How do they stay operational?
How is it different from magic wormhole?
Expired files aren't really cleanly handled, the handler code just crashes when trying to access the non-existing file and prints a trace
Inspired by 0x0.st, I wrote my own version powered by CloudFlare workers. It was initially mostly an excuse to learn more about CF Workers, but it ended up being useful to me too
I bought 0xf.st a while ago and am still in the process of writing my own custom private paste service out of it.
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I used to run such a service but I stopped after police came to my door to get logs because it was used to share very illegal pictures.
They were friendly and I was never in cause myself, but I don't want to enable this kind of thing, or to have to deal with moderating content, even passively.
I'm happy other people provide such services, but just be aware they will inevitably be used for activities you probably don't want to facilitate.