nes vs syncthing

nes

NES emulator written in Go. (by fogleman)

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syncthing

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization (by syncthing)

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nes		syncthing
	Project
3	Mentions	130
5,364	Stars	59,497
-	Growth	1.9%
2.3	Activity	9.4
20 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

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nes

Posts with mentions or reviews of nes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-14.

Can someone recommend me a Golang complete repo
11 projects | /r/golang | 14 Jun 2021

This guy codes in a nice way: https://github.com/fogleman/nes
Are there any docs on the NES's PPU instructions?
2 projects | /r/EmuDev | 1 Feb 2021

https://github.com/fogleman/nes/blob/a5786ee2a41004cfcd6273e4f57d6f7a40829372/nes/memory.go#L24

syncthing

Posts with mentions or reviews of syncthing. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-19.

Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024

My biggest gripe with Firefox on Android is that sometimes I enter a domain in the address bar, press enter and nothing happens.
This behaviour seems to be erratic and only affects a few websites, such as https://forum.syncthing.net.
Closing the tab or using a different one doesn't solve the problem. I need to force close the app to fix this.
Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2023

Syncthing has had on their roadmap for 9.5 years to support iOS but hasn’t due to lack of interest by the developers to devote the time to make it.
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
macOS is supported though.
And Syncthing via 3rd parties does support iOS.
Syncthing problems
2 projects | /r/Syncthing | 26 Sep 2023

I haven't been able to access https://docs.syncthing.net or https://forum.syncthing.net/ but I was able to access some of the docs via github. I think I've set it up according to the docs. The logs contain lots of messages like:
iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023

Malware built into iOS makes it impossible to install Syncthing[0], which is a problem for most of the people who use iCloud tp sync their files.
[0] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-ﬁrst, networked application framework
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Aug 2023

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423
Why is There no Official Flatpak Version?
1 project | /r/Syncthing | 11 Jul 2023

They seem to have chosen Docker instead of Flatpak. You can get it with Docker by running:
The holy grail of note-taking: Private data, efficient methodology and P2P encrypted sync across all your devices
1 project | /r/Syncthing | 7 Jun 2023

syncthing is fully open sourced and distributed under MPL-2 licenses, while dropbox is not!
Keep SD Cards in sync
1 project | /r/SBCGaming | 24 May 2023
Continuous File Sync Written in Go Trending on GitHub
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023

You could try to force QUIC which should handle latency a bit better. The priority of TCP/QUIC will be configurable with the upcoming v1.23.5 release:
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/8868

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nes and syncthing you can also consider the following projects:

toxiproxy - :alarm_clock: :fire: A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

Docker - Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

Comcast - Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems.

Samba - https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)

Seaweed File System - SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding. [Moved to: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs]

Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.

ipe - An open source Pusher server implementation compatible with Pusher client libraries written in GO

Git Annex

drive - Google Drive client for the commandline

Go IPFS - IPFS implementation in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo]