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| 59,372 | 1,257 | |
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| 9.5 | 9.9 | |
| 10 days ago | about 7 years ago | |
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syncthing
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Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
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.
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Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
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.
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Syncthing problems
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:
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iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
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
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Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423
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Why is There no Official Flatpak Version?
They seem to have chosen Docker instead of Flatpak. You can get it with Docker by running:
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The holy grail of note-taking: Private data, efficient methodology and P2P encrypted sync across all your devices
syncthing is fully open sourced and distributed under MPL-2 licenses, while dropbox is not!
- Keep SD Cards in sync
- Continuous File Sync Written in Go Trending on GitHub
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Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
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
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What are some alternatives?
Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
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)
Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.
minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure
Go IPFS - IPFS implementation in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo]
ownCloud - :cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program