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Yet another way to transfer files that strikes a good balance between speed, security or simplicity by using relay-assisted peer-to-peer transactions and end-to-end encryption via password-authenticated key exchange. There are a lot of ways to transfer files. Above the basic necessity of preserving the data during the transfer, sharing data should be fast, secure, and most of all, easy. Most file transfer utilities I’ve used encompass two thirds of these qualities. I’ve wanted to make a...

A very simple thread-safe progress bar that should work on every OS without problems. I needed a progress bar for croc and everything I tried had problems, so I made another one. In order to be OS agnostic I do not plan to support multi-line outputs. The progressbar implements an io.Writer, so it can automatically detect the number of bytes written to a stream, so you can use it as a progress bar for an io. Reader. A progress bar with an unknown length is a spinner.

...Many of the usual centralization vs. decentralization arguments apply here, e.g. the servers are single points of failure, the service operator has the power over whom to serve and whom not, etc. Further, as this recent issue in croc shows, this is a real risk for the sustainable operation of the provided service.