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Discussion summary

Discussion about Sneakerweb, a peer-to-peer offline web sharing protocol, with users exploring its use cases and implementation details.

What the discussion says

  • Some see it as a modern take on sneakernet for sharing websites offline.
  • Others compare it to existing tools like NNCP or static site sharing.
  • There is interest in integrating it with tools like copyparty.
  • Users discuss the lack of packages and potential Linux support.
“It is. Just with web tacked on to make it worse.”
— a96
“Nice, modern day samizdat. Looks simple enough to use.”
— iamnothere

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  • I thought this was going to be related to:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

    by tiffanyh
  • How does it work in practice is it like a whisper protocol for distributing sites among different USB drives. So my USB will start storing other sites when I meet someone to exchange data?
    by hahahaa
  • Nice, modern day samizdat. Looks simple enough to use.

    I wonder if there’s a Linux distro that includes tools like this. It’s not a bad idea.

    by iamnothere
  • It would be cool to add this as a tool in copyparty! I have had a few friends come over and copy files from my home server they want to use.
    by philips
  • How does this differ from just, say, giving someone an HTML dump of a static site? I don't quite understand what this protocol offers.

    How exactly is it peer-to-peer if it's essentially an offline, transfer via hardware?

    by ryanisnan
  • This looks like a partial reinvention of NNCP's sneakernet transport, but for a much more limited use-case: http://www.nncpgo.org/index.html

    You can also run NNCP over networks if you want to.

    by myself248
  • my cellphone has been named “sneakernet” for years. it’s a throwback to a time when it was faster to walk a zip disk across campus than it was to send it.
    by jaxn
  • Cool and reminds me of a project from like 15 years ago. Forgot what it was called but basically it was just people hiding thumb drives and finding them like a geocache. Fun idea but then I remember Stuxnet and I'm like nah.

    Edit: found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_dead_drop

    Pirate box is mentioned on that page. I forgot about that. I used to carry around an old android phone running pirate box. Sometimes people would connect at a coffee shop and that's how I found out about the band Death Grips

    by NDlurker

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