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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] vollkorntomate 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s the research project OpenDrop from a few years ago:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop

(Disclaimer: I had a student job at SEEMOO and wrote my thesis there, though I was not involved with OpenDrop)

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Upvote for disclaimers like this. We need more people who openly share potential conflicts of interest:)

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this really a case of conflict of interest though?

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 months ago

It’s a potential one. Rather people flag anything that could be a conflict of interest, whether they think it is or not. Than be silent about it.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] B0rax@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It’s only a matter of time now

/edit: there seems to be This one however it is the „old“ standard reverse engineered. Should still work

[–] EtzBetz@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] B0rax@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But NearDrop is not compatible with airdrop, is it?

[–] EtzBetz@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Oh true. Confused that one. It's basically going the other way around.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We can already rsync, why would we want airdrop?

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you rsync between an android and iOS device? Is it as simple as airdrop?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 months ago

No idea, never had an iOS device