Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices

Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices(github.com)

79 points by coolelectronics 3 years ago | 14 comments

evronm 3 years ago |

Great to see people hacking just for the sake of hacking. And who knows, someone somewhere may actually find a good use for it. Thanks for sharing.

throwoutway 3 years ago |

Clever! I like a good discovery like this!

Rather than infinite storage, I’d be interested in using it for just the occasional file transfer.

I still hate how hard it is to transfer files between two devices in 2022

ranger_danger 3 years ago | |

It's really not at all.

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole - get things from one computer to another, safely

https://github.com/schollz/croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another

https://upload.disroot.org/ - 2GB per file, end to end encrypted, source: https://github.com/ldidry/lufi, other instances: https://alt.framasoft.org/framadrop/

https://datash.co/ - end to end encrypted, made for transfer between two devices

https://send.tresorit.com/ - 5GB per file, end to end encrypted

https://github.com/kern/filepizza - WebRTC + STUN/TURN file transfer between multiple devices

https://instant.io/ - WebTorrent transfers between browsers

https://wormhole.app/ - share files with end to end encryption and a link that expires, or keeps working after closing browser

https://toffeeshare.com/ - p2p, end to end encrypted

https://wetransfer.com/ - emails link to recipient of file

https://docsend.com/ - can protect files with email/pass verification. can revoke access or eSign documents

and many, many more. these are just the ones I've seen that are geared towards direct transfer between two computers, but there's hundreds more sites that offer free file storage, even without an account or any personal info needed.

throwoutway 3 years ago | | |

That's fair. I more meant that there's not a native way built into OS/browsers that will do it (without installing these additional tools). Firefox had it but got rid of it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...

I've resulted to just uploading to my Dropbox/Google Drive and pulling it down to another device, but I'm always worried about Google deleting my account if it somehow finds the ebook/whatever objectionable due to a trigger word.

EDIT: Okay, I didn't know about https://instant.io/ that might be interesting for non-sensitive/non-personal transfers. Thank you for sharing!

seized 3 years ago | | |

Or for more permanent use cases (since someone is signed into Chrome), Syncthing is an excellent tool.

makeitrain 3 years ago |

Can we build something like this for social media? Post encrypted text and images to store content, use an api to fetch and decrypt in the app?

ridgered4 3 years ago | |

IIRC people used to take advantage of free google photos by uploading segments of larger files pretending to be photos. I believe there were even front ends that handled everything. But eventually they figured out to re-encode the image on upload which ruined the game. They could probably use the same tool against text but it would be a lot easier to workaround.

coolelectronics 3 years ago | |

https://github.com/pixelomer/discord-fs I know this exists, don't think anyone's done the twitter thing yet

tarunmuvvala 3 years ago |

This is interesting. Thanks for making.

Can the extension be used to interact with app in mobile?

butz 3 years ago |

Is there anything in Google/Chrome TOS that might make this illegal? I'd hate to wake up one day to find all my Google accounts suspended.