jewel/clearskies
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Open source btsync clone
15 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 14 comments · first 2013-09-30 · latest 2014-04-04
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Why not use the open source Clearskies instead of BTSync? https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
comment by higherpurpose · 2014-04-04 · in Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)? -
…alternative, is having a fundraiser: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/clearskies/fundraiser 1: https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
comment by voltagex_ · 2014-03-30 · in How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff Without Actually Looking -
Clearskies is the one to keep an eye on. https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
comment by aroch · 2014-03-30 · in How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff Without Actually Looking -
Or you could choose an open-source tool like syncthing ( http://syncthing.net ) or clearskies ( https://github.com/jewel/clearskies ) or turtl ( https://turtl.it )
comment by nodata · 2014-03-06 · in Choosing the Private Cloud for secure file syncing -
We're changing to LGPLv3. See https://github.com/jewel/clearskies/blob/master/license-chan... . The C++ implementation is also LGPL.
comment by jewel · 2014-02-24 · in ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud -
This is handled by the protocol; see https://github.com/jewel/clearskies/blob/master/protocol/cor... . As an aside, I am currently adding a more sophisticated manifest exchange in the "protocol_cleanup" branch that will remove the need to…
comment by jewel · 2014-02-24 · in ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud -
…ruby1.9.1 RUN apt-get -y install ruby1.9.1-dev RUN gem install rb-inotify ffi RUN git clone https://github.com/jewel/clearskies Build: sudo docker build -t clearskies . Run: sudo docker run -i -t clearskies /bin/bash Then: mkdir /testdir…
comment by nl · 2014-02-24 · in ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud -
Looks like there are various modes of discovery, see under "Peer discovery": https://github.com/jewel/clearskies/blob/master/protocol/cor... I can't find any references to DHT in the code (but the protocol lists that as an extension). For…
comment by e12e · 2014-02-24 · in ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud -
…other open-source BitTorrent Sync alternative that I am aware of [3] left it out completely. [1] https://github.com/jewel/clearskies/blob/master/protocol/unt... [2] http://www.bittorrent.com/intl/de/sync/developers/api [3]…
comment by maho · 2014-02-24 · in ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud -
…if they're each behind different NAT routers)? I see that there is some 'tracker' code in the repo: https://github.com/jewel/clearskies/tree/master/tracker Must I run that somewhere that both computers can access, and tell them its address?
comment by rahimnathwani · 2014-02-24 · in ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud -
The best open source alternative I've heard of so far is clearskies ( https://github.com/jewel/clearskies ). The implementation isn't complete yet, but it started right with a clear, open protocol definition based on standard technologies.…
comment by gcommer · 2013-11-05 · in BitTorrent Sync Beta API Now Available to Developers -
…I started working on an open-source clone, with similar features but an open, documented protocol. https://github.com/jewel/clearskies
comment by jewel · 2013-10-31 · in Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync -
…use cases. Incidentally, I'm working on an open-source competitor to btsync called clearskies ( https://github.com/jewel/clearskies ).
comment by jewel · 2013-10-14 · in Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again -
…be trusted. I've just documented the protocol so far, so there's no working code yet, but it's at https://github.com/jewel/clearskies .
comment by jewel · 2013-09-30 · in BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology