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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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816 points tosh | 4 comments | 17 Aug 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.355s | source
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alanbernstein ◴[17 Aug 24 18:03 UTC] No.41276544[source]▶
I realize this is a dumb question, but what's a good way to do this between an iPhone and a MacBook? Airdrop is disabled (by policy), iCloud storage is full (because I'm lazy), and I use syncthing on every other device, but I haven't found a client I can use on my work iPhone.
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1. lazyeye ◴[17 Aug 24 18:08 UTC] No.41276596[source]▶
Use Signal. If you install the desktop client Signal has a special "Note to Self" address you can use to transfer message attachments between devices.
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2. Ylpertnodi ◴[17 Aug 24 18:23 UTC] No.41276699[source]▶
Signal 'note to self' works. I have several nts's...medical, links only, shopping...if I think of something on one device (pc/ android for me), it's on the other within seconds.
3. vlovich123 ◴[17 Aug 24 18:36 UTC] No.41276807[source]▶
Doesn’t signal have pretty restrictive size limitations or does this not apply to note to self?
4. skeledrew ◴[20 Aug 24 02:25 UTC] No.41296211[source]▶
I use Telegram to transfer (and store) a crazy lot of stuff. Unlimited storage, with file sizes limited to 2GB (or 4GB for premium users).