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Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer

30 pointsby kseclast Monday at 4:17 PM13 commentsview on HN

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leguleretoday at 11:18 AM

The actual article explaining the use for fountain codes in this use case: https://divan.dev/posts/fountaincodes/

felooboolooombatoday at 11:13 AM

Is there a way to negotiate ongoing FPS? I was sending at 60 but only receiving at 40. When I changed TX to 30 the speed went though the roof! I better call a builder.

Otherwise ridiculously cool project. May author's pillow always be cool on both sides.

elrictoday at 6:20 AM

Neat, finally an easy way of transferring files between devices that doesn't rely on online services -- no clue why we didn't solve that ages ago.

Adding encryption shouldn't be hard, as long as you can communicate the keys out of band.

Could probably achieve the same result using audio instead of video, but maybe that would be too annoying?

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kooitoday at 6:38 AM

Fountain codes are so lit