There are so many tools that can transfer files between two computers. I really like ones like this because you don't have to have SSH access or forward any ports to send a file from A to B. Its similar vein to other peer-to-peer utilities like zget [1], sharedrop [2], instant.io (webtorrent) [3], filepizza (webtorrent) [4], magic-wormhole [5], toss [6], dat [7], and many many others.
During Hacktoberfest I also started my own, written in Go, so I could have my friends can use it without installing a Python ecosystem [8].
Shameless plug: I wrote ffsend (https://github.com/nneonneo/ffsend) to interact with the Firefox Send experiment (send.firefox.com). With this, you can upload a file which is end-to-end encrypted (i.e. it is uploaded encrypted, and only you have the key), and accessed via a simple URL that you can share with your receiver.
FF Send files last for 24 hours, and you can configure the number of downloads allowed from 1 to 20. The maximum filesize is around 2 GiB. The reason I wrote ffsend is that the official site loads the entire file into memory in order to en/decrypt it, but my script is able to stream the en/decryption and thus significantly reduce memory usage.
Is not the same. With this service you do not need to have anything installed in both the sender and the receiver. So you can use it to move files to a server, send a link to a friend who does not know how to use a terminal. Very practical
During Hacktoberfest I also started my own, written in Go, so I could have my friends can use it without installing a Python ecosystem [8].
[1]: https://github.com/nils-werner/zget
[2]: https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop
[3]: https://github.com/webtorrent/instant.io
[4]: https://github.com/kern/filepizza
[5]: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
[6]: https://github.com/zerotier/toss
[7]: https://github.com/datproject/dat
[8]: https://github.com/schollz/croc