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coldstartops

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Building encrypted P2P file systems. https://keibidrop.com
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coldstartops··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
No you didn't miss. I mixed the concept, UDP broadcast similar to mDNS, yes part of net library. actual mDNS like visible in Finder and actual RFC implementation not part of standard library. What I was trying to say was easy to make "mdns-ish" with just standard lib, rush typed it and ended up like that.
coldstartops··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
also they use mDNS, which many programming languages, such as go, got it in their net library
coldstartops··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
I've built my own, called KEIBIDROP :D but did not release the mobile apps let

https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

coldstartops··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
Hi,

I am late to the party, but I was also building in this space in the last year,

Basically I did a peer to peer filesystem named keibidrop: https://keibidrop.com/

I made it public last week. It does what local send does, but also via WAN. Still did not launch the mobile apps.

And 1 up is that it has also a virutal filesystem that is synced both ways.

repository is here: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

The code is open source, except for the UI, and I did benchmark on loopback vs localsend (local send is faster :D )

https://keibisoft.com/blog/keibidrop-benchmarks-vs-competiti...

and was also trying to get a commenting thread in /r/golang yesterday!

behind the hood I went with PQC, + gRPC + FUSE.

coldstartops··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Pretty cool! I see on enterprise edition you also support a virtual mount, is it FUSE based? I got a similar tool but went the other way around, I wanted to browse files synchronously (and bidirectional sync of edits) between two devices via FUSE mounts, and ended up tunneling TCP for this in the end.
coldstartops··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Synchronous P2P file sharing tool with post-quantum encryption and virtual mount point (https://keibisoft.com/tools/keibidrop.html)

Both peers mount a virtual FUSE folder. Files shared by one side appear in the other's folder in real time. You can open, copy, and browse your peer's files as if they were local. Files go directly between devices over encrypted gRPC. (by default it tries over LAN, then direct IPV6, then uses a data relay).

The hardest part has been making git repos work through the FUSE mount between peers.

(Been developing the tool for 12 months now, very close to a full release)

coldstartops··on Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM
Personally, I use them as frameworks to justify management processes.

A) I tie the cybersecurity activities to business revenue enabling outcomes (unblocked contracts), and second to reduced risk (as people react less to this when spending the buck).

B) with the political capital from point A) I actually operate a cybersecurity program, justify DevSecOps artefacts, threat modeling, incident response exercises, etc.

What this SOC2 reports, ISO27k certificates are, more like a standardization for communicating the activities of the org to outside people, and getting an external person to vet that the org doesn't bulls*t too much. but at the end of the day, the organization is responsible for keeping their house in order.

coldstartops··on Banning Things for Other People Is Easy
Hah. Try that in the Balkans, with some one your own size, and let me know after how many weeks the concussion effects go away.
coldstartops··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
KeibiDrop: A peer to peer synchronous IPV6 file sync tool.

I always struggle to share files between my devices, or to navigate them. Why do I need servers, or dropbox or wetransfer?

Inspired by croc, rclone, syncthing and magic wormhole, I'm close to releasing KeibiDrop as MPL2.0.

It has a nice slint.dev GUI, works cross platform on mobile, + desktop (via FUSE or no-FUSE), and has post quantum encryption at transport level.

No clear monetization path, but I also tinker with unikraft in order to host a relay server (for key negotiation, or other things) as a unikernel cloud function.

coldstartops··on Tell HN: Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Romania! Let there be highways to a good future, and a letter of law for everyone to follow!
coldstartops··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
Maybe it was always part of the plan. Plausible Deniability.
coldstartops··on Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
I think it is handled by the OS (backend renderer)

https://docs.slint.dev/latest/docs/slint/guide/backends-and-...

But, I have only used it with Romanian and English.

Try here: https://slintpad.com/. (just replace the Text with TextInput) and see if it works.

coldstartops··on Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
Also on this topic I want to make a shout out to slint.dev ! (I've fiddled with it, and the syntax is extremely easy to grasp - very react-ish). Can use Rust/C as a binding language, and you can even choose the rendering engine (for example QT).
coldstartops··on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
Are you even a new company?

The only one I could find in Delaware with YBC Holdings, INC is registered in 1994 and is a brewing company

https://b.assets.dandb.com/businessdirectory/ybcholdingsinc....

coldstartops··on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
Sorry for continuing on this thread, but now I got more questions:

How do you monitor and enforce your uptime SLA? You state 99.9%, which is less than 9 hours downtime per year; what happens if you breach this guarantee?

Any other types of SLA's? What happens if you get breached/ your networks gets breached, or hardware failure, and my "anonymous" data is lost.

Besides that you make some claims, but are they real, or are they vaporwave?

like: "All our datacenters maintain the highest security standards with 24/7 on-site security, biometric access controls, and CCTV surveillance.

Each facility features N+1 power redundancy with UPS systems and diesel generators, ensuring your services remain online even during extended power outages."

Are you sure the above is true, because I am not.

coldstartops··on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
You are liying. here: https://servury.com/datacenters/

Here on datacenters you say your are ISO27001 and SOC2 certified.

"We're ISO 27001 certified and maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance."

You do not have any certificate that I can find: https://www.iafcertsearch.org/search/certified-entities?sear...

https://www.iafcertsearch.org/search/certified-entities?sear...

Who is the company who certified you? What is the certification number?

coldstartops··on An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)
> Wasting developer time

What is the definition of wasting developer time? If a developer takes a 2 hours break to recover mental power and avoid burnout, is it considered time wasted?

coldstartops··on Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App
I usually hand-wave reduce this problem to the "Ski Renting Problem", so in the worst case I pay twice the price of the lifetime purchase.
coldstartops··on Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust
Yes, valid, congratulations on shipping!

It's just that the entry level for adopting a new tool (for other people) is:

Convince my recipient to use this system instead of "Why not just send the password as we usually do on our secret chat."

And then we spend 20 minutes talking about it and me advocating for their unknown and unaccountable creator.

coldstartops··on Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust
You built it because you wanted to share passwords:

And your flow is: I encrypt my password; I upload the encrypted password to your server.

And I share the password to the encrypted password as plain text.

Why do I have to upload the encrypted password to your server, and not just use signal disapearing messages, or telegram secure channel disappearing messages to share the encrypted password there.

And I can use any other side channel to share the second password, like whatsapp, or regular plain mail.

It feels to me that you made a two step process into a one step process but increased the risk by adding you in the middle.

Why would I offload my trust to you instead of doing the second step?

coldstartops··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
Location: EU (GMT+2)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Golang, Rust, Haskell, FUSE, secure infra, cryptography, compliance systems, ISO 27001 / NIST / SOC2, backend systems, BCP/ISMS

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: ciso.contracts.compound504@slmail.me

Security-focused backend/devops engineer with experience in regulated industries. Served as CISO for two startups that were acquired (IBM + Dataminr buyers). Built secure infrastructure, compliance automation, and ISMS/BCP systems that helped land enterprise clients including BCG, Palo Alto Networks. I speak both code and risk, and I thrive where technical architecture meets business requirements.

Looking for high-leverage contract work, virtual or fractional CISO roles, or backend-heavy infrastructure projects in industries where trust and uptime matter.

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