[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pbproxy - Send your clipboard anywhere you ...
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       Show HN: Pbproxy - Send your clipboard anywhere you can ssh
        
       pbproxy is a small wrapper to give you a consistent and remotely
       accessible interface to your system clipboard on linux and mac.
        
       Author : nikvdp
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2022-12-28 09:12 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | hamandcheese wrote:
       | There's never a situation where I want to copy/paste to any
       | clipboard other than my local clipboard, so I solved this by
       | simply aliasing pbcopy/papaste to always SSH back to my mac and
       | run pbcopy/pbpaste there.
        
         | deathanatos wrote:
         | But "where" is your mac? I.e., `cat clipboard | ssh ???
         | pbcopy`. I travel, so I don't always have the same IP address,
         | and it's still too common to end up in a NAT'd hellscape with
         | no usable IP. (Every office I've ever worked in, with one
         | exception, has have v4-only NAT'd networks. Usually on a -PSK
         | Wifi. Corp network infra is typically a joke.)
         | 
         | One could perhaps set something up to forward a connection to a
         | local daemon and then use that forwarded connection to push
         | data backwards, but the complexity is going up, and fast.
        
           | atrus wrote:
           | Tailscale/Wireguard helps give consistent IPs
        
           | angrais wrote:
           | Would it be possible to use hostnames rather than IP
           | addresses then you'd not have to worry as the resolution
           | would be done for you?
        
       | notpushkin wrote:
       | Week of clipboard on HN!
        
       | codetrotter wrote:
       | I saw your comment the other day where you talked about maybe
       | putting this on GitHub. Very nice to see that you went ahead and
       | did so :D
        
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       | HellsMaddy wrote:
       | I created a similar tool to help me synchronize my clipboard
       | between my desktop and my laptop:
       | https://github.com/b0o/clipshare
        
         | [deleted]
        
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