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  • daedalOS

    Desktop environment in the browser

  • /u/DustinBrett has a similar project called "daedalOS" which tries to more explicitly copy how Windows 10 looks and feels.

  • fs

    File System Standard (by whatwg)

  • Both Firefox and Chromium (Chrome) have implemented WHATWG File System Standard.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • file-system-access

    Expose the file system on the user’s device, so Web apps can interoperate with the user’s native applications.

  • WHATWG File System Standard provides a means to write directories and files to the private origin storage associated with a Web page origin. If you want you can use WICG File System Access API to write data directly to your filesystem in the browser. WHATWG File System Standard uses the same FileSystemDirectoryHandle and FileSystemFileHandle defined by File System Access API.

  • secure-file-transfer

    A library to encrypt and transfer files P2P in the browser (by guest271314)

  • Use any means necessary to transfer your data across devices. Could be IPFS, could be FTP, could be EventSource, WebSocket, WebTransport, Fetch, whatever. See https://github.com/guest271314/secure-file-transfer; offscreen-webrtc, https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel.

  • libdatachannel

    C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets

  • Use any means necessary to transfer your data across devices. Could be IPFS, could be FTP, could be EventSource, WebSocket, WebTransport, Fetch, whatever. See https://github.com/guest271314/secure-file-transfer; offscreen-webrtc, https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel.

  • SaaSHub

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