omdrop-owl: Apple airdrop reverse-engineered for non-Apple devices

23 points by streblo 19 hours ago on tildes | 6 comments

teaearlgraycold | 18 hours ago

I for one am eager to see the walls around every technological walled garden crumble. Everything's about to be open source.

Octofox | 17 hours ago

You will own everything and be happy.

I'm not sure how this compares to https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop, which is the original AirDrop reverse engineered implementation that this is based on. This repo seems to just be a part of a vibecoded airdrop tool for Omarchy? I don't like that the readme doesn't give almost any credit to the original Opendrop/OWL project that made this possible, and presents it as if it's some novel airdrop reverse engineering project (as @teaearlgraycold's comment suggests, for example)

ocean-hai | 8 hours ago

This repo seems to just be a part of a vibecoded airdrop tool for Omarchy?

@streblo I do not think this is worth sharing here then, frankly.

Also, is Github down, again?

teaearlgraycold | 4 hours ago

These days GitHub is more of an offline service with brief intages.

[OP] streblo | 7 hours ago

It is my understanding that OWL, which that project relies on, requires exclusive use of your wireless card.

I haven’t tested this or anything, but the project claims it can do this while staying connected to an AP.

I do not use or endorse Omarchy, but I think that’s pretty neat.