Notices tagged with briar

@ajeremias My understanding is that Hubzilla is more like a federated CMS (eg Wordpress or Drupal) than a social media tool. SSB, unlike the fediverse apps, is totally distributed (P2P). Like #Briar or #Jami.
@liaizon

Ever wondered why #Briar and other P2P communication apps don't usually offer an #iThing version?
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/issues/445

@rysiek Any word of an iOS client or GUI desktop clients for #Briar? I think it's awesome but it's a rare group of people who know each other in meatspace who all use Android. Plus the battery drain is very offputting for always-on mobile use, but Briar can only pick up new messages when its online at the same time as the sender.

@lnxw48a1
> #Tox or #Briar (easy; no contacts will test either, so I have no experiences with them).

I have Briar installed and I'm keen to test. Not sure how to do that without meeting in person to scan each other's QR codes though. The #VOICE group is looking for people for a test of Tox voice conferencing, maybe this Sunday? See:
#voicechat:matrix.org
@deejoe @dielan

@megfault have you looked into other P2P messenger Apps like #Briar, #Jami, and #Tox?
@ckeen

@abby have you looked at the forums available using #Briar? The big downside is that it's only available for #Android, but it's totally #P2P and #E2EE encrypted. Briar is mainly a text chat client, but it can do forums and blogs via the same P2P network.

@imacrea #Jabber with #OMEMO is production-ready AFAIK, but it relies on the servers and clients at both ends supporting OMEMO (it's an optional extra) and implementing it correctly. At this point I would probably use #Briar (if you're both on Android) or #Jami, no servers, less attack surface. If you need something noob-friendly, #Wire (I don't trust or use #Signal for various reasons but some people say it's noob-friendly and their #E2EE tech is widely used).
@bortzmeyer

Finally got around to testing #Syncthing for #Android. Seems to work pretty well. The only thing that's a bit annoying is that it doesn't have a built-in scanner for reading the #QRcode when you want to connect a new device (like #Briar does), and can't link with the default QRcode scanner on the device. Instead it insists on installing #BarcodeScanner, which #FDroid says has a "known security vulnerability" and a "weak security signature" (at least the 8 month old version it offers me does).

#ShowerThought corporate #DataFarms that promote themselves as #SocialMedia are #P2P (Peer-to-Peer) from a user perspective, but not from a technical perspective. Users can connect and communicate directly, but not without the #DataFarm as an intermediary in the background. #BitTorrent is #P2P from a technical perspective, but not from a user perspective. There's never direct one-to-one contact between any two users). messaging apps like #Jami and #Briar are #P2P in both ways.

@dazinism so #Briar is quite different from #Jami, which AFAICT can only do realtime chat, no delayed delivery of messages. I'm curious now to try Briar and also Serval. I still don't have a new enough version of #Android to run #Manyverse (SSB client for mobile)
@k3b @tootbrute

@kaikatsu there are people under heavy surveillance and net-blocking in many countries who desperately need a communication system even more radical than a mesh network, something that doesn't depend on internet at all. Something like #Serval, #Scuttlebutt, #Briar etc

@kuketzblog @Digitalcourage Genauer gesagt ist Debian schon auf einem ganz guten Weg mit 93% theoretischer Reproduzierbarkeit und 54% tatsächlicher Reproduzierbarkeit (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/03/msg00017.html). In F-Droid selbst gibt es derzeit erst 4 reproduzierbar gebaute Apps (#Öffi, #Briar, #BitcoinWallet und #AndroDNS), wobei aber theoretisch viel mehr Apps reproduzierbar gebaut sein könnten: https://verification.f-droid.org/

@paulfree14 hmm. The Firewall does a pretty good job of censoring all the sites that talk about or private VPNs or encrypted communication. I'm not aware of anything specific that's available on these topics from mainland China without a VPN. GH is available here, as is GitLab, so maybe one could search them for some #AwesomeLists, or try tools like #Lantern? Tools that use protocols like #SSB, #Serval, or #Briar that don't need the net to share data between devices could also be useful.