[HN Gopher] Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity
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       Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity
        
       Author : slim
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-06-30 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (briarproject.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (briarproject.org)
        
       | ajsnigrutin wrote:
       | Briar would be a lot more fun if it supported public chatrooms,
       | snipet/file sharing, etc. I don't know if they changed anything,
       | but the last time i used it, I installed it, then bothered a
       | friend to test it out, and since I couldn't find anyone else to
       | use it with, i uninstalled it.
        
       | orblivion wrote:
       | Cool that they made this. A little weird that it's for Android.
       | Wouldn't it be better running on an always-connected server?
       | 
       | EDIT: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-mailbox From the
       | README right now it looks like they're open to it: "We want the
       | mailbox to be as easy to deploy as possible. The target for this
       | project will come as Android application since it will be easy to
       | setup and besides a spare phone, no special hardware is required.
       | Once this is done support for any hardware supporting Java (e.g.
       | unix server, raspberry pi) could be added."
        
         | myself248 wrote:
         | Looks like it's already there: on
         | https://briarproject.org/download-briar-mailbox/ it says
         | 
         | > A command-line version of the Mailbox is also available when
         | building from source (currently only on Linux x86_64).
        
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