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Briar Desktop 0.5.0-beta released - macOS support, private groups and Briar Mailbox briarproject.org/news/2023-bri

3 Jul 2023 at 14:08 | Open on fosstodon.org
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MⒶrcos

@briar nice, love to see you progress :anarchoheart1: will there be a mailbox for whole groupchats, so we can have a "zero knowledge server" that relays messages to everyone, but isn't as vulnerable as a logged-in user, in case the device gets in the wrong hands?

3 Jul 2023 at 14:25 | Open on chaos.social
Brad

@marcos @briar I'd like to know this also - does each user need their own spare device with mailbox installed? Or could I have e.g. one team mailbox device connected to several accounts (i.e mailroom!)

3 Jul 2023 at 14:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Nico

@bradstewart Briar tries to make it as easy as possible to set up your own Mailbox, and in the beginning it is planned to only allow one user per mailbox. This is to avoid semi-centralization as happening with mastodon.social, gmail.com, jabber.ccc.de, ...

Also see the respective FAQ entry: code.briarproject.org/briar/br

4 Jul 2023 at 9:50 | Open on hachyderm.io
Nico

@marcos Such a thing is not planned yet.

4 Jul 2023 at 9:48 | Open on hachyderm.io
Nico

@marcos Also see the FAQ entry that got just added. The Mailbox can be quite helpful in group chats, but only if the owner comes online regularly to re-distribute messages via the Mailbox.

code.briarproject.org/briar/br

4 Jul 2023 at 17:09 | Open on hachyderm.io
Eric Lynema

@briar Mailbox is cool. I like mailbox. I just wish I could use mailbox on an Linux machine. I see there's a way, but I have yet to figure it out. (A VM is easier to spin up then a extra android phone for me)

3 Jul 2023 at 14:56 | Open on social.sdf.org
Iak
Eric Lynema

@iak @briar I'm having issues just getting the VM to run properly. It does not like this proxmox setup I've got.

EDIT: Apparently Android wanted more RAM. Great... well, If I can ever move to lightweight LXC containers, I would be happier, but I'll do this for now I guess.

3 Jul 2023 at 19:47 | Open on social.sdf.org
Nico

@epl692 You can compile a .jar file with Gradle that you can use to host a Mailbox on servers: code.briarproject.org/briar/br

4 Jul 2023 at 17:07 | Open on hachyderm.io
Eric Lynema

@anico I tried that a while ago. It failed. Is there a specific build setup I need? I installed the default Java runtime on a Ubuntu Linux VM and ran that command. It downloaded stuff before it failed...

7 Jul 2023 at 1:47 | Open on social.sdf.org
Nico

@epl692 Never tried it myself, sorry. The only thing I can think of is that you need quite a recent version of the Java SDK, since the Mailbox is almost purely written in Kotlin.

But would be good to have the requirements documented somewhere, yeah.

7 Jul 2023 at 7:46 | Open on hachyderm.io
best practices supporter

@briar does Desktop support disappearing messages yet?

3 Jul 2023 at 16:23 | Open on 438punk.house
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