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Re:Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity by orblivion on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:16PM (#36543201)
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."

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Re:Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity by myself248 on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:47PM (#36543563)
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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Re:Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity by TulliusCicero on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:51PM (#36545462)
The upside is that a LOT of people probably have a spare old Android phone lying around, and keeping it around will consume very little space or electricity.
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