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Also 'A Room of One's Own'. It's got an excellent narration by Juliet Stevenson on audible.

https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Room-of-Ones-Own-Audiobook/B005...

Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:33AM (#27261866)
If anyone wanna try out XMPP, Conversations is a good client for android, available on fdroid. Dino is a good Linux client. IMO dismail and trashserver seem to be good public servers, if you don't wanna host yourself [1][2].

[1] https://dismail.de/

[2] https://trashserver.net/en/

You're gonna hear some saying it's all oh so secure. But be aware of tradeoffs [3].

[3] https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/xmpp-aitm/

croc shouldn't be used if you want security:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054885

[2] https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/1396199915638992896

Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go, which is compatible with the original Python implementation (croc is not compatible with magic wormhole). It has windows binary and binaries for most of the popular OS.

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Binaries: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Support for resuming transfers is planned I think.

Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:45AM (#27261640)
Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go. It has windows binary.

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Windows binary: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/downlo...

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

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