Ok.. I installed this... what now?
Is there anything to follow? A list of public accounts/blogs? Or is the only option to get real-life friends to join, and follow only them?
Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
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#52Peer to Peer data transfer via computing devices is something I wish was be more mainstream. It's not, because the commercial cloud storage mafia has invested heavily in telling people that your data has to traverse their toll roads first. I recently discovered Syncthing Fork which was customizable in a way Google Drive or alternatives were not. And it's entirely P2P, transmitting files between my laptop and my phone…
https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles Open source Android file manager with built-in ftp server. Windows file manager also has built-in ftp. Linux has built-in ftp. Transfer files fast and easy over WiFi.
I use MaterialFiles daily, and had not realized it had that functionality.
Thank you for mentioning it!
Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
#53Peer to Peer data transfer via computing devices is something I wish was be more mainstream. It's not, because the commercial cloud storage mafia has invested heavily in telling people that your data has to traverse their toll roads first. I recently discovered Syncthing Fork which was customizable in a way Google Drive or alternatives were not. And it's entirely P2P, transmitting files between my laptop and my phone…
> Peer to Peer data transfer via computing devices is something I wish was be more mainstream. It's not, because the commercial cloud storage mafia has invested heavily in telling people that your data has to traverse their toll roads first. Been in software half my life never heard anyone saying anything like this. It's most of the time easier and more efficient to use cloud storage than to spin up and bootstrap a p…
I have seen many concerns of quantum computing and its ability to blow through most of our encryption standards with ease. So that trust in the cloud via encryption will likely soon fade
Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why Bluetooth when WiFi is a hundred times faster?
AFAIK there's still no standardized, non-proprietary, easy, out of the box way to share files between different phones brands/OS and/or PCs using WiFi as Android/Samsung/Apple each do their own thing here. You have to resort to setting up an ftp server and/or download extra apps on your phone for this, whereas Bluetooth file sharing is standardized and should work out of the box on any phone brand or OS (not sure on…
VLC and possibly other apps on iOS can act as web server allowing file up-/download.
Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
#55Reminded me about FTN, FIDO, and Golded
Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
#56Briar is really neat, and I hope it will land on Linux, Mac and Windows. Being able to send messages and files directly to anybody on a local network without any account just rocks.
since recently, there's a cross-platform desktop client in development using compose for desktop as its UI framework
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#57What I'd like to have is easy offline media files sharing across as many phone models as possible. Basically a free open-source alternative to ShareIt. Why it doesn't exist yet? Does ShareIt use some hidden and/or proprietary APIs?
if "on the local lan" is offline enough for you, take a look at kde connect, connects all your devices with file transfer, cross-device copy'n'paste etc.
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#58Ok.. I installed this... what now? Is there anything to follow? A list of public accounts/blogs? Or is the only option to get real-life friends to join, and follow only them?
you can also add contacts remotely, you need to exchange your briar links on a different channel. It's safe to post your link publicly. Only if both parties add each other's links within the app, you will be able to communicate. Post you own link here and add mine: briar://aagcagf7vews5wtz4kpzzy76vpv2r65mlwqlm6a627tvr6bkf75em
Re: Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
#59Briar is really neat, and I hope it will land on Linux, Mac and Windows. Being able to send messages and files directly to anybody on a local network without any account just rocks.
since recently, there's a cross-platform desktop client in development using compose for desktop as its UI framework
That's fantastic news.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meanwhile, I couldn't change my 2006 phone's wallpaper without paying Verizon to enable the USB connection with a PC. I ended up taking a picture of the wallpaper using the phone, and then setting that image as the wallpaper. It was a 2-inch screen so it didn't look too bad.
Yeah I heard US telecoms were insanely draconic (why were they allowed to act like that though? lobbying?) In Europe they weren't saints either but they weren't as bad when locking down your phone and mostly just resorted to SIM-lock, instead of locking other features as well.
People outside Europe still pay their network operator to "allow" things like tethering.