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Nico Alt
Personal blog · nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/postssecurityprogramming
Nico Alt's personal blog at nico.dorfbrunnen.eu covers security and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “First Alpha Release of Briar GTK”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nico Alt's posts for information about Briar, a messaging app, and the Bramble sync protocol behind it, including its platform support and its alpha media features.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's about the people
Most-linked posts?
- First Alpha Release of Briar GTK2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-22
- Confronting Briar with Disasters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-23
What Hacker News says?
>Android only And Linux, as well--including the Librem 5 phone[0]. >no media The media attachments feature was in alpha nine months ago[1]. I guess they are still working on it. [0]: https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2020/briar-alpha/ . [1]: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/1669 .
Comment linking /posts/2020/briar-alpha/
on “Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication”Submitted Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at F-Droid as a story · 194 points
HN discussionBriar is actually built on a library called Bramble that can be used for offline-first p2p data syncing. There was recently a good talk by a Briar Dev going deeper into the Bramble protocol: https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/
Comment linking /posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/
on “Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks”Submitted Confronting Briar with Disasters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum cryptography: how telco infrastruc is hacked to get unbreakable security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Briar during natural disasters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Beta Release of Briar GTK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Beta Release of Briar GTK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Alpha Release of Briar GTK as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
