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Sharing links to Briar's implementations of Tor, Bluetooth, memory-card support, and more.
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Connecting Quantum Bits
Or: how telco infrastructure is hacked to get unbreakable security.
Interview: With Briar against censorship and surveillance (German)
In our interview with Nico Alt and Sebastian Kürten from Briar Desktop, we talk about what makes the messenger so secure and how it works as a community project.
Adiós, Briar GTK — Hola, Briar Desktop
As of Jan 21, 2022, Briar GTK got officially replaced by Briar Desktop.
Diving deep into Briar at the XMPP Meetup Berlin
At the XMPP Meetup Berlin I presented my talk 'Diving deep into Briar - a closer look at its internals'.
Confronting Briar with disasters
While Briar was designed for people affected by surveillance, another potential use case scenario are natural disasters.
You can see quite some sunspots today (Spanish)
I wrote a report about our experiment involving the sun on Spanish.
Third beta release of Briar GTK: multi-line input and re-adding contacts
Besides allowing multi-line input and re-adding contacts, this 3rd beta release also features new translations and more.
Using Briar GTK at a distance
Until a proper Briar mailbox is available, you can hack your own always-on Briar node with devices like the Raspberry Pi.
Briar GTK goes international: 2nd beta release
With this second beta release, Briar GTK goes all international. Thanks to the amazing Localization Lab Translation Teams, Briar GTK is now translated into more than 20 languages.
First Beta Release of Briar GTK
Today marks the day of Briar GTK's first beta release. Much has happened in the last months and many people, including me, were able to test Briar GTK and use it in regular occasions.
3D Space Animations with Python
Together with my colleague Bennet Weiss, I had the pleasure to do a coding project as part of the lecture “Computational Physics”. Our task was to numerically solve the Earth-Moon problem with self-implemented solving algorithms and more and more complex models of the system. You can read more about it in our final report or just watch the videos in this blog post.
Simulation of Neural Network - Hodgkin and Huxley (German)
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Render LaTeX documents locally with Docker (German)
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First Alpha Release of Briar GTK
Briar GTK is a prototype to bring Briar to desktop devices. It's not affiliated with the official Briar team. However, it strives to bring all the great features and mindsets from Android to the wider world.
Render LaTeX documents with GitLab CI (German)
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On Briar GTK, remote contact adding, Librem 5 and surprises
Briar GTK is a prototype to bring Briar to desktop devices. It's not affiliated with the official Briar team. However, it strives to bring all the great features and mindsets from Android to the wider world.
Trust is good, control is better
Free Software is a great thing, because it allows users to check that apps are doing what they pretend to do. But almost nobody compiles apps themselves.
First Demo of Briar for Desktops
Briar GTK is a prototype to bring Briar to desktop devices. It's not affiliated with the official Briar team. However, it strives to bring all the great features and mindsets from Android to the wider world.
Liberation of Nicaragua's Public Transport (German)
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Yesterday and Today: Public Transport in Nicaragua (German)
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OpenStreetMap and the Buses in Nicaragua - Presentation in Casa Vínculos
The first mobile application to navigate through the public transport in Managua, Estelí and some national routes.
Mapping the buses of Estelí and Nicaragua
For people from the outside public transport in Nicaragua can be confusing. On the one hand it is very widespread and you can get nearly everywhere, but on the other hand getting to know when buses leave from where can be difficult. In the sixth-largest town of Nicaragua Estelí there are five different urban routes with buses taking you to different places in the town. If you know when a bus…
LegionBoard - free changes management system for schools (German)
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I’m Nico. I like working on free and open source projects. Feel free to contact me by email , preferably encrypted with PGP .
Public Transport in Nicaragua
The public transport network in Nicaragua is very widespread, so you can get nearly everywhere by taking buses.