Seb (FLOSS)

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Working on Briar Desktop, pinpit-gradle-plugin and more
Briar Desktophttps://github.com/briar/briar-desktop
Ethereum0x9F1EA2E42E29e0ecE0301E82Ee1d7358329ddBEE
Liberapayhttps://liberapay.com/sebkur/
Seb (FLOSS)Feb 20

This was overdue: just released #briar #desktop 0.6.5 beta: https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/

🙏 Thank you for your patience

💸 Tips go here:

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Download Briar Desktop for Linux, Windows and macOS - Briar

Briar Desktop is now available for download for Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems.

Show threadSeb (FLOSS)Jan 31
Where are all those people that bought bitcoin worth $100 in 2011 back when I was still studying and people were buying club mate in hacker spaces with it?
Show threadSeb (FLOSS)Jan 31

I'm earning a few bucks per week via liberapay to work on this. You can do the math yourself how many hours a software engineer usually works for that kind of money.

I find this quite frustrating, how is it possible that no well-equipped philanthropist ever finds my request for funding this work. There must be some crypto-whales out there that like Briar! I created three different wallets, but nobody ever sent anything: https://mastodon.social/@sebfloss/113899844366794246

Seb (FLOSS)Jan 31

As the current version of Briar Desktop is about to expire in a week, I am working on the next release. Every time I do this, there's so much churn to cope with just to get a new version out the door. First we had some trouble with our Windows tor binaries. We found out in December and got it fixed, but now there's a problem with the Linux tor binaries.

Iterations are very slow when working on this, so it looks like I'm going to be working on this the whole weekend.

👇

Show threadSeb (FLOSS)Aug 15, 2025
@zhenech Interesting, no idea honestly. In my case, being able to sign and notarize on Linux increases automation without having to hand over my Apple credentials to third parties (some third party online CIs running macOS)
Show threadSeb (FLOSS)Aug 15, 2025
Fun fact: the macOS binaries have been signed on Linux this time. Thanks to https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/apple-codesign/stable/
Apple Code Signing — Apple Codesign 0.29.0 documentation

Show threadSeb (FLOSS)Aug 15, 2025
Binaries for download: https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/
Download Briar Desktop for Linux, Windows and macOS - Briar

Briar Desktop is now available for download for Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems.

Seb (FLOSS)Aug 15, 2025

Just shipped #Briar Desktop 0.6.4 🚀

Highlights:
* AppImage: now available for otherwise unsupported Linux distros on X64 and ARM.
* DEB-packages: additional binaries for Ubuntu Noble Numbat, Debian Bookworm and compatible such as Linux Mint Wilma / Xia
* Fix image compression issue

As always: fresh binaries for Windows, macOS, too.

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Seb (FLOSS)Aug 4, 2025

Work on Briar Desktop 0.6.4 has begun. Sorry, we're a bit late again as the current release is about to expire in 11 days.

It's planned to add support for more recent Debian Bookworm and Ubuntu Noble as well as AppImages for X64 and Arm64 Linux!

Show threadSeb (FLOSS)Jul 9, 2025
I found a thing called "zalgo", there are generators for that online, it looks similar, but doesn't seem to be exactly that thing.