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[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks a lot for the reference !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anyone aware of conversion kits for old off-roads including pickups, which would ship out of US? This not just to look for better prices, but also avoid the modern always connected vehicles and kind of saas deals. Any sturdy chassis those kits are made for? Before Tesla, and then BYD and so on, there were kits for enthusiastic people, but they were kind of expensive, and I guess now prices for such kits might have dropped considerably.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

hmm, it depends on the distribution. On artix for example it's available from stock official repos, and also from AUR (meaning it has to be built) but its build is pretty simple according to its own newsraft repo, just make + make install. It's C based, so it should build everywhere, in case interested. I prefer building it from AUR rather than using the distro repos package, to be more up to date, and it builds really fast. At any rate, just an option in case willing to explore it later. I explored several feed readers before, being the last gui I tried "news-flash" which can or can not be used with a combination of feeds self hosted server. I ended up looking at newsraft, and hadn't looked back since.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Does "desktop" means no TUI? Because newsraft and its predecessor newsboat are pretty cool. Newsraft is the one I use.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Unified push is great news in general for AOSP based ROMs phones for battery life, it's an open notification standard and system. There are several providers or distributors. If you're already using nextCloud with the unified push support on the server (murena has enabled this already because they want apps to consume less energy because of having to run in the background if not wanting to use the proprietary google services notifications) then you can use the unified push app already available on f-droid. If using conversations (xmpp client) it already supports working as an unified push provider and perhaps other xmmp clients already added such support and conversations is also available on f-droid. Or you can use the ntfy provided app also available on f-droid. There's an apps list available to find out if particular apps already support unified push, and as you can see fennec is one of them. BTW, if one doesn't want or need push notifications on fennec this can be disabled on its notifications settings, When installing an unified push notification provider, the apps supporting it will attempt to subscribe with a particular topic name on the provider, and usually the providers come with default settings to automatically accept subscriptions, and one can just check if the subscription is there already or not, one might need to stop and re-open the app for it to attempt to subscribe. Make sure the provider is running in the background without restrictions, I can tell conversations and ntfy are pretty low battery consumers so no worries about no restrictions on battery consumption.

Does that help? Otherwise I'm kind of lost with the questiosn.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Yyup, notmuch doesn't sync folders AFAIK since it is an indexer (a fast one), one needs mbsync and/or imapnotify to keep mail up to date (the combination might be mbsync to sync on boot, and then imapnotify to keep things up to date based on such notifications) to keep mail up to date. Another options is khard which is menat for cardav contacts just as khal is meant for caldav calendar... mutt-ics sounds great for ics calendar invitations, which I sometimes get from non family and non organization parties, otherwise I receive caldav ones, which I'd like to integrate with the caldav calendar so it syncs, perhaps mutt-ics handles that as well, first time reading about it, :)

Many thanks for answering !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

how does khal integrate with neomutt for received invitations? khard works pretty well AFAIK with neomutt. Also, have you tried alot (notmuch + afew + alot + ...)? It sounds alot integrates much better than neomutt with notmuch, which in turn integrates much more better than mutt...

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Please define suckless. See on under suckless.org one can find rocking software, meaning suckless alternatives not developed/maintained by them, and on the editors section I see:

  • acme - Rob Pike's framing text editor for Plan 9. Included in plan9port.
  • ed - ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR!
  • ired - A minimalist hexadecimal editor and bindiffer for p9, w32 and *nix.
  • mg - A portable version of mg.
  • mle - A small, flexible console text editor.
  • nano - A pico clone - this is small simple code and easy to use.
  • neatvi - A minimal vi implementation supporting bidirectional UTF-8
  • nextvi - A continuation of neatvi development with more features.
  • nvi - A small, multiple file vi-alike.
  • micro - A terminal text editor, written in go with common key bindings like ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste.
  • sam - An editor by Rob Pike with inspiration from ed.
  • sim - The sim text editor. Based on vim and sam.
  • traditional vi - A fixed version of the original vi.
  • vim (With the GUI, use :set go+=c to kill popup dialogs). It can be compiled to be as minimal as possible (see vim-tiny in Debian repos).
  • vis - A modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.
  • wily - An acme clone for POSIX.

That said, also note there's an emacs-nox package available in most distros, which only includes the editor able to run on a terminal emulator, if emacs OS is too much. And can you share URLs justifying why vim is a big security hole? BTW I don't see neovim as part of the suckless.org/rocks software. What is suckless depends a lot about what one might consider it to be, even though there might be some common characteristics that can be recognized as not good such as bloated, too big code base and so on.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Not only those, it was google removing support for extractors, knowing that would affect frontends, particularly yt-dlp, and of course they had to react. BTW, libretube, what I prefer from f-droid was also affected. See this yt-dlp issue which was already fixed with a commit and the immediate release they provided. I grabbed the yt-dlp fix on artix Today and the libretube fix on f-droid Today as well.

I believe all frontends got affected (attacked?) in pretty similar ways...

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

artix, and honorific mentions to parabola and hyperbola (hyperbola is moving towards becoming a gnu + kopenbsd thing, like there was an attempt for a debian gnu + kfreebsd effort though this one got dropped)

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • terminal: profanity (really cool, it became what I regularly use, no audio/video calls though in which case a gui like dino can be used, syncing between the two)
  • gui: dino (there's a fork called dinox)
  • android: conversations (from f-droid)
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Yup, I realized community.xmpp.net is dead, and sadly it's the only profanity specific community, :(

Ohh, I've always written to myself for things I want to sync and prefer to encrypted while syncing. It seemed natural to me, since all chat mechanisms I've used support writing to myself. But perhaps that notion is not so natural as I believe.

Many thanks then !

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40858754

On dino and conversations for example I can chat to myself on a chat to my own JID. As simple as that. On profanity I can not do /roster add <my_jid>, nothing gets added, although there's no failure either. And I can't do either /sub request <my_jid>, it gives the error:

Error Invalid presence type

And if I include something something to the chat to myself on dino for example, then my JID shows up as unsubscribed, and if I do /omemo start <my_jid> I can't se whatever I posted on dino or somewhere else. But this is weird, because whenever connecting to my account my JID doesn't show up as a possible contact to chat with, and I can do /omemo start <my_jid> but it still shows up weird...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25256388

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
 

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17370625

I've been a user of Librewolf for a about a year now, and it's always served me pretty well as a nice easy way to get a hardened Arkenfox Firefox.

However, recently I was curious why Librewolf wasn't recommended on PrivacyGuides, and took a look through their reasoning on their forum. That thread spans multiple years, and for the most part I thought their reasons for not including it were a bit unfair, especially after Librewolf started offering automatic updates.

But towards the end of that thread in October, a Privacy guide team member posted a link to the Arkenfox github issue tracker, where a Librewolf team member reveals how the project appeared to have lost steam after a critical member left, and they are struggling to keep it up to date with the latest Arkenfox updates, despite putting out new releases.

I'm not sure if those problems have been resolved since that time. One of the maintainers did mention they're still short staffed in this topic on taking over maintaining Mull.

After considering the arguments for and against in the PrivacyGuides thread, I think their conclusion for not recommending it was ultimately correct. Using Librewolf adds an additional layer of trust, not only to not be malicious (which I don't suspect they are) but to also be able to adequately fulfill what they set out to do reliably.

Another big part of them not recommending it was the existence of the Mullvad Browser, which I didn't realize was in fact a very well hardened version of Firefox (essentially the Tor browser without the Tor part), and is far more effective for private browsing compared to Librewolf or an Arkenfox'd firefox.

Ultimately you'll have to come to your own conclusion, but personally I'll be switching back to Firefox as my convenient daily browser full of addons, alongside the mullvad browser for (more) private browsing.

 

This is so so sad, :( I've been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there's a fork in the horizon, :(

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
 

I'm long K9 user, and I was aware of it becoming Thunderbird, but I need to clarify what should I do to easy eventual transition, hopefully without having the deal with all my K9 settings...

Today K9 turned into Thunderbird Beta for Testers, however there's already an app called that way Thunderbird Beta for Testers showing up on f-droid. Thoug the actual ID of each differ (com.fsck.k9 vs. net.thunderbird.android.beta).

What should K9 users do, to avoid losing its current settings (accounts, folder settings, encryption and so on)? Should we remain using the K9 app, and hope that when it goes away then the thunderbird app replaces it somehow automatically and pick all accounts and settings? Should this period when the two apps with the same name coexist be used to install thunderbird beta for testers, hope that it pick all settings from K9 up, and then remove K9?

It's somehow confusing, I was originally hoping at some point K9 just turned into thunderbird, but at once, automatically, without still having two apps, so I'm wondering what's next. For now I'm just still using the K9 app with thunderbird name...

Thanks !

Edit 1: Many thanks for those who replied, at least I don't have a google account, and no need to inherit the OAuth to google, or any other of such account for that matter, although I could remain to K9 I migrated to Thunderbird official release (no beta) without issues. It sounds like a good opportunity to migrate to Thunderbird.

Edit 2: It's sad that the OAuth can not be inherited, though understandable. For those who were just using TB or K9 for a long time with gmail, and the account gets into the infinite dependency loop of requiring a device already logged in, given the stupid security question has no answer, then perhaps it's time to ditch google and look for an alternative, I haven't found anything useful to help around there. Google actually sent a message indicated it has protected the user from herself, and inhibited her attempt to reach her own account. Meanwhile, just staying with K9 seems OK, since it's still there (just a metadata name corrupted but the app ID remained K9 still).

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21522958

(cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21522265)

A group of people including Drew DeVault are trying to cancel RMS again, basing their claims on ancient misinterpreted quotes. Stallman may be controversial, but these activists are just acid for the entire Free Software movement.

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