I you use the external player, and mpv in particular with yt-dlp installed, then you’ll have an alternative still using freetube as frontend to navigate YT.

I do prefer ytcui with yt-dlp backend, which is native, low on resources and I really like ncurses, but that’s up to anyone.

That said, yt-dlp also gets IP blocked every once in a while, and also find itself non working at all depending on G. moves…

You’re right, I forgot, in that regard for example with xmpp, besides being able to self-host you have multiple services, perhaps eventually there might be non just simpleX services but hosted by others as well, though it seems whether simpleX or self-host for now. So it’s true it’s decentralized by definition, perhaps not so much in practice though.

There’s another sad thing I just remember, it doesn’t yet support multi-divice syncing, and the alternative is to create groups with different members, one per device, and then in the same group apply the same for all other multi-device members. The reaction so far from the devs is that it’s not so important having a workaround at hand. So both things made me drop my trials with simpleX…

The only sad thing is that it’s centralized, kind of signal but better.

On the privacy front I believe xmpp + omemo shines, and jami is also very interesting (though jami for some reason is doing efforts to allow LLMs agents and bots, through plugins of course not by default, but I don’t see the need of any of that stuff on something like jami). Sadly briar is on maintain mode and it was really bad on phones’ batteries, tox never took of leaving only jami like a viable distributed alternative. xmpp is decentralized and federated, doing pretty well with omemo…

xmpp + omemo. Signal is centralized, matrix leaks tons of metadata to sync between services…

I believe they are claiming that with the new discoveries it’s pointless to keep trying. Whether that’s shared with other devs or not probably won’t affect their decision:

These three bugs basically ruin the whole point of arkenfox: // sec bugs: offscreencanvas / preconnect / cookie_exceptions

I’m not that familiar with them, but sounds like there’s no way to keep a sane balance between usability and privacy, and clearly upstream doesn’t help a bit, it’s like following the Borg advice “resistance is futile”. Battling the privacy fight is not an easy fight I guess. The only hope for those who are non experts as the arkenfox guys is that phoenix keeps up the good work. Overall I pretty much prefer arkenfox over phoenix, but fortunately Librewolf is neither arkenfox nor phoenix, even though they are discussing if they are better based of phoenix the are different projects making different decisions…

I wish frozen fennec didn’t die on the attempt, :( The current option is ironfox on LOS/AOSP based/…, and I don’t agree with several of their decisions. The amount of filter lists is so stubbornly huge, that there’s no time to deselect and/or remove them on low end phones for example, and the whole thing just slow things down. And I know it’s picky but I really like decisions like taking bad things off from build time if possible, even if they are opt-in… Any ways, to me it’s sad to see them closing the project, but I’m also hopeful some others as expert as they were on several of the topics they dealt with will fill up some of the the hole when they stop…

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 !

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…

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.

• 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)

How about isync + notmuch + afew + alot + msmtp? gpg decryption not directly supported but using alot’s pipeto it can be used to decrypt messages. As using notmuch as indexer it’s flow is pretty similar/compatible to/with gmail.

It would have been better to self host forgejo, rather than trusting a cloud git service using forgejo. But to be honest, its TOS, as well as the sourcehut’s TOS which I even like it better, sound way better than GH’s…