How is this better than zim? Is this in the Debian repos?
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I can't compare, I never used Zim, sorry. If I remember correctly it is, I personally got it with flatpack.
Ah, if it's only available on flatpaks, that's why few people know about it.
Flatpak is a very insecure method to download software BTW, you probably should avoid it
Edit: It's curious that I'm getting downvoted for stating a fact. It seems a lot of flatpak users don't understand security. But that's kinda the point: even the flatpak developers don't understand the difference between integrity and authenticity
Flatpak currently does not provide authenticity, and one developer made it clear that he doesn't understand why that matters in the above ticket that requested signatures of packages back in 2016. It's been 7 years and still they haven't fixed this. I don't think the flatpak team understands or cares about security.
Flatpaks aren't any less secure than any other installation option, where did you get that idea from?
This is misinformation. Flatpaks are far less secure than installing from apt. All packages installed from apt are cryptographically signed. This isn't the case with flatpaks.
I’d want to love it…
but as ridiculous as it sounds, for something like this to be really useful to me I unfortunately need a mobile app. a web-app seems hard to realize for a real e2e encryption & sync - for my scenario :(
I’m aware how much effort this is already… it looks good but as much as I want to use it, I can’t due to my workflow requiring a mobile device app (iOS in my case)
but it does look really promising!
It looks like it's built with Electron which should run natively on mobile. Porting it as a mobile app wouldn't be very difficult.
Edit: Upon further investigation, it actually has a built-in mobile frontend. You'd just have to run an instance on a server and access it from your mobile device.
Yes it has the web app but a regular app would be nice