I’d never heard of Nostr until just now. Looks like it’s an alternative to Twitter/Mastodon. Got any suggestions for people/channels/relays (whatever the term for follow is) worth checking out?
For anyone looking for an alternative, let me pitch pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/). Think of it like it like the vim/emacs of the password storage space — it’s minimal, highly portable, easily expendable, has a minor learning curve, but is well worth it.
Pass essentially takes your passwords stores them in a regular file and encrypts the file using GPG. These files are then stored in a folder that uses git to do version tracking of the files. All this means that:
- Pass can easily be distributed (you can sync your password across devices via GitHub, Gitlab, or your own ssh/git setup)
- Passwords are encrypted using GPG, so y unless someone has your private key they’re not decrypting anything
- It’s open source and there is a client for basically all operating systems
- If you can’t install a client or need to access a file, it’s just a regular encrypted text file so you can decrypt it using GPG and edit it how you see fit.
Things that suck:
- Setup isn’t as easy as lastpass: You’ll need to generate an private key/public key pair. While this is fairly easy, sharing that key to your other devices can be hard especially mobile.
- Your passwords are now protected with a key file not a single password (most likely it’ll be a keyfile protected by a key) so if you’ll need to make sure you back up that key.
- It doesn’t just work, if you want cross platform usage, you need to setup your own cross platform distribution method. Although the pass community basically uses git for distribution so it isn’t horrible but not as seem less as other products
There are pass clients for all platforms. Although only the terminal variant is officially supported as far as I know, but that’s the same model followed by KeyPass
The uses for the terminal outlined are pretty limited. These are kind of the use cases I would expect from an average use that runs scripts or does occasional scripting work. It doesn’t really take into account more advanced users who do practically live in the terminal and do all the things outlined in the article (use a file browser from within a terminal)
The target users here are pretty clearly them. It’s pretty hard to make usable tuis because the libraries kinda suck or are ancient - this project seems to be looking to change that.
I’d even argue that the reason more people don’t use TUIs as much as GUIs is because TUIs aren’t always as intuitive or user friendly. Hopefully this helps that and makes them easier to build usable intuitive guis