The algorithm used in chafa for img→unicode would improve the image quality: https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
Or this one: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
amazing quality!
Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be wary to use a hosted option because a browser in a remote server will then contain my credentials and browsing history. So if OP goes down this road then I think he should allow users to access machines.
What do you mean by access to machines? Like SSH access? Do you think such a service would be significantly different to an email service in terms of privacy concerns?
Yes, I do think it’s pretty different.
If you weren’t the fine upstanding person you are, you’d have all the web traffic of users at your disposal: banking, secure interactions with healthcare providers, credentials to Hacker News, the whole nine yards.
With access to my email, you could probably reset a handful of my passwords to various services that don’t support dual factor auth, and you could probably discover what services I subscribe to.
I mean, I wouldn’t want you to have access to my email, but I would much rather that than a permanent man-in-the-middle web client.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#103Got rickrolled in 2018 gnarf :(
they are getting more complicated these day, the guy invented a whole browser frontend in order to rickroll us! :)
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#104Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…
> Also, I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job.
I think before you can answer that question you have to figure out if there are enough geeks like you who think this is a useful enough tool to run / use regularly. They'll likely pay you $. Alternately, find use case where even just a few users / companies would pay $$$ each for some thing that it does that you can't easily get anywhere else and helps get work done.
For me it looks cool, and i'll give it a try, but i'm more likely to stay with my normal browser because with plugins like vimium i don't have to reach for my mouse very much. That's actually one of the reasons i use the command line so much. Make it work without constantly using my mouse and I'd be far more likely to use it. Once i'm using it regularly, then I'd be starting to think "I wish it would..." and then making those wishes come into practice is something i'd support. This is kind of a weird / esoteric thing that would just gradually improve so... maybe Patreon is a better route for getting support than normal software / feature / plugin sales.
personally, IF I find myself using it regularly, i think i'd be more likely to support you via a Patreon type regular donation.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#105Awesome work! Great stuff! Love from an terminal nerd here. Hope you succeed with this project.
Question: how will it work with CAPTCHAs?
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#106Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…
weird, that link doesn't work on localhost /s
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#107Tom, RE that Kubernetes Slack artifacts in the video (4:45), this doesn't look like Browsh bug - it's just a new weird trend that happens on Slack/Discord, of people spamming with emoji reactions, often making them spell out something obscene. Browsh handled this very well, IMO (to be honest, it looked better than on a normal browser, because the actual spam content was pixelized).
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#108I'm not sure what the desired outcome should be but successive iterations has strange results: https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow.... https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow....
why do you say it's strange? The image is being compressed over and over and the content of the demo page is being added each iteration.
https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow.sh/https://html.brow....
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#109If it doesn't have a script/cookie manager (similar to umatrix) then it's worthless. I had the same issue with qutebrowser.
Please don't be dismissive of someone's work like this, even if you do want a script/cookie manager.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#110...aaand it's written in Go... So it's modern in that it won't run on anything but popular platforms, and text-based in that it shows you text using a huge, multi-gigabyte program. Looks like links / lynx aren't going to be replaced any time soon.
> ...aaand it's written in Go...
Please don't do snarky tropes here.