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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

tombh wrote: post #2

Some 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…

actually one problem you have here, and you're probably realizing from the responses, is a problem I had with a personal project that could be used to build lots of things that people wanted, but in itself was not a thing people want. In order to monetize you need to build one of the things people want, but in doing so you put focus into one area and stop improving the generic base of everything, as well as not producing many little toy examples of the possibilities of your technology.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by ekzy »

GoToRO wrote: post #135

Just a heads up: enter https://www.brow.sh:443/ url here http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/lookup

That sitereview.bluecoat link hijacked my “back” button (browser history) and I was stuck on the page. I hate when websites do that, please don’t post such links

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by column »

tombh wrote: post #85
davewasthere wrote: post #69

What's with the Virus warning with the windows binary? Comes up with BrowserModifier Win32/Unwaders.B!ml detected.

This is related to: https://html.brow.sh/https://chocolatkey.com/blog/mathletics... Do you still get the warning with the latest v1.2.3? https://www.brow.sh/downloads/

SentinelOne sees it as a virus

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by e12e »

peatmoss wrote: post #102
tombh wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

It should be quite doable to spin up a container/VM on demand. I'd probably look at lxd/lxc or bsd jails for this (both with zfs for storage) - or if there now are any real ways to run containers under hw virtualization - maybe that.

Maybe something like:

https://github.com/rkt/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/running...

for VM backed containers - but I'm not sure if it's considered stable and/or secure.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by e12e »

jasonkostempski wrote: post #65
katzgrau wrote: post #34

The nice thing about text based browsers is that you can use them at work and everyone thinks you're cranking code but you're really just on HN

Except the network admin that makes the hush-hush employee website usage reports for the boss.

Not if all they see is an ssh connection...

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by helb »

qplex wrote: post #133
dheera wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Damn. Even Youtube works. Never thought I'd be watching movies over SSH.

AAlib [0] has been around for ages. But yeah, it's a cool trick to watch movies in a terminal. However I think there is very little real use for image to text-as-image conversion. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

Or libcaca, which even handles colors. With mpv & youtube-dl, you can do just:

    mpv -vo caca "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs"

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by beefield »

Just wonder what kind of experience one should expect with 2400 bps? (Iridium go unlimited global satellite connection that costs around 135 USD per month. I think Go has some limitations so I do not know how much one would need to hack things around to get ssh terminal working properly)?

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by enriquto »

I love text-based browsers, and this is the one whose display looks best (but i would like to disable images/animations). This being a work in progress, the most important feature needed immediately is a boost in performance. I have a very powerful workstation, and just following a link and rendering the next page takes almost a second. (In lynx, w3m and in elinks it is instantaneous.)

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Post by hexadecimal7e »

qplex wrote: post #141
hexadecimal7e wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would pay for a mobile app that reduces my bandwidth usage during traveling while surfing the Webb away from WiFi.

Use ublock and umatrix addons for Firefox, they're free and available on mobile too.

I am very familiar with uBlock and such. I have a local DNS at home which blocks a lot of stuff for the whole family at home without using plugin-blockers. My wife don’t know a life with ads and is often surprised when visiting friends: “what a nightmare of distraction”

What I mean is an app that connects to an instance (vm, server) a brow.sh.

I would like to install this in a lxc container and connect to it from my mobile via VPN and use HTTP-proxy settings or and with an specific brow.sh-app for my mobile. Could this work?

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