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Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Post by keithwinstein »

tombh wrote: post #68

Dearest fellow terminal lovers, The creator of Browsh here. I have such mixed feelings about seeing Browsh here again. I poured soooo much geeky passion into it, but I've just not had the opportunity to take it to the next step since its initial rise to stardom. There have been a couple of contributors recently and I haven't even been able to get the CI to run because I've lost The Knowledge. I even had to take the d…

Heya, we (Mosh) are fans of Browsh and are happy to talk if we can be helpful! It's definitely doable to expose (and directly link with) the Mosh networking and terminal libraries if you're unhappy depending on the executables. You're not wrong that our release cadence has also fallen off a cliff, probably for similar reasons to you (this has been a tough year for our active maintainer).

Honestly I think of Mosh as mostly "done" at this point (with the exception of 24-bit color support which everybody wants and which we have in Git), and I'm wary of stepping back into the ring myself as the original maintainer who hasn't looked at the code in a long time, and screwing up a release that ends up botching our so-far-good (knock on wood) security record. Which will just take up way MORE time...

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Post by WilliamTheFirst »

I could have really used this a while back while doing a web scraping job. While using puppeteer(with chromium), I found that memory usage was quite a huge problem so the best I could do was write scripts explicitly preventing the loading of images and other multimedia assets. I found it still wasn't always enough.

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Post by kortilla »

Sephr wrote: post #52
zamadatix wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think my terminal's font is breaking the v2 graphs because the unfilled braille dots aren't blank rather unfilled circles. The v3 version doesn't work as my terminal doesn't support images. On my Windows box it actually does work surprisingly well with the official curl binary and the graph looks great but the weather emoji mess up alignment towards the end. I think these kinds of inconsistencies are the reason som…

A font that renders the empty braille pattern with unfilled dots seems very inaccessible to the visually impaired. Empty braille pattern sections should arguably always be blank.

I don’t think rendered braille is for the visually impaired...

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

I've often thought that ad blockers get it all wrong, we shouldn't be identifying the ads to block them, we should be identifying the desired content and serving it up to the exclusion of everything else.

The run-a-server-elsewhere-and-connect model of Brow.sh seems ideal for building something that did that:

- render the page server side

- check for crowd-sourced filters

- apply them

- pass page to user

I'd happy make cryptocurrency micropayments to whoever contributed the filter that de-bloated that page for me.

It would be slow at first, but with a big enough cache and enough users...

Glad to know about this project. I may try and adapt it to man-in-the-middle my own web browsing one day.

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

#75

Post by juskrey »

freedomben wrote: post #33

Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this. For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a b…

Yeah, sitting on slow connection while doing modern web dev, was the time I've really learned how to use linux.

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Post by [deleted] »

Jenda_ wrote: post #63
freedomben wrote: post #33

Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this. For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a b…

> This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. Their demo is down now, but I have tried it in 2018 and unfortunately it was pretty bandwidth-heavy (about 100 kB/s while displaying a static webpage): it was permanently refreshing the entire terminal contents. Maybe they have fixed it since then, or it will be better with Mosh (as they suggest on their homepage). I think that rendering server-side and tr…

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Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Post by [deleted] »

Jenda_ wrote: post #63
freedomben wrote: post #33

Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this. For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a b…

> This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. Their demo is down now, but I have tried it in 2018 and unfortunately it was pretty bandwidth-heavy (about 100 kB/s while displaying a static webpage): it was permanently refreshing the entire terminal contents. Maybe they have fixed it since then, or it will be better with Mosh (as they suggest on their homepage). I think that rendering server-side and tr…

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Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

#78

Post by romseb »

keithwinstein wrote: post #71
tombh wrote: post #68

Dearest fellow terminal lovers, The creator of Browsh here. I have such mixed feelings about seeing Browsh here again. I poured soooo much geeky passion into it, but I've just not had the opportunity to take it to the next step since its initial rise to stardom. There have been a couple of contributors recently and I haven't even been able to get the CI to run because I've lost The Knowledge. I even had to take the d…

Heya, we (Mosh) are fans of Browsh and are happy to talk if we can be helpful! It's definitely doable to expose (and directly link with) the Mosh networking and terminal libraries if you're unhappy depending on the executables. You're not wrong that our release cadence has also fallen off a cliff, probably for similar reasons to you (this has been a tough year for our active maintainer). Honestly I think of Mosh as m…

I would just like to say thank you for creating mosh, I don't know if I could live without it anymore.

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

#79

Post by dmos62 »

TylerE wrote: post #40
freedomben wrote: post #33

Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this. For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a b…

But what does this do that links via ssh doesn’t already do?

Have you tried using links? Most sites are broken on links and the other classic text browsers. This renders modern Firefox (before textifying), so you don't have that problem.
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