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Re: Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker

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Very cool. Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.

This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.

Re: Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker

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post #6

Very cool. Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...

https://boingboing.net/2005/10/06/guy-who-was-busted-f.html/... was the best link I could find for that story

Re: Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...

https://boingboing.net/2005/10/06/guy-who-was-busted-f.html/... was the best link I could find for that story

My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.
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