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Re: GNU Radio in the browser

#21

Post by kruffalon »

thomashabets2 wrote: post #4

Oh that's cool! I've set off time to blog about getting my broadband RF scanner (connecting to USRP B200 via WebUSB) to work in WASM. https://rf-survey.habets.se/ It's basically https://blog.habets.se/2026/08/Broadband-RF-scanner-revisite... , but in the browser. I also have an AX.25 decoder ( https://thomashabets.github.io/ruwasm/ ) and plain old FM receiver ( https://cement.retrofitta.se/tmp/rtlsdr-fm/ ) already. T…

Off-topic:

http://retrofitta.se/

retrofitta

Definition

Add (a component or accessory) to something that did not have it when manufactured.

What did you think it meant?

[EoF]

Strålande! Well done :)

"Fitta" is sort of like "cunt" in Swedish & .se is the TLD of Sweden.

Re: GNU Radio in the browser

#22

Post by pipe2devnull »

necovek wrote: post #15
thomashabets2 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Browser APIs don't have as much coverage as native APIs, but I would say that by far most UIs should be in the browser nowadays. Quake can run in the browser, so in my opinion so can the likes of Photoshop. Maybe the latest AAA game is a different beast, but that's a tiny edge case. Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks, but I don't see the same on desktop. Just build yo…

> Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks I find it's the opposite: on my computer, I want native apps, but on the phone, it is very hard to manage a large collection of single use apps because I do not have a keyboard to quickly navigate between them.

If you are on an iPhone you can add a website to the Home Screen and it functions as a dedicated app essentially and the opened instance is treated separately from safari

Re: GNU Radio in the browser

#23

Post by password4321 »

alightsoul wrote: post #11
thomashabets2 wrote: post #4

Oh that's cool! I've set off time to blog about getting my broadband RF scanner (connecting to USRP B200 via WebUSB) to work in WASM. https://rf-survey.habets.se/ It's basically https://blog.habets.se/2026/08/Broadband-RF-scanner-revisite... , but in the browser. I also have an AX.25 decoder ( https://thomashabets.github.io/ruwasm/ ) and plain old FM receiver ( https://cement.retrofitta.se/tmp/rtlsdr-fm/ ) already. T…

With wasm, I see a future where the browser and thus web technologies are a UI toolkit for a Linux desktop environment. It already is, people hardly use GTK and qt anymore except for desktop environments or embedded like on cars due to performance limitations. It would be cursed to see a browser running within a browser. But then replacing a desktop environment might be the limit of replacing GTK qt and other UI tool…

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia

> open source solutions … centering on browsers

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Igalia%20comments%3E5&sort=byD...

Re: GNU Radio in the browser

#24

Post by jjgreen »

kruffalon wrote: post #21
thomashabets2 wrote: post #4

Oh that's cool! I've set off time to blog about getting my broadband RF scanner (connecting to USRP B200 via WebUSB) to work in WASM. https://rf-survey.habets.se/ It's basically https://blog.habets.se/2026/08/Broadband-RF-scanner-revisite... , but in the browser. I also have an AX.25 decoder ( https://thomashabets.github.io/ruwasm/ ) and plain old FM receiver ( https://cement.retrofitta.se/tmp/rtlsdr-fm/ ) already. T…

Off-topic: http://retrofitta.se/ retrofitta Definition Add (a component or accessory) to something that did not have it when manufactured. What did you think it meant? [EoF] Strålande! Well done :) "Fitta" is sort of like "cunt" in Swedish & .se is the TLD of Sweden.

The Swedish Scunthorpe problem ...

Re: GNU Radio in the browser

#25

Post by not2b »

pipe2devnull wrote: post #22
necovek wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks I find it's the opposite: on my computer, I want native apps, but on the phone, it is very hard to manage a large collection of single use apps because I do not have a keyboard to quickly navigate between them.

If you are on an iPhone you can add a website to the Home Screen and it functions as a dedicated app essentially and the opened instance is treated separately from safari

It is the same on Android.

Re: GNU Radio in the browser

#26

Post by iscarelli »

thomashabets2 wrote: post #4

Oh that's cool! I've set off time to blog about getting my broadband RF scanner (connecting to USRP B200 via WebUSB) to work in WASM. https://rf-survey.habets.se/ It's basically https://blog.habets.se/2026/08/Broadband-RF-scanner-revisite... , but in the browser. I also have an AX.25 decoder ( https://thomashabets.github.io/ruwasm/ ) and plain old FM receiver ( https://cement.retrofitta.se/tmp/rtlsdr-fm/ ) already. T…

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