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Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#181

Is this standalone or an emacs plugin? I rather use vim motions, so is this locked to emacs, or can i do vim style for things instead?

It's a standalone program, and you can absolutely use vim keybindings! Not locked to emacs in any way.

Out of the box it is ready to do vim keybindings, emacs keybindings, or CUA style keybindings. How practical, wouldn't you say? :)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#183
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Somebody should use the extrnsibility to integrate it with blockchain then, to make even more cool. (and more hot)

hahaha, you’re joking right? honestly I can’t tell over text

Not at all. A blockchain integration will go perfectly with the builtin AI.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#184

Some good ideas here especially the history tree and keyboard history. Don't care much for the hacker = keyboard mentality, I enjoy using my mouse.

Please, it's only in the comments that people are reducing a complex reality to a silly and childish "hacker = keyboard" thing.

Nyxt aims to provide a great experience for emacs and vim users from the first run, but also has CUA bindings, and also has absolutely standard support for pointing, clicking, dragging, you name it. Get your mousing hand ready, binary_slinger, because the 1s and 0s are ready to get slung inside Nyxt

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#185

I was intrigued until I saw this in the FAQ: > What is Nyxt? > Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI and semantic document tools that work as a second brain to help you process and understand more, more quickly. No mention of what sort of "AI", where it's run, etc. If nothing else, this sounds like a recipe for a warm laptop and unreliable results.

im inclined to believe this is gof ai not nn ai

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#187
When are we getting a web engine written in SBCL? :) or how hard would it be, I wonder...

One thing about Nyxt that's great is this idea of trying to push towards being renderer-agnostic. I'm not sure how achievable that is in reality, but when you hear the idea you think oh yeah, surely that would make sense if we want to have good things in the world.

To all the people saying "I like my mouse! Why are these keyboard people so elitist!", the Nyxt people are not on a crusade against your lovely mouse. This isn't ratpoison (a window manager I adored using for a while, but that's a different story).

I have never seen anything on the Nyxt blog or elsewhere claiming mouse-users aren't humans, with full rights, deserving of fine browsing experiences like the rest of us. If I missed something, go ahead, please link it to us all and prove your point.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#188
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Is this because Nyxt is an Electron App? (Is it?) The github commit log mentions it. Or is that just a "variant" of Nyxt?

Fortunately GTK. Contributing manual only says that Electron support is experimental.

Cool, thanks. So there is the flatpak version, the Electron version, and the GTK version? Is there an easy way to install the native GTK version on recent Debian(+backports)? Or only "make && make install"?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#189

I was intrigued until I saw this in the FAQ: > What is Nyxt? > Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI and semantic document tools that work as a second brain to help you process and understand more, more quickly. No mention of what sort of "AI", where it's run, etc. If nothing else, this sounds like a recipe for a warm laptop and unreliable results.

im inclined to believe this is gof ai not nn ai

Had to look that up: "Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence"

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#190

I was intrigued until I saw this in the FAQ: > What is Nyxt? > Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI and semantic document tools that work as a second brain to help you process and understand more, more quickly. No mention of what sort of "AI", where it's run, etc. If nothing else, this sounds like a recipe for a warm laptop and unreliable results.

I agree that's is a bad look, and I wonder who does Nyxt's writing. And I wonder what they mean, I didn't think there was any sort of LLM integration, and definintely not built in... has something changed there?

Do they just mean it's built with Lisp? What are these semantic document tools?

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