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• Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level

  > If you are using a JS based browser, you don't deserve security in first place. In some cases, that is true, but not all, and I suggest not even most. In many cases, I think people are just as liable for being unwilling to use Whonix. > If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Using Carbonyl of Browsh in emacs?

  I use EWW as a browser in emacs but sometimes I need a browser that is more GUI oriented. I stumbled on two such browsers that can be used in a terminal: Carbonyl and Browsh. Source: about 1 year ago

• I saved their bookmarks tho

  As far as I know, browsh is one of the very few CLI browsers (if not the only one) that can deal with the modern JavaScript riddled web, and it's actually a text-based fronted for Firefox. So in that regard you're set... Source: over 1 year ago

• ascii art after first boot? arttime now works out of the box after first boot and installing zsh on Unix-style operating systems -- a reason for sysadmins and power computer users to rejoice...

  u/livejamie Great question! I have tried running ansi art in Unix terminals in past, the problem is not with art itself but the format and assumptions it makes... Yes its possible, but might require a translator to have escape sequences and use unicode characters. Check the ANSI browser browsh's example gif on their GitHub page, they are able to play YouTube video in terminal, so what you intend should be... Source: over 1 year ago

• would my laptop be faster on Linux?

  There's also browsh which is the same idea, but is access via ssh on a terminal and uses Firefox as the backend. Source: over 1 year ago

• Edbrowse – A Command Line Editor Browser

  Browsh is a wrapper around Firefox (Gecko), though it executes it as a child process rather than linking it in[1]: > You will need to have Firefox already installed. [1] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh#installation. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• TUIs

  TUIs are very pretty and very convenient. Unfortunately rendering to the Terminal is...slow. See https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh. Honestly I wonder if there is a way to speed it up. Like a new terminal mode which lets you write or color a particular row/column directly, or utilizes the GPU to render to each pixel, or really anything better than literally printing text with fancy spacing, escapes, etc. On each... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago