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What a strange experience - browsing the web with brow.sh, a web browser for the console that does all sorts of tricks to turn web packages into "ASCII art": it runs Firefox in headless mode in the background, and samples colors from a screenshot.
The use case is maybe rather limited, but turning very old IT hardware into an up-to-date communication device is one.
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What a strange experience - browsing the web with brow.sh, a web browser for the console that does all sorts of tricks to turn web packages into "ASCII art": it runs Firefox in headless mode in the background, and samples colors from a screenshot.
The use case is maybe rather limited, but turning very old IT hardware into an up-to-date communication device is one.
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@RL_Dane @sotolf @pkw @mirabilos Then you can use #Browsh, which is based on Firefox.
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How neat: browsh, a modern text-based browser for the terminal.
“It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL.”
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How neat: browsh, a modern text-based browser for the terminal.
“It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL.”
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@maxim
I have a similar one now (Novatel MiFi 6620L), it works surprisingly good during blackouts, esp. compared to the phone.
If only there were any antennas in stock anywhere in the country. Anyway it gets me a whopping 1.5mbps on a super-congested network during peak hours when there is no electricity. No need to use #browsh anymore. 😆 -
profile doesn't look bad on a text terminal. these command line browsers have come a long way =O #browsh
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First steps with #browsh browser
I must say, I am impressed and might use it for general text reading, Wikipedia etc....
Unfortunately it's (per default) running on Firefox, therefore the hardware consumption is more or less the same.
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@Truck @mplammers
> I'm constantly seeing braille (mis)used this way in many applications [which raises accessibility concerns]
Interesting. I'd never seen this technique before – I agree it'd be concerning if it caught on widely for the reasons you mention. (a minor Easter egg seems mostly harmless but, as you say, could give others the wrong idea).
#browsh uses the the UTF8 half-block (https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/) – maybe that could be a more accessible alternative for some use cases?
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#Web : #BROWSH is a fully-modern text-based #browser 🌐📄 https://www.brow.sh
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#TIL about #Browsh, a modern text-only web browser:
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#Browsh is an advanced text mode #web #browser.
Browsh is a #terminal frontend for #Firefox that renders everything (including images) in text, with formatting preserved. Since Browsh renders to text the output can be sent over #SSH or #Mosh to conserve network usage by having a server grab large files instead of the client. Browsh supports JavaScript, HTML5, tabs, and most other features of Firefox.
Website 🔗️: https://www.brow.sh
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#Browsh is now available in the #FreeBSD ports.
https://www.freshports.org/www/browsh/
Have fun with that text-based #browser supporting #HTML5, #CSS3, #JavaScript, #video and #WebGL
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@tedu
For some reason I ended up with elinks as my fav txt-browser. Don't know if the same problems occur there.With a server Browsh rules the modern world. Try ssh'ing into brow.sh for a test ride!
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> I've used it! But I rely heavily on #tridactyl which does not work with #browsh 🙁
What doesn't work about it? I read that we extension work with Browsh, but haven't tried any out yet
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Yeah, #browsh seemed like something that's your kind crazy :D
> Have you tried brutaldon.online with it?
Sort of. It wouldn't log in via the standard oauth method (I couldn't click on the authorize/deny pop-up). I also couldn't log in with pinafore (the "add instance" button also wasn't clickable)
The vanilla web UI actually did let me log on, but it wasn't quite usable, at least with the default multi-column layout
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Have any of you heard of or tried #browsh? It's a full, mouse driven GUI browser---in a terminal!
The tech is pretty cool too: it renders the page in a headless version of Firefox and converts the rendered page to text. The upshot is that you can run it on a VPS, SSH in from a laptop, and get a GUI browser without paying the privacy/bandwidth/battery costs of running someone else's JS on your personal computer.
Here's a screenshot:
