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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

EinkBro: Web browsing for E-Ink devices

I'd recently run across this via a Reddit post. A web browser designed specifically for e-ink devices.

Features:

  • Pagination rather than scroll-based navigation.
  • Reader mode.
  • Font bolding.
  • Font size adjustments.
  • PDF export (missing entirely from Fennec Fox, annoyingly hidden on Chromium).

Base seems to be Chromium/Blink. GNU GPL.

I'm still mostly browsing via Fennec (better privacy and ad controls), but for quick reading or generating printed/PDF copy, EinkBro is quite useful.

https://fossdroid.com/a/einkbro.html

#EinkBro #EInk #WebBrowsers

EinkBro

lightweight, fast, but powerful browser designed for Eink devices.

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

Web 3.0?

If the Web browser is becoming a sandboxed VM with defined capabilities in which we deploy and run arbitrary remote code, at what point does the balance flip to running an actual VM / emulator on the user's own system, with a dispatched installation of arbitrary software? Arbitrary code can run without restriction to language within the VM.

Pre-provisioned VMs might offer a defined (and limited) set of capabilities into which a configuration might be dropped and run, limiting further vulnerabilities at least somewhat.

And we can actually build web browsers to manage documents and information access again, rather than run adtech surveillance bullshit.

But something like qemu, virtualbox, flatpak, kubernetes, etc., deployed straight to the user (or their designated proxy system).

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105704407581805870

#web #www #WebBrowsers #VirtualMachines #Emulation #BlueSkyThoughts

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ (@dredmorbius@toot.cat)

If the Web browser is becoming a sandboxed VM in which we run arbitrary remote code, at what point does the balance flip to running an actual VM / emulator on the user's own system, with a dispatched installation of arbitrary software? Arbitrary...

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

Toto, this isn't in Vegas anymore

So, a certain web browser from a certain company on its specific mobile OS, has long offered an "incognito" feature which promises it won't save browsing history, cookies, or form entries.

Because reasons, largely the absolute failure of any meaningful tab management in said browser, I use that mode neaarly exclusively --- otherwise tabs simply grow without limit, and pruning capabilities simply do not exist.

Periodic browser and OS crashes are of coursse annoying, but do have the side effect of ... affording a sort of tab management of last resort: the incognito session existing at the time of the crash is immolated.

Or at least that's the spec.

When my OS (rhymes with "Dan Floyd") crashed yesterday, taking down the browser (rhymes with "Drone"), I was startled to see ... numerous ... of tabs opened in an incognito session prepended to the default session tabset.

How many I'm not sure of (the browser makes assessing this all but impossible), though it seems that some are missing, or pershaps the order sequence is different, but it's at least several score (Hi, my name isn't really Edward Morbius and I'm a tabaholic). I'd had a specific set of tabs leftmost in the incognito sesion, and have not yet seen these in the default set, so some may be absent.

But yeah, for what's been an ironclad "what happens in Vegas" promise, shit's done fucked up, yo.

History's been retained, and has crossed contexts.

That's pretty Boogled.

Mind, I am so done carrying water for the organisation involved. But they're now failing core competencies. Like, in keeping information, the world's or individuals ', properly organised.

#software #WebBrowsers #privacy #bugs #privacy #NotInVegas #ShouldNeverHappen

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