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Lynx's security is second to none.

Don't forget w3m and links.

Another good one is links. In text mode elinks is a lot better, but links can be compiled with graphic mode support (the "links2" package in Debian provides this), which lets you run it with the -g switch to get a quasi-graphical version of a text-mode browser.

It's essentially the same as using elinks/links/lynx but with inline images. No stylesheets, limited/no javascript, no bullshit; just HTML and images. That also means you get good keyboard browsing control, which is something often lacking in the "modern" browsers.

I use them both along with "proper" browsers because no single browser has managed to conveniently cover every use case for me.

Actually, was thinking of paperkey, as TFI is feasible with that. But PaperBack or optar may well be useful too.

I point you to optar

http://ronja.twibright.com/opt...

No, Links. It's a more advanced version of Lynx. (Yes, I know, open source naming humour...)

It's for those of us who want table support. Lynx doesn't have it.

I prefer elinks myself though.

Maybe they will conclude that not being a terrorist is a sign that you are a terrorist.

Karel K., Twibright Labs

For me, these are the most annoying ads I ever encountered. I am slowly developing a neural reflex when I spot these, I immediately type "adblock plus" into google.

K. Kulhavy, Twibright Labs

There are rules to label someone a psychopath.

They don't have to be applied to a natural person. The documentary "The Corporation" applied them to a juristical person. I think they can be applied to governments as well.

Whether the US Government matches these rules is a question which the reader may want to answer himself using the Wikipedia article on PCL-R:

Facet 1: Interpersonal

        Glibness/superficial charm
        Grandiose sense of self-worth
        Pathological lying
        Cunning/manipulative

Facet 2: Affective

        Lack of remorse or guilt
        Emotionally shallow
        Callous/lack of empathy
        Failure to accept responsibility for own actions

Facet 3: Lifestyle

        Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
        Parasitic lifestyle
        Lack of realistic, long-term goals
        Impulsivity
        Irresponsibility

Facet 4: Antisocial

        Poor behavioral controls
        Early behavioral problems
        Juvenile delinquency
        Revocation of conditional release
        Criminal versatility

K. Kuhavy, Twibright Labs

What does the phrase mean?

Krel K., Twibright Labs

I think if the bitcoin network serves a need, people will use it.

Karel K., Twibright Labs

I wonder how many % of the general public actually know what powers the FAA has and what it doesn't.

Karel K., Twibright Labs

I think if hardware manufacturers teamed up with trojan vendors the trojans might get bigger.

Karel K., Twibright Labs

I think this has something to do with unintended consequences :)

Karel Kulhavy, Twibright Labs

I already migrated my videos from youtube to archive.org for other reason. The player has some issues but otherwise seems similar.

It looks like this

Karel Kulhavy Twibright Labs

I think the reason the judge has granted the permission is because he can. Aka power.

Karel Kulhavy, Twibrigh Labs

Its very cheap. Also Thai post is very cheap.

Karel Kulhavy Twibright Labs

Website against planned obsolescence where you can register cases of planned obsolescence in any product.

Major manufacturers already have hefty files there.

Unfortunately the website is in German so most people need to use some kind of translator.

Karel Kulhavy, Twibright Labs

BTW the captcha sucks its so badly distorted its ambiguous to read (a letter could be just the distorting lines, lowercase l, number one, or small p), when I enter one possibility it says I failed to prove I am human, when I try the other it says I failed to prove I am human and should start all over and I cannot get the editing work back again.

I think this is just deterring legitimate users while spammers pay a cent army of Indians who type the captchas for them.

For the corporate capitalist consumerist lobbyists I suggest the following:

1) A law that every electronic device older than 2 years is e-waste
2) People who don't throw them away and buy new one will be jailed for illegal storage of e-waste at home, harsh sentences
3) Claim that people who "illegally store e-waste" (=don't participate in wasteful consumerism) are bad for the environment, because
the precious metals and other stuffs in their "illegally stored e-waste" is being kept from re-use (add some greenwash astroturfed heartbreaking photos of people being tortured in mines in Kongo, which you accidentally also happen to operate).

Karel Kulhavy, Twibright Labs

Valuable components for repair of other TVs can be easily desoldered from irreparably broken TVs. This would reduce the environmental load in today's world when the planet is already overloaded.

On the other hand how to dispose of the rest when the country doesn't have proper facilities for that.

I think the question whether something is waste or not and whether its good or bad to export it to third world countries is pretty complicated.

I wonder if it would be illegal to mass desolder second hand electronic components and send them to the third world country for the purpose of repair of broken TVs (regardless of questions of economy or component reliability).

If containing broken pieces makes a shipment illegal - if a manufacture ships a container of new TVs and some of them are defective, is it classified as illegal export of waste and the manufacturer goes to jail for 16 months?

Karel Kulhavy, Twibright Labs

Apparently if you build a DIY OSHW product, you either don't cheat on quality, or you are a masochist.

My dream is a world where, like we have free SW today for almost everything, you have free OS DIY HW for almost everything.

My famous project: Twibright Ronja

And my latest project: Twibright Distillcooker

Apparently if you build a DIY OSHW product, you either don't cheat on quality, or you are a masochist.

My dream is a world where, like we have free SW today for almost everything, you have free OS DIY HW for almost everything.

My famous project: Twibright Ronja

And my latest project: Twibright Distillcooker

NASA makes drinking water from piss up there. I wonder if it has repercussions for the taste buds. Espisso?

composition and concentrative properties of human urine

By the way my latest OSHW machine can do drinking water from urine too:

Twibright Distillcooker

I designed a combined cooker and water distiller in hope of helping the 0.8 billion people without drinking water.

In countried like Cambodia and Thailand they use charcoal for cooking made of forests which causes deforestation. he economy is actually good. Fortunately the increased consumption of the device is only oin the 10-19% range.

But anyway. I hope it won't bring dead fish together with drinking water! :)

http://ronja.twibright.com/distillcooker/

Open source hardware

http://ronja.twibright.com/distillcooker

bitcoin for donations

I am also crowdsourcing, an OSHW combined drinking water distiller and thermostat cooker which is energy saving:

Twibright Distillcooker

Its ready to release.

If this is terrifying, what is then the fact that 0.8 billion people still don't have safe drinking water?

For me it wasn't terrifying but it made me angry and I found it absurd.

So I made my latest OSHW project

project. But I am in Switzerland and they don't allow it in this country.

My OSHW project

I was developing Ronja OSHW FSO and contemplating using a laser pointer.

I called an authority asking if hitting a pilot's eye would be a problem.

They said absolutely no problem. The pointer has a small aperture causing divergence by diffraction. So after a few kms, the light spot would be diluted.

They said the biggest reason is the pilots have to be used to random intense lights on the horizon. City's windows cause pretty intense sunlight reflections.

Of course different thing is if you use high powered laser pointers as some sold on the internet or other kind of laser with precision optic of large apeture.

Other factors (they didn't mention): atmospheric jitter, speed of airplane. Pilots eye at 200 km/h spends 1.8 msec in a 10 cm beam.

I think this is scare mongering unless they go after higer powered lasers which I think should be illegal in public for eye safety reason anyway.

My latest OSHW project

I was developing Ronja OSHW FSO and contemplating using a laser pointer.

I called an authority asking if hitting a pilot's eye would be a problem.

They said absolutely no problem. The pointer has a small aperture causing divergence by diffraction. So after a few kms, the light spot would be diluted.

They said the biggest reason is the pilots have to be used to random intense lights on the horizon. City's windows cause pretty intense sunlight reflections.

Of course different thing is if you use high powered laser pointers as some sold on the internet or other kind of laser with precision optic of large apeture.

Other factors (they didn't mention): atmospheric jitter, speed of airplane. Pilots eye at 200 km/h spends 1.8 msec in a 10 cm beam.

I think this is scare mongering unless they go after higer powered lasers which I think should be illegal in public for eye safety reason anyway.

My latest OSHW project

Take a look at Twibright Optar: http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/ (A review is at: http://lwn.net/Articles/242735/)

is of course Lynx.

Aside from that Opera should require at lot less resources.

links2 is nicer, with better table and mouse support. I daresay it's almost like using firefox in text mode.

I've also been pretty happy with Chrome / Chromium-browser on low resource systems.

But unless your work involves watching a lot of youtube, you'll still probably be happiest VNC'ing into a real machine :-P

This really depends on the country in question, but there are many way s to gain access to the Internet. If the country is connected to more free country by land, it should be possible to set up RONJA-devices for cross-border communication. (For more information about RONJA: http://ronja.twibright.com/ ). The devices might seem very conspicious but can be made to be less obvious. If using light outside the visible range, this might be a rather good alternative. Not easily blocked with radio-jamming neither.

One can further develop this with more links once inside the country - from location to location, without links that are easy to shut down without knowledge of their location available for the government.

Directional antennas for wireless devices is another alternative - but those are easier to jam with interference.

Now, it's a completely different ballpark if you don't have any friendly regimes close by. If you're an island nation (say cuba, australia, or others) - you might have to piggyback on existing communication links, and if the links themselves are completely severed - like they were in Egypt - it automatically gets more difficult. You'll need to piggyback on radio or satelite. I don't know the current state of packet radio, nor do I know how easy it is to trace or jam - but my suspicion is that it would be relatively easy to both track down and to jam.

Satelite, as pointed out in the article, is expensive. I do seem to remember some satelites having support for relaying messages for free for people using amateur radio - however - I suspect this is for voice communication and not for packet radio. It should, however, be possible to get tweets out if you can find someone to type them in outside of the country. Not easy to upload stuff to youtube using this, though.

Other ideas?

This is a fascinating idea: while I like the idea of running an always-on server for teh freedomz, I don't have a clear idea of what that entails (freenet? gnutella? anyone still using these?) or how many bytes of data / "bad things" being passed through my node would just get me disconnected by my ISP under a "no servers" clause or RIAA paranoia (neither us nor you knows how many naughty files are passing over your 4096-bit AES freedomware, but your $29 a month ain't worth the liability, click...). Just as importantly, the power consumption of an always-on server that may or may not even be being used is hard to justify. A more 'standardized' software suite and micropowered "plug in and forget" computer goes a long way. As for that last part...

Ultimately this thing would have to take its activities off the ISP-dependent internet, full stop. To really be feasible, these freedomboxen would need to be coupled with inexpensive p2p (mesh networking) *hardware* as well. There are a few possible, if not ideal solutions:

Unlicensed Wifi and wifi-alikes (microwave links), as others have pointed out. Typical ranges from 10s of meters (omni wifi indoors) to hundreds of km for the suitably dedicated (highly directional point-to-point antenna links). Several existing implementations and choices of ad-hoc routing protocols (AODV, etc.).

Freespace optical links. Have a look at RONJA for a low-cost, open-source transceiver that provides 10Mbps duplex links over a km or more. Advantages: highly directional; more resistant to regulatory attack (no RF), high resistance to congestion even in extremely dense deployments. Disadvantages: Point-to-point only; more likely useful for backhaul between local onmidirectional meshes.

WiMAX: High speed, long range, but license requirement and the cost of equipment ($thousands) mostly defeats the purpose.

Kinky Stuff: HAMs and similar have successfully bounced signals off clouds/etc. using banks of IR LEDS, alongside plenty of RF-based solutions. How long until well-heeled geeks loft "low-cost" cubesats for emergency internet comms?

Your mention of inter-building communication reminded me of RONJA, a somewhat older (and open source!) free-space optics design. In this case, the transmitter and receiver LEDs are placed in a length of pipe behind a magnifying glass, and pointed at each other up to a mile or so away. Theirs does 10Mbps though :-)

this is better than current IRDA used by laptops because that one is slow and a pain in the rear to use. Also, light is less vulnerable to interference / interception than wifi

From what i see in the summary description from the article they are using a modified RONJA design but instead of the long-range with narrow beam they adapted it for a wide angle with a way smaller distance, fit for office ceiling usage.

A RONJA optical network has been capable of working at 10 mbps full duplex at 1,4 KILOMETERS (about 0.9 miles) since 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA

http://ronja.twibright.com/tetrapolis/

You can use optar: http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

Try Links2, now with Javascript and graphics support (no X11 needed, it even has framebuffer support)

...called Ronja, only 10-mbits/sec, but ~1.4km range, and it could all be built by yourself. Quite cool IMO. You can find out more info (on the now bit dated) site here: http://ronja.twibright.com/

Indeed.

And even in wireless data transmitions: http://ronja.twibright.com/about.php

There's also OPTAR for that matter.

And optar:

http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

You know it makes sense.

Paper.

http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

Stone ain't a medium, it's a hard.
 

Nobody knows of Ronja. It's been around since forever.
Visible laser based point-to-point networking good for 1.4km@10Mbps. I think they were working on a 100Mbps version as well but i haven't seen much progress in that direction.
Sure it's not 1Gbps and it doesn't serve the exact same market segment but the technology is already here , it's cheap to build and the designs are free so i thought some of you might get some use out of it.

I know printing it out in binary format has already been mentioned, but there is actually a tool for this. If you use high quality paper, it might last for centuries.

Here's the (free) software: http://ronja.twibright.com:8080/optar/

If you're going to use something you're going to need a specialist to decode, why not go with optar?.

Whatever you do, stay away from proprietary formats.
Keep the programs that access the data with the data.
Optical media burned at home last about 5 years (max) - yes, there are exceptions, but I'm seeing my oldest data DVDs starting to fail now.

Use parity (par2) with all the data and programs, so a tiny bit failure doesn't remove all hope of recovery. Obviously, a complete media failure will lose all the data.

Personally, I'd put it on paper and put "things" into the time capsule rather than data. If you must, put data on both a CDROM and USB Flash drive. Since many TVs have USB ports for JPG display, that tech will still probably be around and backward compatible in 15 years. The local daily newspaper is always a winner.

Check out http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/ for long term data storage. It is just 200k per page, but you'll have the program.

I've heard of low-profile AGP cards, but low-profile RAM sticks?? That must be a tiny case you're using.

Oh, and have you given links2 a try instead of NS3? It's pretty nice.

http://ronja.twibright.com/

They started that project in 1998.

Please note that using LEDs for this is obviously a dead-end solution when it comes to bandwidth. The light is not monocromatic enought to be suitable for high bandwidth solutions (>1 GBit/sec)

Welcome to 10 years ago: http://ronja.twibright.com/

And here is GPL'd design: http://ronja.twibright.com/