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anonymous
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Posted3 months agoActive2 months ago
Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker
github.comTUICLIRSSnews
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I always like seeing new TUI tools, nice work!
2 months ago
Me too! I found a few nice ones in the App Showcase page in the Ratatui website: https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
It might be before your time, but if you want some bonus points emulate Ceefax:
https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/51354070.jpg [edited]
The link is payload, maybe you could link to a concrete image or some free search engine?
2 months ago
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/ for a live browser-based example.
2 months ago
Done. https://nmsceefax.co.uk
Very cool.
Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx.
You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...
https://boingboing.net/2005/10/06/guy-who-was-busted-f.html/... was the best link I could find for that story
2 months ago
My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.
2 months ago
If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.
This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.
2 months ago
a real hacker would never consume that propaganda slop
2 months ago
Three reasons for TUIs:
Speed of rendering
Consistency / limited styles
Keyboard controls
It is possible to achieve this other ways. But what’s interesting that for example Visual Basic or Borland C use a windowing concept
2 months ago
This is the kind of tool that actually gets used daily, well done!
2 months ago
I have an almost identical RSS experience using emacs+elfeed+firefox but with the added bonus of being able to filter out articles (eg sport) that I'm not interested in. Plus I can read many other feeds beyond BBC.