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Lifehacker has an Interview with Brian Fox, the author of the Bash shell.
Brian Fox is a titan of open source software. As the first employee of Richard Stallman’s Free Software Foundation, he wrote several core GNU components, including the GNU Bash shell. Now he’s a board member of the National Association of Voting Officials and co-founder of Orchid Labs, which delivers uncensored and private internet access to users like those behind China’s firewall. We talked to him about his career and how he works.
[...] I first recall being interested in technology at the age of 6. My father, a physicist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, had a teletype machine in the basement of the house we were living in. It connected to BBN via a modem. The baud rate was probably around 110bps—quite low. I used to hold down the CTRL key while pressing “G”, which would cause the bell to ring.
[...] I joined with my other 4 co-founders in 2017 to create the Orchid Protocol for a truly decentralized, surveillance-free internet.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by requerdanos on Saturday December 16 2017, @04:22PM (6 children)
Well, I'm sure Stallman himself would object to such. But you'll notice that Fox says that he uses an iPhone (prohibits GPL in their app store) and a Macintosh (proprietary OS + bash + emacs) in his daily workflow, and he's an "open source" booster, not a free software activist, so I can't see, given that, why he'd so much as notice, much less complain.
Besides, the page may not be quite the content-free hell you're describing. I downloaded it with wget and read it in dillo 3 with cookies disabled without issue, which is a good sign.
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Saturday December 16 2017, @04:29PM
Thank you for mentioning dillo! I've just installed it and it might be the browser I've been looking for. Or even threatening to write myself, as soon as I have that elusive free time.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Saturday December 16 2017, @04:46PM (2 children)
Fairly restrictive uMatrix (nothing but cookies, css and images regardless of domain) + uBlock works fine.
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(Score: 1) by Crash on Saturday December 16 2017, @08:16PM (1 child)
The only thing I needed uBlock for was the prior (new) Yahoo Mail - which replaced Classic (non-ajaxified), except they renamed the new Yahoo as Classic...
Other than that, uMatrix's default settings works for most sites, with some whitelisting for YouTube and what not.
I turn off all uMatrix's subscription block lists, as they are overkill that just slows your browser down and eats ram like candy.
Even NYT's and the Washington Post's paywall can be obviated by turning off first party scripting heh.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:46PM
"restrictive uMatrix...regardless of domain" meant I've disabled first party scripting by default:
https-strict: behind-the-scene false
matrix-off: about-scheme true
matrix-off: behind-the-scene true
matrix-off: chrome-extension-scheme true
matrix-off: chrome-scheme true
matrix-off: localhost true
matrix-off: moz-extension-scheme true
matrix-off: opera-scheme true
referrer-spoof: behind-the-scene false
* * * block
* * cookie allow
* * css allow
* * frame block
* * image allow
* * xhr block
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @06:46PM (1 child)
That is a ridiculous way to read a web page though just because it's possible to circumvent stupidity doesn't mean it should be accepted as standard.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday December 16 2017, @07:31PM
It isn't standard for anyone except perhaps rms himself, and shouldn't be, because it would be a serious pain and defeats the purpose of the www.
I didn't download the file and look at it in dillo until I wanted to see how well it worked without scripting and responsive whatnot. The article looked fine. No comments at the end though, I now notice.