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richwicks says

There should be a push to move to simpler browsers. What we have today are as complex as operating systems, and 10000 times more insecure.

how about Brave and Firefox ? or Chromium ?

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richwicks says

There should be a push to move to simpler browsers. What we have today are as complex as operating systems, and 10000 times more insecure.

how about Brave and Firefox ? or Chromium ?

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No I mean much simpler. Something like NetSurf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoM2bzzsAcY

The Internet is extremely bloated and unnecessarily complicated. There should be a subset of html supported. Basically, I find that the actual utility and usefulness of a site is inversely proportional to its complexity. The more polished and whiz bang a site, the less I have a tendency to use it, because form follows function. Whenever I can get a video on BitChute instead of any other site, I go to BitChute.

The Internet was built in this gross hurry. Force XML to be standard (you can use standard XML on the Internet now), make WYSIWYG editors for pages, if you like support WebAssembly (this allows you to literally run ANY program in a web browser, you just have to compile it for it) get rid of JavaScript (unless it's WebAssembly) get rid of Java (unless it's WebAssembly) - it can be TREMENDOUSLY simplified and retain all the current functionality.

We have this now, people just don't use it. Instead of making browsers support all this legacy crap, get rid of the legacy crap.

There is literally no reason for all this junk. You know how many cookies you REALLY need for any website? 1. To identify you, the rest can be stored on the server. There's no reason to have more than one other than coder's laziness (and I can't blame them), and to track you around to other sites.

richwicks says

No I mean much simpler. Something like NetSurf:

I run Linux (Ubuntu) on my HP desktop (2017 model). Chromium and Firefox crash sometimes. I'll try NetSurf.

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richwicks says

No I mean much simpler. Something like NetSurf:

I run Linux (Ubuntu) on my HP desktop (2017 model). Chromium and Firefox crash sometimes. I'll try NetSurf.

You might have to compile it.

I'm not saying NetSurf is a usable program, I doubt it is, but I'm saying browsers should be as simple as that. I wouldn't install NetSurf on my machine, but I've played with a few very simple browsers before. Some don't even support the ability to play video inline.

richwicks says

You might have to compile it.

I'm not saying NetSurf is a usable program, I doubt it is, but I'm saying browsers should be as simple as that. I wouldn't install NetSurf on my machine, but I've played with a few very simple browsers before. Some don't even support the ability to play video inline.

I am using NetSurf now. Seems rather crude or overly simple, but it is fast and does not crash.

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richwicks says

what I'm suggesting is contact information isn't www.patrick.net but rather something like e5725089ef32b85aa3e35d4d67c70e7f

I had a similar idea, but something which can be remembered by a human, like 4 or five words. The average person knows about 25,000 words, so four of those gives 390625000000000000 distinct combinations. That should make a sufficiently large space of four-word names that people can remember.

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richwicks says

what I'm suggesting is contact information isn't www.patrick.net but rather something like e5725089ef32b85aa3e35d4d67c70e7f

I had a similar idea, but something which can be remembered by a human, like 4 or five words. The average person knows about 25,000 words, so four of those gives 390625000000000000 distinct combinations. That should make a sufficiently large space of four-word names that people can remember.

If you want to talk privately, I can arrange that through my computer. I'd give you a temporary username and password, and you'd then setup your own username and password, and delete the one I gave you. I want to explain something to you at a point. We really don't need DNS at all.

Should be 10 words as well, and picked by a machine, not a person. People have a tendency to quote other people, most people are parrots. I have a password "TheBearAteATreeAndBarked". You know how often that's been written in history? Never. This is the first time you've seen it. It makes no logical sense, but it's easy to remember. Still the entropy could be higher however the phrase would require at minimum a dictionary attack.

Passwords are done wrong. People are lazy and want a short one, what they should do is aim for ludicrous phrases "Eat a bug or a hair, I like to dance with flair". That's pretty easy to remember and nobody has ever said it before, and nobody will ever say it again.

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I am using NetSurf now. Seems rather crude or overly simple, but it is fast and does not crash.

I'm sure it lacks polish, but that's not the point. I frequently make throw away interfaces just so I can worry about more important things than if it's pretty or not. I've got the design taste of post modern art appreciator which is to say, none.

Remember when lots of people had tiny little pages with "About Me" posted and so on, and their interests, etc? I really want to bring that back. FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter will ALL disconnect you from a person without even notifying you. They don't allow free association.

A simple web browser that follows a few rules will prevent you from accessing much of the Internet - well, GOOD! The VAST MAJORITY of the Internet is just centralized corporate garbage. If people want to promote their website to the "real web" fine, but I think there should be a simple, easy to access, little web that doesn't require any setup other than to install a program on your computer and leave your machine running and maybe not even leave it running, the webpage can be cached on somebody's machine that recently visited your site.