It used to be an awesome clone of the famous MS Trackball Explorer (now that the patent has expired), but apparently they have completely changed the design and don’t offer it anymore: https://www.trackballmouse.org/ploopy-classic/

Unfortunately I’m not interested in this new design at all.

If anyone is still looking for an explorer clone, I highly recommend Sanwa.

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Why write it in two completely different languages?

duckduckgo, icon.horse and favicongrabber.com also have their own APIs for this

I bet there is a way this could be abused in order to proxy/tunnel arbitrary requests via google IPs. Even if it’s slow and must be done through e.g. PNG image data and dynamic subdomains or something, it would still be possible.

Yes they are, but when a platform prides itself on decentralization and tries to gain users based on that, only for the user to find out they’re already wrongly banned everywhere because of a centralized blocklist (my personal experience as an example)… to me that’s still too centralized.

I’m not sure what better choice there is if you want strong decentralization/federation… every attempt so far has been met with moderation woes whose solution is just… more centralization (mjolnir/shared ACLs/blocklists/etc.).

Or you can use unmodified latest chrome/firefox with One-Core-API

I just use a network share to copy files from the host, and don’t have a default gateway, that way I don’t risk having an open internet connection in the VM.

They might be able to identify specific known large VPN providers, but as a concept, you technically can’t just blanket block all “VPNs”.

If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.

To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.

I thought whisper was for the opposite… speech to text.

https://github.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS works well for me

I like the attention to sandboxing/security that web apps are given, the ease of updating, and that the UI design is easier/more accessible (many more web devs than anything else) than traditional apps, but I still prefer the speed, size and light (memory) weight of native apps.

Yes but even curl easily passes those tests by default, regardless of the user-agent. I guess I’m just skeptical of how much effect it really has in the real world… you see a lot of people saying “oh yea it works great”, but they don’t tell you what the before and after bot traffic actually was.

Happen to be proven wrong though if anyone has some hard data.

Isn’t that going to be basically every president on earth? Unless you happen to be a president yourself or something.

Yes but it doesn’t actually do any work or verify anything… crawlers could follow the refresh URL immediately and get right through. And I’m skeptical that not having to actually solve a PoW could make a meaningful difference, especially if the delay from the meta refresh can be easily bypassed.

non-JS

WebAssembly

Erm… technically correct I guess? But disappointing. Other solutions let you run a local command to generate the response and then paste it into a form.

I sortof understand the argument that it can look like what some malware does, but I feel like there should be an easy fix for that, like maybe just label it as an “advanced user” feature or something, so at least it’s still available. I just feel like requiring wasm is a step in the wrong direction and even moreso shuts out legitimate users that don’t have/enable wasm on their browser.

and if you had the same tabs open that I have, it would use a very similar amount of ram

horrible take IMO. firefox is using 12GB for me right now, but you have no idea how many or what kind of tabs either of us have, which makes all the difference to the point your comment has no value whatsoever.