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Web Browsers and RSS Clients
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Linuxiac ☛ Vivaldi Browser 7.6 Launches With Fully Customizable Tab Bar [Ed: Vivaldi is proprietary]
Vivaldi has rolled out version 7.6 of its browser, with the headline feature being a fully customizable tab bar. Users can now edit it directly, rearrange tools, and place them wherever they prefer—top, bottom, left, or right.
That flexibility extends to the address bar, status bar, and side panel, allowing users to strip down the interface or build it out depending on how they like to browse.
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TechTea ☛ App Spotlight: Newsboat, a Terminal RSS Client
RSS is awesome technology that makes the [Internet] fun, but to use it you need an RSS feed reader. There are many options available, but the one I’ve stuck to the longest has been Newsboat.
Newsboat is a fairly simple RSS reader that lets you check your feeds from your terminal. There are many GUI and web apps that can do what Newsboat does, but I’ve yet to find one as customizable and as fast as it. Today we are going to go over the basics of getting it up and running.
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Jim Nielsen ☛ RIP “Browsers”
Look, I like browsers. No, I LOVE browsers.
But it does kinda feel like “browser” is undergoing a similar redefinition as “phone”.
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Jamie Zawinski ☛ Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
Importantly, all of these features existed identically on Mac, Windows, and nine flavors of Unix, and were released simultaneously. This was basically unheard of at the time.
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James G ☛ How Artemis polls web feeds
Building a web reader is fun and technically interesting in part because there are many considerations for polling web feeds. With that said, there are many best practices to keep in mind so that you don't retrieve URLs more often than you need to.
I wanted to document the flow that Artemis – the calm web reader I maintain – follows to download web feeds. Artemis polls several thousand feeds on behalf of a few hundred users.
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ From suspicion to published curl CVE
In recent months we have gotten 3-4 security reports per week. The program has run for over six years now, with almost 600 reports accumulated.
On average, someone in the team makes a first response to that report already within the first hour.