bare bones vim with 2 lines of vimrc

>>1617 Emacs does not have any of that "inside" of it. It is not a text editor that that fell to scope creep, but instead a Lisp interpreter/VM. As a side effect it provides a fully mutable environment which has resulted in the creation of many Lisp programs, some of these come packaged with Emacs, and the user may run or delete these programs as he sees fit.

>>1625 I love emacs key bindings. I use them for everything. They're faster once you get the hang of it and move ctrl to CAPS. I can't stand modal editing. I use vi fairly often but I avoid it and use emacs whenever possible. Emacs has become my entire OS for the most part. I only leave it to use Firefox and a couple of other applications. If I can do something in Emacs I try to. I made a manga reader for it in about 20 lines of lisp because the one I was using was so annoying and pulled it so many other things. I was using emacs as my window manager for a long time. It was okay. But had some quirks I didn't want to live with. So now I'm back on dwm with emacs loading as a daemon when I log-in. It's pretty comfy.

>>1660 If you ever want a simple in and out vi-like experience in the terminal but emacs style, you might enjoy mg. I use that when I want super user privileges without having to use TRAMP.

ee and nano

>>1487 I was around for the drama with pale moon. It was the OpenBSD port that hadn't even made it into the main repo yet. The reason they threw a shit fit is due to OpenBSD's rules about how ports operate. In OpenBSD ports much use system libs and the ones in the base system are always preferred. This is for security reasons along with keeping the OS simple to use. The Pale Moon idiots threw a shit fit because they bundle a bunch of out of date libs and demand that everyone uses them. Instead of fixing their own code they do bad hacks to other code and expect you to run out of date stuff on your system. Another issue with the OpenBSD port is the use of pledge and unveil. In OpenBSD you can use those two things to restrict what applications can see and do. Their port of Firefox has almost 100 patches that change the browser so it follows certain rules. I can't make certain system calls once it's running and it can't access any directories until you give it permission via a text file. The firefox port on OpenBSD is probably the most the secure browser that can handle modern websites without issues. I run it and now and again I'll stumble on to a website that tries to do something naughty via javashit. I block all javashit by default but most of the time you have to enable one or two scripts for the pages to load. Now and again I'll enable one that causes the browser to crash because it trips pledge's rules. If I want to upload a file I have to use mv to put it in ~/Downloads or ~/uploads since those are the two directories firefox can see. This way some random website can grab everything in my home folder like my ssh keys. I really wanted to use pale moon and I did for awhile. But the developers are incompetent and refuse all help. It's really out of date now due to Google's BS and them not being good enough programmers to port that stuff. So I'm back on a highly modified firefox for the time being.

>This way some random website can grab everything in my home folder like my ssh keys. I meant they can't of course. Not sure why I randomly miss keys when I type these days. I really miss old Opera. It was great back in the day. I've tried a lot of text browsers but the modern web is so messed up you're mostly stuck with either Google or Mozilla's engine. I don't trust Google so I end up Mozilla's but modern mozilla is just as bad. The issue is we don't have real standards anymore. Google controls the W3C and they just randomly make up stuff to add to HTTP. HTTP is really screwed up now. Forcing everyone on to HTTPS made it much harder to run a website and the keys+encryption do not matter in practice. Since you have to get the key from an authority and everyone routes stuff through things like cloudflare. You hand over the keys so they can see all the data flowing through their servers in plain text. They've even started to modify it in-route. Which is a big no-no. It's possible to have anti-ddos without a big provider like cloudflare but it's a pain to setup. You have to buy multiple VPSs or servers and hide you real website behind them. It used to not be like this. It used to be very easy to put a website up on HTTP. Most data on HTTP doesn't really need to be encrypted. Even interactive stuff like imageboads and forums. HTTP/Web was supposed to be a library not what we've hacked it into. We should have had other protocols for interactive things. Something like IRC but for non-real time discussion. Another protocol for gaming. A different protocol for everything. Then HTTP could have been what it was supposed to be: A static library of information where anyone could put up a page cheaply with little issues. Without worrying about being ddos'ed by the mafia and forced into using their server as a middle man. javashit wasn't supposed to be used for most of what we're using it for. We could have something so much better that was really free. We should be able to host all our personal stuff on home servers that other people could access. Instead we've allowed everything to be centralized. So now bad people are snooping and reading all the data we produce and they're trying to prevent us from having open discourse. Having used a bunch of browser I think firefox is still your best bet. You have to modify the CSS style sheet to your liking and install a bunch of add-ons. But once you've got like that it's pretty good. At least until they push an update and break your style sheet. Usually it isn't hard to fix what they broke. I run vimum add-on with mine. So I can scroll with hjkl and do most other things by hitting a key. Works pretty good most of the time. I also have sidebar tabs that collapse. They recently added that to the browser but I disable it and use sideberry. I block all javashit by default with NoScript and I have uBlock installed too of course. It's still blocking all the ads for sites like youtube. Google tries to break youtube all of the time for firefox users. It's sometime a pain but still bearable. I mostly use yt-dlp+mpv these days when I can. What I hate most about the modern web is having to enable third party javashit on a lot of websites to get the content to load. There is no excuse for how people code websites these days. The text and images on the page should work without needing javashit and the test should use my system font. So many websites want to send 20+MB of javashit just to load a basic page with text. It's ridiculous. That's why I can get by with just using text browsers anymore. I really miss how the internet was pre 2012 or so.

I've been using Tor Browser more than a decade with scripts disabled. You can do that nowadays by setting the default security level to "safest" through the shield icon in the browser bar. I don't really know what else is out there but this is what I use, and this is what I recommend everyone else to use as well.

I've been using Tor Browser more than a decade with scripts disabled. You can do that nowadays by setting the default security level to "safest" through the shield icon in the browser bar. I don't really know what else is out there but this is what I use, and this is what I recommend everyone else to use as well.

>>1661 >>1662 Thanks for the insight hikarin. I agree that Firefox is generally the best bet to be usable on the modern web, but it's nice to dream about a less shitty version of the modern web sometimes. Sucks that Pale Moon threw away their credibility to be furry spergs. A bit unrelated, but do you have much experience with alternative webs? Things like Gopher, Gemini, Freenet, IPFS, etc? I like the idea of them and absolutely see the appeal but from my (limited) experience they're a bit too niche and often too limited to have much content. My idealistic cope fever dream is all the people of the "dissident web" (for lack of a better term) who use IRC and altchans and such to migrate off the clearweb into some sort of alternative internet protocol(s) but I know that will not happen.

HolyC

>>424 I want to learn Racket. It's sound so fun to craft your own meta-language I don't know what I'd use it for tho...

Not fluent, but I've made "projects" in Lua for making mods in Garry's Mod, though I am just recently learning Python in college. I've made way too many disappointing attempts in trying to learn Python or any other programming languages prior to college, during high school. I just hope college motivates me to be better, because it really sucks being lazy, I'm trying to break away from the habit.

C++ since you can do RAII and make the memory work for you or you can have free control to do all the memory management yourself like C style. Wide range of control and architecture you can have in C++ makes me love it.

Mostly C, various lisp dialects and sh scripting. I use lisp more and more each year. Trying to slowly work my way down the stack and make everything lisp when possible. I'm frustrated though because I'm using 3 lisp dialects right now and I'd prefer to use just one.

>>1262 I tried this one and it's been pretty smooth sailing so far. Wish there where more themes but other than that seems perfect.

>>1263 search the top toolbar for a thing called "CTCP replies" might wanna remove the TIME reply since it allows random dudes to learn your timezone!

irssi for cli

What's up with pidgin?

>>1260 i use Hexchat with the Monokai theme. works well enough for me.

Nvm figured it out. Using handbrake I can rename the audio settings and subtitles as well as make it an mkv

>>1646 Good job. Hikarin must be very smart

>>1650 I can be sometimes

In the mesh radio world there is LXMF, which is built on the Reticulum Network Stack. The two apps you can use with it is Sideband for mobile and Meshchat for desktop (it comes with a NomadNet browser too - a pretty comfy web alternative built on LXMF). If you can't reach a destination, it will store the message on a procoolation node nearby or of your choosing then send it to the destination once it's available. Keep in mind every single packet on Reticulum is encrypted so node operators won't be able to read anything. Reticulum is way too autistic for normalfags right now, even more than TOR/I2P so I haven't tried it in the real world yet, though I want to set up my own LoRa node in my area and get my friends to set up their own, that way I don't have to use the internet at all.

>>1652 fuck wordfilter can't even say "prop0gation"

>>427 By sitting down and coding. Learn by reading and doing

>>427 I am having some of the same problems but am just trying to do projects on topics I am interested in. FOr instance I am making an IRC client in c++.

>>427 I'm also struggling with my attention span, most likely because I lack self-discipline and just lazy overall , what programming language are you learning? I'm being taught Python, HTML, CSS, and possibly javashit in college right now.

I learned by making my own neocities website. That I still need to change over.

i think you should install gentoo

Gay Nazi Offensive Moronic Enthusiasts

>>1584 this guy looks like someone who would molest people ngl

>>1584 molestors' presence only prove that the distro is secure and good. if its not good then molestors won't be there, no? >>1589 physiognomy hasn't failed humanity yet.

fucking chimp face

>a combination of dicksword, Anonymous Imageboard and Feditwittereddiverse

>>1425 go is dope

63 posts and no mention of lisp

>>231 Rust >Cargo Need I say more? needing to wrap everything in "unsafe" for interacting with the native API is getting really old, though. I do like how I can use the msvc toolchain for x64 and write asm, though, since M$ decided intrinsics can replace inline asm for whatever reason. C and Go are great languages, though. Golang is amazing for backend work.

Haskell and Lisp, I love em.

>>231 im quite fond of both python and C++ or C# since both languages have been around and are very robust and generally pretty darn secure