Yes, and in fact that's the best method available if you want good performance.
I would suggest using a local open source model to do this however, to cut down on costs and make it far simpler to deal with than the unwieldy OpenAI systems.
You should take a look at the markdown TUI glow (or some of the other projects on charmbracelet) and see if there's anything you can contribute from your work. It's all in Go as well iirc.
Is there a good way to automatically *always* have reader mode on?
Better yet, are there any ways to *not even load the other junk*, just load the text only for the reader mode.
As far as I understand, Firefox still loads everything, does the parsing for everything, loads all those ads etc (and no, uBO does not get all of them), and then - *if you click the reader button in the URL box* - it will switch to reader mode. Seems quite backwards to the point of not really a workable solution for the automation junkie programmers of HN.
Would be nice to have a solution with better defaults to give reader mode automatically, default use uMatrix (much better than noscript btw) for control native to the browser, etc for a more snappy and controllable (with paths to private and secure) browsing experience. Having a tui would be icing on the cake.
Lynx just works though, and sidesteps all the js junk.
Isn't like 99% of the reason/bloat on today's computers due to the massive amount of surveillance, telemetry, and phoning home with analytics of everything we do to a huge list of companies?
I should imagine that removing simply that would make a lot more possible on older hardware, especially when it comes to base operating systems. Removing much of the unnecessary visuals that the web has today by using something like lynx may get much of the browsing experience desired as well.
One thing I noticed out of many of the list items given in the post here:
> Only use Tor
> Always use a VPN
> Never use Google -- only DuckDuckGo
> Disable JavaScript on your browser
> Watch all incoming and outgoing network calls regularly and scan for abnormalities
> Encrypt your laptop and any external drives
> End-to-end encrypted communication only
> Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail
> Never pay with cards. Use cryptocurrencies.
> Turn off all location services from your laptop and phone
Is that these can actually be solved with technology in a way that these are thedefault and popular behavior (as TLS 1.3 is in HTTPS).
So it's important that we realize that these technologies (or something like them) are important anddesired by everyone, but just need a bit of development to work. Https and signal are great examples. Many of my parents and grandparents are on signal now, because it's better than most other apps (whatscrap, Facebook msg, imsg, etc). Is the Loki network and Session better? Sure. Of course. But grandparents aren't using it yet because not everyone they know is on it yet like signal, just the tech knowledgeable, or many of their grandchildren.
But ultimately, None of this should require any effort whatsoever.
The rest of the points about concealing your name or not is more obviously a choice by the user, as they have to provide it knowingly - so it's less of an issue because they're more likely aware of their choice.
> Don't buy domain names
I'm not sure I understand this one - anyone have an explanation?