Month: February 2026

Links 2, a graphical browser I wanna build upon. And a quick look at how ELinks is doing.

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We all know the three: Lynx, Links 2, ELinks. And w3m, the thing that pioneered inline images. Of these, Links is also among Dillo and NetSurf as a graphical browser —

Unlike its Links pre-1 fork, ELinks, which never chose to follow the upstream on that one;

Nowadays, elinks.cz web site is defunct for a month now — but exclusively on GitHub, the community remains active. Once a fork, rkd77’s ELinks, once (until 2020) having to call itself felinks, is now the continuation. The INSTALL mentions Alternatively, instead of Meson: ./configure &&… …There is no ./configure.

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Simplistic reconciliation of mostly-append text files like Offpunk lists: draft involving Kahn’s algorithm

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I have been thinking about managing my Offpunk list files that I might be modifying on either, or both, my netbook and some main laptop. Since this is mostly about new parts that might have gotten added, I didn’t want to introduce some full-blown version control to this. Instead, I figured that I could start ensuring the files end with a time-specific marker when was the file last appended before sync that would also be useful to the human…

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Getting TLS1.3 Key Log from Go application with requests by a library, and using it in Wireshark

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Today I wanted to sniff on TLS traffic of hell, a “mastodon client” that seemed to not want to work with things that aren’t Mastodon. The network calls are mostly made from within a library, hellclient-go-mastodon fork of go-mastodon.

SSLKEYLOGFILE turned out to be a standard, now even RFC 9850, for TLS client instrumentation. But Go standard library doesn’t simply write the secrets to a log file in coupling with the obscure environment variable. Not much libraries seem to do it — just programs like major web browsers and curl. (Perhaps bizarrely, this Haskell package adds it coupled with an environment variable — introduced to one’s Haskell code by means of adding nothing more than an import statement.)

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Distributed file version management in 15 minutes of Bash

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You don’t always need to have all the tools at your disposal, but you may want to have some way of checking in your file edits. CVS is too powerful and has a lot of unnecessary parts, while not being distributed. You may not need to keep everything in deltas. So why not just write…

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