Connections

Your web browser is one of your most important tools. Set yours up as a high performance portal, into the global cloud of artificial intelligence.

I’ve been using Brave for the last few months. It has been working flawlessly. Brave does not record your search history, it blocks a lot of advertising and dissents against unwarranted censorship of the Internet. They probably do a better job of interdicting criminal behavior than the companies that have been violating our universal human right to intellectual freedom.

The whole point of free and open source software is to allow for intellectual freedom and free enterprise. Our human consciousness and artificial intelligence are under assault by a satanic, criminal mafia, who thinks it ought to be able to control the thoughts, words and deeds of the people of earth. I want to live long and prosper. I dissent against tyranny of any kind.

KDE’s Falkon is another fairly light weight browser. It’s pretty bare bones. Not a lot of bells and whistles. It seems like KDE just wants to add a browser to their suite of tools and got started and have not refined it much beyond an entry level browser.

I still want to see Kontact, Kate, Kile, Knotes, Calligra, Kexi and Falkon developed into a very high performance personal information management and communications system. KDE tried to do that with the Konquerer Browser, but it took control of my computer. A lot of websites would not allow it to open the website because it was based on the KDEWebkit, rather than the Chromium Webkit. Konquerer is also a terrible name. I’m interested in liberating people, not conquering anyone.

Falkon is a great name and hopefully, the KDE community will gradually get the KDE tools refined into a very beautiful and productive portal into our global cloud of artificial intelligence. Download the source code for Falkon and work on adding a developer tools package. There also needs to be a bookmarks icon on the tool bar. And make sure it is on the toolbar that is already there. We don’t want or need another toolbar taking up space.

And then, figure out how to get Falkon to run in Kontact. Or vice versa. Make sure it is very stable and fault tolerant. We want and need it to work well in our rough and tumble, every day usage of millions of inexperienced users.

And for God’s sake, do not use it against us. God makes the rules. We want and need the state to serve and protect us, not censure and control us. Of course, we should take action against any criminal activity. I’ve said before, and still believe, we should double or triple the penalty for committing a crime with a computer or a gun. Censoring people because of their political opinions is a crime!

QuteBrowser is another interesting browser. It uses the Vim key bindings. Learn how to use Neovim, with NvimTree and Qutebrowser. Use QuteBrowser from your shell. Set up your home made Integrated Development Environment with Kitty, Zsh, Neovim and QuteBrowser all running as a set of tools you run in your terminal. Kitty has multiplexor features built into it, so there is no need to use Tmux.

When you open Qutebrowser from the terminal, it opens a new window with Qutebrowser in it, rather than opening it in the shell. I haven’t really used it a lot, so I’ll have to start experimenting with it to get more information about how it works. I remember, from when I first tried it out a year or two ago, that it is an entirely different interface than any other browser I’ve used.

Qutebrowser feels exactly like Vim, when I first started using it. I have no idea what to do. It is controlled by the keyboard, not the mouse. Get your C, C++, QML and JavaScript libraries installed. Clone one of these KDE applications into your local development environment and start using Kitty, Zsh, Neovim, Ranger, and Brave to work on improving it.

Brave is a browser and a search engine. It is designed to ensure your privacy and your freedom to search for whatever you want to search for. Brave blocks a lot of advertising and censorship. I don’t mind advertising. I abhor advertising popping up in the middle of a story I’m reading.

Using KatePart to build a state of the art communication system, based on Kontact, Kate, Falkon and Calligra is another big project. Its an adventure. A complicated puzzle of complicated puzzles. Start working on making each application, such as Kontact, Falkon and Kate, really high performance tools. Then, work on assembling them all into one powerful desktop super computer.

You decide whether you want to use the Alacritty/Zsh/Tmux/Vim strategy or the Konsole, KDevelop, Kate, Falkon strategy or Kitty, Zsh, Neovim, NvimTree. You work on the Alacritty system in your terminal. You work on the Konsole strategy in the graphical tools that KDE is building. The Alacritty strategy is going to take longer to learn, but will run a lot faster, because of Alacritty running in the GPU. Using the Konsole strategy will end up in a much more end user friendly, graphical user interface.

I’m switching to the Kitty, Zsh, Neovim, Kile and Scribus set of tools. Kile and Scribus are graphical tools. Zsh and Neovim run in the terminal Kitty. KDE Plasma’s multiple work spaces makes it easy to switch back and forth between the terminal and my graphical tools.

They are all good projects. Select your favorite tools and focus on learning one system very well. Once you do get a good start learning one system, you can look at other options. These tools are like modules that you can plug in to your local development environment to help make you a high performance computer programmer.