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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. As of 3 October 2015, Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.

The HTML library can be browsed here: https://gutenberg.net.au/

@proxzi said in books:

If you're looking for a book that's more historically based and quite interesting to read I'd recommend Great Gatsby.

Great Gatsby is also freely available (copyright expired) to read here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200041h.html

In case it's not immediately obvious, you can also access these forums on any PC, phone, or other device directly at: browsedns.net !

This is one of the primary goals of this site– to try to bridge the Switch and other devices with the greater Internet.

I also tested sleep (not in those logs), the network requests just stop and resume after waking the device. (Which is why counting them to know how "soon" until the timeout seems doable.)

I can confirm exactly 20 min on v14.0.0 as well (waking the Switch from idle each time).

I also monitored the network requests my Switch made, and here are the log files. I have the receipts!

http log: http_timeout_log.txt
dns requests: dns_timeout_log.txt

Here you can see the full 20 minute "session". Every ~1 minute a GET request is made with the user agent "NX NIFM/00".

In between those, every ~3 seconds (!!) a HEAD request is made using the full "Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo Switch; WifiWebAuthApplet) ..." user agent (that we also see when browing web pages).

These requests are used to determine if the captive portal has been authenticated yet. In a normal flow, as soon as you agree to the terms or log into the hotel wifi, these requests would reply with a special header (X-Organization: Nintendo) which informs the Switch that it's connected to the Internet.

After exactly 20 of the GET requests, and 401 of the HEAD requests, the browser shuts, which is expected just looking at how frequently they occur (401 = (60/3)*20+1). Although it would be interesting if instead of it being a "timeout" if it were more like "try 400 times to connect every 3 seconds, then give up".

Based on this, by counting the number of requests made, it should be possible on our end to tell when the pop up is about to appear. But there still doesn't seem like there's anything that can be done on the networking side of things to interrupt it.

Also interesting is that in the DNS log, a domain name request is only made around every minute. This means in the normal workflow, depending on how the hotspot's captive portal works, it may take up to a minute to be authenticated.

If you've never made a simple web page before, it's not that hard!

You can sign up over at Github.com for an account, and follow their Quickstart Github Pages guide to create your own web page at <username>.github.io. As you grow more experienced, you can then hook it up to a real .com domain or something else.

This thread can be used for support if you're interested in trying this out and need some assistance. I think for the most part you can do this all from the Switch and browser UI, including even editing the code.

My first website was on freewebs (now called webs.com), which is a less technical option. Learning how to make basic websites on my own time was more useful than most other things learned that I learned while in school. (But I was not a great student, so I'm not the best example).

My current Github pages site is at http://vgmoose.github.io and it isn't much special, just an aggregation of blog posts I've had throughout the years.

gross gelatin

Little Brother is a book by Cory Doctorow freely released under a Creative Commons license. The book is about a group of teens that use technology alongside social activism to protect themselves against an overwhelming abuse-of-authority (aka: a malicious Big Brother).

It can be read on Switch / pure HTML here:
https://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm

(also available in other formats, for eBook readers or phones)

Little Brother features a bunch of examples of tech being able to exert an unfair and unreasonable amount of control over groups of people that are otherwise innocent. One example is the students have locked down laptops that can only visit school websites, but have a workaround in the form of going online via their Xbox's (sound familiar?).

I read this book in high school and it's influenced which software I use, and how I think about digital rights with respect to users. I recommend it!

The app Krita is a nice alternative to Photoshop for making digital art. It can be downloaded here for Mac/Windows/Linux.

Image of how the interface looks:

I started learning how to use Photoshop in school, but it was always frustrating to come home and be unable to use it for other stuff, and being stuck with MS Paint or Preview. The school had a license deal, and I would've had to pay for it for my own use. Later I did pay for Photoshop for a while, but now I just use this instead!

A starting tutorial is here: https://docs.krita.org/en/tutorials.html But a fair amount of basic Photoshop-style stuff works, such as dealing with layers and blending options.

@Gorzog oh wow that's very useful! Thanks! I didn't realize the timeout was so precisely at 20 minutes. This is for 45.55.142.122? It would be nice if there was some networking-level thing that could be done to stretch it out longer.

When I sleep my Switch while in the browser, I am able to get a single page to last for multiple days, but maybe that is due to the total time not yet exceeding 20 minutes. I'll need to get some specific data too.

Linkin Park, Gorillaz, Motion City Soundtrack, The Killers, Glass Animals, Pomplamoose, Ludo, La Roux, Green Day

Posted an update to this petition describing browsedns and its purpose: https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-nintendo-expose-the-fully-functional-internet-browser-built-into-the-switch/u/30399120

I started my YouTube channel way back in 2006 (yes, I know). The first things I posted were 3rd gen Pokemon game mods. Here are a few of the better performing videos (If on Switch, you can add to watch later + use the YT app):

Missingno in Ruby (14 year old vid):

Eevee "beta" types (clickbait!):

Team Rocket Event in Firered:

And then this one was "only" ~5 years ago, Missingno in Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire:

And if you like B2W2 this is a good one as well:

Obligatorily I'd STILL like to make more videos, but after you say that for like >10 years things start to become a little awkward. I love Missingno and how much it contributes to Pokemon rumors, and do still wish that the Pokemon company would acknowledge it one day.

The search bars that show up on this site on Switch just run a regular Google search, they shouldn't be able to bypass any restrictions. It opens a Google URL with the query passed in, such as: https://www.google.com/search?q=test+search

You can also see them if you change your PC user agent to match the Switch. If it's bypassing some restrictions there is probably something else going on there, either at the DNS, browser, or PC level.

For copy and pasting on the same page: the website owner has to add support for this

For between pages: Closest solution is manually posting them here or on Switchbru. Like, logging in on a phone or PC for instance and making a new forum draft/post or visiting adding custom bookmarks at https://dns.switchbru.com

Is there a version of this for Twitter as well?

If you're having issues seeing the shoutbox (after logging in) try using this direct link for now: https://browsedns.net/shoutbox

Also, if you're having this problem, it would be helpful if you could let us know what browser + device it's not showing up on.

Does anyone have some more concrete information on when this appears?