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This is in the top class of utilities (htopm etc).

A good name could probably be bwtop, or tcptop or iftop.

Actually I searched for these, and turns out iftop exists! (https://linux.die.net/man/8/iftop)

My complaint about the name is that it would be hard to "google" it. This means if I don't bookmark it or remember where I found it, then a couple of years from now when my laptop needs to be rebuilt, I'll have the darndest time finding it to install it again.

This effectively made github my second search engine. We should have an AskHN on how to find software in general.

I’m using multiple search engines more and more. Possibly this is due to me usually bypassing google to avoid the ad laden hits. A view with search results from a few sources comes to mind as a solution. Another back burner project.

You can do this with browser search engines, but as a DuckDuckGo user, I can !bang search_term (`!gh`, `!github` to search in github.) Now, I think DuckDuckGo is very lacking in terms of Zero-click searching, but if I know where to get information I can !bang to it (e.g., `!hn what`) or if you're feeling luck `\hn what` will open the first search result. Much better than spending an afternoon setting up search engines.

DDG has an Instant Answer API: https://duckduckgo.com/api

3 year long user of DDG, never knew about the feeling lucky (\) option.

Every browser has book marking syncing in some capacity these days. It's the equivalent of losing contacts with a new phone in 1999.

I wouldn't recommend putting the onus on the end user to remember how to find your product. Too many assumptions.

That was a response to them having an issue with losing bookmarks. Are bookmarks in general now a negative onus?

As search engines have gotten better over the years, I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never.

Part of that is due to the fact that iOS is now my primary consumption platform, and finding bookmarks in a complex structure is much more awkward than it should be.

Part of it is just laziness: trying to manage a complex bookmark folder is more work than I care to do when search engines give me 99% of what I need.

For what it's worth I had the same problem with folder/hierarchically structured bookmarks, but tag-based bookmarking (like del.icio.us used to provide) meshed very well with me and my workflow so I wrote https://savecrate.com (still a WIP and rough around the edges but functional enough to work for me)

> I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never

I found this with Instapaper. What was a bookmark and what was a read-later?

I even pay for pinboard and barely use it.

It'd be great if every time I went back to a website, all the pages on the site that I already bookmarked would pop in a sidebar...

Not without creating an account, on Android.

Chrome has no other export functionality. And firefox copied that lack-of-feature without even realizing the motivations.

So now one have to copy them one by one.

Or create an account?

Surf with chrome logged in? Will never happen. Hard no as long as my sanity remains.

Firefox, maybe, haven't looked into it and just the process of evaluating it isn't worth it. Mozilla doesn't have the track record that I want to blindly trust them with that either.

I must be misunderstanding something here, can you please explain the missing feature?

I load a set of bookmarks into Firefox on client machines regularly, but I suspect this isn’t what you are discussing.

I'm are talking firefox/chrome for android only. The only way to export bookmarks (and possibly import) is to register for an account and sync them.

There is no way to export them to an xml/whatever file (pretty sure you could at least in firefox before, but I guess it was too hard to maintain...).

Hackernews Search is a better google for cool things I've found on the internet.

I just type in what I’m looking for and “news.ycombinator.com” at the end so that it links to a HN page. Sometimes I have to use site: to make sure it’s actually from HN, but works reasonably well.

with duck duck go you can just write !hn instead.

iftop is a remarkably useful utility. It's often one of the first things I install on new openwrt installations.

Ever since I installed SQM on openwrt, I don’t really care what’s using the bandwidth anymore since it doesn’t impact any other users on the network. :) It’s true though that iftop is a very useful tool.

Still nice in some cases to find applications/devices that are going wild due to a bug

iftop (and ifstat) are part of my preseed file, along with tcpdump, (and htop/iostat/pidstat/mpstat)

For a router I'd also put ntopng on.

Another option, since there are so many "tops," is something like psbw... Process bandwidth. Reminiscent of ps ax but ps bw.

whatif or whif would be great names

i really like whatif.

whif less so, that just doesn't seem to smell right.

‘whatop’

tbqh reading `iftop` is not easy at all

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