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[–] [email protected] 111 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Browsers are bloat.
-- average Arch user

[–] [email protected] 78 points 11 months ago (5 children)

As an arch user, I'm confused... Doesn't everyone use curl as their browser?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

also cuter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Not related to Arch, but behold Richard Stallmann describing how he uses the internet: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html (see section "How I use the internet" and the other section below that with the same title).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

In fact, what I use is Maté (an English way of writing the Spanish word Mate).

As a Spanish speaker I'd just like to say

A: wtf is this even supposed to mean?
B: mate and maté are two entirely different words.
C: The mate desktop environment is named after hierba mate, no é.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

Fuck. What the hell.

I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that plus Tor plus LibreJS is enough to prevent my browsing from being associated with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.

Ironically I think this makes his the most unique fingerprint in the whole internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unironically Lynx and Elinks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Let me introduce you to Browsh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As an Arch user, why do people care what the default packages are?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

😭

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Imagine not enjoying the internet via curl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Imaging not enjoying the internet via raw sockets having fun decrypting manually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

printf 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n' | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -ign_eof | html2text

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

BTW, I use lynx.