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    [–] kpw@kbin.social 111 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Browsers are bloat.
    -- average Arch user

    [–] phorq@lemmy.ml 78 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

    [–] kpw@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago
    [–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 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).

    [–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 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.

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 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.

    [–] heeplr@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Unironically Lynx and Elinks.

    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 points 11 months ago

    Let me introduce you to Browsh

    [–] Synthead@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] Willer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
    [–] Kanda@reddthat.com 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Imagine not enjoying the internet via curl

    [–] Michael717@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

    BTW, I use lynx.