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Just use cURL (justuse.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by limer@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.

But many valid points are made

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[-] aeternum 6 points 2 weeks ago

isn't this how RMS uses the internet? By cURLing all the URLs?

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 12 points 1 week ago

No, he has his own bizarre approach

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.

That's a general statement about that man's existence - he has his own bizarre approach.

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