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#bloat

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rainerhgw@diasp.org
Rainer Sokoll ✅

Hallo #Debian? Jemand zu Hause?
```

apt-cache search ^at$

at - Delayed job execution and batch processing

apt-get install at

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light gsasl-common guile-2.2-libs
libfl2 libfribidi0 libgsasl7 libltdl7 libmailutils7 libmariadb3 libntlm0
libpython3.9 mailutils mailutils-common mariadb-common mysql-common psmisc
Suggested packages:
exim4-doc-html | exim4-doc-info eximon4 spf-tools-perl swaks mailutils-mh
mailutils-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
at exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light gsasl-common guile-2.2-libs
libfl2 libfribidi0 libgsasl7 libltdl7 libmailutils7 libmariadb3 libntlm0
libpython3.9 mailutils mailutils-common mariadb-common mysql-common psmisc
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 64.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
```

#Bloat

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drummyfish@diasp.org
Miloslav Číž

#Anxiety kicking in:

The #web is dead, websites don't exist anymore, all there is are toxic content platforms and unreadable, often harmful malware noise (i.e. lacking information) masked as "websites".

What's worse, a good web browser doesn't exist, plus browsers cannot be installed or compiled on my OS due to #bloat. For the "web" without #javascript there are still usable browsers such as Netsurf or Lynx.

So, I'm thinking a radical step needs to be made:

I need to leave the JavaScript web. Sadly, this is not so easy to do, because:

  • I love the diaspora community, it's my only place to communicate with like-minded individuals, without censorship. But it requires JS. What to do? I'm thinking about moving to #GNUSocial again.
  • As much as I hate to admit it, I kind of need #YouTube, e.g. for learning #spanish from videos and watching genuinely interesting and enriching videos. #Freetube isn't an option, it doesn't work on my OS due to #bloat. I'm thinking about creating a set of scripts that would utilize #RSS, yt-download and maybe even SponsorBlock database and #ffmpeg to download me latest videos from the channels I want to follow.
  • The open console communities which use JS-based "websites". Without JS they become read-only. I could live with that probably.
  • Here and there JS is useful and actually needed, e.g. I want to play online #chess with #lichess. Also I sometimes need to do banking and similar stuff. Here I think I should just address each of these specifically, replace everything I can with offline programs (e.g. play against stockfish offline) and just fall back to a web browser if I really need to (banking etc.).
  • Simple browsers lack support for addons such as ad blockers. But there are way around, e.g. via /etc/hosts.

If I could manage to do these, I would just switch to a nice no-JS browser with #wiby as a search engine while still having a fallback JS browser installed. It seems like a lot of work, but let's see.