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@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii obviously, that would've been a good standard for everyone, given that almost all non-#Gaming #Apps these days are #WebApps and at that point we'd not have 100+ MB #bloatware that essentially just loads a #Website and can't even cache shit!

Personally I believe the @europarl_en & @EUCommission could do that and establish as well as enforce an #EC #norm, just as they did with #USBc, #CCS2 and #GDPR!

#Android needs to be better as in being more than just the "lesser evil" compared to iOS!

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PillowfortSnugglyBun: SnugglyBun's blog and ramblings againHi, I hope you're all okay.So I just wanna ramble about random shit again, like for example how I love customization in tech and all that. For example I made my Windows 10 LTSC install look and somewhat behave like Windows 7 without Windowblinds :3. There's a transformation pack made by ImSwordQueen that's really amazing and quite impressive, and that among many other things (disabling the spyware and telemetry, removing a lot of the bloatware, etc) has made using Windows a lot more bearableA screenshot of my Windows 10 LTSC desktop, made to look like Windows 7.I unfortunately can't daily drive Linux yet because of relying on music software that doesn't work well with WINE, among other things. So this is the next best option for now.Below are more screenshots of the funny Windows install :3Another screenshot of said install, showing the File Explorer and winver programScreenshot showing the Control Panel, the Videos folder and the Windows 7 calculator.BTW, i really love how more flexible the formatting is in Pillowfort, considering it's more of a Tumblr-inspired blogging platform than a microblogging one.I found the microblogging aspect in many places like Fediverse and Bluesky really limiting, even if the earlier has the ability to have way longer character limits and markup depending on the software implementation.
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@bagder Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see #curl to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in #complexity and #size.

  • I mean, does curl need to be able to do #BitTorrent (magnet:), #IPFS (ipfs://) or god forbid #blockchain (i.e. #EVM) support?

  • Do you really want to integrate @torproject / #Tor support natively into curl when using #HTTP (localhost:8118) and #SOCKS5 (localhost:9050) #proxy allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??

In fact if #toybox didn't have a #wget implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen tiny-curl -o as a global alias or if #tinycurl wasn't an option, curl -o instead.

  • Maybe someone who wants to have said functionality like tor support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. #neocurl or sth. along those lines or build something like #ethcurl or #torcurlor #ipfscurl or whatever...

That being said I am glad curl isn't solely maintained by you but has other contributors (give them a shoutout!) but I also am glad you maintain that vital software that most "#TechIlliterate #Normies" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the #tech they use to #consume media with...

  • I consider curl to be "the #vim of downloaders" (tho that's kinda insulting and limiting since curl is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than vim) with wget being "the #vi of downloaders" (tho wget is even simpler to use than vi)...

Either way, curl is awesome...

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