Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"

On 2025-06-07, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> writes:

You can't browse the real web that way.

The Dillectory has tons of alternatives.

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You are missing the point.  The "real web" means the web that exists in
the real world and that was built without taking usability by
non-bloated browsers on board.  Quite a lot of the real web simply
doesn't work without Javascript, and heavyweight Javascript at that.
If you want to (or have to) use those sites in your everyday life, the
Dillectory stuff won't help.
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Yes, it's possible to live your life without using those sites, just as
it's possible to live without indoor plumbing or refrigeration at home.
But it's a lifestyle change that most people can't be expected to make
just for the sake of continuing to use their 2006-era computer.

Most of these "web sites" are irrelevant to me. On Nextcloud UI's
and such, rclone handles well them all. On Mastodon, there's
brutaldon. On Youtube, mpv+yt-dlp works a zillion times faster
than the Google adware/bloadware frontend. Even under an N270
netbook. Also, most of Google Docs/Sheet documents can be
downloaded with a URL flag and opened under Libreffice/Abiword/
Gnumeric/Ted/SC-IM in a much faster way, or directly opened
as PDF files.