And that's not good, by the way.

EC cryptography is enough bloat on its own, why websockets and not normal TCP sockets?

The first time of bloatware appearing in mobile phones is not something that happened in 2010s or late 2000s. It was 1999, and it was called WAP. I still have Nokia 7110 and 8310, the first WAP CSD- and GPRS-enabled Nokias respectively, in a perfectly working condition.

WAP was a huge mistake. A separate XML-based markup language (WML) that was "compiled" into some "compressed" binary representation of the same language (WMLC) by carrier-side gateways. And the client side still had to waste the resources for XML-like parsing, and, given the lack of RAM in cellphones at the time, this meant even less content could be displayed on a single page. And the gateway still had to fetch the original WML page via HTTP. A lot of complexity for something that simple.

What should they have done instead? Just adopt Gopher. Yes, it still is alive. Gophermaps are TSV (tab-separated value) files, literally the easiest format for machines to understand with no overhead at all (fields are separated with \t, lines are separated with \r\n). The protocol itself is as straightforward as it can be, much less overhead than HTTP. The client has full freedom of choice of how to display every item type, so WAP-like menus wouldn't be a problem anyway. "Standard" Gopher only has 7-type records for search requests, but I guess some custom types could be invented for form filling, or even Gopher+ format could be implemented. It still would be much smaller mess than what they came up with.

Needless to say, when phones became capable of displaying plain (X)HTML (that happened around 2003), WAP faded away pretty quickly. Because no one wanted to maintain parallel versions of their websites that generally couldn't be generated from a single source because of those WAP limitations anymore. Still, modern MAUI-based phones (MediaTek MT626x and MT6276), Mocor-based phones (Unisoc SC6531x, SC770x, UMS9117(L)) support basic WML pages, and remaining RDA-based phones (Coolsand/RDA CT8851, Unisoc SC6533G) even can run compiled WMLScripts. WAP formats support also remains to some extent in the Opera Mini browser and the devices that run it, but that's another huge flop to be told about another time.

On one of my Alpine installations, I use Links with -g switch on a bare framebuffer. After changing the font settings, it's quite pleasant to use.

Lynx is uglier in many aspects.

Standalone domains FTW. I don't believe all the folks that really need that NIP-05 verification are so poor not to order the cheapest VPS and domain name to easily do this. Or, even without VPS, just a custom domain and any static hosting options that allows attaching them.

I said potential spyware. Now it looks safe, then an update comes. I'm more referring to the current extension model as insecure in general. Like, why cannot we allow extensions to only access the tabs with select websites open? We can only choose whether or not to allow them to run in "private windows", but when we do, they have unlimited access to all open tabs.

This lack of fine-grained control is begging to be abused, and it's only a matter of time someone does so.

What do I suggest? I suggest to let browsers browse and not run arbitary code, I suggest to return their codebase to some humanly-auditable size and to offload all client-side complexity to standalone applications. Preferably command-line, maybe with some HTTP interface accessible on a local port if noobs are so inclined not to use CLI.

Current 2.5-engine "modern web" oligopoly must die.

I've been a huge proponent of quartz/electronic watches, especially the ones with longwave or BLE sync, but started to tolerate mechs more as long as I can regulate them myself to quartz-grade accuracy (±30 s/mo) and they keep it well. All it takes is appropriate tools and a timegrapher, even a software-based one. Even the Orient from Tristar series I'm wearing right now is pretty accurate after such regulation.

Here's my guide how to adjust Orient F6 and F4902 movements: https://hoi.st/docs/own/orient-f6-adjust-guide.txt

LGTM.

You can try looking for some recent news on the village of Kosmach. No one, except its inhabitants, knows the full truth of what happened there, but it proves that a lot of people here are ready to resist any invaders coming to their homes, regardless of uniform.

Any opinions on Hongdian 1860 aka Black Forest Max? #asknostr #fountainpen

Not sure if my previous reply got through, but TWSBI is pretty scarce here too, unlike its knockoffs.

Finding something with F/EF nib is also essential for me. Pilot's EF is perfect.

I think it's amusing how people want to fix existing spyware by installing more potential spyware on top of it.

Very rare here. Seme knockoffs can be found though.

Btw.

https://piped.video/watch?v=4V_LQTf1IVo

Some MPs already say they won't support the "asset freeze" norm and it's most likely to be excluded before the second reading to save functioning economy, but no one believes them anymore. People already are buying crypto and amassing local resistance. Whatever pieces of information the West gets is a tiny fraction of what's going on here really.

https://piped.video/watch?v=Bl43HF-5hn4

That's natural (because people are normally lazy), but the danger always is in letting someone else structure the world perception for you.

The note is more about multiple choices existing instead of just two polar ones, which usually consist of bullshit most of the time. False dichotomy also is a powerful propaganda tool.

"A plague on both your houses" is my reaction to this.

Opinion is not just an onion node running on raspberry pi. It has to differ to have any weight.

I know all this, thanks. Tell this to those who blindly repeat that we're nazis bombing ourselves since 2014.

This is how it goes, supposedly: as soon as a channel appears that allows to break free from the mainstream propaganda BS, "anti-mainstream" propaganda BS inevitably appears there too. This seems to be the plague of any social media, centralized or not.

Why? "Bot farms" have been a thing for over a decade already. Regardless of how free your speech is on a platform, there always will be some whose speech is "freer" if they say the same as various govt-agencies-backed bots, trolls and "useful idiots" herded into a particular place online to shape dominating "public opinion" there.

How to fight this, besides being fully standalone? Guess what: freedom of speech is something more than ability to choose which bot farm to join. Think about it.

Actually, I am affected pretty much. But got used to this.