#tinycurl

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-01-01

@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...

#OS1337 #Enshittification #Bloat #Bloatware

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-07-26

@SweetAIBelle I just hope that @landley can do #alias support in toysh so I can supplement most stuff easily with a .bash_aliases file to make it easy to use...

Like I know I eon't be abke to ship most tools that I want to have at hand with like a 1440kB image but I can just yoink them with #wget or #curl or #tinycurl or whatever even before any package manager is up and running or available.

  • Tho compared to most #Linux distros and tools like apt and yum, spm isn't very advanced and at most will likely only offer to download/remove a binary or replace it...

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