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Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bagder</a> Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curl</a> to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#complexity</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#size</a>. <ul><li>I mean, does <a href="https://curl.se/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">curl</a> need to be able to do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BitTorrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BitTorrent</a> (magnet:), <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IPFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IPFS</a> (ipfs://) or god forbid <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blockchain</a> (i.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EVM</a>) support? </li><li>Do you really want to integrate <a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@torproject</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tor</a> support natively into curl when using <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HTTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HTTP</a> (localhost:8118) and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SOCKS5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SOCKS5</a> (localhost:9050) <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/proxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proxy</a> allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??</li></ul>In fact if <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/toybox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toybox</a> didn't have a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/wget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wget</a> implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen <a href="https://curl.se/tiny/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><code>tiny-curl -o</code></a> as a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30702803/set-aliases-globally-for-all-users" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">global alias</a> or if <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/tinycurl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tinycurl</a> wasn't an option, <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/1/curl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><code>curl -o</code></a> instead.<ul><li>Maybe someone who wants to have said functionality like <code>tor</code> support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. <code>#neocurl</code> or sth. along those lines or build something like <code>#ethcurl</code> or <code>#torcurl</code>or <code>#ipfscurl</code> or whatever...</li></ul>That being said I am glad <code>curl</code> 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 "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechIlliterate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechIlliterate</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Normies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Normies</a>" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> they use to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/consume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consume</a> media with...<ul><li>I consider curl to be "the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vim</a> of downloaders" (tho that's kinda insulting and limiting since <code>curl</code> is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than <code>vim</code>) with wget being "the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vi</a> of downloaders" (tho <code>wget</code> is even simpler to use than <code>vi</code>)...</li></ul>Either way, curl is awesome... <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OS1337</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bloat</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bloatware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bloatware</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://equestria.social/@SweetAIBelle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SweetAIBelle</a> I just hope that <a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@landley</a> can do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/alias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alias</a> support in <code>toysh</code> so I can supplement most stuff easily with a <code>.bash_aliases</code> <a href="https://github.com/kkarhan/misc-scripts/blob/master/bash/.bash_aliases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">file</a> 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 <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/wget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wget</a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curl</a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/tinycurl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tinycurl</a> or whatever even before any <a href="https://github.com/os-1337/spm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">package manager</a> is up and running or available.<ul><li>Tho compared to most <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> distros and tools like <code>apt</code> and <code>yum</code>, <code>spm</code> isn't very advanced and at most will likely only offer to download/remove a binary or replace it...</li></ul>

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