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IIRC Stallman 'browses the web' with something like a cron job scraping URLs with Lynx, and then it emails him the output so he can peruse it later. This isn't
by pram 4y ago
IIRC Stallman 'browses the web' with something like a cron job scraping URLs with Lynx, and then it emails him the output so he can peruse it later. This isn't a joke lol
- AdmiralAsshat 4y agoI believe he used to print them out, so perhaps we should consider at least reading them via an email client to be some sort of progress. Although I'm sure it was to be more "eco-friendly" than anything
- ydlr 4y agoThat sounds... reasonable. There are some web-to-newsletter services that try to sell this feature.
- bitwize 4y agoGiven how intrusive, ad-encrusted, and potentially malware-encrusted the web is becoming, this sounds like one of those Stallman absurdities that make increasing amounts of sense the more you think on them.
- starkd 4y agoExactly. We need characters like RMS to buck the trends, even if they come off as a*holes to us. And RMS was right about the danger of software not being under our control.
- Joker_vD 4y agoWhich is why RMS and FSF tried to get the software under their control. Thankfully, they are much less adept at it than the commercial firms, so that attempt ultimately failed.
- starkd 4y agoNot understanding how they did this. The movement merely supports a license that insists code is available to end users.
- bitwize 4y agoThe FSF demands copyright assignation for all contributions to its projects. E.g., if you want your code to make it into Emacs, both you and your employer need to sign it over to the FSF.
- gaius_baltar 4y agoIt is like that "Stallman was right" subreddit is getting righter and righter every day. Except that Stallman is under some kind of Cassandra Curse, so people ignore all the signs, even when they are repeated by persons more skilled in PR tactics.
- davexunit 4y agoHe did that for a long time, maybe still does for certain things for all I know, but he started using GNU IceCat (a firefox derivative) some years ago.
- dvfjsdhgfv 4y agoI actually envy him for being able to do so.
- abawany 4y agoSounds like a great way to prevent brain death brought about by the WMD (weapons of mental destruction) such as infini-scroll, etc.
- Koshkin 4y agoI used RSS to read HN up until Google killed their reader. (Being able to filter the feed by the post title was nice.)