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I could see RMS using that all the time.

• chimeracoder 15y ago
  Actually, he apparently uses an email interface to wget: http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html ... I'm not sure if that supports or contradicts your point....
  • gpmcadam 15y ago
    That's not what he says. I have several free web browsers on my laptop, but I generally do not look at web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites operated for or by the GNU Project, FSF or me. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. He's saying, much like wget (in as much as it is used to fetch a page and return the result as text) he sends an email asking for a web page which then responds with the page contents. Now, as to why he does this, I have no idea. Thoughts anyone?
    • jacquesm 15y ago
      My guess is that he has added a price to following a link in order to reduce his information consumption because he realizes that without a cost there is the risk of gorging on things that he actually doesn't have the time for. By artificially increasing the amount of effort required for reading a page (adding a resistance, such as a relatively complicated procedure for fetching the page) the hidden cost becomes much more visible.
    • beagle3 15y ago
      IIRC, it is part information diet, part privacy filter - I would guess his web<->email gateway cannot disclose his location even by mistake (the way many VPN setups do - e.g. on my iPhone, if the VPN cOnnection times out while I am on a page with Ajax and lots of images, some requests go through the VPN and some directly. And an adversary can disrupt the VPN connection in various ways to cause that.)
    • pronoiac 15y ago
      One thing I've noted about this is, it gives him a personal, easily indexed Wayback Machine.