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2023-7-23
So I guess this is an attempt at starting a gemlog. I feel like randomly shouting some of my thoughts into the void every now and then might feel nice... and who knows, maybe some day someone will stumble on something I wrote and find it useful or interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway. Today a really useful website that I use(d? - Hopefully there's a good alternative somewhere but I haven't found it yet) to get just the text from webpages decided to add Cloudflare protection, making it unusable in regular browsers unless you allow Javascript and cookies first and completely stopping me from being able to just curl it and pipe the output to a pager like I had been loving to do ever since I found out it really returned just raw plain text rather than a really simple html page.
I feel kind of bad/entitled complaining about it since that change was probably needed due to someone DDOSing it or bots overloading the server but man... I'm tired of seeing simple tools get updated with features that weight them down and make them more of a pain in the ass to use, tired of the internet becoming more and more unusable without javascript and... well just tired of all the enshittification it's going through in general. That's why I ended up looking into small web, tildes, gemini and all that stuff in the first place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bonus complaint: It's way too hot. At this rate my sweat is going to start boiling soon. ç.ç