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Re: "Cache for offline browsing"
I have hoarding tendencies, and actually find the idea of cacheing and storing everything horrifying. I love the idea of not keeping a local copy of all the crap I look at, and having to deal with it, looking at old versions, make sure it's updated, dealing with naming and deduplication. In the end I am not organized enough to find anything, and it's an extra full-time job to maintain crap on my hard drives. It's bad enough to deal with things that are not replaceable -- decades of photos and personal things, and things I like to keep around like music and books.
Crap on the web -- let it stay there, online. I don't want it on my computer. If my browser caches it, I don't want to know about it, and wish that it wouldn't.
Jul 11 · 7 weeks ago
Lagrange (and likely other browsers) already allow you to browse and view local .gmi files without needing a local server. in theory you just need a simple script that will crawl a gemfeed resource from any endpoints you've 'subscibed' to and structure the downloaded files sensibly.
I'd rather keep this a browser agnostic tool.
@corscada exactly my thoughts!
👺 daruma [OP] · Jul 11 at 17:13:
@requiem check out offpunk.py from ploum it does that and you could prpbably use lagrange to browse offpunk.py cache.
👺 daruma [OP] · Jul 11 at 17:15:
this is the tool:
offpunk is nice. But there are some site that also offers git access. as in, you git clone the site repo and read it locally. Other sites like spam.works hosts static historical content, this type of site might as well offer a tarball download.
Cache for offline browsing — I really enjoyed the concept of offpunk, a gemini/gopher/html/wikipedia/rss browser aimed at caching everything you searched. All the links would be subscription(ish) and you could visit what is new and download it locally to read offline. I see that LaGrange has a maximum of 9gig of cache memory. How does that cache work? Can I browse a site when I am offline and it will show the cache? I see the subscription also in here, and will that sync to the cache? I haven'...