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In comp.misc Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netremove.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-01-12, Bozo User wrote:
> > Once you get a Gopher/Gemini browser, among yt-dlp, the web can go away.
> 
>        While I do appreciate the availability of yt-dlp, I feel like
>        a huge part of the reason Chromium is huge is so it can support
>        Youtube.  Granted, there doesn't seem to be as many DSAs for
>        video software (codecs and players) [1], but it's still the
>        kind of software I'd rather keep at least in a container.

You fear that a hacker can upload a YouTube video containing an
exploit and manage to pass that exploit through YouTube's
transcoding in order to attack Linux video player programs? Seems
like a big stretch to me.

>        By the by, what's the equivalent of wget(1) for gopher:?

Curl supports Gopher. Not Gemini though.

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