Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anthk Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 19:41:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <875xhmdyhp.fsf@gmail.com> <10161sb$3s461$1@news.xmission.com> <83c1b04b4b39bdfc05f5c0fd91cd4b1872f9d028@i2pn2.org> <2025May29.084744@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87wm9z2866.fsf@nightsong.com> <87zfepnjep.fsf@nightsong.com> <87tt4s4dwv.fsf@nightsong.com> Injection-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e5c2b5de31df62ab68261031f41a3448"; logging-data="41119"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EyrepJG2WsWBnv/BApqxp" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (OpenBSD) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mybmxuy4if3ZAjKC0scVxZfBGvQ= On 2025-06-07, Paul Rubin wrote: > anthk writes: >>> You can't browse the real web that way. >> The Dillectory has tons of alternatives. > > You are missing the point. The "real web" means the web that exists in > the real world and that was built without taking usability by > non-bloated browsers on board. Quite a lot of the real web simply > doesn't work without Javascript, and heavyweight Javascript at that. > If you want to (or have to) use those sites in your everyday life, the > Dillectory stuff won't help. > > Yes, it's possible to live your life without using those sites, just as > it's possible to live without indoor plumbing or refrigeration at home. > But it's a lifestyle change that most people can't be expected to make > just for the sake of continuing to use their 2006-era computer.