Offpunk 3.0

68 points by ploum

Umerdify

That's my favorite new word for the year!

Congratulations on the release and on growing your community. I love the idea of being more conscious about where I spend my attention, and this is a neat approach to that.

If I had time to contribute to this (I don't, at the moment) I think it would be neat to contribute a "serve" command, where offpunk would listen for connections from other browsers on a loopback interface, and let me browse what it had sync'd from any user agent.

ploum

the "netcache" part of offpunk is designed to do just that. Kind of Curl of Wget but accessing the cache first or being restricted to the cache if needed.

There’s no daemon but this could be built easily outside of Offpunk: a simple script, waiting for connections and replying to request for $URL with the output of

netcache --offline $URL
- pgeorgi
  
  In terms of collecting pages automatically, maybe https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/ could do? (although it'll need some hackery to deal with https)
  - ploum
    
    It looks a lot like netcache but I haven’t tested it
- sivers
  
  OFFPUNK sounds like a good name for a punk-like movement to rebel against the entire internet and live offline.
  - hoistbypetard
    
    Or even just to consciously select when you live online. Which is the appeal for me :)
  - ploum
    
    This picture was done by a Offpunk user: https://offpunk.net/screenshots/resist.png
- gcupc
  
  Thanks for this. I've only just started using offpunk despite being a heavy Gemini/Gopher user and kind of following it since you first announced it. Maybe it's just hitting a wall with my computer usage generally.
  - ploum
    
    offpunk greatly helped me with that: once my daily tour is finished, I’ve nothing to do but read what I have in my "toread" list, then, at some point, I close the lid of the laptop ;-)