spacelick

I thought maybe an XY problem at first but the refusal to do any research on one’s own or to reply to my repeated requests to know what they were really trying to do made me block them as posting in bad faith.

Maddening

Not these days.

Curl isn’t just a command line tool, it is also a “library” which other computer software uses. Everyone’s phone uses curl under the hood. Almost every electronic device that connects to something remote uses curl under the hood.

I still don’t understand what you’re trying to do.

curl https://google.com/

If you run this, you will see the HTML for google.com printed to your screen.

Curl is not a terminal emulator. Unless you provide a better reason I am now assuming you are a troll.

Well, that’s horrifying -.-

I still don’t understand why you won’t explain why you “need” to learn about curl.

You don’t need to know anything at all about curl unless you’re working on a technical project, and no offense, I don’t think you are.

Why do you ““need”” to know about curl?

OP, please tell me more about your situation. What made you curious about this?

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First, tell me why you need to know. And please stop pinging that person, it’s really rude to ping someone so many times when not responding to them.

Wikipedia works on phones. I’m on an Android phone. Why do you keep pinging that person? This looks like harassment/trolling.

Edit: are you confused because I said “computers?” Your phone is a computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_protocol

Read this @TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org

Why?

A protocol is like a language. It just lets two computers know how to talk to each other. That’s it.

It’s the protocol most computers use to show websites. In an internet address like https://google.com/, the https:// is the protocol. Different protocols have different features and purposes, but http/https are some of the most common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife

A swiss army knife is a single tool that contains a number of other smaller tools that you can use in many different circumstances.

Curl is a metaphorical “swiss army knife” for connecting to computers. There are many protocols to connect to different kinds of computers running different kinds of software and curl allows one to easily connect to many of them.

Pssst, you hallucinated the GitHub repo. I wonder what your ROI is like on this AI slop paper busking thing. I wonder if we’ll see massively more of it as agents go off into rabbitholes like this.