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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 04:18:27 JST feld

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   • Tim Chase
   • Cédric Belin
   • roman
   @gumnos @cedx @hi to be fair, libfetch.so is a whopping 79264 bytes too lol
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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 04:18:30 JST Tim Chase

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     • Cédric Belin
     • roman

     @cedx @hi

     FreeBSD's fetch is definitely the tiniest of the HTTP clients on my systems:

     gunnos@freebsd$ ls -sh1 `which wget fetch curl`
     21 /usr/bin/fetch
     217 /usr/local/bin/curl
     373 /usr/local/bin/wget

     gumnos@openbsd$ ls -sh1 `which wget ftp curl`
     292 /usr/bin/ftp
     704 /usr/local/bin/curl
     1216 /usr/local/bin/wget

     So 157KB is smaller than the other non-fetch HTTP tools, but the omit the 7.384 GB of disk-space required by Node.js+modules 😆

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     Cédric Belin (cedx@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 04:18:33 JST Cédric Belin

     What a strange time. I just read this sentence in an article about an HTTP client:

     "Lightweight : Just 157~ KB in size"

     Sorry but 157 KB is NOT lightweight. Especially for an alternative to "fetch".

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