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Just use cURL (justuse.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.

But many valid points are made

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[–] 21 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

If you like having a postman like interface, I've been using Bruno, which is a local, de-enshittified clone of postman.

I've never thought about just using curl, but when I'll finally migrate for good out of windows to Linux, I will try doing just that, see how that feels.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Bruno has telemetry users can't opt out of: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/337

    Which, IMO, is unacceptable.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    never noticed! will not recommend in the future. thanks for the heads up.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Its just a visit counter no personal data or application data is stored

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Man, we just can't win with these UI tools, I also thought Bruno was the solution. Only use it on my work machine so that's why I guess I never noticed this. Thank you for sharing, time to go back to digging for better alternatives.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Wow, what a mess. Personally, I'm fine with this degree of telemetry, trying to understand how many people are using your app has obvious value and isn't a huge concern for me compared to what telemetry usually refers to. This feels like a bit of a "mountain out of a molehill" where the overwhelming quantity of feedback has aggravated the primary dev into being very jaded about the whole topic. I assume he got a lot more flack for this than is still preserved in this thread.

    The big thing about Bruno is that nothing is synced to the cloud, so I can use it without worrying about it being a security risk. In addition to being pretty great, and letting me easily distribute a collection in a git repository. For that, it definitely still earns my support as a good tool, whether I'm logged as a "daily active user" or not.

    Still, hopefully the main version does get that opt out added, mostly just to remove the black mark from its name and to be properly GDPR compliant.

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