The WTFPL is risky in certain jurisdictions, as it does not have a NO WARRANTY clause.

Wiser alternative:

Do whatever you like with the original work, just don’t be a dick.

These days, things have greatly improved.

Websites will never change their URLs today.

My RSS reader (Newsblur) lets me do that too, to some extent.

• Stopped using reddit, went here instead.
• Intensified my Mastodon usage, winding down my Twitter activity.
• Started using my own mail server for more than just a few tests.
• Changed search engines a few times (I’ll probably stick with Kagi now).
• Reduced my subscriptions and cleaned up my RSS feeds.
• Stopped doomscrolling (I subscribed to a weekly paper newspaper instead).
• Started using Ulysses for writing. Works very well.

Primer:

1. Usenet is for text, not for piracy. Just because you can share giant files over NNTP, that does not mean that you should. I mean, the IRC supports “file sharing” too, but there are much better protocols for that.
2. The main hurdle trying to abuse NNTP for piracy is to find a Usenet provider that actually mirrors binaries. I am not aware of any free one, as it takes very much traffic and disk space.

I know, but most people won’t. :-)

One of the reasons might be that the number of SVN hosting facilities has decreased over the past two decades.

I know, but most people are lazy these days (and self-hosting stuff in the EU has become a legal battle against every week’s new rules).

Oh, come on. It wasn’t that bad! At least it granted (and still grants) the freedom of choosing which VCS shall make your day harder than necessary.

Codeberg is supposedly located in the EU while not requiring self-hosting, maybe that’s why.

At least they’re less obvious about it.

the vast amount of projects hosted there definitely won’t ever move away.

That’s what they said about Sourceforge though.

Good news. Hopefully this will help to finally break the de facto monopoly of Microsoft’s GitHub and bring the distributed aspect of Git - away from gatekeeper platforms - back into the foreground.

Touché.

Virtually every website out there today uses Javascript.

Most of those work without it.

Lemmy uses Javascript.

Lemmy is one of several ActivityPub-capable applications. You do not need to use Lemmy inside a web browser in order to participate here. In fact, you don’t even need to use a web browser.

The Web generally does not function without Javascript today.

I disagree. Some websites (with lazy developers) work less well without JavaScript. You’ll gain less annoyances (no JS = no pop-ups and no sophisticated anti-adblock techniques), more speed, less energy consumption, less potential security risks. You’ll lose… not really much. “Web applications” (usually worse, slower and less reliable than installed software), a couple of websites which are very focused on providing effects over contents - sounds like a fair deal to me, but again, YMMV.

Yes, there will never be absolute security. If it runs on a computer, it most likely has security flaws.

I probably said “Windows” once too often (= once).

Are you advocating for some form of isolation? If so, what?

Kernel sandboxing. I mean, breaking out of browser “sandboxes” is a game these days.

Any site you browse to – including those not labeled as such – could well expose you to that vulnerability.

Which is why using the web without JavaScript is a security measurement which I strongly recommend to enable. Sure, many sites will be “less interactive” then, but I’m afraid that it is the only solution. For the usually: rather small number of websites which you absolutely need to use with JavaScript enabled (do you, really?), a separate browser inside a container (or VM) would be a good option. I admit that this is not the most comfortable setup, but I really prefer to be safe than sorry. YMMV, but you asked.

Linux is probably not the wisest choice for gaming - that would still be Windows. Anyway, the distribution does not matter that much. You can install most Linux and cross-platform software on most distributions. Do not choose your system because of what comes as the default desktop, default package set et cetera. Try a few ones. Read some reviews.

I don’t think that “fun” should be the only relevant aspect, especially not with network-facing applications managing personal data.