How I Used Rust to Become Extremely Offline
summary
Claims success at becoming Extremely Offline by removing search-engine snippets and making turning the fix off annoying. Built a browser extension that strips interstitial headlines, a native messaging host proxy, and a Rust daemon that pings the extension every ~10 seconds and shuts the browser on missing pong. Uses Cold Turkey for URL blocks plus crates like ps util inner_process libc sturdy byteorder. The system works technically and enforces the behavioral goal.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46What is Extremely Offline
- 1:35Why would you want to do that
- 2:49Doom scrolling
- 3:35Site blocker
- 4:41Search engine
- 7:49Native messaging host
- 8:50Daemon
- 12:04Closing the circuit
- 14:10Crates
- 14:29Outro
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