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9 years agodiscuss

Its XML which requires a more difficult tree abstraction instead of a mapping/list abstraction

and the XML wraps html-formatted articles, so unless you hate yourself, you'll need to be embedding a browser for rendering, which means bundling a browser too (even on certain browser embed providing platforms like win32, since it still uses IE11 as its browser embed)

of course its easy to generate RSS.

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and thats nevermind the whole impossibility of getting all articles without a daemon on a separate server, especially for high-volume feeds

9 years agodiscuss

Its XML which requires a more difficult tree abstraction instead of a mapping/list abstraction

and the XML wraps html-formatted articles, so unless you hate yourself, you'll need to be embedding a browser for rendering, which means bundling a browser too (even on certain browser embed providing platforms like win32, since it still uses IE11 as its browser embed)

of course its easy to generate RSS

9 years agodiscuss

"who", the people who were distributing union related materials

"why", because they were distributing union related materials?

"without offering any evidence", which is why it says "believe"

9 years agodiscuss

Google's is similarly excessive https://i.imgur.com/fWvV7R4.png

Though I get the feeling google's approach of trying to desensitize me (emailing me about how great I am for traveling to mcdonalds like a slob, and gamifying my use of google maps, for example) instead of shamefully hiding it, is a fair bit worse

9 years agodiscuss

Doesn't that just make the program opt-in instead of opt-out?

(And it separates the ActiveX stuff from the application too, which I'm happy to hear, applications that use it for decoding now shouldn't require the full WMP install)

9 years agodiscuss

Its good technology-wise, but out of all the browsers I've touched, its the one that I feel like I have the least control over

9 years agodiscuss

problem is, having unimpeded speech online requires being harbored by private companies, as there really isn't much in terms of government-managed domains, government-managed DDoS protection, etc

9 years agodiscuss

And strengthening the stranglehold of copyright holders, doesn't help them ruin lives in a similar way through court systems?

9 years agodiscuss

fwiw there is nothing that web extensions lack that would prevent that from working

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Na... exists to allow web extensions to talk with programs on the computer, its up to someone to write the extension and executable for that usecase

9 years agodiscuss

"I’ve heard a few reasons:" ... that you've considered, then cherry picked two of them, so you can confirm your views?

To properly reason why the approach is wrong, shouldn't you consider all significant reasons, including backwards compatibility as probably the biggest one?

"New language that learns from the mistakes of languages before it" would generally be better than "language and runtime that is keeping compatibility with a programming language that was heavily rushed just to fill a feature point for a web browser"

One might as well state that the grass is green and sky is blue, no?

9 years agodiscuss

chrome is free, windows ain't

9 years agodiscuss

Never said it applied to all electron terminals

I would of tested this one, but no windows build, and I'm not using a linux install atm

editors don't roundtrip to a separate application through multiple buffers (bash, zsh, fish, or whatever) to decide if they need to show a color or letter or nothing

9 years agodiscuss

I don't notice any notable latency in discord, vscode, etc

But I do notice latency in hyper.js, and it just makes it feel very "dull", and that's what I think a lot of people know of electron terminals

plus the competition from native apps is a bit absurd in terms of performance, with most of the serious ones either rendering asap or on the next frame (when vsync'd)

9 years agodiscuss

So, a 3d graphing program, competing with the TI-84+ from the project's README...

Is going to be notably tied to a custom eth token?

That idea does seem to contribute to the nonsense you mention.

Especially considering the README complaining about competitors being "unintuitive", but then just slapping `blockchain` on a visualization program

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Also pardon my pedanticness, but its "Source available", most people consider "Open Source" (as a branding) to be open to access, changes, and use. You have released the code, sure. But you are massively restricting how that code is used (including preventing the program being used with other versions of the same program??)

https://opensource.org/osd for the "common" definition of the term

9 years agodiscuss

pip being a dependency is defined at upload time, it is parsed by the creator of the package, not the consumer, afaik

if you used any other package manager, it would need to resolve dependencies from the additional info in the package index, resulting in pip being downloaded and installed before the desired package is installed

9 years agodiscuss

wouldn't it be Google or Adobe who would write the plugin?

its not like they lack the developers or the such

9 years agodiscuss

Does not define a specific method of DRM, only an interface to those methods of DRM

9 years agodiscuss

or just inject (via extension or JS)

    .itemlist .subtext {display: none;}

9 years agodiscuss

There is no ad blockers

There are blockers which can use lists, some of those lists might contain ad domains, some of those lists might contain miner domains.

9 years agodiscuss

sorta

from my understanding, when you build the package, your computer extracts the relevant required packages, and sends up that data to pypi, which then in turn sends that data back to users when they install

At least thats how I think it works