I used Zotero quite a bit in the past, the thing that ultimately drove me away is that when synchronizing you couldn't easily access the PDFs just via the filesystem. I use a nextcloud and also wanted to access PDFs from devices without Zotero installed and this turned out to be a pain at the time. Is this possible with more recent Zotero versions? Is the sync still cumbersome with a zotero account + self-hosted webdav?
Many people here say that slowing down is a must -- and I agree it's probably the best solution -- but surely there are more approaches we could think of:
* Not allowing packages with similar names to popular ones
* Not allowing packages creation to be anonymous (in the extreme case you would require to validate your passport or similar)
* Automatic detection of malicious code
* Central auditing organization
...
This is just on top of my head, there must be many more ideas.
The website says "ZOOMQUILT 2 An infinitely zooming painting
created in 2007" (Version 1 is from 2004) and on both pages it says "A project by Nikolaus Baumgarten".
So it doesn't seem to be the case that we compare two eras of web-dev here.
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing the information.
FWIW, I used to be very happy with the Gnome environment but 2 recent (nautilus related) changes frustrate me incredibly:
* Copy / paste file paths from nautilus to terminal is broken. (You get this extra meta information in the path starting with `x-special/nautilus-clipboard`)
* Type ahead is gone. Previously you could type the first letters of a file / folder and select it this way. Now typing automatically triggers a search (equivalent to ctrl+f), which is much slower.
These might be minor things but I hit them so often that I was driven away from Gnome.