douglasg14b

Anticompetitive feature!

I'm strangely good at catching things intuitively (??).

Like, if my kid throws something at me, I can catch it without looking at it. Almost every time, it's fun

It needs some categorization filter, or maybe just normalization?

I scrolled for.... Quite a while and it was people, places. Just... People and places.

I assume because that's the bulk of wikipedia content, which is where the normalization comes in.

Cool thing regardless.

Fuck yeah TimeSquirrel!

My name is Doug I love sci-fi EDM smoking weed, devops, and C#!

Yeah, life be that way sometimes.

But at the same time receiving just plain "Hello"s on the regular gets.... Difficult.

Tell me a bit about yourself who are you? I've gotten burnt out by investing into playing hellos and then them ghosting so I have a difficult time responding to them now. I definitely put a lot more effort into someone that reaches out with something to kick a conversation off with.

Kind of sucks if you, the person receiving the hello, are expected to bring the conversation.

Keep at it!

And your alternate options are what?

Why should we ditch Firefox now? Because they have moved slightly in the direction we dislike but are still light years ahead on privacy?

This is the tech version of single issue voting. All the nuance is lost and ignored, and it's just a knee jerk after knee jerk.

Mozilla is doing this because funding is difficult, if you wanted a free and open web then you should have been donating to the foundation. To some degree we all should have. The majority of their funding comes from Google, when that gets cut they have to make huge changes to their organization or they will completely die.

That's the reality we live in all those Mozilla engineers have to be paid money, they aren't working for free. How do you expect a company to function without an income source?

Have you thought about this at all before making statements like those you have made?

Like I said, I'm not arguing that many apps are built as electron apps when they're just glorified web apps. Though I'm neutral on whether that's a bad thing or not. I'm definitely against apps being built with electron that don't really have UIs, defeating the entire point of electron and friends...

VSCode is another example you're missing. And they have put a LOT of work into making as many features available in the web-version as possible, the feature parity isn't an accident.

Or Obsidian.

Examples aside, you might be surprised by applications you may not think of as not using native features, that rely heavily on them, expecting to be executing in a Node environment and not a browser one. Especially on the networking and process side. Browsers are extremely restrictive.

What are you talking about....? Please re-read my comment above :/

An electron app is a natjve application that renders a browser based UI. You appear to be conflating the browser-based UI with the whole "native application" thing.

It comes with all the advantages a native application does, like having hardware access, working natively offline, working with the filesystem, interfacing with the OS and installed OS packages, being able to use other native binaries,, being able to use more native networking capabilities....etc

Sure lots of electron applications that people make could just be a web app, I'm not arguing that.

I am, however, pointing out that you are grossly incorrect that electron (and all other technologies like it, we're not really just talking about electron here) is 'just a web app". It's a native application server and a web-based UI, which means I can write an application in C# with all of the .Net advantages, with a web UI, that runs natively on your device for example.

This lets me ship a product much faster than if I was going to build that UI in QT or GTK, with a significantly upgraded user experience that is consistent across all platforms.

Depression or ADHD?

A bit miserable this week. Got sick, and haven't been able to sleep more than a few hours a night as a result, which is making it worse.

A misery snowball effect.

Hoping I can get a full night's sleep soon 🤞

It's absolutely mind boggling that the bar for election is "supports a free and fair election", and we've reached that stage in such a short time.

The death spiral is a steep one.

That's not how manipulation works...

You don't know you are being manipulated, you do so willingly. And the folks who recognize it are beat down by the people who are unwittingly doing the AIs bidding...

The humans are the physical danger, the AI just extends it's reach through humans via manipulation. All it takes is access to influence.

It doesn't take much to make humans act against their self interests. Dumb humans make other dumb and even smart humans do it today at massive scales. For a superinteligence this is like taking candy from a baby.