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by s5806533 5y ago
Again, I have to agree with you. I know I don't represent the majority, and I know that web apps have advantages (at least in this economy, so long as natural resources are cheaper than programmer hours). I don't argue with that.
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by s5806533 5y ago
This is interesting, and it causes me to reevaluate my stance. At least we have to agree on what we mean when we say that "end-to-end encryption works". I think there are `shades' of "working" if you will -- for ins
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by s5806533 5y ago
Original author here. I have the following desiderata concerning MUA: * it should be able to work offline (with a dedicated send/receive cycle), * it should run fine on a Raspberry Pi (out of principle more than anything), * it should
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by s5806533 5y ago
For me, it's not just about e-mail, but our industry/discipline in general, and the state of e-mail is a good indicator in my opinion, because almost everybody uses it every day, and its implementation complexity is still rather m
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by s5806533 5y ago
With respect, I do object. End-to-end encrypted messaging does work, and Signal (among others) is proof of that. With e-mail, either (a) you are backwards compatible and sending unencrypted (even by accident) remains a possibility, or (b) y
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by s5806533 5y ago
I find your answer a bit intrusive, to be honest. Let's just stick to the subject matter instead of telling each other how unreasonable or uptight we are, okay? Yes, "written in C" is an issue for me, for two reasons: * I rea
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by s5806533 5y ago
Yes, I totally see your point. Gmail and similar offers are convenient, which means that native software has some very stiff competition and not a lot of adoption. I'm interested in frugal computing, and I want my software to run smoot
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by s5806533 5y ago
Thank you for responding, and for providing me with a link to your project. It is good to see that things like this exist in languages other than C. While some people on this thread in fact implied my constraints were unreasonable, I have t
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Ask HN: Is the state of mail user agents that sad?
19 points by s5806533 5y ago|24 comments
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by s5806533 5y ago
moi
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by s5806533 5y ago
And yet another example of feature creep in today's browsers. Now one can extend CSS with JavaScript.
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by s5806533 5y ago
Low coupling and high cohesion were the terms that I was thinking of, too.
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by s5806533 5y ago
Truly an impressive feat, and a lot of work no doubt. But why? Recently it seems to be some kind of fad to demonstrate that everything can be done inside a web browser. Again: why? Scope creep of web browsers is already beyond repair.
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by s5806533 5y ago
Interesting. For the sake of completeness, it's worth mentioning that this tutorial is from 2019.
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by s5806533 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! I guess I only used webpack because vue-cli set up my project that way. Whenever I return to the project, hell breaks loose: "npm install" (whoops, 51 vulnerabilities!), "npm audit --fix" (what now? 7
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by s5806533 5y ago
Sometimes the other party will happily oblige with your request, but only after a totally vacuous phone call that serves absolutely no purpose other than (i) signalling how much effort the other party is spending on you (ii) punishing you w
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by s5806533 5y ago
Have used a stack like that on one application, a rather simple "knowledge vault", a few years back. It worked very well, and at the time I liked it very much. But these days, I'm no longer fond of client-side scripting (beca
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by s5806533 5y ago
> Settings → Language and Appearance → Advanced → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above. Done! Thanks for the reminder!
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by s5806533 5y ago
ActiveX was what sprang to my mind as well. But I only gave the website the most superficial look.
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by s5806533 5y ago
You have quite the nerve pointing out other people's alleged fallacies, while you yourself are doing everything in your power to interpret the statements of the Gemini community in a very onesided way. IIRC, the etiquette of this very
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by s5806533 5y ago
Thank you so much! I couldn't agree more. Also, Gemini works for me, and it works for many other people. If the web is not to our liking, and we can't change the web, we can at least try something else (so far I'm just lurkin
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by s5806533 5y ago
> convince people to use Firefox/Safari/Opera What would that change? These browsers implement the same standards Chrome does, and on top they probably implement the non-standards that Chrome imposes, because people will still
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by s5806533 5y ago
Reading this whole thread again, I want to add the following: this whole matter of whether web browsers have become too complex or not is just a tangent. The main debate revolves around the question of whether the web is broken, whatever th
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by s5806533 5y ago
I don't get your polemics here. Where's the line between hard and impossible? It's no less impossible to build a web browser than it is to build pyramids, because both these things have been done before. But what does this me
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by s5806533 5y ago
I will concede that Gemini folk sometimes have a rather narrow definition of what the "essence" of the web is, namely, that the web is basically just a medium for hypertext. In the early days of Tim Berners-Lee this was true, thou
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by s5806533 5y ago
Did ddevault specifically say that Gemini should be regarded as a replacement for the web? I never read him that way. As far as I can tell, people are constantly stressing the converse, namely that Gemini is not supposed to be the next web.
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by s5806533 5y ago
> I see, Gemini is not to make the life of content creators easier, but the life of the server and client implementers. As far as I understand, the distinction (content creator on the one hand, server and client implementers on the other
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by s5806533 5y ago
The distinction between devs and users is less sharp when everything is as simple as the Gemini ecosystem. And that is precisely what they want: technology that is resilient and does not (and will never) depend on a caste of specialists and
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by s5806533 5y ago
I did the same thing and switched to a Nokia Flip. So far, my experience is the same. But my actual goal is the Mudita Pure [1], which is supposed to arrive soon-ish. [1] https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-p
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by s5806533 5y ago
JetBrains Mono won the coding font tournament [1] for me, but said tournament did't have "Hack", which still looks best in my IDE (geany). [1] https://www.codingfont.com/

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