Hacker News: linopolus

Classic: About so called web apps

linopolus — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:18:40 +0000

Article URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20120509105723/http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127511

Points: 1

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Facebook Is Too Big, Fail

linopolus — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 09:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://500ish.com/facebook-is-too-big-fail-eb8c143a9afc?gi=1ca43351365f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30125118

Points: 3

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New comment by linopolus in "Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation"

linopolus — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 09:45:50 +0000

I didn’t mean to say Epiphany actually is invasive. Just that the engine a browser uses doesn’t tell anything about privacy at all.

New comment by linopolus in "Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation"

linopolus — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 08:53:04 +0000

A browser and its privacy is much more than the engine. You could take webkit and make the most spying browser ever out of it. Most of what Safari does for privacy resides outside the engine itself.

New comment by linopolus in "The baseline for web development in 2022"

linopolus — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:21:26 +0000

Except that IE was never both faster and more battery friendly than the competition.

New comment by linopolus in "The baseline for web development in 2022"

linopolus — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:16:30 +0000

Ok looked it up: Steam switched to CEF in 2010 (announcement read „WebKit based“), CEF3 with Blink was considered stable and recommended in 2013. So they probably used a WebKit base for at least these three years. But, unless they still use CEF1, it’s not WebKit anymore today.

New comment by linopolus in "The baseline for web development in 2022"

linopolus — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:06:45 +0000

The engine is HTML. No more is needed to give me the information I want, though CSS and images are certainly nice. JS would be more like the infotainment system: Sometimes nice, sometimes annoying, sometimes dangerous.

New comment by linopolus in "The baseline for web development in 2022"

linopolus — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:58:40 +0000

You could just use Steam, afaik they’re still using WebKit and you probably have it installed anyway ;)

Or another WebKit based browser (ok, not so many): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba...

New comment by linopolus in "The baseline for web development in 2022"

linopolus — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:37:04 +0000

To say it the other way round: Use HTML/CSS for information purposes (JS where needed, nice explanatory animations etc), get back to using real nice native code for applications, using the OSes capabilities to the fullest, providing an experience integrated with the rest of the OS, having full performance.

New comment by linopolus in "Get to Know the New Topics API for Privacy Sandbox"

linopolus — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:14:13 +0000

Noyb has filed complaints against that pay for privacy scheme in August, we’ll see if that actually leads to anything…

https://noyb.eu/en/news-sites-readers-need-buy-back-their-ow...

New comment by linopolus in "Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code"

linopolus — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:42:53 +0000

You can export whole projects as one-file markdown (or HTML, RTF), worst case being having to go through every project, exporting and splitting the file up (by a script), or turn the agenda folder somewhere in ~/Library (contains bunch of json) into something usable via script, but I agree, it lacks a reasonable solution for getting it all out at once.

New comment by linopolus in "Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan"

linopolus — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:50:13 +0000

An average lifespan of about for years is just huge, even if this probably is pushed a lot by Macs having a longer lifespan than phones.. On the other hand, my mother still uses the iPhone 4S I handed down to get than I got my 6.

New comment by linopolus in "Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines"

linopolus — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:50:58 +0000

> If nature could fix everything with no intervention we wouldn't need to brush our teeth either.

Well, I'm not saying nature actually can fix everything, but in case of toothbrushing, it's dependent on your diet. There are peoples knowing nothing of brushing, but they feeding themselves different than we "civilized" people are.

New comment by linopolus in "Show HN: Hacker News Classics"

linopolus — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:01:53 +0000

Nice thing is, the go back a day link links to Mar 02

New comment by linopolus in "Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze"

linopolus — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:33:23 +0000

Reminds me reading on some guy phoning his lyft drivers whether they're using Waze for a similar reason some days ago, may have even been on HN.

On the other hand, I in the starting days of apple maps noticed them having a baker in my neighbourhood twice. They got back via email I think a week or two after me reporting it, and a couple days later it was fixed, so maybe you're just not lucky here..

New comment by linopolus in "What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn"

linopolus — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:55:37 +0000

> people know how to distinguish reality from fantasy/entertainment

So you think 15-year-olds who never experienced sex know how to distinguish reality (sex with a real partner) from fantasy (porn). Where would they have the knowledge how real sex is from?

New comment by linopolus in "Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online"

linopolus — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:56:43 +0000

I like /docs: Optimism..

New comment by linopolus in "Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online"

linopolus — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:50:46 +0000

The iPhone 6S, which was released 2015 with iOS9, had the hardware string 8,1, so nothing unexpected there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices#iPhone

New comment by linopolus in "Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs"

linopolus — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:01:21 +0000

Why should they? Metal works wonderfully on all their platforms. Besides, Metal also predates Vulkan..

New comment by linopolus in "Ten Years of Instapaper"

linopolus — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:34:53 +0000

Definitely Instapaper. I like the design better, pagination mode in the Pocket iOS app ist just plain buggy, and I already used Instapaper back before Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) even existed..