This is just a JavaScript thing, right? Why phone home?
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Well, no, it's because the standard library is so good.
Sure it is.
>Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why.
No more garbage-like than you're getting with Electron and just as style-able (with arguable superior layout engines). Qt has a number of style palettes; perhaps you're used to using applications which chose to use non-native/standard palettes.
So does Qt
Nope
>does uBlock do everything ABP does and more?
Yep
You work for Google; of course you find them fine.
Because those companies are making an outsized profit from the relatively new and unregulated online advertising/marketing industry.
It is if it's funny.
Thunderbird
No, not here.
How do we know they aren't just average or mediocre software developers?
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
>"For some searches literally the whole screen!! on google is now ads."
And that's what you see in the screenshots. What's the problem?
Yes.
> Does it actively destroy/damage other living things that come with in proximity of it knowingly or not?
No.
> Does it pollute when used? Now we can have a similar debate on the word pollute.
No.
> Does it make the air/ground/water toxic from the use of it?
No.
> Can it be freely released without harmful side effects without being securely contained.
Yes.
It's explained in the article.
- Syndication feed (RSS/ATOM) "sniffer" (or whatever the hell it was called).
I know that's 2 things but I couldn't choose between the two in enough time.
Your comment lacks supporting information and attempts to paint an entire political ideology with an overly broad, vague brush. Such comments do little to improve the quality of current discourse and are borderline polemic.
>The author is clearly trying to paint BLM as responsible for the property damage, which has been widely debunked.
This may be true, but you've provided no information to support your claim. What claims, specifically, have been debunked and by whom?
>It goes on and on reiterating the right-wing perspective of 2020 in an attempt to defend the data scientist.
"The right-wing perspective" is such a broad characterization and, as such, almost completely useless in this context. To which of the many perspectives of the right wing (conservative) political ideology do you refer?
You mention how challenging it has become to have a constructive conversation or debate on these topics -- and I largely agree -- but, with genuine respect, your comments here aren't constructive and contribute more to the challenge than the solution.
Polling isn't a requirement. If your reader is polling it's strictly because the author wanted to implement such a feature; that's it.
There's also ETag and last-modified which are used when checking and have very little overhead (most especially in the case when the content has not changed).
Nah. It advertises a VPN when you start a movie/show, but there is no requirement to use it.
The only other submissions I see are links to Twitter. Did I miss it?
There's pictures and video: https://pop.system76.com/
The overwhelming majority of it? Yes.
>In this case you have a literal webapp that they also want to bundle as a desktop application. Turns out Electron is the most convenient way to do this.
That's just it, though: Developer convenience; at the expense of the user's experience and resources. So many developers digging-in their heels, refusing to use any other GUI framework because they can't be bothered to learn or use anything beyond JavaScript. If that isn't the excuse then it's because an MVP is needed and, because the market is replete with JavaScript developers, Electron was chosen as the platform on which to build. But after the project is green-lit, surely the product will be built using a more performant, lower-weight framework, right? Well, no, because that only benefits the end user.