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hackeroooon Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

Even 2mb is disgusting for a bit of money-counting.

A 64kb Z80 computer is perfectly suitable for a few rows to balance. After all, they went to the moon with 16kb of RAM.

hackeroooon Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

Amazing. You must be 100 times more productive than the parent above whose mail app uses 2300 MB. You must be able to do soooo much more with such efficient tools.

hackeroooon Microsoft OneDrive Has 60% Jump in Hosting of Malicious Files

I'll give you another set of sites which are whitelisted by browsers: github, bitbucket, gitlab, sourceforge

If you want to trick someone into running an executable, you need to put it on a whitelisted site, otherwise they will have to slog through 5 different very scary warnings before they are allowed to run it.

The funny thing: most of HN is against this kind of browser protection, I wouldn't be surprised if they disable uncommon software warnings.