Plenty have dropped mac support even major devs that used to support it well. Paradox interactive no longer develops for mac. Valve also no longer develops for mac.
I guess in theory if this is packaged as a PWA (or the old-school way, a single .html with everything needed inside of it) you could actually run this anywhere and without internet access easily.
Besides loading the frontend resources, is there anything else that wouldn't work? Seems like a simple idea, so as long as the assets could be loaded, you'd be able to "load" the "apps", wouldn't you?
Sure, but what's the point then? Seems like .html with extra steps, not to mention that the URL itself won't work.
Now for online, the data is in the URL already, publicly available (unless shared privately), and the "loader" is still served from the server, so you have to trust the server not to exfiltrate the data.
> Sure, but what's the point then? Seems like .html with extra steps, not to mention that the URL itself won't work.
Literally says in the submission title and the website itself: An entire website encoded in a URL.
And yes, the domain part of the URL might not work, but whatever URL you use locally would work just as well if you switch the domain, unless I'm missing something.
> Now for online, the data is in the URL already, publicly available (unless shared privately), and the "loader" is still served from the server, so you have to trust the server not to exfiltrate the data.
Yes, the data is in the URL, seems to be the single point of this entire project. I don't seem to find any "server" doing anything of worth here, all the meat really sits in the client-side code, which you can serve however you like, might even work through file://, haven't tried it myself.
Not a single one of those requests contain the string "This is a message site. I guess. Just checking.", or did I miss something? All it seems to load is the "website loader", which is the part that decodes the URL (locally) and displays you "the website".
So assuming you have local access to the loader and you have the parts from the URL, you'd be able to load it.
I'm not sure if y'all are consciously misreading how this is supposed to work, or if I'm misunderstanding what y'all are complaining about. It's not "A public internet website can be loaded if you're not connected to the public internet", it's "websites loaded in this way can be loaded this way as long as you have the loader".
I'll kindly remind people that actual [physical] paper does, in fact, still exist. You may have various feelings about how sustainable and eco friendly it is - sure, but for simple daily notes it is a good alternative, in my opinion.
For more enjoyment, you may even want to invest in a good fountain pen or two, and some fun inks to write with.
In my humble and subjective opinion, it is more tactile, enjoyable, better in terms of focus and forces you to write less / summarise, as my handwriting speed is like 1/10 of my typing speed.
My personal favourite pairing is Pilot Capless + Sailor Jentle Epinard + Clairefontaine Pupitre.
I enjoy writing on paper too. I use the word “paper” when describing this app though honestly, I did hesitate. That said, for people like me, typing can actually be a way to clear noise. If we can combine the freedom of physical paper with the flexibility of software that’s the ideal I’m chasing.
Constantly pushing stuff to Kindle, which is inherently extremely limited device (gotta love walled gardens!) feels like a bit too much friction to me.
Boox devices are shipped with Android 11. Yes, recently. And their customer service is not great. As much as I like their devices, I can't imagine putting $300 in them.
I hope these alternatives catch on. But until they do, I paid $100 for my kindle. The cheapest one that isn’t sold out on the boox site is $170. Nearly everything is in the $200+ range.
Why should anyone care about Firefox when not even their parent company cares about it? Mozilla exists solely at the whims of Google anyway. The fight is long over, people on here just haven't accepted it yet.
Fair question. I think in the long run it does. Chromium development is supported by Google and could be closed any time, leaving Chromium based browsers unable to pick up the slack. Without viable alternatives to Chromium people would return to Chrome.
Google also could cut off Mozilla's funding in a heartbeat. Since their management is incompetent (but their engineers are awesome and I love them), they haven't done any serious attempts to diversify their sources of income, or at least to put some of that cash away for a rainy day. Firefox is just as dependent on Google as are any of the Chromium rebuilds. (I am writing this as someone who has been using Firefox since about 2006 non-stop, seeing its market share drop by a factor of ten in that time).
Google does some stupid things, but Chromium is "too big to fail" at this point and it's too essential to products like Android which are also at that same point.
But hypothetically if Google stopped contributing to Chromium the project would be forked and it would live on. Frankly, Google removing themselves from Chromium would fix the one major complaint a lot of people have with it.
I wonder how that works if Google wants to kill the forks. There are a bunch of important components like widevine that can be withheld to put pressure on the project.
> As a developer you sell subscriptions independently; you set the price, handle the money and do all of the interactions with the customer. Then you register the subscription in the system by using a simple API.
What prevents me, as a rogue actor, from just adding all my mates to the database without them paying me anything? Would they get access to all other software from the developers who take part in this affair?
> What prevents me, as a rogue actor, from just adding all my mates to the database without them paying me anything? Would they get access to all other software from the developers who take part in this affair?
If you are not a trusted developer in the system then the API key prevents you.
If you are a trusted developer, then you can give away as many subscriptions for free as you like but you only have a limited number of subscriptions to sell so you will not make as much money that way.
