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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…

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' …

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…

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, a…

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 un…

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"…

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 i…

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 threa…

A lot has been said about how and why e-mail is broken (such as [1, 2]) and how encrypted e-mail is a lost cause (such as [3, 4]). This is all true and sad enough. My gripe (both c…

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And yet another example of feature creep in today's browsers. Now one can extend CSS with JavaScript.

Low coupling and high cohesion were the terms that I was thinking of, too.

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?…

Interesting. For the sake of completeness, it's worth mentioning that this tutorial is from 2019.

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 vulnerabi…

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 ef…

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 …

> Settings → Language and Appearance → Advanced → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above. Done! Thanks for the reminder!

ActiveX was what sprang to my mind as well. But I only gave the website the most superficial look.

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…

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 lea…

> 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 …

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 a…

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…

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…