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Post by rcarr » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 5:11 PM UTC

misnome wrote: post #368

rcarr wrote: post #203

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You can't just declare your interpretation of faster to be correct and then denigrate someone else's interpretation by classifying it as a rant. The comment: > it's faster and easier to create a note in Apple Notes, retrieve it (as they as are sorted from most recent by default, and also I can pin some notes), search, and navigate in folders (especially on mobile, navigating across folders is so much better with Appl…

> You can't just declare your interpretation of faster to be correct and then denigrate someone else's interpretation by classifying it as a rant. I'm not declaring anything. I gave my interpretation of the intended meaning, which didn't mention speed or electron at all. Thus, there were two options: - My interpretation was correct, and it was _the exact same rant every electron app thread ever has_ - Your interpreta…

Post by trinsic2 » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #104

kepano wrote: post #34

Obsidian Canvas uses a new JSON-based file format that we have open-sourced under MIT license. You can see the spec here: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva... Just like all other files in Obsidian, canvas files are your own and local to your device. You're still linking to your own Markdown files which are just as future-proof as ever. We decided to create the .canvas format because there w…

This isn't what "open sourced" means. Photoshop is proprietary software with a well documented file format anyone can read and write. So is this software. "Open source" is not branding, it means something. It's okay to make and promote and sell proprietary commercial software. That's what you are doing, be proud and clear about it. Pretending your efforts have anything to do with free software is deceptive.

Post by KnobbleMcKnees » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

Post by captaincaveman » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

cschmid wrote: post #308

captaincaveman wrote: post #289

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Markdown is fine for formatting text, not convinced it's great for knowledge management.

I disagree; I think a system like Wikipedia shows that a textual and visual format like markdown provides the flexibility to convey pretty much any information. For any formal and semantic storage system, you will probably spend more time adapting it to each specific use case than to actually fill it with content.

Post by s0ulphire » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

jcul wrote: post #366

s0ulphire wrote: post #333

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The data is successfully encrypted before it's sent (which you can verify with wireshark). What exactly are your concerns, given that the data isn't encrypted locally in the first place? And seriously with the question...what do you think is more likely, that the tiny team of 6 invested a ton of time reinventing the wheel with a custom in-house AES implementation, OR that they used any of the readily available and ex…

Small nit: I'd guess it is not that easy to verify this in wireshark. I'm not an obsidian user or familiar with the code base, so could be wrong here. The data is probably encrypted with AES before being sent (the E2E bit), though probably there is some metadata unencrypted. When the data is actually sent, the entire thing would likely be encrypted again with TLS while it is in transit. This means, for example, your…