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Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by emptysongglass »

steveruizok wrote: post #51
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its decent considering it requires money , and even chatgpt in its early stages didn't allow for anonymous chats / unlimited chats and I remember going on all these chatgpt clones becuase of that. I also understand the hilarious spin that you added considering tldr (too long didn't read) lmao. but still its worth your email. Crazy how I realised that tldr meme after I had written the first paragraph

believe it or not I picked the tldraw name because I already owned the domain (I'd bought it for a different project called telestrator) and it was only weeks later when Francois Laberge complimented the clever name that I noticed the portmanteau

I'd appreciate if you didn't consider Firefox Relay emails as disposable email. The Firefox folks specifically have tried to make Relay anti-abuse.

It's an unkind thing to do to your prospective users.

From Bleeping computer's coverage the last time someone tried to dump Relay in with a disposable email blocklist:

> Back in November 2021, Firefox Relay's team lead had requested the maintainer of a separate burner email list, "burner-email-providers" to exempt the particular domain form the blocklist:

> "We are operating Relay with a number of features that I think mitigate the risks that these aliases pose," Mozilla's privacy and security engineer Luke Crouch explained in November.

> Firstly, if a @mozmail.com alias is disabled by the user, any emails sent to the alias are not bounced back but instead discarded with a 404 error message returned by the service's HTTP webook, stated Crouch.

Secondly, he explained, the anti-abuse protections built into Relay limit free users to a total of five aliases, and further rate-limit premium customers so they cannot abuse the service by creating large-scale throw-away aliases for, say, automated signups to web services.

> With that reasoning, mozmail.com was swiftly removed from that blocklist. And it appears, the creators of "disposable-email-domains" have also honored the clause, for now.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

sagaro wrote: post #49
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #24

THIS is it. I have been using tldraw with one of my friends or even generally when my whiteboard marker goes down and I wish to draw. Seriously tldraw makes sharing whiteboards so easier as compared to excalidraw and others. TLDRAW deserves more attention than excalidraw and I watched its demo video and holy moly , this is so crazy , the fact that this can create semi websites and etc. feels so cool , definitely goin…

In excalidraw I just have to click share session and anyone with that url can see my whiteboard and interact with it. I get tldraw has much more features etc. but how exactly is it making sharing whiteboard so easier compared to excalidraw?

I don't know maybe it was a skill issue from my side 2 -4 months ago , I felt as if I was forced to sign up back then

I am sorry I guess then for this comment , excalidraw also works great but I still just like tldraw because of how familiar I have become of this interface.

Shame that the licensing of tldraw is less permittive than excalidraw but I guess I am just a little bit okay with it considering its still open source and though I maybe wrong I had read the license , and it seems that it was focusing way more on that you had to have the name of tldraw / packaging of tldraw / copyright

here is the license restrictions

    Not to disable, hide, remove, or alter the Watermark.
    Not to disable, change, or interfere with the license key validation process that governs the display of the Watermark.
    Not to remove any copyright or other notices from the Software.
    Not to make the Software available under a license that supersedes or negates the effect of this License.
    Not to distribute the Software or modifications of the Software as a standalone product, but only as part of another application.
    To include a verbatim copy of this License in any distribution of the Software.
    To comply with tldraw's trademark policy.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by orlp »

rapnie wrote: post #48
forty wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excalidraw is free & open source software though, which IMO makes it deserve more attention

Oof, source available, that is an oversight on my end. Or was there a recent license change? Off the shortlist then, unfortunately.

What do you base this on? The main repository (https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw) states it's MIT and this has been unchanged for 5 years.

EDIT: I guess you were talking about tldraw rather than excalidraw.

Re: Tldraw Computer

#64

Post by [deleted] »

rapnie wrote: post #52
rapnie wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oof, source available, that is an oversight on my end. Or was there a recent license change? Off the shortlist then, unfortunately.

Yep, license change from Apache 2.0 in December 2023.

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Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

emptysongglass wrote: post #61
steveruizok wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

believe it or not I picked the tldraw name because I already owned the domain (I'd bought it for a different project called telestrator) and it was only weeks later when Francois Laberge complimented the clever name that I noticed the portmanteau

I'd appreciate if you didn't consider Firefox Relay emails as disposable email. The Firefox folks specifically have tried to make Relay anti-abuse. It's an unkind thing to do to your prospective users. From Bleeping computer's coverage the last time someone tried to dump Relay in with a disposable email blocklist: > Back in November 2021, Firefox Relay's team lead had requested the maintainer of a separate burner ema…

I am sorry but I am confused.

To whom exactly are you talking to?

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by dustingetz »

steveruizok wrote: post #45
dustingetz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does the cloud product’s “new project” button still trash your saved documents with one click behind a docstring something like “make sure you have saved your stuff before making a new project” where what they meant is “our cloud product does not save your projects to the cloud, it is in local storage actually and you can only have one project at a time so the new project button actually overwrites your old one, so w…

So sorry Dustin. We'll have a new version of tldraw with user accounts in a few weeks that should improve things, but until then please no one clear your browser storage

a clear docstring would be great

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by ALittleLight »

I'd love a "Code" component where you could enter arbitrary code. After following the tutorials I asked myself "What would I like to make?" And I imagined a tweet-bot - grab headlines from Wiki news (or somewhere), combine with an instruction to generate text and another couple instructions to generate an image, post to twitter (or bluesky).

This seems easy enough if I have a code component that could execute arbitrary code. I could just write a couple small component (take API key, text, post to twitter/search wikinews) and add them to the workflow. If the components I needed were generalizable I could share them on some kind of community repository - so the next person who needed a "Post to twitter" component wouldn't even need to rewrite it.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by britannio »

samwillis wrote: post #29
boomskats wrote: post #27

I ended up at Tldraw's London office a few weeks ago for a thing, and I remember afterwards being like 'ahh, now I understand how they end up just casually doing random cool shit and attracting the kind of talent they do'. They should be extremely proud of the culture they've managed to foster and I genuinely hope to see them succeed as a business.

Very much this! I was also at a thing at their office a few weeks ago (some thing? "Local Thirst"), and Steve gave a demo of this. It is incredible. I've joked before that the last generation of human machine interfaces ware invented at Xerox park, and the next generation is being invented at TLDraw of Finsbury Park. But it's not really a joke, I genuinely believe it.

It was a cool thing... I expected a hacky demo that'd fall apart mid-way but it held up. The Macintosh SE in the office was cool too.
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