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I am quick to complain when Google kills a useful project - but I am not mad about this. It was originally created because Chromebooks couldn't print. Chromebooks have been able to print natively for a while now so that is no longer needed. They are also giving over a year of warning. That's plenty of time for people to migrate to a new service or figure out how to implement an alternative. Again I know the Google Gr…
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How was it the right decision? Silverlight was cross-platform, then they made a Windows-specific fork which is WinRT XAML/WinUI (most people don't realize this but this stack originated as a repurposing of the Silverlight codebase directly, it wasn't a rewrite), now they are apparently hoping to make it cross platform again (see e.g., https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/winui_winrt_windows... ) It seems like the…
WinUI is based on .net core. Silverlight on .net framework. At the time, it was not easy to port WPF to core ( mostly because of System.Drawing), they did it now and it's a new framework.
From https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/dotnet/standard/glossary :
"Originally, CoreCLR was the runtime of Silverlight and was designed to run on multiple platforms, specifically Windows and OS X. CoreCLR is now part of .NET Core and represents a simplified version of the CLR. It's still a cross-platform runtime, now including support for many Linux distributions. CoreCLR is also a virtual machine with JIT and code execution capabilities."
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A much easier to use tool that works using inotify is incron. It's basically like cron except for inotify events. I have a one-liner that OCRs all of my incoming scans, and it's immensely helpful.
What do you use to do the actual ocr?
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> Should they leave it on Python 2 with zero security updates, or invest lots of time porting to python 3? Leave it, of course. The only meaningful security risk at this point is something like heartbleed. We're talking security issue in 10 year battle hardened protocol. This is a fantastically rare case. Not something you need headcount on a constant basis to deal with.
"250M printers compromised by Google Cloud Print" is an ugly look. It won't matter at that time that Google rescued a beloved product from being Deep-Sixed.
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Because why would anyone buy what basically is a CUPS implementation if not for the user data?
Sometimes companies that are doing "basically a X implementation" are still worth a lot.
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Chrome? Chromecast? Chromebook?
Chrome was basically a reskinned WebKit browser earlier on and then they forked it. I doubt Chromecast (the device) is more than a break even if that. It costs the same as a Roku stick and the CEO of Roku said their hardware doesn’t make a profit. They make money from advertising. The Chromebook sells are minuscule.
Chromebook sales were 21% of notebook sales in the US in Q4 2018 and the percentage is growing:
https://chromeunboxed.com/chromebooks-make-big-strides-in-sa...
PaperCut Mobility Print is an alternative to Google Cloud Print.