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Audacity's an awesome piece of software that I've used many times. Never once have I thought "by golly this thing should be a website, and my web browser should
by omnicognate 3y ago
Audacity's an awesome piece of software that I've used many times. Never once have I thought "by golly this thing should be a website, and my web browser should be made to expose an audio graph API to every website I visit to that it can be so!"
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoWe'll make sure we stop building software you could imagine then. /s There's value here. Other people are allowed to want more than you want.
- goodSteveramos 3y agoGet with the times. Your privacy must be sacrificed so some random web app you have never heard of can do something no website should be able to do at all. Or maybe that’s just a pretense and not the real reason Google keeps adding all these APIs. People seem to forget that ChromeOS is literally Google trying to turn every computer into a thin client for their services.
- nox101 3y agoI'm the opposite. I think website = sanboxed, native = pownage so whenever I can use a website version I often prefer it over a native app. I use photopea all the time now. it's available on every machine, even machines I don't have permission to install software on
- spookie 3y agoYou can sandbox native apps too. Hell, even run them in an airgapped virtual machine. I wouldn't trust a browser sandbox all that much given the high interest in subverting it.
- dannyw 3y agoWhat’s an easy way to sandbox apps on Windows? Sorry, I’d prefer to stick with my operating system, not install QubesOS.
- pcdoodle 3y agosandboxie was neat last time i tried it.
- EraYaN 3y agoWindows has a native sandboxing tech now: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-isolation/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-overview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
- jakeogh 3y agoI firejail browsers specifically to stop them from playing audio, it's much easier than playing wack-a-mole with the browser settings.
- 15457345234 3y agoAnd they absolutely love that you, and every other user, sends them every original image you choose to edit So when you make a meme or whatever and repost it somewhere else, guess what, they know who did that!
- zuhsetaqi 3y agoA "sandbox" that can freely send anything it wants to any computer connected to the internet
- nox101 3y agoconfused why you'd think a native app has any less restrictions on sending anything it wants to any computer connected to the internet.
- NikkiA 3y agoWell, my application level firewall prompts me if audacity attempts to connect to the internet, and I refuse it. Refusing firewall access to a web browser renders it useless for every website, not just a 'audacity as a service' site.
- whywhywhywhy 3y ago> Audacity's an awesome piece of software It really isn't it's extremely janky and buggy, only use it as an absolute last resort.