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Features that don't exist don't have exploits.
by Brian_K_White 2y ago
Features that don't exist don't have exploits.
- socalgal2 2y agoYea, so instead people make native apps which pown your machine. Great progress!
- forgotoldacc 2y agoHonestly, the end of everything being a chrome-based app and people making actual native desktop apps that run at 10x the speed with 1/10th the energy usage would be excellent. I really hope that does happen.
- inglor_cz 2y ago"that run at 10x the speed with 1/10th the energy usage" How many current developers optimize their products for speed and energy usage? I can see the very opposite happening: half-baked apps, whose massive portions were written using free-tier AI output, hogging gigabytes of RAM and four processor cores while the cursor is idly spinning and the laptop is becoming hot. Compared to the past (and my memory goes back to Netscape Navigator 3, old person that I am), modern browsers seem to be technologically fine.
- watermelon0 2y agoI'd say it's really hard to write a native app, however unoptimized, to be a bigger memory hog than Electron apps.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoThose at least have to be downloaded and installed by the user, which indicates a high level of intent/consent and is difficult to do accidentally. In the browser environment, malicious content can be navigated to without any user intent or consent whatsoever, which when combined with holes punched in browser sandboxes for the sake of fancy features makes for danger with a dramatically larger scope.
- DecoySalamander 2y agoRight now, most untrusted code runs in the browser's sandbox, and that's great - outside of the realm of fancy 0 days, the damage is limited. But if downloading apps becomes the norm again (like every online store asking you to get their app and an extra app for a discount program), I expect that socially engineering less technical users into downloading malware will become much easier.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoYes. Native apps are 9000x prefferrable to the browser having to be a shitty os.
- whatevaa 2y agoI guess Linux Desktop will die off then.
- Ekaros 2y agoMaybe it should if in 30 years it has not reliably solved native apps.
- redeeman 2y agofunny, it seems to me that a great many native apps exist, and works fine
- Brian_K_White 2y agoBeen using them for 30 years already. I suspect if I heard whatever your definition of "solved" is, I would find it silly.