roryisok

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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Three miles? Did he also give up looking out the window?
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I don't know why you would think apple devices are inherently safer. I've had two macbooks and probably seven or eight Windows laptops. The macbooks suffered from swelling batteries, over heating chargers and frayed power cords. T
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   How many "full fat" social networks are there though, really? In the English speaking world it's pretty much just Facebook. I don't think I'd even count twitter as a place where you have "all your friends"
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I did not make this, just found it. Seems like a really interesting alternative to electron.
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   Show HN: JavaScript/HTML and Rust Webview: an electron alternative(github.com)

   4 points by roryisok 9y ago|1 comments
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   The link here points to producthunt instead of the actual site
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I've been looking for something like this for ages, thanks!
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Cool. They do have some beautiful photos on Bing
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Bing desktop? Really? What do you use that for?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    > by blocking the worst content and more clearly communicating the privacy and other protections the browser offers. I really hope this includes the likes of outbrain, taboola and similar clickbait garbage that pollutes far too many blog
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Uh, i thought it was easier? All the options for search engines are in the results in quantum
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Is that still true? I thought Google stopped funding Mozilla recently. Edit: Just checked, they had a deal with Google until 2014 when they signed with yahoo instead. As of 2017 they switched back to Google as the fault search engine but th
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I can't speak for others, but I use it because I wanted a WhatsApp alternative after they were bought by Facebook. At the time I don't think signal was available yet. Now there's a critical mass of family and friends using te
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    It depends on what you consider "better". I'd much rather install an electron app than mount and run a docker container, and I say that as a developer who uses docker every single day.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Text / markdown file on Dropbox
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I've often wondered this. You could write a set of generic webview based apps (say, Windows 10 and MacOS to start) and a small js library that would allow cross platform access to low level apis, even just a few at first like file dial
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Doesn't the user need to have docker installed to run that one line? That's kind of a big prerequisite
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    You have my permission, fire away
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Groovy
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I'm a big fan of Billy, however it's Windows only and not available for download anymore. I'm not sure why you'd suggest it in this context
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    My point was the browser has no file access. Most electron apps work with the filesystem in some way, and in the browser it's not possible to, for instance, give a web app access to a folder on the desktop
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    And if the browser provided unrestricted file access they probably would. But we'd all be in trouble
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I did not. I can't recall why, but I tried it and it was not for me
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I think they're probably reading user agent strings. Otherwise it's incredibly specific
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I have an aversion to running things through wine. I want a native mac app, and a lightweight one, wherever possible.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    +1 for both the simplicity and the gapless playback. I wish software was more lightweight
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I've been looking for something like this for months, ever since I switched from Windows for work. I miss foobar2000
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Looks pretty simple alright https://i.imgur.com/sn69Wv0.png
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Ie mobile on windows phone 8.1. It's an edge case and I don't expect people to test on it. But at the same time, it would be nice if the page gracefully fell back to something that wasn't just a blank white page
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    It's a laudable idea, and I'm very interested in seeing the information, but because of whatever framework choices you've made (I'm assuming some heavy client side work), with no lightweight fallback, I see literally not