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I didn’t mean to say Epiphany actually is invasive. Just that the engine a browser uses doesn’t tell anything about privacy at all.

A browser and its privacy is much more than the engine. You could take webkit and make the most spying browser ever out of it. Most of what Safari does for privacy resides outside the engine itself.

Except that IE was never both faster and more battery friendly than the competition.

Ok looked it up: Steam switched to CEF in 2010 (announcement read „WebKit based“), CEF3 with Blink was considered stable and recommended in 2013. So they probably used a WebKit base for at least these three years. But, unless they still use CEF1, it’s not WebKit anymore today.

The engine is HTML. No more is needed to give me the information I want, though CSS and images are certainly nice. JS would be more like the infotainment system: Sometimes nice, sometimes annoying, sometimes dangerous.

You could just use Steam, afaik they’re still using WebKit and you probably have it installed anyway ;)

Or another WebKit based browser (ok, not so many): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba...

To say it the other way round: Use HTML/CSS for information purposes (JS where needed, nice explanatory animations etc), get back to using real nice native code for applications, using the OSes capabilities to the fullest, providing an experience integrated with the rest of the OS, having full performance.

Noyb has filed complaints against that pay for privacy scheme in August, we’ll see if that actually leads to anything…

https://noyb.eu/en/news-sites-readers-need-buy-back-their-ow...

You can export whole projects as one-file markdown (or HTML, RTF), worst case being having to go through every project, exporting and splitting the file up (by a script), or turn the agenda folder somewhere in ~/Library (contains bunch of json) into something usable via script, but I agree, it lacks a reasonable solution for getting it all out at once.

An average lifespan of about for years is just huge, even if this probably is pushed a lot by Macs having a longer lifespan than phones.. On the other hand, my mother still uses the iPhone 4S I handed down to get than I got my 6.

If nature could fix everything with no intervention we wouldn't need to brush our teeth either.

Well, I'm not saying nature actually can fix everything, but in case of toothbrushing, it's dependent on your diet. There are peoples knowing nothing of brushing, but they feeding themselves different than we "civilized" people are.

Nice thing is, the go back a day link links to Mar 02

Reminds me reading on some guy phoning his lyft drivers whether they're using Waze for a similar reason some days ago, may have even been on HN.

On the other hand, I in the starting days of apple maps noticed them having a baker in my neighbourhood twice. They got back via email I think a week or two after me reporting it, and a couple days later it was fixed, so maybe you're just not lucky here..

people know how to distinguish reality from fantasy/entertainment

So you think 15-year-olds who never experienced sex know how to distinguish reality (sex with a real partner) from fantasy (porn). Where would they have the knowledge how real sex is from?

I like /docs: Optimism..

The iPhone 6S, which was released 2015 with iOS9, had the hardware string 8,1, so nothing unexpected there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices#iPhone

Why should they? Metal works wonderfully on all their platforms. Besides, Metal also predates Vulkan..

Definitely Instapaper. I like the design better, pagination mode in the Pocket iOS app ist just plain buggy, and I already used Instapaper back before Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) even existed..

If people see that LibreOffice Writer is as good as MS Word, then they would migrate to it.

as good as won't be enough for migration, as it's work to migrate, learn a new interface, bear all thats different.

Without a better UI, even better functionality may not be enough to convince people. UI is the first thing one sees..

And still it has a UI like in the nineties. Thousands of buttons, adding more and more, without thinking about it, making it harder and harder with every version for new users to learn using it.

Instead of adding more fonts by default, they should start thinking how they can improve their UI, make it clean, discoverable and easy to use.

Microsoft has done it, and while initially it was hard for everyone familiar with the old concept, I know nobody who prefers that now, after familiarizing themselves with ribbons.

The US were founded in 1787, Columbus reached America in 1492, so how do you expect to find companies there older than that?

Sorry to disappoint you:

1526 Beretta Italy Firearms

1578 Klett Germany Firearms

1674 Sabatti Italy Firearms

TLDR:

* use like a dozen Adblockers likely all using the same filter lists slowing the browser down

* use some Antivirus from Russia to grant access to your whole system

* use a third party vpn client for the one built into iOS

* use secure passwords

Apple mandates that all alternative browsers use the system-bundled WebKit for user experience reasons

Not entirely true: Every browser developer is free to use whatever engine they like on iOS. Mozilla could use Gecko, Google could use Blink. They just don’t do it, because what’s not allowed is JITs (because security), thus 3rd-party JS-engines would always be slow.

So the reason everybody uses WebKit on iOS is not that they are forbidden own engines, but only JITs, so Apples is faster.

Which is, to my best knowledge, a relatively pure todo app, not really suitable for checklists, or am I wrong?

Could you elaborate on how you manage this with org-mode? Do you have to manually reset the lists every evening?

I more than one time tried to incorporate checklists in my daytoday life, like for morning/evening routine, starting work for the day, etc. The problem I had is the medium:

* Paper: You check it today and have to rewrite for tomorrow, as the checkboxes are filled. Also, I tend to not look at my notebook at all, or lose it. Its never gonna be where I am.

* Apps: I tested a few, from regular todo apps to specialized "routine" apps, but they all have their quirks.

So if any of you use an app for that and are happy with it, please tell me so I can try to!

Gorgeous Linux laptops

First thing I noticed on these pictures, was the ugly sticker left side underneath the keyboard. Sorry, but such trifles got nothing to do with gorgeous. Also, black camera frame, huge display bezel, and non-centered touchpads are, imho, a nogo if you wanna call it gorgeous.

static.. that reminds me of something.. oh yeah, laying html files in some directory on a server..

Whatever you call it, this has nothing in common with a "static website". It's a bunch of Javascript to fetch some text or similar data. Which may be static. But fetched by a web app. So it will display just empty on devices without JS..

Indeed a feature, not a bug. Apps like as an example barcode scanners need camera access without the iOS-provided camera UI for using their own and being able to detect barcodes. I don't see Apple being able to do much about it besides a) somehow detecting and rejecting such apps in their review or b) forcing some kind of hint when a camera is active, maybe like the colored status bar you get when having a call in the background or connections to the phones hotspot, but these are ugly.