Your post asking for a solution was in the past tense. I answered in that context. Anyone following the discussion is able to see that. If you changed your frame of reference in your mind to the present day, you sure didn’t communicate that here, so that’s on you. How would we solve this problem today? I don’t think we can. Javascript and the like are way too entrenched and web apps are a way of life now. We’re stuck with this privacy invading nonsense until something drastic changes, but I don’t know that that change would look like.
I didn’t change the frame of reference. Those technologies are 30 years old. Back when I started using computers, you had to download every little thing and websites looked like shit. That was the problem that needed solving. Your “solution” was to basically just keep doing that. In fact, you don’t even think it was a problem.
Viruses and malware didn’t exist in your world, did they? You were happy loading up any old program onto your DOS machine to test it, right? No sandboxing, no nothing. The world was perfect back then. Java applets were a treat too, right? Running right in your user environment with access to the full disk. Why ever change that? There wouldn’t ever be a problem with drive-by infections. Nooo, full-disk access is not a problem to solve.
GIFs were an amazing technology too. We should’ve stayed with that instead of streaming or upload videos to watch them in the browser. Yeah, I loved having to download everything then hope the video format was playable locally.
Bro, your “proposal” to just stay stuck in Y2K is garbage and you expect me to just nod along. Good old days my ass. Web apps exist for a bloody reason and solve real problems. If you seriously think they’re just here to flash ads at you and track you, then you stopped thinking years ago. Think about a real, alternative solution instead just “we don’t need it”. It might actually get some dust off the cogs in that machine of yours instead of just storing old memories and wishing times hadn’t changed.
The fuck are you on about? This post is such an extreme overreaction. You’ve successfully made up a bunch of shit that you think I’m advocating for and then gotten super mad about your own bullshit. I didn’t say that nothing should have changed or evolved from back then. I said that Javascript was a bad way forward and that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with separation of software by function instead of making one bit of software an all in one solution. But go ahead and rant and make personal attacks. I don’t even know why I’m trying to clarify my position to someone who’s intent on demonstrating they’re clearly not someone worth discussing things with.
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Your post asking for a solution was in the past tense. I answered in that context. Anyone following the discussion is able to see that. If you changed your frame of reference in your mind to the present day, you sure didn’t communicate that here, so that’s on you. How would we solve this problem today? I don’t think we can. Javascript and the like are way too entrenched and web apps are a way of life now. We’re stuck with this privacy invading nonsense until something drastic changes, but I don’t know that that change would look like.
I didn’t change the frame of reference. Those technologies are 30 years old. Back when I started using computers, you had to download every little thing and websites looked like shit. That was the problem that needed solving. Your “solution” was to basically just keep doing that. In fact, you don’t even think it was a problem.
Viruses and malware didn’t exist in your world, did they? You were happy loading up any old program onto your DOS machine to test it, right? No sandboxing, no nothing. The world was perfect back then. Java applets were a treat too, right? Running right in your user environment with access to the full disk. Why ever change that? There wouldn’t ever be a problem with drive-by infections. Nooo, full-disk access is not a problem to solve.
GIFs were an amazing technology too. We should’ve stayed with that instead of streaming or upload videos to watch them in the browser. Yeah, I loved having to download everything then hope the video format was playable locally.
Bro, your “proposal” to just stay stuck in Y2K is garbage and you expect me to just nod along. Good old days my ass. Web apps exist for a bloody reason and solve real problems. If you seriously think they’re just here to flash ads at you and track you, then you stopped thinking years ago. Think about a real, alternative solution instead just “we don’t need it”. It might actually get some dust off the cog
sin that machine of yours instead of just storing old memories and wishing times hadn’t changed.The fuck are you on about? This post is such an extreme overreaction. You’ve successfully made up a bunch of shit that you think I’m advocating for and then gotten super mad about your own bullshit. I didn’t say that nothing should have changed or evolved from back then. I said that Javascript was a bad way forward and that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with separation of software by function instead of making one bit of software an all in one solution. But go ahead and rant and make personal attacks. I don’t even know why I’m trying to clarify my position to someone who’s intent on demonstrating they’re clearly not someone worth discussing things with.