Freedom is a synthetic enterprise, not a natural gift

Glory to the ghosts of us

  • 3 Posts
  • 15 Comments
Joined 5 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 25th, 2020

help-circle




  • i never said anyone can read code, but saying you dont have that right is wrong, you have it… and i never tried to convince op to use software with ai code on it, what i did was question about why they don’t want it. why would anyone not want a specific programming language? electron is a mess, okay, that’s a reason, but i dont think there’s people who despise, i dunno, python because of no reason whatsoever


  • and that’s a fair criticism, but it doesnt have anything to do with ai or not, but bad knowledge about engineering or coding. i have a family member who has been working as a developer for 20 years, he is now using ai to automate that process, he knows what to tell the machine, he oversees the project, etc, that’s the way it’s going to be from now on, and it’s something that has happened to other industries years before. i’ve worked as an interpreter, translator and proof reader. do you think i do all by hand? no one does that anymore and i dont see people complaining about translations being “machine written” or whatever. i am doing the work, i check errors, i change, words, etc, the only thing i dont do is literally have to type 500 times words i know the translation of.


  • sure, but just because a lot of people or whatever think that way doesnt mean anything. you already have that right, there is the code, you can read it… what do you mean you cannot know what’s running in your system? now, where it came from? i dont know about that, i think developers have a right to their privacy and don’t have to tell you where they live.




  • the application uses duckduckgo’s favicon fetching service, if their servers can’t reach the website it wont be able to fetch the icon. i added a field to add a custom url that points to a favicon tho, you could use that.

    yes, wallpapers are stored in the browser storage so i needed to set a limit so the user wouldnt breack it by accident. also an addon cannot read content from a folder because of security issues, there may be some workaround like pointing to a server or something but it’s a really fringe use case so not worth the development of such a feature. maybe i could consider expanding it 5 or something, i dont know how much it would slow down a machine, i have a really low spec one so im not the one to test.

    i could definitelyu add chinese! could you open an issue on github about it? i would need to find a cantonese dictionary…





  • zen mods are css/js injections, not full extensions. a new tab override extension won’t translate cleanly into a mod afaik. i just tried installing it there and it didn’t work tho, i think there’s an issue because zen has a native pop up when you click open a new tab, since i also tried installing tabliss and it won’t let me also. it seems zen blocks new tab permissions and there’s no fix on their part yet. i think the only way it could work is editing some file inside zen where it stores its new tab file, but it would break with updates and im not sure if it can handle more than a simple html