Web 2.0, and its consequences...

Web 2.0 or: “Instead of loading all code from the same URL the website now needs a dozen of different scripts from a dozen of different URLs, gives a shit about CSP and only shows a blank page when JS and/or cookies are disabled.”

Don't worry, texteditor.com is also available as an app on Windows, macOS and Linux thanks to Electron.

It only needs 300 megabytes and you can style it with CSS.
- It also only takes a single gigabyte of RAM per file being edited, Isn't that fantastic?
- So was all this bloat inevitable as hardware got better, or is there a way to go back? It feels like a ripoff that our computers are 1000x better but they're maybe 10x faster once all the shitty software is taken into consideration.
- Of course! And it definitely does not try to pry all info about the user that it can and definitely the company behind would not use that in any way.
- And then youll only need a near 16gb of ram to text a text file.
- I like that you can just install it straight from the Windows Store, no need to even bother opening Edge to download it.
- That’s a very lightweight one. Stakeholders say it needs to be at least 600mb.

I'm not sure which is worse. I mean most desktop programs are just glorified web browsers anyway (i.e Electron)

What do you mean, "most?" Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.
- Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.
  
  "Not for long!" - Multiplatform programmers
- They are probably referring to the amount of progressive web apps that are out now.
- by market share (vscode)
- I mean look at the most used applications these days, discord, Spotify, teams, steam, vscode, slack, etc
  
  They might not all exactly be electron but theyre all secretly browsers.
But you can use more shortcuts!

I hate editors in browser. With Chrome at least --kiosk turns them in proper apps. In Firefox it's impossible to turn off browser shortcuts and use them to work.

What barbarian do they think I am, using a mouse to do stuff on my editor. I need long complex absurd keyboard shortcuts to function
- Allow me to introduce: Firefox vim keybindings extensions. So many more shortcuts if you don't need to worry about typing characters in normal mode.

.exe? 🤮

Linux doesn't have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn't have been good for this meme.
- You can: ./texteditor, ./bin/texteditor, "texteditor binary", "(local) texteditor program".
- .elf is the closest thing we have.

Is web3.0 just https://texteditor.exe?

Kind of. First you have to buy a Texteditor token and then the license says you're permitted to open the IPFS link in order to use Texteditor.
- You missed the part where tokens are stolen.

Bruh, I actually prefer the "Web 2.0" solution. That way the god damn editor can't just start accessing all the shit on my drive.

Lol but included in the source for www.texteditor.com is analytics, beacons, etc from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Cloudfare, and a bajillion different ad networks that send the content of your text file to AI models.
- pihole and unbound dns babyyyyyy
My text editor doesn't access shit on my drive (unless I ask it to) because it's Free Software and my Linux distro package maintainers audit it to make sure it doesn't contain malware like that.

You're praising a pathological solution to a problem that shouldn't exist to begin with.
- Forever audits of free software are unsustainable in my opinion.
  
  To truly audit every piece of software, you need an independent party to spend time (often more than the development) to look through the code, that person needs to be equally or more experienced than the developers of the software, and have specific knowledge for vulnerabilities and malicious techniques.
  
  They then need to audit and monitor all of the channels of distribution for that software, including various websites and repositories. This needs to be done constantly.
  
  You effectively need to double or more the total level of effort for all software.
  
  Yes, high profile software (sometimes) gets audited regularly, but the assumption that anything you grab from your package manager has been truly audited leads to a false sense of security, additionally the assumption that an audit being performed means there are no issues with the code also leads to problems.
  
  The reality is that most open source software doesn't get audited because it is too much work.
Wait until you meet with Javascript and WebAssembly viruses!
- WebAssembly is sandboxed and deterministic. Any impure code has to be triggered via message passing with the host language.
That’s why there is sandboxing on macOS and in Flatpacks

I shamelessly use calculator.net instead of installing a calculator on my system lmao

bc -l
- I checked the manual to see what the -l switch does and it says you can choose the math library you want to use? in what cases should I use it?
you can also just g**gle your calculations
- Use google to mean "web search" in general!
  
  Let them loose their trademark over the name google by generalization!
- gaggle?
Are you aware how much more electricity your calculation is consuming

Looking at you IDX

I just stick a single line of HTML in the address bar and use that as a text editor. It's just a giant test field taking up the page with a dark background and white text.

Useful if I just want to write text without any need to format it.

Harder to get a virus from a website

Given that JavaScript stands as one of the most prevalent vectors for infections, I am inclined to disagree.