On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 01:11:06AM +0300, Matti Karnaattu wrote: > > So you are saying that soon everything will be force fed to you and > > you will be ok with it? > > There are two things which irritates me in computing: > > 1. Need of security updates > 2. Two pieces of technology which are not compatible with each other. > > I'm GLAD that finally we have Javascript. At last, we have language and > platform that WORKS universally. No more dozen proprietary > (or open source), incompatible platforms. Once we have C-language that > can be compiled almost anywhere, with minor modifications as long as it > was command line software. > > Now we have Javascript that runs in browser, almost everywhere, without > modifications and do almost everything. > > It is simply wonderful. Best thing after invetion of WWW.
I just changed a couple of security (ha!) settings in my google account and disabled access by "less secure apps". Then I tried to read my email using mutt. It failed and I got a nice email from google informing me of the blocked sign-in attempt and saying: "You can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail to access your account (recommended) or change your settings at http://... so that your account is no longer protected by modern security standards." Please, *do* tell me more about your "simply wonderful" java-scripted browser-dependent cloud-based memory-hogging broadband-needing SAAS world, it sounds like such fun! You are on a mailing list of a heavily security-oriented OS (and community), proselytising about a computing model based on blindly downloading source code that will run locally (and doing this every time you want to use an "application"). Good luck.