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.

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