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  • The real reasons often are:

    • They want be able to hire much cheaper webdevs instead of software devs.
    • Electron has a lot of built-in data collecting metrics, which they urgently need for creating a real-life KITT.
    • Easy live embedding of content. Sure you can add your own solution, in fact I created ETML as a solution for this problem for my engine, all without any support for nasty scripting languages or convoluted stylesheets (style-inheritance in CSS turned me off from webdev even more than JS did). At best, it can be used for things like embedding videos on Discord, because no one else thought some universal approach, let alone one that disallows proprietary players. At worst, it’s being used for ads.

    Also a lot of Windows-only apps are Electron apps, only because the manufacturer wants to go “fuck you”, even putting protections into the code just in case you wanted to run it on Linux.

    EDIT: Forgot the “live embeds” reason.







  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAboruletion
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    10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth. 10 year old rape victims don’t want to give birth.











  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzFrench Anatomy
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    That’s why it’s dangerous to have sex with animals. The size alone can be trained for, but you’re dealing with an animal that does not understand consent. Allegedly most horse sex videos featured the animals being drugged to avoid such incidents.

    Seriously, just get a horse dildo instead of sexually abusing animals. There’s some evidence that they suffer from it, even if the animals can’t speak of the harm they suffer.


  • I’m pretty reluctant to be this flattening towards Gabe Newell and Valve.

    Once Google was seen as one of the good companies. “Googling” became synonimous with searching on the internet. Most if not all competitors went bankrupt. When Google was accused of monopolistic behavior, its fans treated it as an attack on “perfection”. Google Chrome was a fast browser requiring less memory than its competitors. People saw them owning YouTube as a good thing. The most common form of toxicity towards new users in the Linux community was only providing lmgtfy links to them (I did get the occasional custom WinXP ISO torrent link too). Even their motto was don’t be evil.

    And then came the YouTube content ID system. And then they were reluctant to throw off the far-right from their platform for breaking their ToS during Gamergate. Then they dropped the motto. Then they put ads into the Google search results. Then they let the far-right control their platform before the 2024 elections. And also they’re pushing AI hard.

    Will Gabe Newell stick to his ideas, or get an anyeurism and join the Trump oligarchs?