CEF and Electron happened. Or, more precisely, web developers decided they are app developers now.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEOEnglish
6·9 days agoIn a scenario where I will own all of my games on Epic, and more than I own on Steam, I would still not use Epic, lol. Learn about the value some time.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patchEnglish
7·11 days agoCan confirm. Was stuck at “You’re 0% there” screen for like 20 minutes. Then it “unfrozen” itself and rebooted just fine. But yeah I wish I had the time to move to Linux soon.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | JellyfinEnglish
152·23 days agoAndroid TV / Chromecast: subtitles are broken since November for external players. Literally stopped watching my shows.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparisonEnglish
9·25 days agoI always said that 8.1 is the most optimized even compared to 7 (mostly because they launched it together with phone version which shared a lot of stuff with 8 so it includes a lot of optimizations under the hood). Most people never cared to use it apparently.
If you zoom in and measure distances in pixels you’ll see it’s manipulated.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for LinuxEnglish
1·2 months agoI mean if the binary and the keys are available somewhere on the internet…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for LinuxEnglish
16·2 months agoHow illegal would it be to provide an AI model with a button “modify the GPU driver until HDMI 2.1 features are working properly”?
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Technology@lemmy.world•RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web componentsEnglish
3·2 months agoThe article mentions Chrome/Chromium: 9 times
The article mentions Google: 0 timesGoogle made Chrome. Chrome had that multi-process architecture at its core which allowed to consume as much memory as needed even on 32-bit OS. Chromium was always inside it and open source. Then they created CEF, which allowed webdevs to build “real” apps, and that opened the floodgates. Electron was first built on it but they wanted to include Node and couldn’t because it required too much experience in actual coding. So they switched to Chromium. It didn’t change much in the structure, just basically invited more webdevs to build more “real” apps (at 1.0 release Electron advertised hundreds of apps built with it on its website).
Google could do something about how the web engine works in frameworks (that don’t need that much actual web functionality), but didn’t. They invited webdevs to do anything they want. Webdevs didn’t care about security because mighty Google would just publish new Chromium update eventually. They never realized they don’t need more security in their local “real” apps gui that connect to their websites because there is not much room for security danger in such scenarios. They just always updated the underlying engine because why not. Chromium dll is now at 300 mb or something? All of that code is much needed by everyone, is it not?
So, for me the sequence was always seen as this:
Google (caring about webdevs, not OS) ->
Webdevs (not caring about native code and wanting to sell their startup websites by building apps) ->
Reckless web development becoming a norm for desktop apps ->
Corporations not seeing problems with the above (e.g. Microsoft embedding more stuff with WebView2 aka Chromium)
So yes, Google has everything to do with it because it provided all the bad instruments to all the wrong people.
Personally, I don’t care much about hating Microsoft anymore because its products are dead to me and I can only see my future PCs using Linux.
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Technology@lemmy.world•RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web componentsEnglish
2·2 months agoAnd it always used Chromium under the hood.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing videoEnglish
5·2 months agoBrb gonna buy some RGB ads from AliExpress to decorate my bathroom…
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Technology@lemmy.world•RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web componentsEnglish
7·2 months agoThank Google for those cool products.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing videoEnglish
20·2 months agoBehold, here is the screenshot of an example result from the included paper.

What do we have on a kitchen wall? But of course, a banner for an upcoming Streaming TV show.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing videoEnglish
4·2 months agoYou should check the included PDF - contents are crazy. But the example result looks comically similar to an overlay.
Just tape that stuff to a wall -> zero floor space used.
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PC Gaming•Valve bows to Kremlin: LGBTQ+ solitaire game [Flick Solitaire] pulled from russian Steam [cited a 2006 federal law prohibiting the "promotion of non-traditional sexualities"]English
1·2 months agoRussia issued a lot of legal requirements that don’t make sense. For example they at some point asked more money than we have on the planet, from Google.
Complying with the law on a territory not controlled by sensible human beings should be considered questionable at the very least.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars TechnicaEnglish
5·2 months agoUsing jellyfin on Chromecast. For the past 3 weeks I’m stuck not being able to use it because some update broke subtitles support for external players. App became useless, I can’t downgrade it, and the bug is still not fixed.
Not going to use Plex, just my 2 cents.
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Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•He has abandoned sync development but not the businessEnglish
1·2 months agoI just patched the APK to block the ads.



You say “like” but you have no idea. The most of the individuality the skin in OP has comes from bitmaps. CSS is only a cool instrument for a few people who can manage it. Also I wish it would be cut out from any desktop web app framework because nobody use it in a nice way anyway, it just wastes resources.