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  • I have seen dog yelping way worse for various reasons, even if they just wanted attention (getting headpats). A lot of dogs just yelp if they’re caught of wrongdoing.

    The right won’t like you better if you spread their made up crap about supposedly “too far left” public figures. They want all public figures left of Mussolini gone from public life, not just the radical ones. All you’re doing is helping the right to control the narrative (wouldn’t surprise me if there were Discord servers and Facebook groups for this: allegedly the whole wizard game drama was made worse by such groups), and maybe even bury legitimate critique under bad faith arguments.

















  • 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.