How do we know for sure, though? You can't firewall off this application and through the magic of service workers the app can even upload your pictures if you disconnect from the internet first and go back online later.
That won't catch a serviceworker that decides to run 30 minutes later.
The problem is that a browser is inherently internet connected and these applications simply cannot be firewalled off effectively, you'll just have to trust them not to do anything with the data you feed them.
Cool. I was looking at ffmpeg.wasm[1] the other day and it had me wondering what the performance might look like for a similarly browser-based and offline service for common tasks.
I wonder about the use of remote file operation terminology (e.g., upload, download) versus local (e.g., open, save) when using offline/local and privacy as an attraction.
A very narrow slice of what Justine said in Discord: "But yes, at least one employee at Microsoft has to vouch for the project, or else Windows support won't be able to continue."
Which version is being flagged? Whenever I create a redbean binary, I always ask Microsoft to whitelist it using this form https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission They told me the false positives on the 2.0.16 release had been removed. The thing that sucks though is if you change the binary, for example adding an .html file to it using PKZIP (rather than using -D DIR to serve a local directory) then you have to upload and report your modified redbean to Microsoft 'security intelligence' yet again because Microsoft's security tools aren't very smart, and they're biased against open source developers.
This is cool. I've been using tinypng.com (a service that uses "their" servers!!) for years, even with PS, IM and the rest installed locally .. basically due to - until very recently - superior compression, especially of png. It's entirely useful. Will take this newfangled local effort for a test run at my next rodeo :)
Small bug report to the OP (hopefully you own the website): The light/dark toggle starts off on dark setting but visually the website is on the light setting. So if you toggle it, the toggle goes light, but visually nothing changes, toggling it back to dark, visually it changes to dark. This only works once as settings as persisted correctly. But opening up an incognito browser you can repro.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 144 ms ] thread> No uploading. Files never leave your machine.
The problem is that a browser is inherently internet connected and these applications simply cannot be firewalled off effectively, you'll just have to trust them not to do anything with the data you feed them.
I wonder about the use of remote file operation terminology (e.g., upload, download) versus local (e.g., open, save) when using offline/local and privacy as an attraction.
[1] https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
This is someone's project that works locally as well, on every operating system, without installing anything except 1 web browser.
If the author wanted, they could even ship it in a redbean ;)
https://redbean.dev
Here is a nice starting point, if they're reading this and interested https://github.com/ProducerMatt/redbean-template
https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/1541801499210092544
A very narrow slice of what Justine said in Discord: "But yes, at least one employee at Microsoft has to vouch for the project, or else Windows support won't be able to continue."
Eg, say "Make this image 640x480" and it would shrink it until it fit inside that box, then add transparent/blank as necessary to get to the size.
It is nearly impossible to explain to people why aspect ratio is important, and the ovals continue.
The browser can expose many everyday small utilities like this, to scratch very particular itches.
I remember that the original idea of bookmarklets [1] was similar to this.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
Edit: Cool website :)
Any idea what tech, if anything fancy, it's using?