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Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers by isatty on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:49AM (#22357375)
It always annoys me when some general purpose utility or script is written in JavaScript because I refuse to install node on my computer.
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Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers by 4cao on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:03PM (#22357536)
What would have been a shell script in the 1980s, a Perl script in the 1990s, a Python script in the 2000s, is now a JS bundled with an outdated Chromium build aka an Electron app.
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Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers by jethro_tell on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:12PM (#22359216)
want to parse the plain text 'From: ' email headers on your laptop? Install this 500MB bundle.
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Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers by pedrogpimenta on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:48PM (#22358148)
I'm curious, why do you refuse to install node on your computer?
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Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers by layoutIfNeeded on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:44PM (#22358882)
Maybe he hates bloat?
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