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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by karmakaze on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:04PM (#37972219)
That is what I had in mind as I wrote it. Sad that many macOS apps now are built with Electron, or we simply use web browsers to access public or internal apps.
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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by depressedpanda on Sunday October 22, 2023 @05:07AM (#37973917)
Using web browsers to access apps is actually a boon in this regard: the whole UI is exposed via the DOM, and you can use JavaScript to interact with it for macros -- and it's cross platform as it works on any OS that can run a web browser!

In contrast Automator/AppleScript only works on macOS afaict.

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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by skydhash on Sunday October 22, 2023 @09:15PM (#37980534)
But then you got the ugliest DOM. I left FaceBook because I was trying to curate my friends list (2k+) down to only the person I know in the real world. But the Unfriend process was a dark pattern and automating it was more work than it was worth. Instagram was worse.
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