Have been running Debian on all of my computers for a while now and couldn't be happier with it. Fantastic distro made by a great team, thanks for another great release!
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that 5 years ago, this would have been a free command line tool? But nowadays it's a closed-source web app instead?
The audience who are likely to make the most use out of a tool like this are not the same as the audience who would be comfortable using a command line tool.
I mean, you can replicate the core functionality of this fairly easily using awk, and if you're happy doing a bit of piping to perl or whatever, the fancier time re-formatting stuff is also easy.
In essence, the complexity in this tool (and what makes it cool) is the figuring out what you are trying to do without telling it - if you can run a command line tool you can tokenise the input yourself and you're most of the way there already.
I wonder how many websites this will break. A few times in the past I have tried seeing if websites support https and been served a default Apache page or something instead. Still, the more encrypted traffic the better.
I've been using https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere since 2011
(Firefox 3.6 back then) and only rarely see sites that serve a
default page or stall with https.
That's anecdata, but to get good data one would have to try to fetch &
compare results from both protocols for many websites - perhaps Google
or the Internet Archive has done this?
The biggest annoyance for me in using https preferentially is that I
often end up with multiple bookmarks for the "same" page, which differ
only in their protocol - it would be nice if there were an auto-magic
way to upgrade the old http bookmark to the https protocol.
That's because HTTPS Everywhere doesn't blindly attempt HTTPS connections, it redirects based on a massive set of rules. That's also how it accounts for more complex changes than just the protocol portion of the URL, like adding an encrypyted. or ssl. subdomain.
An app like this could save a life one day, for sure. My uncle recently died from a heart attack. It's impossible to know for sure but perhaps if he'd been wearing a smart watch, it could have told him to seek help before it hit.
I'm not a doctor, but based on what little research I've done in the past, a basic heart rate monitor such is this is unlikely to provide any pre-warning of a serious cardiac event.
