• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    You know what those web services do? I just click a button and it does what the button says. Why is that so hard?

    There’s also a pretty big chance that they’ll do more than what the button says, like inject malware. That’s the whole point of the article.

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      I understand that but that’s beside the point. It does what they advertise. It’s incredibly simple and easy to use. Why can no one make something comparable that’s FOSS?

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        They did, it’s often a CLI interface because it’s incredibly flexible. ffmpeg and imagemagick are quite easy for basic things.

        Building a cross-platform GUI is a pain, and hosting a website costs money. Building a cross-platform CLI is incredibly easy, which is why it’s so popular.

        Some of these tools have GUI frontends or alternatives, some don’t. The more niche you go, the harder it’ll be to find a reasonable GUI, and I consider PDF to JPEG pretty niche.

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          CLI interface

          quite easy

          No. This does not compute.

          hosting a website costs money

          You don’t have to host a website. Just make software that works like the website and runs locally.

          I consider PDF to JPEG pretty niche.

          But not niche enough that these websites don’t exist.