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We are back to File->Open I guess. We could use native applications instead of web apps while we're at it.

Sadly this approach does not work for a lot of (web) apps.

Author here!

The solution I'm proposing does not assume the data is local to the user's machine. In the video attached to the blog post, a web application is authorized to access a database hosted by a different service/domain. While the blog post covers collaboration/social data as current limitations, I'm curious what other classes of web apps you think don't work with the proposed approach?

If the database is not local, and there’s no authentication, what stops someone else from accessing it inappropriately?

yeah, to me this also pretty much sounds like the approach we started with, we bring our data (as a file) into the application and it stores it back if we want to.

Everything old is new again. We started with timeshare machines (there is only market for 7 computers in the world) where you accessed with VT102 etc terminals.

Then we went to personal computers with local data and code.

Now we are back to a handful of massive timeshare machines (AWS, Azure, ..) that keep your data and let you only access with HTTP/HTML terminals.

Now if people get angry enough with Salas enshittification we'll go back to personal computers again...

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