aebletrae [she/her]

Yeah, that’s what I was suspecting.

I ended up leaning towards “download” being used in the boomer way of meaning any data transfer, whatever the direction, which in this case would more specifically be called an “upload”. And that “online” was being used to mean “using a website”, even though the local processing is offline.

The alternative fit to the description I had considered was a website you could give an URL, so it retrieves the zip file and allows you to inspect it remotely, and maybe just download some of the contained files, so it deals with the risk and bandwidth issues for you. That would be a different kind of useful, though it’d only be a few days before someone uses it for malign purposes and gets the site operator a no-knock visit from the fuzz, so that seemed much less likely.

I can see a use for an app that can be used where they can’t be installed, though.

I’m confused. How are you defining “download” and “online” here?

The website suggests that the server holds the files and does the extraction:

Extract and Explore compressed files online [emphasis mine]

which fits with the github claim of:

to view and extract zip files online without downloading them

but the website also states that:

nothing leave your browser

which suggests that the server has nothing to do with it, and you do actually download the zip files first.

What am I missing?

Take a look at Engineering Mathematics by KA Stroud. It has a step-by-step approach with worked examples that might be useful to you. Even if you don’t like the structure, it’ll at least give you a comprehensive list of topics.

You wrote this ten minutes after being reminded that “consent” by children is nonsense, in what is still the most approved comment.

If you want to be a successful troll, you are going to have to learn to be less obvious. If you want to discuss topics in good faith, you are going to have to learn that this “just asking questions” approach makes you look like a troll.

The end of “Cogenitor”, where Archer blames Trip for the death of Charles.

I don’t see them in the app, so not yet, I guess.

Uh, the XiBucks, obviously.

Look, I get it. Hexbear is a demanding place to be. It expects you to not be a complete asshole almost all the time. You’re regularly tested on knowledge of an emoji system so complex, it’s been known to make London cab drivers cry. If you unthinkingly parrot talking points, you’ll be pounced on with annoying facts and aggressive reasonable concern for the value of other people. And if you emit the slightest Hitler particle, you’ll be outright banned. How authoritarian! Honesty, sometimes I wonder why I signed up, never mind stay around.

But then I remember that the folks there are a deeply caring lot, who see the problems in the world and actually want to do something about it—even though the goal often seems barely possible—and, in spite of everything, retain a sense of humour and try to make improvements for each other, even if, for now at least, it can only be a :meow-hug:.

Oh, and the XiBucks, of course. Some of us even get roubles, too!

Ah, Enhanced, the folks that brought us interrogation.