As a terminal user, nearly all the time, I'm mostly inside the terminal so they don't make as much sense to me.
However I'm not _always_ a terminal user. Sometimes I'm a browser user and sometimes I have to use spreadsheets too.
In these contexts I use other programs which have GUI's, sometimes quite minimal, like a screenshot app for example.
I can certainly imagine getting a spreadsheet into a defined set of columns and then executing another app which asks a set of questions and then does something with that data, maybe even only draws a graph (as I despize drawing graphs in spreadsheets).
In this context, I feel that I may well write BASH, but opening a terminal would be as jarring as leaving it under normal circumstances...
So I feel these kind of tools are useful.
Shameless plug: Funnily I'm working on the opposite. Integrating STDIN/STDOUT into the GUI via a WebView, because I want that command line control but I there are occasions where there are benefits in using a GUI (graphs etc) - https://github.com/forbesmyester/wv-linewise
Unfortunately this is par for the course in anything the US Government does at the moment.
The UK government is basically a puppet state of the US, although they still have the pretense of independence, and they are at least paying lip service to the rule of law.
This is the situation forced on us by the court and the magistrate. Certainly if there was coverage of the proceedings from more sources we might choose to read those as well or instead of Craig Murray's blog.
At this time he seems to be one of the few people allowed in the public gallery.
I'm not seeing anything in his Wikipedia or recent Google results that suggests I should disregard him. What am I missing? What is it about his past that motivated you to post this innuendo?
Would be worth searching for 'Craig Murray Crank' since the guy posts a lot of conspiracy theories that are way off the deep end. You can trust the kooks if you like, but you should try to become familiar with the extent of their unhinged-ness.
Rationalwiki has its own biases but gives helpful context and evidence illustrating Murray's crankery.
- claims the perpetrators of the Salisbury poisoning aren't the Russians
- has been in disputes with a British newspaper editor and an Uzbek businessman over blog posts or articles
- some vague accusations that he may hold antisemitic views
Is that it, or is there something else?
I understand that he is biased, as both an open supporter of the accused and also because of what happened when he was ambassador to Uzbekistan, which definitely explains his interest in this particular case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray#Ambassador_to_Uzb...
None of the above makes me think that I shouldn't take what Murray writes about this particular court proceeding seriously.
Is there some argument that I'm missing here, some reason that can be described without relying on mere name calling and innuendo, that suggests that Murray is lying about what's going on here and I should therefore just ignore him?
He veered off into that Salisbury thing and I agree with him about the quality and some of the stretches made in the BBC output but not his conclusions. Other things are too off piste for me too...
However that does not mean to say his observations are void. I believe he is writing the facts as he sees them (and not fiction), of course there is opinion mixed in...
Naff tables (along with poor graphs) was one of my key motivations to create WV Linweise, which spawns a tiny web renderer to make displays nicer... Love the terminal, but some things it is just not great at...
Authentication is not handled at all. Given it is a project with a front and back end (using a REST interface between) I think the correct approach is to do authentication on a load balancer. The approach is fully documented here: https://github.com/forbesmyester/esqlate/issues/5
It lets you follow a semantic API path through multiple API calls.
https://github.com/stepci/stepci/blob/main/examples/captures...