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Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

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429 points saeedesmaili | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 22:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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system7rocks ◴[19 Sep 25 23:16 UTC] No.45307929[source]▶
I’ve been using other apps than Obsidian for notes and sharing, so this is nice to read and consider. But isn’t Obsidian an electron app or whatever? Electron has always seemed resource intensive and not native. JavaScript has never struck me as “secure”. Am I just out of touch?
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1. tester457 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:08 UTC] No.45308336[source]▶
It is resource intensive.

It's not a problem on pc, but an obsidian vault with thousands of notes can have a laggy startup on mobile, even if you disable plugins.

Users sidestep this issue with quick capture plugins and apps, but I wish there was a native stripped-down version of obsidian.