Self-hoster/FOSS Pronouns: He/Him
Time to write on some big ass rocks again!
But really in some ways as tech and storage of info has gotten more dense it really has gotten more fragile and harder to maintain over long periods of time. We may have (m-)disks that can last for decades and more but would the reader last?
How can we make that 2?
They are just fork + patches, I think only one is maintained by the company that forked it but it’s an esr version and it’s an ad company.
There’s are 2 main browsers, Firefox and Chromium. chromium has a monopoly due to Google, edge, brave, etc. This monopoly allows Google as they dictate what happens to the chromium project, some implementations for features were never incorporated as it didn’t suit Google like JPEG-XL. Even tho its open source its main contributors are from Google. Google dictated the change to manifest v2 to ruin adblockers as it impacts their revenue.
This decision impacted all other chromium forks. I think all of them (maybe except brave cause they may have the engineering bandwidth) now lack maifest v2 support. All because a corporate entity decided it was better if users didn’t have adblocking capabilities.
They have even made changes to their implementations of various standards (HTML etc) and since most webdevs only test on Chromium, you end up with a subpar experience if you’re not using Google or Chromiums implementation of that standard.
So my question as I stated earlier. What’s the alternative to Firefox since even the alternatives are dependent on the work done by Firefox for their fork. And going to chromium is just allowing your core browsing experience (like adblocking) to be dictated by google.
Not defending but what’s the alternative to the chromium monopoly? Most Firefox forks people talk about are a fork of the Firefox version + some patches. You’re better off using Phoenix instead of those forks IMO.
I use it to regularly push a new version of a PDF planner/calendar in December.
Right it only makes people feed shame and then be quiet for “falling for a scam” that invaded their privacy and double down. We can argue about how when you get scammed you should talk about it etc, but that’s how people operate. The others are just apathetic about privacy being dead.
Now India can have the Bhopal nuclear tragedy. Yay!
But again that’s not related to a committee stopping the implementation of a standard. It’s a scale of production issue, a labelling issue, and a consumer protection issue.
And I like having one port to just dock my machine in for power and display. I do understand how a separate port can help but I don’t see why we can’t have USB C working to its designed spec apart from the reasons I listed above.
Buy a supported cable? That’s a cable issue not a standards or forums issue
Librewolf also just adds patches on top of a Firefox release. It’s fine if you want a browser that works out of the box but it’s still Firefox.
Oh boy it’s hunting season
Hmm time for the real Indian Revolution for fuck sake. These parasites gotta go.
This is to protect from ddos, not do the ddos
To be fair as a society we have never really cared about suicide. So why bother now (I say as a jaded fuck angry about society)
I mean whenever anyone says I’m ditching Firefox for <insert fork here>, I am genuinely confused. I doubt any of them can maybe except floorp or whichever is owned by an ad company.
I know it’s part of the OS right
So seems like it does have that. Which is awesome! Thanks!
Printer drivers, weird random things like that.
Oh sweet, KDE is nice! It’s nice OOTB and still powerful.
What? The UK doesn’t care about people going hungry? Say it isn’t so?