loathsome dongeater

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a cool (brr) dude

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Cake day: May 14th, 2020
  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    18 days ago
    side-tracking

    Out of the 800,000 people each year who committed suicide, on average perhaps more capable than the rest of us, what if a few would have been instrumental in developing fusion power?

    I don’t like arguments like this. Especially when it comes from someone in the tech field. It seems to imply that climate change is a technical problem and that some silver bullet solution from a savant will solve it. Meanwhile in the real world, the economic and political system has been blowing all the increasing energy capacity on useless stuff like cryptocurrency and now AI.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•FOSS JS extension? (blocking by default non-FOSS JS)English
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    2 months ago

    Can’t say that what you are looking for is common. This is the first time I’ve heard this requirement bring described.

    Librejs started a long while back. I’m no js historian but I reckon things have changed a ton in jsland since then. My guess is that there assumption is that since JavaScript files are just scripts, they contain the source code and therefore all it checks for is is the license.

    I don’t know at which point things like obfuscation through minification and systems like webpack came along. I’m only theorising but I feel librejs has not been able to keep up with the times.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Ladybird Browser Team Selects Swift as Preferred LanguageEnglish
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    3 months ago

    My point is that no one talks about using regulations to curb Google’s browser monopoly ever. Even the anti-trust suit against them was related to their search offering. This relates to how Mozilla is beholden to Google for funding, and other players in the game being big corporations themselves.

    politicians won’t do anything

    Politicians can be made to do stuff. It is not always easy or even possible but activism sometimes works. Either way it is more likely to work than a toy browser for a niche segment of nerds becoming a viable alternative.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Ladybird Browser Team Selects Swift as Preferred LanguageEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I agree with what you said but there is next to no chance a new browser engine from scratch will be able to challenge Blink’s dominance.

    Google’s power comes from a combination of unfortunate factors. They have limitless money to support Chrome’s development. They are one of the biggest vendors of online services. They are one of the biggest drivers of new web standard adoption.

    Breaking this monopoly will require regulation and enforcement, not a “tech visionary” and a GitHub co-founder playing hero.