Now we’re judging articles for quantity instead of quality?

Who uses “lame” in 2024? It was so pervasive during the Digg times.

I’m curious enough to continue the conversation, if only because talking about definitions is interesting. So I’m not being confrontational, I actually want to have a discussion.

You say that all soaps are antibacterial because the result in the end is that no bacteria remains on the hands. I see what you’re saying there. But anti-bacterial soap kills the bacteria, including the remaining ones that couldn’t be removed.

That’s like saying that removing a group of humans based on ethnicity from a region, without killing them, amounts to genocide. Would you say that’s genocide too?* (And I know the comparison is extreme.)

*I think I read somewhere that forcibly removing people from a region amounts to genocide, though. But you know what I mean…

I hope you were being sarcastic…

You’re missing the point, but that’s fine. I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll stop things here. Let’s talk about something else.

How’s your day going?

The language is not clear.

" As a vegetarian, which of these three options you want the least and which you want the most? You MUST choose to continue:

1. Chicken sandwich.
2. A kick in the balls.
3. Pork sandwich.

"

You are saying that a reasonable person (vegetarian in this case, and disclaimer: I am not vegetarian) would say “well, I want a kick in the balls the least, so I’ll choose that. Now, fuck, I HATE chicken sandwiches and I HATE pork sandwiches. They both make me puke. But if I have to choose, I guess I’ll go for the chicken sandwich. Hey pollster, I want the chicken sandwich the most.” And the pollster writes “Chester wants the chicken sandwich the most.” Yeah, very clear.

It’s the “most wanted” language. I don’t blame common folks associating “most wanted” with “I want this!” when in fact they don’t mean it.

Weird that they used quora of all places this news was reported.

I don’t know, man. Look at where big projects are at right now. Blender, Gimp, Linux, Inkscape, KDNLive…

It can happen.

But anyway. The day I can’t use a secure, open-source web browser is the day I’ll stop web browsing. Just like when I decided to never buy commercial music, go to the movies or buy a Smart TV.

It was not an argument. Just an observation. And your opinion doesn’t make it less relevant.

As the matter of fact, both can co-exist.

Reddit fucked up Lemmy, and now that they’re here, welp, it’s bullshit.

Eh. Like I said… financial shit I don’t care about.

Spectre wasn’t even Firefox’s fault. It was a CPU vulnerability.

In the end, if an open source browser cannot step up, some other will and take its place. I’m okay with that.

I don’t follow. Couldn’t you also claim the opposite as well? That neighbors are diverting water to her property?

Edit: Nevermind. I read the article and yeah, the neighbors may have a case. But I’d like to know the full story.

Ugh man, that’s true. Would you say that sdf.org offers a better experience content-wise?

I can understand you, friend. We both want the same thing. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to help in that respect, so I’ll help in the ways I can - spreading the word and contributing to code if necessary.

Elaborate.

Got it.

Kinda weird that you focus on the financial side on this site of all places. I thought Lemmy didn’t care too much about that.

But regardless. I don’t care about the financial side. There are several competing open source browsers and any of them can take the helm.

I think you’re assuming too much.

If Firefox disappears overnight, do you think the devs working for it are just going to sit down and twiddle their thumbs? They’ll pick another project and carry on.

There are several examples of this happening. MySQL vs MariaDB, OpenSSL, PDF viewers, hell, even Linux can be included here too.

Ah man, shucks.

Oh, I understand. I’m just saying that the reasons were enough for a lot of people to give it a go, me included. You probably had a beefed up machine back then in 2008. I didn’t, and launching a browser took several seconds, whereas Chrome launched like in one second or so.

Of course, Chrome started to suck and I came back to Firefox, especially when they caught up with Javascript.