avidamoeba

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why are open source software monocultures bad? The vast majority of non-Windows OSes are Linux based. Teams who don't like certain decisions of the mainline Linux team maintain their forks with the needed changes.

Manifest V3 is a great example of this. You can only backport for so long, especially when upstream is being adversarial to your changes. We need an unaffiliated engine that corrects the mistakes we made with KHTML/Webkit.

And we could get a functional one today by forking Chromium and never accepting a single upstream patch thereafter. I find it really hard to believe that starting a browser engine from scratch would require less labor. This is why I'm looking for an alternative motive. Someone mentioned licensing.

Perhaps some folks just want to do more work to write a new browser engine. After all Linus did just that, instead of forking the BSD kernel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Any intuition on why we'd expect opening the same page on a newly implemented browser engine that implements all equivalent standards and functions will consume less resources?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (59 children)

I do not understand the urge to start from scratch instead of forking an existing, mature codebase. This is typically a rookie instinct, but they aren't rookie so there's perhaps an alternative motive of some sort.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Even as far back as 2010 the corpo I worked for had an official travel protocol that dictated backing up Blackberries, factory resetting them, crossing the border, then restoring them from the cloud. That was for crossing any border.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

SOFTWARE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE STABLE

Someone with a case of brain rot.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As many have pointed out, price wise it's not competitive. But more than that, the main feature of the Pi is its software support. I buy a Pi not because it's got the top specs but because I know I can load a rock solid OS with security support and I won't have to think about it. This is a problem for every Pi competitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Perhaps to people who are used to watching ad infested cable and don't pay for ad-free streaming. So it's not that ads aren't detracting from the experience but that some folks are used to it. Getting those folks is growth. Number go up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It isn't? You might be looking at a different market.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you were actually able to set it up via ssh,

I never said that.

I'm on Ubiquity's payroll, definitely. I'm expecting a check in the mail any day now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh for sure. I ran them without a controller for years. I only set it up to do a wireless bridge.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Perfect. This is consistent with what I was thinking and that Cloudflare's changes won't fix any recent bundles that might include malicious code.

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