I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman@mastodon.social on Mastodon.
it sounds like no one else does either
Maintaining a browser that doesn’t rely on someone else’s upstream code is quite an ordeal. Of the four main browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox), 3 are built by large for-profit enterprises and the other relies on money from a large for-profit enterprise. Browsers are very complex pieces of technology and can’t be maintained by 3 guys on GitHub in their spare time.
Close. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.
They could probably raise more if Google went away
I’m interested in how you think Mozilla would raise more than half a billion dollars if they didn’t take any money from Alphabet/Google. Genuinely. In what ways could Mozilla raise money that they’re not doing right now?
Microsoft’s most important customers are businesses, who generally don’t deal with this (they have corporate images). Home users also generally don’t deal with this given they buy a computer that has already been configured.
Linux-based systems have always needed to be better because almost no one buys a computer with $DISTRO already installed and configured.
I had forgotten about that and now I am sad that I’ve been reminded.
If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.
It’s also in the The Cask of Amontillado. Great word, ejaculate.
I met a man from France who said that the French spoken in Montréal is “real French.” I was pretty shocked to hear that.
It does seem like the TL;DR of right wing Israelis is “Hitler was right, but his only problem was that he was killing us.”
It will come down to the laws in your country and how much money you plan to spend on lawyers if your employer wants to force the issue.
Sent this to my wife and we talked a bit about how I don’t like lights on.
I realized that even when I’m home alone at night (and not taking care so that she doesn’t wake up), I will use the flashlight/torch on my cell phone rather than turn on lights in the house.
Running an absolutely ancient kernel.
My sister is aggressively extroverted, and I am about as introverted. She insists on talking over the phone. All the time. I have to recover from it.
When I was in college in the mid aughts, there was a Taco Bell across the street from campus. Only place I could get full on $3.
That’s crazy.
Yes.
It all makes sense when you realize that a good number of them feel that Palestinians are not people.
Yeah I’m wrong. Thanks for the correction.
I think it’s fair to think that they could refocus their efforts on the browser if they didn’t have that large slush fund from Google. I don’t think “hey we don’t take Google money anymore” is going to lead to a lot of new donations, however.