You’re doubting someone’s ability to create a web browser knowing that they specialize in browser development since the early 2000s?

If this isn’t enough to have confidence in them then nothing will.

The dev has 30 years of experience with c++ and a lot of it was on browsers.

He tried to incorporate rust with the help of “JT”, one of the original rust designers/devs and according to Andreas it didn’t work that well due to the web being too objet oriented or something like that. They both worked together (well, mostly “JT”) to create a new safe programming language called “yakt” that transpile to c++, but the project is currently pretty much dead because nobody is really working on it anymore.

If only.

I know about servo. It was pretty much a dead project until they joined the Linux fondation last year and started getting some sponsorship. Since then, they being doing pretty good on there own with personal donations rising by around 20% each month, reaching more than 2000$ monthly. Wish them all the best!

We also have a fork of money, it’s called crypto and it’s used to sell and buy hookers and drugs. Every fork of something end up used to buy hookers and drugs. Truly marvelous!

I share the disappointment.

1. (BSD vs GPL) Andreas stated on twitter that he wanted to give devs total freedom to use his work because when he worked at Apple he felt frustrated he couldn’t incorporate some code/software into his work because of GPL.
2. (Why?) The aim is not to create a chrome competitor, but to make a good enough, truly free browser that isn’t either chrome or funded by chrome. A browser made for and by its user’s.
3. (Discord) Because of gen-z.

Their rendering engine is already pretty solide (see penultimate video in their channel). Now that their “no third party code” restriction is lifted, they can actually focus on building a browser engine instead of recreating 30 years worth of technologies from scratch.

Thanks for the TLDR

Except the extra salt need to go somewhere.

Let’s be honest, much like how any nuclear advancement is highly controlled and any country that dabbles in it is drowned in sanctions, USA would certainly bully any country that would replicate it without their consent and “friendly countries” would have a huge discount in licensing costs.

I remember watching a clip from syfy b-movie where a dude is in awe in front of a small fusion power plant and vaguely remember him talking about a war caused by USA gatekeeping other countries from this unlimited clean source of energy by abusing copyright or something like that.

Or Facebook or Twitter.

For them to peggy back of a competitor work would be a bold and very risky move.

The article is basically : We have our own inferior adblockers so don’t panic when UBO stops working.

This is stupid cause it will simply cause Firefox to be banned. The devs should just host it somewhere else and teach the user to run external extensions.

AI is overhyped but it still doesn’t change the fact that it’s impact is still gonna be huge, mainly in terms of how productive a single human can be.

AI on its own is still too dumb even with all the new improvements like huge contexts reaching millions and mixture of experts,etc. but they can be of tremendous help as a personal assistant, especially for disabled people. The fact that it can understand natural speech very well and act accordingly is a major breakthrough.

I also discovered that AI that have access to internet and do a search for what you’re asking them tend to answer vastly better than their offline counterpart.

https://media.tenor.com/E0tg5UgwE9EAAAAM/i-want-the-truth-tom-cruise.gif

https://media.tenor.com/DGlbJWqzeNEAAAAM/cant-handle-the-truth.gif

That movie with Jack Nicholson playing a general and screaming “you can’t handle the truth” to Tom Cruise.

If you guys like hiking and stuff, there’s this cool open source app called trail sense on f-droid and it’s just so much feature packed…

I don’t hike, so I only use it for it’s pedometer capabilities and a hypothetical situation where “I might get really lost” but the amount of features it has for hiking and survival is crazy and so I think deserves to be more known.