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.
Yeah I read a blog post about why it isn’t and the answer was pretty bog-standard answers for why anything is closed-source: “if we make these cool customizations open, then anyone could take it and make a competing product.”
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
The plant is actually going to be renamed “Crane Clean Energy Center” so it’s fine!
People fail to realize that we’re in the mirror universe and the universe Star Trek exists in is the unattainable utopia.
There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.
It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.
I’m an elder millennial and I’ve spent maybe 3 or 4 hours playing a game on the internet. I have played probably several days worth of games on an intranet with friends. I’m not interested in playing against people I don’t know.
I also have really old hardware so I haven’t played online with a friend in maybe 15 years. I’m too busy adulting and newer gear isn’t a priority.
Could be worse. He could live in a country which doesn’t have universal healthcare.
I gotta convince myself that what I thought of wasn’t funny.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Most people have already pointed it out, but I must say, I don’t recall the last time I ordered pizza and didn’t use a coupon.
Glad I could be of service.
Ahh the halcyon days of downloading one song from a private FTP server with upload ratios, found by Lycos FTP search. Over a modem, natch, so it took about 50 minutes…and that’s when your mom didn’t kick you off the internet so she could make a call.
Not sure it’s just anti-Biden but people do need to understand on matters like this, they need to mentally apply an asterisk that says “subject to approval by Congress.”
It’s not for everyone. And that’s ok.
That same man said in the same song…
Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
The thing about transporters is that if we had them right now, people would use them for everything. Transport me to the toilet. Transport the TV remote into my hand. Transport a fork into my hand. People would never get out of bed.
He (Linus Torvalds) made Linux as a hobby during his time in college/university to teach him about operating system design. Because it was the part of the operating system called the kernel that the GNU project didn’t have yet (more on this in a moment), it became very popular. Richard Stallman created the GNU project because he believed that every person should have the right to study and share the software that runs on their computer.
There is nothing specifically anti-corporate in either of their motivations.
the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple
This is largely because Windows and MacOS come preinstalled and that’s how the vast majority of people interact with operating systems. If you had to choose your OS, I’m sure there’d be more choice in the market. Not necessarily Linux, but just more choice in general.
I’ve been using some Linux flavor for about 15 years. The biggest thing about switching (at least back then) was I knew how to configure Windows just to my liking. With Linux it was a lot more difficult because I had to google everything. Like “how do I change the wallpaper?” How do I get the login screen to appear on the correct monitor, etc. It was just frustrating because I knew how to do this in Windows, but I felt like a major noob again with Linux.
I think it’s good of them to do this, but yes, releasing a browser that isn’t open source in 2024 is pretty ancient thinking.
As far as what engine it’s based on, there are really 3. Blink, Webkit, and Gecko. I agree that if you’re worried about Google taking over, Blink is the worst one to choose, but it’s not like there are a lot of options.