Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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i440BX said:
I don't blame them, it was a lot of effort to maintain custom clients compared to just using Chromium\Electron.
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Valve has Valve money, they don't have to worry about this, they just prefer to use Electron instead of having a developer make their app.
i440BX said:
But I agree. There must exist a much more friendy frontend system without having to use a fucking browser + web rendering for ui.
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The problem is that such a system would need to support everything by default, and therefore would basically need to be a web browser. It can improve by not using Chromium as a base (and I suspect Ladybird will probably put out a superior product eventually). I saw online a while back that someone improved the performance of a visual novel called Omori by running it in Firefox instead, and Safari's Webkit would probably be the best option overall, but I don't think that's even an option outside of iPhones.
Comments are saying it's because RPG maker is Chromium which makes more sense than a rogue developer trying to be funny.
 
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volatile puar said:
Safari's Webkit would probably be the best option overall, but I don't think that's even an option outside of iPhones.
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Nigger, what?

WebKit is an actual open standard, and is what Google forked to make Chromium. It originated in the KDE world.

There is a Mac build of Safari that behaves just like the mobile one, and there was even a Windows build of Safari for a few years. It was pretty wild to have a Windows browser that actually rendered as cleanly as things are on a Mac.
 
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Herman Throwaway said:
Nigger, what?

WebKit is an actual open standard, and is what Google forked to make Chromium.

There is a Mac build of Safari that behaves just like the mobile one, and there was even a Windows build of Safari for a few years. It was pretty wild to have a Windows browser that actually rendered as cleanly as things are on a Mac.
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Apple brags about how webkit has the fastest Javascript engine iirc, but I completely forgot iPhones are binary compatible with Macs now, so obviously their version of Electron would be available on Mac (although no one will use it for anything other than iPhone apps because not using Electron on all platforms makes development harder).
 
volatile puar said:
Apple brags about how webkit has the fastest Javascript engine iirc, but I completely forgot iPhones are binary compatible with Macs now, so obviously their version of Electron would be available on Mac (although no one will use it for anything other than iPhone apps because not using Electron on all platforms makes development harder).
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Fuck Electron. Total fucking trash.
 
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Is this a good time to mention that EmulatorJS will let you emulate vintage consoles like the NES or the N64 directly in your browser?
 
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
Total Red Hat/freedesktop death.
You can escape the worst of it easy enough (systemd and wayland) but good luck trying to get away from dbus, Even the BSD's use it.
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OpenBSD doesn't if you stick with the default WMs. Once you bring anything in GTK related you're having to enable dbus.
 
The only major platform a current WebKit browser doesn't exist on is Windows.
WebKit itself is still maintained for Windows, but you have to compile it yourself.
Not like you would want to use it, WebKit is absolute garbage.
I don't understand the hatred towards Chromium stuff, it is an open source product at the end of the day.
 
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YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
I don't understand the hatred towards Chromium stuff, it is an open source product at the end of the day.
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It's part of the monoculture that's been wrecking the web and it exists at Google's mercy. Yes, it's technically open-source, but it's a gargantuan codebase full of googleisms. If Google decides not to maintain Chromium as of tomorrow, you're not going to find the people necessary to maintain that shit.
 
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Herman Throwaway said:
Steam pops a huge ad at you as soon as you open it.
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Steam -> Settings -> Interface -> Notify me about additions blahblah -> Turn off
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Herman Throwaway said:
And never forget, what gave Newell the money to start Valve was his Microsoft stock options, as he worked there for a long time before leaving to shackle idiots to his own monopoly.
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Gaben could've sat on that money and retired at a very young age, but instead he decided to start a company which in its early days teetered on bankruptcy multiple times.
 
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