Mozilla (Firefox) major firing and restructure. Not mentioned: They fired their entire threat response/opsec team. - complete with woke language in blog.

teriyakiburns said:
Linux works just fine without systemd. The reason it's "system-critical" is because poettering and his cronies captured and integrated a bunch of formerly independent subsystems (like udev and DBus), whilst redhat used their influence over Gnome's development to create an unecessary dependency on systemd.

It's a bloated, unstable mess that solves problems nobody actually cared about, written largely because poettering got butthurt at Linus for calling his shit code shit and decided to make the kernel irrelevant by wrapping it in a blanket of impenetrable, over-connected, terribly-engineered, badly specced, badly written, crash-prone, mission-creeping, fundamentally broken bullshit.

I have no systemd on my systems at home. They work just fine, just like they have for the last twenty years.
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Oh no, how awful it must be for the Linux ecosystem to have standardized system libraries and protocols instead of everything depending on a dozen different independent solutions. Why can't it be like the old Unix days where we had no standards and everything broke everything else.

It's strange, everything depending on it, it's almost like developers enjoy having standard system libraries, instead of some grand conspiracy theory.
 
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oh fuck it doesn't work with the google drive userscript now on my phone
 
XYZpdq said:
oh fuck it doesn't work with the google drive userscript now on my phone
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The previous, decent version is available on apkmirror (run by the same guy as AndroidPolice, so it's not some shady chinese malware site). That 68.0.11 version from July was the same version number I had in my backups (Titanium Backup). Luckily, that made it easy to roll back for me. I don't think you can just install the older version over the newer one (keeping your current config/extensions/etc). If you're rooted, you might be able to save the app data folder, uninstall the new version, reinstall the old version, and copy the app data back manually.
 
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Ascendancy0 said:
Speaking of Edge, why didn't Microsoft just update Explorer instead of creating a ~brand new~ browser?
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Late to the convo but it’s because explorer has a brand of supporting active-x, silver light and other cancer frameworks.

to move forward they would have to remove those but they can’t because still a lot of financial institutions rely on that technology (source, spent years working in Fintech and a Surprising amount of financial institution still use internet explorer due to legacy tech they have to use)
 
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The Fool said:
I still get PTSD from Java shit too, fortunately nothing modern outside of Android is written in it now, and even that's inevitably going to stop.
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"Java on android", "Inevitably going to stop"
Do me a favor and google "smug anime faces" i can't be bothered atm

The way that the Android ecosystem is designed is such that Java is practically mandated for years to come. I.E Android itself is just a standard forced upon handset manufactures by the strength of the Google monopoly, replacing it with another language at this stage would be a massive undertaking that would not benefit Google in the least.

Java is perfect for "mobile apps" whose only goal is to vomit as many ads and microtransactions upon the user as possible.
 
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Between Vivaldi and Brave, which is the lesser resources hog. Not asking for my pc at home, asking for my shitty windows 10 work laptop.
Fucking hell.
 
The Fool said:
Oh no, how awful it must be for the Linux ecosystem to have standardized system libraries and protocols instead of everything depending on a dozen different independent solutions. Why can't it be like the old Unix days where we had no standards and everything broke everything else.
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UNIX is literally a standard.
Nothing about systemd is standardized. It's a constantly moving target, the devs give you zero guarantees that any interfaces will remain stable, and it's really poorly documented. systemd changes to whatever Red Hat finds convenient at the moment and everyone has to follow suit.
 
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RadicalCentrist said:
"Java on android", "Inevitably going to stop"
Do me a favor and google "smug anime faces" i can't be bothered atm

The way that the Android ecosystem is designed is such that Java is practically mandated for years to come. I.E Android itself is just a standard forced upon handset manufactures by the strength of the Google monopoly, replacing it with another language at this stage would be a massive undertaking that would not benefit Google in the least.

Java is perfect for "mobile apps" whose only goal is to vomit as many ads and microtransactions upon the user as possible.
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Google is working on an alternative OS that will support older Java apps but allow different runtimes to be used.

Maybe I was being too optimistic about it ever actually coming out, but, they are working on it.

garakfan69 said:
UNIX is literally a standard.
Nothing about systemd is standardized. It's a constantly moving target, the devs give you zero guarantees that any interfaces will remain stable, and it's really poorly documented. systemd changes to whatever Red Hat finds convenient at the moment and everyone has to follow suit.
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So it's just like Linux.

Which is also not Unix.
 
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Just going to leave this here:
mozilla-boss-pay.png

(source)
 
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