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

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DragoonSierra said:
I use Brave and Librewolf. How does Helium compare and what's MV3?
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Helium is another chromium fork with less clutter and distractions. It has ad blocking built in. They still have the arms race with Youtube on blocking ads, so it may start showing ads any given day. I haven't seen any comparison with memory usage compared to Brave Origin, which is why I was interested in it.

Manifest V3 is the latest version of the extensions platform "to improve security, privacy, and performance." according to Google. They limited the amount of ad blocking you can do with v3, so hopefully helium gets around that.
 
Moist Boys said:
Helium is another chromium fork with less clutter and distractions. It has ad blocking built in. They still have the arms race with Youtube on blocking ads, so it may start showing ads any given day. I haven't seen any comparison with memory usage compared to Brave Origin, which is why I was interested in it.

Manifest V3 is the latest version of the extensions platform "to improve security, privacy, and performance." according to Google. They limited the amount of ad blocking you can do with v3, so hopefully helium gets around that.
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If Helium doesn't ship with a voice changer for video chat built in, the devs are faggots.
 
DragoonSierra said:
I use Brave and Librewolf. How does Helium compare and what's MV3?
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Moist Boys said:
Helium is another chromium fork with less clutter and distractions. It has ad blocking built in. They still have the arms race with Youtube on blocking ads, so it may start showing ads any given day. I haven't seen any comparison with memory usage compared to Brave Origin, which is why I was interested in it.

Manifest V3 is the latest version of the extensions platform "to improve security, privacy, and performance." according to Google. They limited the amount of ad blocking you can do with v3, so hopefully helium gets around that.
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I derped, it has v2 so you can use any adblocking extension you want. I haven't had any problems with Cloudflare at all either.
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
My computer should just work with everything out of the box
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You are a lazy faggot. Everything good in life requires work. If you are not willing to put in an incredibly small amount of work to set up your computer, you will not get your desired computing experience.
LarpBait said:
just download the source code and compile the old version??? git checkout is a feature on your computer for a reason.
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It is naive to think that a tranime niggeroid is intelligent enough to do this.
Unimaginative Username said:
No. There is another, even purer, browser.
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No. There is another, even purer, browser.
There is another.
 
AnOminous said:
Most FreeBSD users seem to be legit oldfags who use it for some specific reason. NetBSD seems to be somewhat similar. Like I'd use FreeBSD from time to time as a single purpose device. It's also really well documented. Even when I was new to it (although not BSD Unix in general) back in the late '90s, I could set up a router/firewall with a simple HOWTO.
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In the early 2000's I worked at a webhosting shop that installed a FreeBSD server to use as its internal and client-facing backup server, specifically because it was just different enough from Linux to keep the fucking moron support desk/tech people from fucking around with it and breaking backups by accident (and in true Tier 1 tech fashion, none of them were willing to read the documentation to learn enough to screw around with it).

AnOminous said:
I used this because Windows at this period of time was such a joke in terms of security you couldn't even have it plugged into your DSL directly without being infected by some bullshit before the install was even finished.
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Ah, good ol' Windows Server 2004. Fucking assholes. I can't comprehend how Microsoft wasn't sued, anti-trusted, hacked or whatever off the face of the earth for that fucking farse. That was my first real hint there was something fundamentally wrong with this world and incompetence was the norm and to be expected, not the exception to be punished.

(He's not exaggerating btw -- if you booted the Windows Server 2004 installer CD on a host with a plugged-in internet connection, it would literally be infected with a virus during installation, and the new system would boot up and begin its life infected. The specific symptom was usually "when I log in the system immediately pops up a 'the system will reboot in 60 seconds' prompt that can't be canceled". The only fix was to install the OS without an internet connection, install almost 650MB of patches from a separate CD (or USB thumb drive if you had one it was compatible with) to plug the holes, then reboot it, connect it up and allow it to pull the remaining post-install updates; a firewall was not adequate -- some manner of thing it reached out to talk to was compromised and it could be tricked into downloading and installing the payload even with all non-NAT inbound connections blocked)

reactionary said:
So much for "memory safety". Rust advocates can claim safety all they want, but that won't stop retards armed with technology they understand nothing about from shooting themselves in the foot.
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Rust became "unsafe" the moment it added the "unsafe" keyword. It's a crucial mistake it's not a compiler error by default or a warning at minimum during build. You should have to type --im-a-stupid-faggot-who-knows-what-im-doing to successfully compile a Rust program that uses the "unsafe" keyword. You're still lying, but you should at least be forced to type it.

CEO of Gay said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that QT6 is dropping X11 support and going wayland-only. But that's only a guess and would be only part of a debacle.
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No, that would be GTK, which deprecated its X11 backend and plans to remove it in GTK 5. X11 support is native in qtbase and there are no plans or announcements to change that. In fact Wayland support is a separate (optional) module, qtwayland.

The only thing Qt-adjacent that's dropping anything X11-related is KDE Plasma, which plans to drop X11 session support. They've openly stated it is exclusively X11 session support being removed, and nothing else. All Qt/KDE apps remain compatible with X11.

Max Weber said:
Another piece on Omarchy: Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH (archive)
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Yeah I think it's about time people started flinging litigation at these faggots for this shit. Why aren't we (Americans and other sane persons, if any) abusing other nations' more draconian libel/slander/defamation laws to silence this horseshit rhetoric? They literally throw 90 year old grandmothers in prison in Germany for saying something not openly hostile about Adolf Hitler. Isn't accusing someone of being a fucking Nazi a reputation death sentence in the eyes of these draconian eurocuck nations? Why the fuck aren't people hitting back over this shit? It'd only take a few spankings to teach these retards that running their mouths can have consequences. They keep saying that anyway, so why not remind them it applies to them too?

I mean, they constantly shit on America anyway, so why not shit on them with their own government's shitty laws so they can learn two lessons at once?

Hannibalistique said:
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen-browser 100% vibe coded by claude if you're feeling experimental.
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lol this is just insane enough to almost make me curious enough to try it.
 
moocow said:
They've openly stated it is exclusively X11 session support being removed, and nothing else. All Qt/KDE apps remain compatible with X11.
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The amount of work required to port all the kde/plasma apps to Wayland presumably means they're going to rely on xwayland to carry the load for them. Gives them a nice oath back if things don't work out, but it also shows how pointless Wayland actually is.

Would patching X support back into ksmserver be enough to revert this?
 
teriyakiburns said:
The amount of work required to port all the kde/plasma apps to Wayland presumably means they're going to rely on xwayland to carry the load for them.
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They are. XWayland is explicitly mentioned as the mechanism KDE is leaning on to maintain X11 support in their apps.

teriyakiburns said:
Would patching X support back into ksmserver be enough to revert this?
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No; apparently they're advising people who really want to keep X11 session support to stay on Plasma 6.7 or switch to a fork.
 
Visor said:
I'm not well versed in web browsers. How exactly is it bloated? And, if not this, then what browser do you use? (Don't say firefox.)
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It's relative. Saying a browser is light-weight on the level of say lynx or netsurf (never mind the suckless "branding"), but then just being a poorly written Webkit frontend using GTK+, with millions of lines of (mostly in GTK+'s case) badly written slop, is dishonest.

And I use multiple browsers (all with various dumb custom patches because I got tired of working around issues with userscripts).
 
teriyakiburns said:
but it also shows how pointless Wayland actually is.
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this xkcb was specifically made for wayland (not)
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Everything would be better if NeWS had caught on. It seems like such a nice design that it's surprising Sun Microsystems of all places created it. What most of these fucking nerds fail to understand, willfully or not, is how no one sane gives a fuck about this shit. No one should care about Wayland or X11, it's all about what's built on top of them, and the more coherent with fewer layers between the program that actually matters and the base the better. It's practically their jobs to not understand this, however.
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
No one should care about Wayland or X11, it's all about what's built on top of them, and the more coherent with fewer layers between the program that actually matters and the base the better. It's practically their jobs to not understand this, however.
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Many components of the Linux desktop are developed by seperate groups of people who have no accountability towards each other. It's a wonder it works as good as it does.
 
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