title makes it look like firefox is just removing yet another security feature as part of its enshittification process, but reading the article it looks like it makes sense

• not a lot of websites respect dnt
• it might serve as an identifier, i think

is this sub just people unironically taking obvious jokes seriously?

firefox has been following kde's colors for a good while now

obligatory reminder that us-american domestic politics are so skewed to the right that what appears "moderate" in the usa is right to far-right anywhere else

your "liberals" are right-wing

your "conservatives" are right-wing

both are liberals

it's interesting how the move away from the gpl is never explicitly justified as a license issue: instead, people always have some plausible technical motivation. with clang/llvm it was the lower compile times and better error messages; with these coreutils it's "rust therefore safer". the license change was never even addressed

i believe they have to do this exactly bc permissive licenses appeal to libertarian/apolitical types who see themselves as purely rational and changing a piece of software bc of the license would sound too... ideological...

so the people in charge of these changes always have a plausible technical explanation at hand to mask away the political aspect of the change

figma balls

people laughed at me for choosing debian. they asked why i chose to have ancient runes running in my computer

who's laughing now?

chocolate milk comes from brown cows type situation

first thunderbird, now kde. looks like this will become standard practice for free software, which is a good thing. people take for granted the amount of work that goes into tools that help them daily, but i believe that it's mostly because they think whoever is making the software is fine without their help. this is basically saying "hey! actually, your support would be very helpful to us!", which is enough to make people want to help

rust is a systems/low overhead programming language. really not much of a point comparing js/ts and rust, since js is much higher level. you should be comparing it with c, c++, zig, maybe nim, etc

you also imply it's pointless to have a language geared towards performance because computers are better now, but 1) programs run on more than just personal computers and you wouldn't run js in an embedded system and 2) just because your computer can put up with poor performance and resource waste doesn't mean that it's sensible to do so (hello electron)

also, rust does more than just cosmetic improvements. it adds a layer of statically guaranteed memory safety that no other commercially viable programming language that i know of has. even if its syntax looked like ancient eldritch runes, it would still be an attractive language. the fact that it manages to do more than other languages while still having a decent syntax is amazing

you can dislike rust if you want that's fine but you don't need to try to shit on it just bc it's not your cup of tea

it's been a trend for a while unfortunately. getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now. there are also the developers that think permissive licenses are "freer" bc freedom is doing whatever you want /s. they're ideologically motivated to ditch the gpl so they'll support the change even if there's no benefit for them, financial or otherwise.

that's disconnected me from the general linux user experience

are we romanticizing having a broken system?

there's no such thing as politically neutral

comments claiming mozilla doesn't need the money make me feel i'm crazy. you actually think making a modern web engine that competes with chrome in terms of performance and compatibility is easy? that relying solely on donations from individuals and voluntary work are gonna cut it? if it was that easy, we'd have more than just gecko, webkit and webkit fork -- but we don't.

it also truly drives me insane when people bring up the forks, as if they're anything more than re-skins.

without financial backing, mozilla is dead, firefox is dead, and the web will be 100% google's. no project as large and complex as firefox stays afloat without corporate-level money.

yup. it's still nice and also pretty funny that wayland provides a better x11 experience than x11

from the comments, there's a split between

• linux as a tool: debian, mint, fedora, opensuse, etc.
• linux as a toy: arch, gentoo, nixos, etc.

i wish this split was made more explicit, because more often than not someone comes looking for recommendations for linux as a tool, but someone else responds expecting they want linux as a toy. then the person will try out linux and will leave because it's not what they want, not knowing that there is a kind of linux that is what they want

didn't read the article, but i never got the point of having a distro-specific flathub repo. isn't being distro-agnostic the main thing about flatpaks?

sadly, i think that's exactly the reason why so many gnu coreutils/libc/compiler competitors keep croping up: people want to get rid of the gpl as much as possible. if they could replace the linux kernel with a non gpl variant they would

not that the people creating the projects necessarily have this intention, but the projects are certainly being picked up and sponsored mainly for that reason

pine stuff has excellent cost/benefit, but...

Package cannot be shipped to your country due to logistical reasons.

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unix is about doing one thing and doing it well, which is why systemd, baaad

...what do you mean ditch x11 in favor of wayland? no no, we need to preserve x11, the famous one-thing-well-doer