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Not ideologically pure.
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Cake day: January 8th, 2024
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Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:
Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king
I’ve been inching towards Gnome Web (WebKit) for a while now. Every time I try using it I last a little longer than last time before I encounter some deal breaking issue and return to Firefox.
In the short term I’m considering sticking to Firefox for work, and using Gnome Web for all other kinds of distractions. I’m writing this in Gnome Web right now, and it’s working great. :)
On mobile I’ll probably stick to Firefox for a while. So they will still have all my data, and if I have to choose between Mozilla and Google it will still be Mozilla. But my god I wish they would stop acting like idiots.
If you don’t want to use Gecko nor Chromium, I am aware of the following alternatives:
WebKit
Though associated with Apple and Safari, WebKit (@webkit@front-end.social) has its origins in KDE and its Konqueror browser. KDE developed its own web engine called KHTML, which was forked into WebKit. It’s therefore fully open source, despite the Apple connection.
On Linux you can use WebKit in GNOME Web (formerly Epiphany) or Konqueror. If you’re on Mac, Safari is probably your best bet. Windows users appear to be out of luck.
Servo
Servo (@servo@floss.social) is a brand new Rust-based engine which was originally developed by Mozilla, but which was abandoned by them like good things often are. Thankfully the Linux foundation took over developments. It’s still in development, but from their download page you can take it for a spin within seconds on all three major operating systems. It’s looking pretty good.
They maintain a list of things made with Servo. The most promising project so far appears to be a browser named Verso.
Ladybird
Ladybird is another development to follow. Unlike WebKit and Servo, Ladybird is being developed as a web browser in its own right, but this browser will come with a completely original rendering engine. It aims to have an alpha released next year, and is largely written in C++.
Ideally while remaining more respectful of pussies perhaps, but that’s a stylistic choice.
Breaking: EU lags behind in race to suck as much as America.
Sorry, but I don’t particularly feel like catching up.
I believe the right to peaceful protest is fundamental for a healthy democracy. If your right to express yourself is stripped away from you if you disagree with the ruling elites, it never existed in the first place.
That’s a goalpost I’m not willing to move.
“some strange agenda”, lol.
At long last. Congrats to the Bulgarians and Romanians out there, and welcome!
Good to know you will only occasionally be arrested for wearing a scarf.
I think there’s many factors at play. If I had to cast my vote in Germany I would certainly struggle to find a party I felt represented me, and one gets the unmistakable feeling that German politicians are a bunch of old farts who are pulling in the same direction. So I completely see your point, and I agree with it. I think there has been a failure on multiple fronts.
The only positive thing I see is that now that the Wagenknecht psychos have finally split from die Linke, maybe it can slowly begin to establish itself as a party that is not half overrun by Russlandverstehere and ostalgic authoritarians. A real alternative to the SPD is sorely needed.
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First: Norway is a really long country. Standing in southern Norway,you’re closer to Italy than you are to northern Norway.
Second, nobody lives in the north. Connecting them to the grid would help a little, but their energy is also cheap because there are not many people up there. It’s not like they produce enough energy to substantially affect the German market.
Third, northern Norway is cold and dark. The few people who live there would die in winter if energy gets expensive.
Hence “hopefully”.
Which makes a lot of sense given the circumstances.
Some politicians are already calling for sending Syrians home. That makes less sense at the moment.
Hopefully it will make more sense once the situation settles.
Regulate more.
I work for a university in Europe. Why the fuck do I need several Microsoft apps on my phone just to use email. At worst they should use European solutions, at best the university should be independent hosting their own services.
I think this should be guaranteed on the legislative level. European public institutions cannot keep sending this much data off to American companies, and I should not be forced to install American apps on my phone. I have no reason to trust them.
If we want a European industry, support European solutions based on European values.
Kind reminder for all Europeans to look-for ways to put pressure on/encourage the EU to keep supporting open source through NGI.
The EU has put a lot of money into the Fediverse, and it has been incredibly effective. This is no time to stop.
I don’t think the EU should be hosting anything else than their own communication channels, which they are of course already doing on their mastodon instance. Follow and interact with them there if you can - success is counted in interactions, even though mastodon likes are kind of meaningless in all other respects.
I don’t think you’re supposed to have heard of them.
What an amazing site.