Where do you tooters buy your LED strips? I "need" a couple of meters of 144/m RGBW Neopixels. Adafruit? Amazon? Ali Express? A retailer that doesn't start with A?
In light of #Mozilla#Firefox news, I guess the only way forward is to reluctantly use a decent Chromium (or #Blink)) based browser with a custom user-agent string eh?
I'd love to know @Vivaldi 's opinion on if AI is the future for browser clients (I'm praying it's a firm "no" 🤞🤞)
I suspect #qutebrowser will be safe for a long time yet though
In this one, we have #Mozilla switching CEOs after launching a frankly overpriced service, we have #Apple doubling down on their malicious compliance, this time breaking PWAs voluntarily, and we have Wine and DXVK coming to #Android, but closed source:
@mkiol No question. It's certainly always important to seek alternatives. However, #Brave is one of the examples (#Vivaldi, #Edge, #Chrome, #Chromium, #Bromite …), which I find also troubling because at the end of the day, it's focused on just one rendering engine. These are then monopolies, which are often not good for the user. #Mozilla's is actually the only competitor currently regarding rendering engines (#Gecko, #Quantum) to Google (#Blink. #WebKit).
I use #Firefox primarily at the moment, because it's still the least worst around, but that's not going to last for long, especially with @mozilla's complete inability to actually investing in it to help preserve the open web instead of chasing other questionable endeavors. If didn't rely so heavily on #Blink/#Chromium I would be using @Vivaldi instead, or maybe #OtterBrowserhttps://otter-browser.org/ if it was a bit more mature.
Three days ago, the 4th of November, would've been #KHTML 25 year anniversary. 🥳
Hoorrray!
WTF is KHTML?
Chances are you are kind of using it, because #WebKit and #Blink rendering engines are all forked from this open-source project originally intented for the browser of the KDE window environment.
Been making my way through #ClassicWho these last few months. There were a few episodes I really enjoyed in the first 6 seasons but I've found myself really engaged with the #JonPertwee era.
@Bridgemakes I've never gotten all that #scared by doctor who, save for #Blink in the #TenthDoctor era as a kid, but yeah I LOVED that episode. Also, Liz Shaw was an epic companion that the show didn't know what to do with at the time and it makes me sad...
#funfact#psychopaths#blink less than non-psychopaths
Reduced blink rate is one of the visual signs that can betray a psychopath's truth
However, it is important to note that reduced blink rate is not a definitive indicator of psychopathy, and other #factors should be considered as well5
Additionally, while some studies have found that psychopaths blink less, other studies have focused on different eye behaviors, such as pupil dilation, to identify psychopaths
@roninsysadm@firefox@olyerickson@brave whether #Brave rip out #Google's #DRM patches or not, the fact is that using Brave only empowers Google to do things like add DRM to web pages. Google can only get away with things like this based on the strength of #Blink. The web will get progressively worse until people start boycotting all #Chromium based browsers. I can't believe we're back here, but use #Firefox, save the open web. Don't let #capitalism steal the web from us all.
It's practically a rounding error. #Chrome is generally all people test with (or perhaps other #Blink-based browsers like #Brave, #Opera, #Vivaldi, etc) and so lots of #developers end up creating #sites that work in Chrome (because of lax security policies, or using nonstandard features) that break in #Firefox.
#Firefox is my main, but I keep Vivaldi around for these types of things.
When it comes to #FLOSS, I have always considered myself a pragmatist, making an effort to use FLOSS software as far as possible, but always taking into consideration proprietary software when it made sense.
One of the few pieces of non-FLOSS software I used to enjoy was the #OperaBrowser.
I stopped upgrading my #OperaBrowser installation at the last #Presto version, as switching to #Blink, whatever the motivation, completely defeated one of the main reasons to even use Opera in the first place. Still, I kept using it as my primary browser for as long as it was securely possible, ultimately switching to #Firefox when I couldn't anymore.
I'm generally not a big fan of #Apple (understatement of the century), but I've read about the next version of #Safari officially supporting #JpegXL and I'm really glad that this is happening. I'm looking forward to the associated changes to #WebKit making it into the engine as it is used by other #FLOSS browsers too —and hopefully this will finally push @Mozilla into enabling #jxl in mainline #Firefox OOTB.
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(Possibly relevant the fact that new version of Safari and their toolkit web view components are going to support #HEIC together with #JXL.)
And you know what? I'll take it. As self-serving as the choice may be, if it helps the new open standard gain traction, I'll take it, especially considering how often things go the other way instead. Surely better than Google's braindead choice to pull the implementation they had already added to #Blink.
Little reminder, that @kde ‘s #KHTML made its way through Apple, returned as #WebKit (#webkitgtk2) to the free desktops and still is a free and one of the most portable browser engines working well and serving as an alternative to #Gecko and #Blink.
Just ran it on a #PPC machine from 2004 yesterday.
While I agree with the @fsf warning about the emblematic value of the decision by #Google to pull support for #JpegXL from #Chrome, their article <https://u.fsf.org/3z8> is as empty as could be, especially considering that #GNU#IceCat doesn't support JPEG XL either (being based on a #Firefox branch that doesn't build #JXL support in.) You want to show that #FLOSS can do without? Do it by actually supporting what you complain Google is failing to.
For #Firefox and its forks, this means enabling it out of the box for main builds. For #Blink-based browsers (@Vivaldi are you listening?), this means rolling back Google's patch to remove it, and help maintain it with community effort. Ditto for #WebKit. The #openWeb needs something like what the #DocumentFoundation did for the office productivity suites and formats.
Time To Break Up - blink-182 (www.youtube.com)
Hidden track from TOYPAJ and one of my all time favorites from the band. Super underrated track that more people need to hear!