orowith2os

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Ironic how he chose an X in a strikingly similar style to the (old, unmaintained, and deprecated) Xorg. That was certainly a choice of all time.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

No, I’m thinking of Xorg. The development on it has slowed to less than a crawl, and not because it’s feature-complete. It’s unmaintainable, and hell to manage for anyone that’s not a senior Xorg developer.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Nobody is actively working on it now; the same can’t be said for Wayland. Recently, it even hit a development low of all time. The only ones working on it are the ones getting paid to work on it, and even then, only those familiar with the codebase. Looking at the history, the only major changes are for Xwayland, and aren’t at all often.

If (almost) all of the developers have abandoned something in favor of a newer piece of software that does the job better, I think it’s sufficient to say that it’s deprecated and unmaintained.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Coming from someone with an unstable source of income, and that can just barely get by: I’ll take advertisements over a subscription/donation based model. Just don’t flood your website with them. Or use shitty ad services. And don’t make it an unusable experience cough britannica cough

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Non-obtrusive ads will always be the best :)

Or make them interesting if you want to be the focus. I can definitely say I’ve stayed and watched a few interesting advertisements.

I’d argue your viewpoint here is along the lines of opt-in telemetry - nice in theory, but not practical for the ones that need the information. And you can have respecting telemetry (as you can advertisements, just that nobody does so).

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Note what I mentioned in the blog post: most will probably be fine with advertisements so long as they aren’t annoying.

You don’t get to act the victim when you actively hurt the UX by having avertisements that get all up in your face and want to eek out every single penny like we’re slaves.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

That way should not be intrusive ads, and it shouldn’t be tracking without user consent.

On their own, exposed to the user in an easily understandable way and easily customizable, they’re not bad. They can even help; used right, you can get advertisements relevant to you and your interests, and developers can know what to improve on.

The problem is when this is abused to hell and back by companies that want to strip you of every penny they possibly can, without giving you the choice.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

The point of this is so that the user can’t modify the site at all, despite what the proposal might say. Their goals and non-goals are contradictory.

Running this content in a container will not protect you. Just don’t even try to adapt to it. Reject it completely.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

you’re running a drm-compilant browser

They also don’t want users to be able to use adblockers, that isn’t all they’re checking for. So this absolutely is the case. Their entire proposal is contradictory.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

The browser would need to be allowed to parse it, as they’re the ones displaying the content; it would imply, however, that adblockers and other extensions would no longer be allowed.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Possibly, but it sounds like a pain to work with, if I understand the technical details correctly.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

Considering the amount of downtime I’ve seen with any somewhat large lemmy instance, I don’t think that theory holds up

orowith2os, 10 months ago

I hope NVK makes Nouveau a viable daily driver for NVIDIA users, they’re already running games, and Zink is making large improvements.

Then we can finally get the hell off of Xorg and leave it almost entirely to Xwayland.

orowith2os, 10 months ago

The whole idea of expressions is very nice, and I can’t imagine using ternary expressions anywhere after learning Rust.

Also implicit returns ❤️