Is it cheap? I got shifted to SquareSpace from Google Domains and it’s pricier. I switched the name cheap but have no loyalty to them.

I believe that’s implied in the “hubris” bit.

Gerard will remove Unreliable Sources en masse with terse explanations and with little consideration for actual content, digging in with elaborate justification when pressed.

Emphasis mine. Is the author really complaining that Gerard provides little explanation but also saying they provide a lot of explanation when asked for explanation? I don’t see the problem.

I stole it too lol

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea. https://lwn.net/Articles/963095/

The look and feel of an application really does matter a lot. When Reddit’s API got shut down and I couldn’t use RIF anymore I tried using Reddit’s own app. It sucked. It felt awful. It’s extremely possible that if Reddit’s app felt close to something I was used to I wouldn’t have ended up swapping to Lemmy. So, if we want people to use Mastodon instead of Threads, why are you upset someone is making an app that uses Mastodon while looking like Threads?

You’re right, let’s cool things down. This is definitely something I feel strongly about and I’ve been stressed the past day or so. It’s possible some of that anger slipped out in my phrasing.

When I say “Fuck Chromium based browsers” I don’t mean to imply something like “Fuck you for using them,” even though I do believe you shouldn’t use them. It’s not that serious. But I see how saying “Fuck the thing you chose” followed by “Don’t use that thing” can feel way too aggressive. I’m sorry that it felt like I was attacking you personally. ❤️

I don’t really care too too much about privacy. If they get rid of the Pocket button then I’d be happy enough.

Chromium is open source. Google Chrome is not open source.

Yes, though they could remove it. If they’re open source then you could check easily.

When my problem with Chromium browsers is the fact that they’re Chromium browsers it’s fair to lump them in. The only complaint I have about Vivaldi other than “Google bad” (which is an unfair reductive statement) is that it isn’t open source. But I don’t care to try it.

The entire reason Chromium browsers are a problem is because it gives Google way too much power for controlling how the web works. They don’t need to seek consensus any longer. They can just make it do whatever. I’ve even seen people consider it the reference implementation of HTML. It’s sickening. Even if your “precious Vivaldi” and other Chromium browsers make tweaks to things it doesn’t change the fact that Google was able to make that decision without caring how it works in other browsers because there really aren’t other browsers now. Just fucking Chromium.

And for the record, it’s extremely unfair to say that Firefox gets funding from Google while pretending Chromium browsers do not. Using foss products made by a company is very similar to getting money from them. Google has put an enormous amount of money into Chromium. Vivaldi uses that. It’s like using public infrastructure then bragging that you don’t accept money from the government. I genuinely don’t care that Firefox gets money from Google because, despite the words you put in my mouth, my problem isn’t “Google bad” (though I don’t like them, but I don’t refuse to use their products). My problem with Chromium is that it has too large of a share of browsers using it.

Fuck Chromium. Don’t let Google single handedly control how the Internet works. Don’t support Chromium browsers.

I agree, but… This was in open source software. Chromium. Not just Google Chrome. https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443

hangout_services/thunk.js (via) It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the *.google.com domains - tweeted about today by Luca Casonato, but the code has been there in the public repo since October 2013 as far as I can tell.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

It’s possible former Redditors don’t realize you can edit the title of Lemmy posts.

Thanks, edited!

I think Codeberg is totally open as opposed to GitLab which has an open core and paid enterprise version. There’s also SourceHut but you have to pay to use it (no free tier). As far as I know there aren’t any public Forgejo instances. (Codeberg is Forgejo)

I think any of these are better than GitHub (I say as I still use GitHub).

That’s fair enough, but “the X giant” in particular I see so often. It feels like an in-joke amongst journalists or something.

I read it as Microsoft will provide it by purchasing it once.

I will forever maintain that on a purely hardware level that the Zune was better than the iPod. iTunes and later the App Store for iPod Touch is what made iPod won. Zune had no apps.