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An MIT professor was shot at home. Authorities say no suspect is in custody
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An MIT professor was shot at home. Authorities say no suspect is in custody
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Travel ban extended by Trump administration
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Anybody having luck with #FenderStudio on #Android? I can usually get into the main menu. But if the audio setup even shows my device (tried both #MustangMicro and #MustangMicroPlus) then selecting it crashes the app. I've tried clearing cache, clearing cache and data, clearing cache+data and reinstalling, and it just doesn't want to work.
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So I've added some bling to my #Faircamp site -- specifically, a #WebAmp plugin so you can now play tracks directly from the home page.
This is a work in progress -- still pretty barebones. but I'll be fiddling with this further over the holidays no doubt. :D
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •We have the Firefox forks like @zenbrowser or @librewolf.
Also is there the #Ladybird project which should have – so what I have heard – a beta release in 2026.
Sex Crazed SaltShaker of Death
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in reply to Jimmothy Baggins • • •RE: chaos.social/@librewolf/115716…
@64bithero I think this answers your question: oslo.town/@librewolf@chaos.soc…
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Alessandro
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/11…
Vivaldi Browser
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Nazo
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Fingers heavily crossed on Servo. (I don't like the looks of Ladybird. I can't find exact specifics, but I smell VC with the way it's selling itself as a product.) I don't have high confidence that third party forks like LibreWolf, Waterfox, etc etc can keep fighting the hot mess that Mozilla has been creating unfortunately. (An """"""""""AI"""""""""" popup slipped past LibreWolf's cleansing recently for example. As far as I can tell, their official stance is anti """"""""""AI"""""""""".) If they really go all out in creating an """"""""""AI"""""""""" "browser" then it will be enormous work to fix.
Honestly, Servo is what we've needed for a long time, but it's not ready yet. I wish Mozilla could have waited just a little bit longer to stab themselves in the gut.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •OCTADE
in reply to stux⚡ • • •The question is why haven't the hacker and hactivist communities developed their own simple alternative to the web along with standards? Why not develop a browser that doesn't rely on javascript, css, html, but instead allows the end user to theme the display?
Once upon a time this was done with .nfo file viewers. Taking it up a notch to process markdown, bbcode, wikicode, and vanilla html would still be an order of magnitide less work than maintaining a web browser.
The problem isn't the browser(s). The problem is the web itself. The structure of the web, the modus operandi of the web, the standards and languages used, are all the problem.
The solution is an alternative to the web that is text-centric and resistant to bloat while barring content servers from styling the user view.
The solution to the ugly web includes prohibiting the content server from styling the content for the viewer. The alternative solution to the ugly web should prohibit server styling and make it completely impossible. The end user should have absolute control over the styling and
... show moreThe question is why haven't the hacker and hactivist communities developed their own simple alternative to the web along with standards? Why not develop a browser that doesn't rely on javascript, css, html, but instead allows the end user to theme the display?
Once upon a time this was done with .nfo file viewers. Taking it up a notch to process markdown, bbcode, wikicode, and vanilla html would still be an order of magnitide less work than maintaining a web browser.
The problem isn't the browser(s). The problem is the web itself. The structure of the web, the modus operandi of the web, the standards and languages used, are all the problem.
The solution is an alternative to the web that is text-centric and resistant to bloat while barring content servers from styling the user view.
The solution to the ugly web includes prohibiting the content server from styling the content for the viewer. The alternative solution to the ugly web should prohibit server styling and make it completely impossible. The end user should have absolute control over the styling and presentation of the served content.
The inclusion of AI is a secondary issue that distracts from the core browser being a bloated hot mess designed to allow advertisers to captivate end users.
makkin thing
in reply to OCTADE • • •@octade sorry if it's already been said and I just can't see it, but sounds like you'd like the Gemini protocol (unfortunately google now has a shitty llm with the same name so it's harder to search for) geminiprotocol.net/
Text-first, no server side styling, intentionally non-extensible (to avoid people adding scripting or server side styling or other things seen as anti-features). It might be too minimal for your liking but it's a nice contrast to the modern web!
Project Gemini
geminiprotocol.netOCTADE
in reply to makkin thing • • •I used to run a gemini server several years ago.
Gemini is not the answer. It is far too limited. It is also insecure for anything more than connecting to known and trusted servers since it relies on TOFU. It cannot replace the web for hackerspaces.
David Chartier
in reply to stux⚡ • • •70% Coffee by Volume
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in reply to yoasif • • •@yoasif @chartier @Vivaldi
Open-source didn't prevent #Mozilla from shifting to the dark side..
PS: I'm also a recent Moz -> Vivaldi shifter and I have to say, Vivaldi is much nicer to use, even beyond the fact that they don't force "AI" on you: faster, lots of cool features (e.g. workspaces, tab-transfer between your devices), lots of customization possibilities that I've only just started to explore, it even has an RSS feed reader! And they seem very serious about privacy.
yoasif
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Nazo
in reply to yoasif • • •Mother Bones
in reply to Nazo • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @yoasif @elduvelle @chartier @Vivaldi
Oh gosh I forgot about Opera
Nazo
in reply to Mother Bones • • •@L1vY@mstdn.social Yeah, it was so nice! Super lightweight and able to run on a really really crappy laptop, but had built in things like mouse gestures and etc. Like everything anyone was using extensions in Firefox for back then were built in to Opera. These days it doesn't seem worth it to go to a Chromium browser that is super bloated and inefficient instead of using extensions though.
It used the least amount of RAM of anything at the time.
Sar
in reply to yoasif • • •@yoasif
ONLY the unique UI portion of the code, which isn't much. The rest of it is all open-source.
yoasif
in reply to Sar • • •Sar
in reply to yoasif • • •@yoasif
I think @Vivaldi could possibly clarify?
yoasif
in reply to Sar • • •@Sar @Vivaldi They have. It is closed source.
vivaldi.com/blog/technology/wh…
Why isn’t Vivaldi browser open-source? | Vivaldi Browser
Julien Picalausa (Vivaldi Technologies)Sar
in reply to yoasif • • •@yoasif
"Keeping Vivaldi’s UI layer closed-source and obfuscated"
So, what I said then?
yoasif
in reply to Sar • • •Sar
in reply to yoasif • • •@yoasif
You're being deliberately obtuse. And wrong.
Skjeggtroll
in reply to Sar • • •@Sar @yoasif
No, they're right. I use Vivaldi and adore it, but it _is_ closed source. Yes, it's built atop an open-source rendering engine, but all the differentiating features, everything that makes Vivaldi Vivaldi, is closed source. If someone is looking for an open-sourced browser, Vivaldi just is not an option.
Henri Verymetaldev
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Can't have nice things in this life, no sir.
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •Ladybird
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