falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
@boilingsteam Obviously not, again why do you think these side projects are a thing? It is exactly those that brings extra money on the side so they can keep being in business.
They already cut down on resources before (for example with MDN and servo) and are trying to find ways to be sustainable.
This is not controversial and does not need to be, just a side effect from the current state of affairs (both in tech/software and the world and economy). Dreams and wishes do not pay salaries
@boilingsteam Brave uses the chrome/ium engine, so they don't have to do 99% of the work that Firefox does. Of course they can manage with way less resources...
There are small open-source projects that are basically the same as Brave, in terms of just reskinning Chromium's engine. Even less work when using WebKit/WebEngine over gtk/qt as the packaging side is then already done.
@boilingsteam If they scale down their developers leave and the product dies.
@boilingsteam The execs (and business operation location, in London no less one of the most expensive places to be) is something I dislike.
The side-projects are exactly a means to survive.. why wouldn't it be so? You cannot make money creating an application that people expect for free, I started a discussion about this a few toots ago.
They need services on top of the browser to get a return on investment on their part. And no, donations are not going to be enough.
Seems like you hate Firefox
@boilingsteam Brave the closed-source browser that injects their own ads into the DOM? How is that a good decision at all? Anyone that just is a little privacy conscious would never use a closed-source application for such critical parts of their life.
@boilingsteam except this is just not true..
As long as Google has enough money to pay as many engineers as it wants, Firefox will always be playing catch up.
You think mozilla at some point in the past didn't care or something?
It is impossible to compete with someone in the web space who defines the actual specs that will end up in the browsers. HTTP3 and many others things are basically created at Google/Alphabet.
Firefox is just trying to survive at this point, finances do not look good
@sub26nico Eventually yes?, but not yet at the moment.
@kawaiipunk I know of all of it. Obviously I appreciate the efforts from their side, but on our side it makes packaging much more complicated since we basically have to maintain a fork in order to package such project.
@kawaiipunk He also ignored 2 major pull-requests since months... :(
I am taking a break from packaging in order to focus on other things, but now I know to keep watching airwindows more often once I go back to packaging again.
It will be a pain to handle though, because then I have to rebase the changes/patches. And we don't need yet another fork.
So I will rebase and bump the PR once I get back to this
Keeping you all updated, here comes another monthly report.
Let us not speak of the rack 😂
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-monthly-report-october-2021
This is quite interesting.
User-id fingerprinting through the wallpaper on Android phones.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/873921/173ef56709ce1723/
Being able to identify users just based on a few colors is quite amazing
@unfa are you using an ad blocker? it would explain the empty content, usually it would be filled with ads.
@unfa I simply do not like it. Also return question.. why? Maybe the list of handles could have been placed in such a way to allow follow, without pinging a bunch of people.
Similar things happen with email, when people put in public CC a bunch of emails together it is quite annoying and potentially a privacy issue too.
Please don't.
@greenprocyon I heard someone trying to modernize the bristol codebase, but since it is a lot of very peculiar code I don't expect to see news about it anytime soon. other than that, there are just a few vintage synth emulators here and there, oh and recently a sorta emulator that requires ROMs to work but I forgot the details (you cannot 100% legally run the plugin)
@luka while you likely have good intentions, I do not appreciate being ping'ed/referenced in such manner. please do not do it again, thanks.
When you have not done a cleanup in a while...
```
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-5.11.0-25-generic* linux-headers-5.11.0-27-generic* linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic* linux-headers-5.4.0-67* linux-headers-5.4.0-67-lowlatency*
...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 63 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5666 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
```
Hell yeah 5.5Gb extra. Let's go! 🚀
@unfa I have an osmc little device for that. it is basically a raspberry pi but targeted at this usecase.
If you already have a Pi (specially a Pi 4 model) I would suggest to just use that instead and put libreelec in there as others have mentioned.
mailbox is saying they have receiving DDoS attacks.
"we expect further attacks in the coming days"
https://mailbox.org/en/post/extortionate-ddos-attacks-on-mailbox-org
Remember that post where I mentioned Cardinal (VCV as plugin experiment) exposes room brightness as a parameter?
It was just a way to save the configuration through the host, with this being a plugin and all..
Someone actually placed a light sensor to control it! 😂
> "Sadly, the brightness sensor of my phone is too lazy and updates its value at too low frequency, so I had to add some smoothing to make it look nice."
