is this sub just people unironically taking obvious jokes seriously?

how much do you think chasing the web “standards” set by one of the largest companies on the planet without falling behind costs? ever wonder why nobody else has been able to keep up with chrome? also, do you think it’s not important to ensure web standards are open and having the lawyers and lobbyists to prevent web standards to go to shit? do you think the only important thing is the actual application? firefox doesn’t in a vacuum. if mozilla was just a bunch of computer nerds coding very hard to make a browser, it would’ve gone bankrupt and firefox would’ve died ages ago

i’m not even saying mozilla isn’t doing anything stupid, it’s just that it frustrates me how computer nerds always think the coding is the only thing that matters in a software project

still, 6 mil is ~10% of their revenue. it’s egregious, but cutting the ceo’s sallary to zero dollars even would solve nothing

The money sources are not the issue

lolwhat

did you miss the part where mozilla depends on mostly google money to survive? which they’ve been trying to correct for years but failed? and now they’re om the verge of losing most of it?

title makes it look like firefox is just removing yet another security feature as part of its enshittification process, but reading the article it looks like it makes sense

• not a lot of websites respect dnt
• it might serve as an identifier, i think

what about energy efficiency? that used to be a massive disadvantage of the amds

miss u sm

went looking for it. “stable rolling release” sounds really interesting, but i’m scared of installing it and being mistaken for a systemd hater

people laughed at me for choosing debian. they asked why i chose to have ancient runes running in my computer

who’s laughing now?

first thunderbird, now kde. looks like this will become standard practice for free software, which is a good thing. people take for granted the amount of work that goes into tools that help them daily, but i believe that it’s mostly because they think whoever is making the software is fine without their help. this is basically saying “hey! actually, your support would be very helpful to us!”, which is enough to make people want to help

if that’s enough to put you off, then leave

work on desktop linux, esp. outside of gnome, is voluntary, but it costs money. donations are necessary to keep the project living, but most people are unaware kde is not in a great place financially and would be willing to help if they knew. this is just a gentle reminder that donating could make you help an organization that makes software you love

but if you do not care about the financial health of a project that helps you daily and a gentle reminder that takes you away from your blissful unawareness bothers you this much, go away. kde devs don’t owe you anything and you won’t be missed

i tried many different algorithms at the time, but it didn’t really matter. my laptop would always, eventually, lag and get pretty hot and I would check the task manager and sure enough there were the btrfs compression proccesses hogging the cpu

the less code the better because the more code the higher the maintenance burden

keeping code around isn’t free. it makes refactoring harder, it makes compilation times longer, it makes the kernel larger, it makes it harder to guarantee device compatibility. that’s all part of maintaining software, but it makes no sense to waste work maintaining shit noone is using, work that could’ve been used to implement new features and/or maintain existing code that’s actually in use

what the kernel is doing is the correct approach. unless they’re sure there’s someone using the thing: old, unmaintained code = bin

ntfs compression

btrfs compression was really cpu-heavy last time i tried it. ntfs compression just worked with little hassle

the less code the better

firefox is larger and more fast-paced

you’re confusing importance with complexity

openssl is a vital part of the web, but it is a small tool

pale moon leverages the hundreds of thousands of person-hours put into firefox up until the fork. the work they put on their original code is negligible in comparison

there is literally no project led by unpaid volunteers that’s able to output the amount of work necessary to maintain a browser and keep it up to date with web standards, let alone add new features

firefox has been following kde’s colors for a good while now

sorry, i asked the wrong question. i meant to ask: how is that in any way relevant to the thread?

what does this have to do with the thread?