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GeckoEidechse commented on Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix   asahilinux.org/2023/08/fe... · Posted by u/dev_tty01
iameli · 2 years ago
How does saying that they have been consistently harassed from this platform paint everyone here with the same brush?
GeckoEidechse · 2 years ago
Maybe OP felt addressed xD
GeckoEidechse commented on Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative   blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/cpeterso
ohgodplsno · 3 years ago
Servo had always been an experimental renderer and most of its successful parts have already been merged in Firefox. It's been years, can you stop beating this merged horse?

Embedding Firefox doesn't increase marketshare and protects more people from tracking. Nobody gives a shit that your Electron app runs with Firefox and not Chromium.

Now, I do agree that the Mozilla CEO pay is way too high, but holy fuck find something new and useful to complain about.

GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
In regards to Mozilla creating an Electron alternative, they already tried that. It was called Proton and it never caught on but was solely bleeding money so they had to shut it down again.
GeckoEidechse commented on ElonJet Is Now Suspended   twitter.com/jxcksweeney/s... · Posted by u/ffsoftboiled
GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
Seems like there's a now an account for it on Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

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GeckoEidechse commented on Exoskeletons qualify for direct disability compensation in Germany   therobotreport.com/exoske... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
random314 · 3 years ago
I was talking about US insurance where profit percentage is fixed, hence reducing bottomline reduces profits.
GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
Well the article is a about German health insurance so without mentioning it explicitly it's not clear that you were talking about the US system :P
GeckoEidechse commented on Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork   pulsebrowser.app/... · Posted by u/freediver
worble · 3 years ago
>For item 1, certain sites don't work with Firefox when they do with Chrome. This can happen even in sites of industries that claim to want privacy / decentralisation / anti-monopoly. Some of these are government websites.

People often say this but rarely give examples, do you have some? Explicitly listing the sites would be much better feedback that might actually lead the problems being solved.

GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
Just go to about:compat in Firefox and you can see them. Most of them are simple UA locks but some require more advanced logic.
GeckoEidechse commented on Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork   pulsebrowser.app/... · Posted by u/freediver
trickypr · 3 years ago
Hi, I am a dev on Pulse Browser. I want to clarify our current development direction (I haven't significant updated the website recently). We have been moving further away from privacy and towards developing/iterating on features faster than Firefox is willing to, along with providing sane defaults.

For example, we have been experimenting with a opera/vivaldi-like method of accessing Firefox's sidebar. Whilst you could technically achieve this via patching `omni.ja`, you would need to repatch it every update. At that point, it might as well be a custom browser.

Sorry about Vercel's insight stuff, not sure how that got enabled, but it should be disabled now (or whenever Cloudflare invalidates your cache).

If you want further reading into some of the specific parts of our code that we are putting most of our effort into, here are some links: - https://github.com/pulse-browser/browser/blob/alpha/src/brow... - https://github.com/pulse-browser/browser/tree/alpha/src/brow...

GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
Currently the 3rd most requested feature on Mozilla Connect is native vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs-li...

Any chance we could see something like this in Pulse Browser or is that something that just requires touching too much of the underlying code base to be viable? ^^

GeckoEidechse commented on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon   twitodon.com/... · Posted by u/srvmshr
GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content?

In the example of Twitter, Nitter already exists as an alternative front-end. Now what if there's a Mastodon instance that uses Nitter to wrap official Twitter content and serve it as if it where the twitter.com mastodon instance? Again it would need to be a read-only version as Twitter is not Mastodon but it would help fill the content gap for sure.

Now Mastodon might not have a content issue but PeerTube for example very well has and in that case masquerading YouTube as a PeerTube instance would become very interesting.

GeckoEidechse commented on SingleFile version compatible with Manifest V3   github.com/gildas-lormeau... · Posted by u/keks24
rany_ · 3 years ago
I predict the future will have users launching .exe files to mod Chrome (similar to what's going on with Discord and other Electron app mods).

Firefox will barely gain market share.

GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
Yeah no, modifying logic of a binary application as large and complex as modern web browsers is slightly more involved than the Discord frontend mods that essentially just tweak some CSS and or HTML and JavaScript.
GeckoEidechse commented on Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair   ifixit.com/News/64865/iph... · Posted by u/walterbell
rTX5CMRXIfFG · 3 years ago
I’m not sure I care much about repairability. For me, makers should have the freedom to design products as they wish. I don’t think that phones and laptops would be as light and portable as iPhones and Macs are if Apple was inhibited by the Right to Repair movement from arranging internal components in such a jampacked way.

I also think that makers should have the freedom to design computers whose software tightly integrate with the hardware. Repairing a broken part with a third-party is exactly the opposite of tight integration. If people didn’t want tight integration, then products that are built specifically for tight integration are just not the right tool for the job that they want to do, and I don’t understand why they can’t simply choose not to buy the product. It’s not like the phone and computer markets are monopolies either. Androids and PCs of all form factors and OSes exist.

It would make more sense to me to call for regulation against pricing abuse for the repairs of tightly integrated products. The Right to Repair movement as it stands just doesn’t resonate much with me, nor do I agree with it, because integrated products that come with everything you need make for great user experiences.

GeckoEidechse · 3 years ago
Repairability and device thinness are by no means mutually exclusive IMO.

When LTT did a review of the Framework laptop for example they also did a size comparison with a similarly specced Dell laptop and found that the framework both thinner and sturdier than the Dell laptop, next to being obviously more repairable ¯\_( ツ )_/¯

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