criticalfault (u/criticalfault)

criticalfault commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai

wiseowise · 13 days ago

1) Put JS in maintenance mode, don’t add any language features, only runtime

2) TS becomes the official mainline, whoever doesn’t like types can just keep writing as they did before, because valid JS is valid TS

Problem solved, it’s not that difficult.

criticalfault · 12 days ago

Or, just delete both and use dart.

criticalfault commented on The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy taggart-tech.com/mozilla-... · Posted by u/holysoles

lxgr · 24 days ago

> The response from the Firefox community has not just been overwhelmingly negative, it is universally negative as far as I can tell.

Insofar as I count as part of the Firefox community as a long-time user and infrequent bug reporter: I want useful, non-creepy AI features in my main browser, or it's probably not going to remain my main browser for too long.

Of course I also want them to be fully optional, but I have no reason to believe that they would be anything but.

criticalfault · 24 days ago

What features? Voice control?

If it is about chat, do we actually need Firefox adapted when you can go to gemini.google.com or some other one and write what you want there? Optionality is ensured since you actively have to go there.

criticalfault commented on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

samdoesnothing · a month ago

It's hard to find an easier good vs evil distinction than between Google and literally anybody else.

criticalfault · a month ago

Microsoft ♥ Linux?

criticalfault commented on XSLT RIP xslt.rip/... · Posted by u/edent

criticalfault · a month ago

> Google pays Mozilla up to $420 million per year...

What the hell is Mozilla doing with that money? How useless are all those people?

criticalfault commented on Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel ironclad-os.org/... · Posted by u/vitalnodo

floam · a month ago

I wouldn’t kneecap a OS project I wish to be adopted by licensing it GPL. Look at glibc which basically can’t practically support static linking.

You make any of your OS standard libraries GPL and they need to suck to use and can’t statically link your code without being forced to also be licensed GPL.

That viral property some people find desirable.

criticalfault · a month ago

Isn't this what made Linux successful?

Being able to sell it closed and not releasing the source would make closing the android ecosystem 'good old times', no?

We would only get a bunch of closed outdated company controlled binaries, but now for everything, not only drivers?

criticalfault commented on Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel ironclad-os.org/... · Posted by u/vitalnodo

lifty · a month ago

https://asterinas.github.io/ (Linux compatible Kernel) and https://redox-os.org/ are two promising ones.

criticalfault · a month ago

I wonder why all of these do not use gpl2?

criticalfault commented on AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process guru3d.com/story/amd-ente... · Posted by u/walterbell

criticalfault · 2 months ago

If it was ordered by Microsoft and paid by Microsoft to be developed, fine.

But, wouldn't it make more sense for amd to go into risc-v at this point of time?

criticalfault commented on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs old.reddit.com/r/DataHoar... · Posted by u/jjbinx007

sd9 · 2 months ago

In my domain (motorsports), almost all software is ancient 3rd party stuff only available as windows desktop apps.

I’ve tried emulators but performance is abysmal for these apps. There are also all sorts of weird networking things that don’t work.

And generally when you work with a new team which has a different tech stack, there just isn’t time within the context of a race weekend to faff.

I’m unfortunately locked in.

criticalfault · 2 months ago

Would this help you?

https://reactos.org/

This is an open source reimplementation of winxp. I think they can even run drivers made for windows now.

criticalfault commented on Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud news.itsfoss.com/austrian... · Posted by u/buyucu

pessimizer · 2 months ago

Libreoffice is fine, better than we deserve. If they want it to be even better, maybe instead of throwing a few hundred million at MS, they could throw a few hundred million at Libreoffice. It's old as hell and kept up by charity.

The idea that Libreoffice is so bad that giving up your freedom to Google or Microsoft is unavoidable just shows your actual level of objection to being slaves to US companies is close to zero. You'll only be pried away from your dependence on the latest popular versions of US products kicking, screaming, and complaining the entire time. You wouldn't be satisfied with anything but a clone, and you'd complain that the clone lacked the most obscure features of the real thing.

And it's not just you, but a typical sort of aimless ridicule of FOSS product from people who feel guilty about not using them when their professed politics say they should. You'll talk a big game about independence, but your fictional pan-European office suite is far worse than Libreoffice, seeing as it doesn't exist. Couldn't be more feature-light.

criticalfault · 2 months ago

I disagree completely. If libre office would be fine, it would be popular. And, as said, most of the people I know avoid it like a plague.

Also, im not trying to ridicule FOSS as a whole. if anything I'm a financial supporter for several projects and organizations. It's not a lot of money, but it's every month. So, no, it's not this.

The proposal would be to fund something like collabora, build on top of libre office or do something greenfield, but all this money that was supposed to go to Microsoft should be redirected.

Decision that governments did are not based on the fact that libre office is good. It's based on 1) political reasons called digital sovereignty and 2) price. Maybe 3) being pissed at trump. They didn't do it because LO was good.

Some american products have no good alternatives, yet. Some do, like windows can be replaced with gnome, but mobile phones cannot. Probably you are not typing or reading this from a European os on your phone, yet alternatives exist. Just not good ones.

Microsoft Office clone is not what I want, but what I would accept. Let's say UI should be very similar to Microsoft Office or even better Google office. That's it. Make it in a desktop suite and we are all good.

But do not ignore the UI part of the app.

criticalfault commented on Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud news.itsfoss.com/austrian... · Posted by u/buyucu

thesuitonym · 2 months ago

> Libre office in my opinion is one of the reasons Microsoft is so dominant.

Microsoft Office was already dominant long before LibreOffice started. Hell, MSO was already dominant when StarOffice was renamed OpenOffice.org, long before LibreOffice was a thought in anyone's mind.

> Unfortunately, libre office, even though useful, is one of the worst desktop applications to use.

You only feel this way because you're used to MS Office. Ask anyone who's more well versed in Google Workspace and they'll tell you that MS is difficult to use.

criticalfault · 2 months ago

Yes Microsoft Office was already dominant. Why didn't libre office affect this dominance being 'so good'? It's also free, so it should be interesting to companies, right? Wrong. I recently set up an SME who when saw it ran away and immediately bought a Microsoft license, which means they would rather pay and be spied on than use libre office.

Believe it or not, people like nice things. Microsoft Office looks nice. Libre office looks like a car accident. It's shallow, I know, but this is the response I get every time.

Everyone I know hates it. It is a small sample, true, but it says something. So I think, the fact Microsoft is so strong is to be blamed on the alternatives, or in this case only one alternative.

We need to look at this as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Turn it around. If it would be good, people would jump on it. Especially small companies.

Google workspace is a web app, no? So it being better than desktop is comparing different things. I use it and I like it, especially since I don't need advanced Features Microsoft offers

We have no good alternative. We have an alternative.