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  • All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025

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  • i know i’m in the minority here so i’m not going to bury myself in this hole, but i do think those are addressable problems. many of them have been addressed. replacing Javascript is exactly what i’m talking about.

  • All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025

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  • there may be a little angst from reading and rereading the “Max-Age” portion of the cookie RFC that caused this trauma

  • All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025

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  • this is my most controversial take in computing in general:

    i’ve always hated the browser. the reason there are only a few working browser engines is that HTTP and the HTML/CSS/JS tech stack is a gigantic pile of tech debt, and even using Chromium and Firefox you run into edge cases where, for certain edge cases, they don’t always follow the specs as defined in these ancient RFCs. and these specs: why tf are they treated as gospel? which software product specs drafted 50 years ago get this kind of reverence? why is it that other GUIs have had tons of iteration, not just of their spec but their full stack implementation (Wayland, .NET, Kotlin Compose, SwiftUI, etc), but we’re all just fine with this mess of janky boomer protocols cuz it lets startups get to market faster? why is downloading an entire app (less some caching) every time you want to use it feel less cumbersome than installing something native to the runtime environment where the protocols can be tightly controlled by the developer and not subject to whatever security and storage protocols whatever browser implementation decides is good for you? cookies? really? the browser should be reimagined with a tighter set of protocols that allow you to look at brochure sites and download content, ie apps. even the best web apps are a janky mess and have never worked better than properly developed desktop GUI. /rant

  • Snap bad

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  • i just got an Ubuntu machine at work, and really simple packages are only available as snaps. so i guess i’m going to try out Nix home-manager

  • Tangram is an interesting Linux web browser

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  • Webkit based, for anyone else wondering

  • Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts?

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  • that seems abnormal, but if you’re worried about people creeping into your infra, you could add a VPN for an extra layer of security. i use Tailscale, and it works like a charm

  • Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military

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  • ngl, sometimes it is. it depends on the game. usually the problem is anti-cheat, but Valve has been working on improving that with many games working out of the box today. i’d say if you’re playing single player games, once you get Proton installed it’s virtually the same experience.

    check out https://www.protondb.com/

    if your games are gold or above on there, i’d go ahead and pull the trigger.

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  • yeah i have friends who are medical technicians, and i’ve heard some things

  • Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

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  • right so we should continue making smart investments in cutting edge tech, which is probably the point they were trying to make, even if the wording of it is informed by a pop culture zeitgeist more than an understanding of the tech and ethics that are currently being scrutinized as part of the development of what is called “AI”

  • Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

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  • i’m definitely not advocating for that. it’s just a bit strange to talk about it like that on a policy level. should the US, as a policy, defund AI research?

  • Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

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  • why focus on the AI boogeyman? investing in AI is important in this context because it has the potential to increase overall productivity. which, like, don’t we see that as a good thing? also, AI might suck right now, but it’s stupid to think that we should just abandon that research. AI is clearly an innovation, and if you don’t think so it’s time to touch grass.

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • where i get into trouble is when i do a bunch of nixos-rebuild —switches between restarts and some state ends up hanging around, so next time i do a reboot that ephemeral state is gone and whoops no internet

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  • easily said

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  • i doubt the recent uptick in traffic is from “stealing data” for training but rather from agents scraping them for context, eg Edge Copilot, Google’s AI search, SearchGPT, etc.

    poisoning the data will likely not help in this situation since there’s a human on the other side that will just do the same search again given unsatisfactory results. like how retries and timeouts can cause huge outages for web scale companies, poisoning search results will likely cause this type of traffic to increase and further increase the chances of DoS and higher bandwidth usage.

  • help me choose a cycling computer?

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  • ooo i like this. if nothing else it could be fun to tinker with. thanks for the lead 🙏

  • help me choose a cycling computer?

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  • i don’t mind it being connected to my phone. i generally expected that it would be a sort of companion device; i definitely don’t want “another phone”. i would like some GPS navigation, but honestly i'm a n00b at this and don’t 100% know what i’d value the most. that’s probably unhelpful, but i appreciate the recommendation.

  • Hyprland 0.48 Adds A "Application Not Responding" Dialog, Better Color Management

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  • for me tiling WMs are great for full screen and/or terminal based workflows. to me they’re more about minimizing UI clutter and facilitating a mostly keyboard based interface.

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  • bruh i know people in their 40s making 6 figures that couldn’t read an error message if it would save ten generations of their family.

  • Amazon is shutting down its third-party Android app store

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  • back in the day it wasn’t clear that Google wanted a strong monopoly control over Android. Amazon was just another contender in the ecosystem.