Ladybird
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  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    16·
    3 months ago

    Sounds fun, but I wish there were more people who’d invest in making Firefox’s Gecko more easy to use (stretch goal: revive Proton, which is Electron but Firefox) instead of pushing a ton of effort into inventing a new thing.

    That said, this is coming from SerenityOS (specifically, the founder and basically the entire community concentrating on building its browser instead of hacking the OS, resulting in a split), so I understand that it might be a lot harder to port large codebases to a new OS instead of than starting a new one.

    Edit: It’s Positron, not Proton

  • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
    7·
    3 months ago

    It’s interesting to see a new browser engine aside from Gecko and Chromium, especially with all the conundrum surrounding the Manifest v2 support.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      I used luakit for awhile. Really fun to only use keyboard, but definitely lacking features that makes “modern” websites not suck so hard

  • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Hot take: Since it’s a BSD licensed browser at some point in the future, there’s going to be a company that funds it brings it to mainstream with their flavor, and then will over throw chromium in time. Replace an ‘evil’ with another ‘evil’.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    22·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know if it’s a good idea to build a new engine from scratch… Maybe it is but I don’t know, behind an engine you need to have support and development, so this thing needs to be improved and supported along the versions to be safe, so I don’t know if it’s a good idea or not 🙃

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 months ago

      Is this because they used “he” instead of “they” in the build instructions? … They changed that and acknowledged the mistake. Surely that’s enough. It’s the fucking build instructions. I think we can probably find it in our hearts to forgive them.

      [edit] Just in case people think I’m joking. I’m not. As far as I’m aware, the critical incident that that has resulted in people calling Ladybird devs anti-trans is that they wrote ‘he’ instead of ‘they’ in the build instructions. That’s what caused the original outrage. And as far as I’m aware, there have been no other incidents. But please, if there is something of substance that I’m not aware of, post about it here.

      • sunglocto@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        That’s literally it. People are getting angry over unsubstantiated information for 0 reason

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        3 months ago

        So?

        For many small project is AI/copied images or no images at all.

        When you do not have money you are not hiring a 2000€/month artist to do imagery for your website. You go online to copy something or nowadays you can use AI to wrap it up. It’s a tool at people’s disposition like any other.

        And before anyone comes talking about copyright laws… shall I present them my 10 TB hard drive of pirated media? Human culture is to be shared, not gatekeeped.

        • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

          For one, AI datasets often break copyright law, frequently appropriating from artists. Executives are also trying to use it to eliminate the jobs of artists, and I feel it’s wrong to try and obsolete something people love doing.

          In addition, they take a lot of power, not helping in the way of the needed changes to follow climate goals.

          Clarification: Copyright laws can be annoying, and I don’t always agree with them. However, it also protects smaller artists. I think there are many cases where piracy is totally fine, though, like if a company vaults an animated streaming show and gets rid of all other ways to watch it.

          • delirious_owl@discuss.online
            1·
            3 months ago

            Interesting. I am an artist, but I find it helps me make better art. Faster too.

            But all my work is copyleft and I give zero shits about so-called “copyright infringement”

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    35·
    3 months ago

    All the code is hosted on GitHub. Clone it, build it, and join our Discord if you want to collaborate on it! We’re looking forward to seeing you there.

    So much for freedom when everything is done thru proprietary services under US jurisdiction.