Anticompetitive feature!

And your alternate options are what?

Why should we ditch Firefox now? Because they have moved slightly in the direction we dislike but are still light years ahead on privacy?

This is the tech version of single issue voting. All the nuance is lost and ignored, and it’s just a knee jerk after knee jerk.

Mozilla is doing this because funding is difficult, if you wanted a free and open web then you should have been donating to the foundation. To some degree we all should have. The majority of their funding comes from Google, when that gets cut they have to make huge changes to their organization or they will completely die.

That’s the reality we live in all those Mozilla engineers have to be paid money, they aren’t working for free. How do you expect a company to function without an income source?

Have you thought about this at all before making statements like those you have made?

It’s absolutely mind boggling that the bar for election is “supports a free and fair election”, and we’ve reached that stage in such a short time.

The death spiral is a steep one.

I have a PC I built a year and a half ago and apparently it “doesn’t meet the requirements” for windows 11…

Ryzen 5 5600x and a 3060 TI.

In public repositories*

It’s an interesting view but it seems like the metrics themselves may be pretty error-prone with biases, and definitely cannot be used to draw conclusions.

Which is… Also a real desktop app. This shallow take is getting incredibly old, and doesn’t even contribute to actual valuable discussion… If you don’t see the value in this being shipped, then why try and tear the value down for others?

I main C#, and even I would rather build cross platform full applications with electron than any of the other options available. I’m definitely choosing it over QT or gtk. Why? Because I can actually ship the project with all the necessary features, in good time, and bake in a great user experience.

That’s the difference here. Practical problems vs reality. Shipping the project & features vs not.

Yes, there are many successful applications not built with electron, ofc there are, that’s not my point. My point is that the productivity difference is such that it’s the difference between not building the thing vs building it and successful shipping it to users. You can argue and shit on the difference, but at the end of the day the above is what really matters.

I’ve played around with this a few times now and I talked about getting a trench coat for a good day with my wife and now I just won’t stop getting ads for long coats…

Honestly it’s ridiculously invasive.

Hopefully without the toxic devs?

So… Throw them in jail? Make them accountable? Revoke the companies ability to do business till the records are provided?

Then again, that’s just fantasy because the laws don’t matter if you’re Rick/big enough anymore.

Yeah, it’s technical topics I care about, and have a hard time with in current search engines.

There is so much noise caused by celebrity news, current events, “hot topics”, politics, “top 10” list spam, SEO gaming…etc that searches on Google, bing, and ddg are just frustrating.

This is literally “nuh uh” quality discussion. We get it, you like SearXNG, are you actually trying Kagi?

I just tried a few SearXNG instances and the quality is the same as what I get from Google or Bing anyways.

Trying out Kagi now to see if it’s better or not.