[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Smaller browsers built on webkit do exist; see 'Epiphany', 'surf', 'luakit', and 'Nyxt'. Qt's web component used to be based on webkit as well, though they've switched to Blink (Chromium).

Unfortunately, none of the browsers listed above are 100% sufficient to replace Firefox. They all rely on GTK bindings on webkit, which has its own quirks; and none have support for webextensions.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Who's "we", though? Here's the list of Linux Foundation members: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members It's a foundation by, and for, commercial interests; not the users. If the same interests made up a foundation to develop a browser, it wouldn't be different from Chrome; because in the realm where browsers are supposed to work, those 'commercial interests' would demand doing what Chrome does.

It's a 'happy accident' that with respect to a unix-like OS kernel, the interests of the industry ended up being compatible with the interests of the user.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Santagate 2019 Pro for Workgroups

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago

A pedantic thing to say, surely, but the title really should've been: "Linux Directory Structure" -- 'Linux filesystems' (the title in the graphic) refers to a different topic entirely; the title of this post mitigates the confusion a bit, though still, 'directory structure' is the better term.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 51 points 6 months ago

what message? This was a real product released by Sony.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 92 points 6 months ago

But they're already back! The Steam Deck is the resurrected Steam Machine.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 37 points 7 months ago

The bot says it 'saved 0%'; so at least it's honest.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 63 points 9 months ago

I was intrigued for a moment; installed the package; then got greeted with this -- I don't think I'll proceed any further:

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago

Little known fact: A Stanford mainframe kept logs of the activities of the 'wheels' in a journal -- the 'journal of the wheels'. Young George Lucas, who briefly attended the university, found that journal, and became fascinated with the 'Wheel Wars'. He later drafted a document that he called 'Journal of the Whills', based largely on what he read on those logs; this is the draft that later became 'Whill Wars', and ultimately, of course, 'Star Wars'.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

OK, but are they taking into account the energy expenditure of the programmer's brain while writing the program? The amount of calories his/her brain has to burn in order to produce & debug the code?

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is cringe AF.

Kotlin 'built by communism'? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

Swift is 'greed' how? It's open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple's graphical toolkits are 'closed down'; & obviously restrict users' freedoms; though not sure how that implies 'monopoly'. 'Monopoly' would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one's own.

Vague word associations are cool, I guess.

[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

007 is a pretty ideal permission scheme for a spy, though: Deny access to owner & group; let some 3rd party do whatever he likes.

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