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What a fantastic project. It’s FOSS like this that makes the world go round. If only the original vision of the internet had been fulfilled, we’d have hundreds
by invertigo 3y ago
What a fantastic project. It’s FOSS like this that makes the world go round. If only the original vision of the internet had been fulfilled, we’d have hundreds more projects like it.
- bagol 3y agoWhat is the original vision of the internet?
- bobse 3y ago[dead]
- not_your_vase 3y agoPorn. Porn everywhere. And cat videos. But mostly porn.
- clouddrover 3y agoCats. Porn. Cat porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUf7boHvejQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUf7boHvejQ
- msla 3y agoA government project to allow researchers to access distant mainframes.
- yrro 3y agoThat any two consenting parties may communicate directly with one another.
- mekster 3y agoWhy do people bring up some vague ideology? Imagine a world without the internet being invented, what a nice world to live now.
- victorbjorklund 3y agoEffective ways for US military to communicate between missile silos?
- anthk 3y agoAfter that, i'd say ITS and their networked machine list sharing code and cool hacks, being the proto free-software movement.
- clouddrover 3y agoThere are hundreds more projects like it. Projects like GIMP, ImageMagick, Apache, curl, GCC, LLVM, Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, Linux, the BSDs, etc., etc. There are many massively useful things available as free and open source software.
- gspetr 3y ago>Firefox Definitely not. It certainly no longer belongs in "the original vision of the internet" category. Not when it wants to be a part of evil forces seeking to police the internet. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat... https://www.eutimes.net/2021/01/thousands-are-uninstalling-firefox-after-developers-demand-total-internet-censorship/ https://www.eutimes.net/2021/01/thousands-are-uninstalling-f... https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-more-than-deplatforming https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...
- clouddrover 3y agoBut Firefox protects you from advertising networks the best. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... Sounds like "the original vision of the internet" to me.
- daynthelife 3y agoBetter than all other major browsers != good Since the only real competition is chromium, safari, and edge, the bar is astoundingly low.
- gspetr 3y agoI initially did not want to bring this up, but Firefox literally changed my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Google after I updated it yesterday. No opt-in, no user input, no warning, no nothing. Just shoved Google down the user's throat. Do you know where Mozilla gets its money from?