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by fabrice_d 1y ago
This seems to be https://github.com/mozilla/readability/pull/853#issuecomment... and I think their expectations are pretty reasonable.
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by fabrice_d 1y ago
They wrote "You still need to do a lot of work to get it production ready". So I would say it's not much better than real colleagues. Especially since junior devs will improve to a point they don't need your hand holding
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
See https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
The current frontend still has the same XPCOM privilege access from JS, so as emiliocobos said, XUL vs. HTML does not change the security boundary. It's only a different markup language.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Tell me what "getting access to a device" exactly means? Is it reading some data, all data, changing some state, etc? Compare that with an api that asks "Are you ok to disclose your location to example.com?" or "Do
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Because explaining exactly what can happen when you grant WebUSB access is not as clear as with a geolocation prompt. You can't get meaningful consent from users - not all prompts are equal.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
And they are nowhere close to have a shippable browser.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Then they should pool funds to pay consulting companies like Igalia to implement these features.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
uBlock Origin does a bit more than applying community maintained filter lists though. I regularly use its capability to add custom filters for instance. Is that also possible in Brave?
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
> I mentioned momentum for a reason, servo doesn't have any. Ladybird however is extremely actively developed. Looking at https://github.com/servo/servo it's very actively developed and gaining new contrib
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Yes, it's been a struggle to ship newer version. It looks like they are preparing a new release based on gecko 123 ( https://github.com/kaiostech/gecko-b2g/blob/gonk/config/mile... ).
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Ladybird is not closer than Servo from achieving anything, because the wpt tests scores are not that relevant sinc they are not weighted by any usefulness factor. The Ladybird team are very good at marketing themselves but their technical c
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Yes, it was revived by Igalia, and has good momentum. Check https://servo.org
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
I guess they are talking about KaiOS, which had initial success, shipping on more 100M devices in India. Unfortunately they have been struggling to expand outside of India and even in India these days since their partner (Reliance Jio) is n
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
This was not a full Firefox, just a basic demo browser to showcase the port that TedM did. It was not even submitted to the app store.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
They skip rendering but maybe don't skip layout and style computation?
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Someone is doing that: https://github.com/catacombing/kumo/tree/servo
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Unfortunately WhatsApp stopped supporting KaiOS.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Where did you get that this is "linux phone" project? Because if you spend enough time to read about it, you'll find that it's esp32 based running a RTOS and a custom app suite. Really matters to read what you comment on
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
No, because there is no message passing in ATProto. So if you want eg. to know how many likes one of your posts has, you need to see the whole network aggregated through the firehose. No-one will push that "I like your post" messa
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
The benefit is that more people can afford to buy houses? Really surprising to see a country taking care of their people, and not just the wealthy ones! All the hypotheses claiming that "the market pressure will improve things for all&
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
That looks close to custom feeds in the ATProto / BlueSky world.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
The article explains optimizations to spend less cycles parsing URLs than other libraries. Very interesting work, there's no reason not to do things efficiently when it's possible. Also, good luck using regex to write a RFC or WHA
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Linux: Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer(lore.kernel.org)
14 points by fabrice_d 2y ago|3 comments
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
At this point they likely have no choice but to keep building on a chromium base. However the cost of maintaining their changes and additions will likely increase.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
It's very much happening: Igalia blogged about the Chrome effort in https://blogs.igalia.com/gyuyoung/2024/08/08/chrome-ios-brow... and you can follow Gecko/Firefox progress in https:/&#x
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
They are even losing users in absolute terms: check https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Not just that, but why would Mozilla pick the winner here? Everyone complains about the side effects of default search engines, let's not do it again with ad-blockers! And anyway, their Google contract certainly prevents them from doin
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Actually Mozilla is the upstream for both projects now.
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by fabrice_d 2y ago
Running `./mach package` will create a tarball you can use easily in any distribution. Not perfect, but I would say good enough at this stage of the project - remember Servo is not a browser, it's a browser runtime that needs to b

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