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by niutech 1y ago
Tauri also provides an experimental Servo web engine to follow Electron: https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-verso-integration/
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by niutech 1y ago
I would bet on OpenHarmony and RISC-V open hardware rather than Android.
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by niutech 1y ago
What was the outcome of these meetings? Have they switched to Firefox?
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by niutech 1y ago
I have tested version 1.5.421 and it's based on Brave and Chromium 135. Brave is licensed under MPL-2.0, which requires to release the modified source code. However Genspark Browser is closed source, thus violating the MPL. Next, it re
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by niutech 1y ago
There is a free lunch - see all those FOSS commenting systems.
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by niutech 1y ago
There used to be discu.eu: https://web.archive.org/web/20250523181311/https://discu.eu/
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by niutech 1y ago
Not necessarily 10 years ago, you cannot comment on a HN post even from a month ago!
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by niutech 1y ago
What's the rationale? We have many well established cross-platform shell languages, like PowerShell, Perl, Python, AWK. What does ABS do better than them?
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by niutech 1y ago
Beware: it's closed source. For privacy, we need an open source, local alternative to Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Fellou or this. Something like NanoBrowser with in-browser LLM inference.
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Genspark AI Browser(genspark.ai)
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by niutech 1y ago
Compare RAM usage of Pale Moon or K-Meleon with Chrome. This is important for old PCs with 2-4GB RAM. Also Otter Browser is based on QtWebKit-ng.
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by niutech 1y ago
Why disaster? Google used it successfully in their products like Orkut. It was a novel federation protocol at that time.
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by niutech 1y ago
For better privacy, use Nanobrowser with a local LLM instead of Gemini in Chrome.
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by niutech 1y ago
For privacy, you should use open-source Nanobrowser with a local LLM instead.
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by niutech 1y ago
You forget about people reviving old 32-bit PCs by installing a lightweight 32-bit Linux on them and 32-bit apps use less RAM than 64-bit.
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by niutech 1y ago
You forgot to mention RAM. Old PCs have often <=4GB RAM and 32-bit browsers use less RAM: https://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/03/32-bit-vs-64-bit-browsers-...
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by niutech 1y ago
There are already 32-bit forks like Waterfox or Pale Moon.
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by niutech 1y ago
It's not a mistake, it's a fact: https://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/03/32-bit-vs-64-bit-browsers-...
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by niutech 1y ago
Who uses RAM-eating Chrome on an old computer? There are many lightweight alternatives: K-Meleon, Otter Browser, Pale Moon, Waterfox.
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by niutech 1y ago
What is this --light switch? I cannot see it at https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
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by niutech 1y ago
Why use bloated Chrome? There are much more lightweight web browsers, like Pale Moon, K-Meleon, Otter Browser or Waterfox.
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by niutech 1y ago
Have you heard of Cosmopolitan Libc? A single APE binary for every platform out there.
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by niutech 1y ago
> no one has delivered it yet Firefox OS? Now KaiOS? The 3rd most popular mobile OS.
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by niutech 1y ago
OS is not only desktop. There is also mobile OS, like KaiOS, which is the 3rd most popular phone OS.
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by niutech 1y ago
Is it? There is Wine/Crossover on Linux. Also, users pay for Sailfish OS, which can run Android apps (while providing better privacy).
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by niutech 1y ago
You forgot about Firefox OS, which had a fully web-based UI.
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by niutech 1y ago
Not necessarily: https://e.foundation/what-is-the-difference-between-free-sof...
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by niutech 1y ago
Privacy.
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by niutech 1y ago
Not all modern banks, e.g. Santander Bank in Poland still uses one-time SMS codes.
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by niutech 1y ago
Banks are responsible, that's the point.

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