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by niutech 2y ago
Linux kernel is backed by Linux Foundation, Servo web engine is backed by Linux Foundation Europe and both are making a great progress. Why can't Firefox be funded by companies like Linux is?
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by niutech 2y ago
We're talking about a blog/personal website, not an advanced PWA.
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by niutech 2y ago
Using Next.js for a blog/home website (not PWA) is overengineering. Why not just put a static website made in Publii, hugo or similar and just sparkle it with a bit of vanilla JS where it is appropriate? This is how it should be - prog
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by niutech 2y ago
GNOME Web does that and it's open source. What's the selling point of Orion on Linux?
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by niutech 2y ago
As we're talking about Orion browser, there is Servo web engine and Servoshell backed by Linux Foundation Europe.
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by niutech 2y ago
This is what Brave Search does too with Goggles.
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by niutech 2y ago
Mattermost and Zulip aren't decentralized.
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by niutech 2y ago
Laptops valued under Rs 50,000 are exempt from duty in India. Laptops between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 70,000 come under 10% duty. Laptops over Rs 70,000 come under 18% + 18% GST. This is a lot. However, if your laptop meets these criteria, you c
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by niutech 2y ago
I'm not sure. Only about 34 per cent of schools in India have internet facilities and more than 50 per cent do not have functional computers ( https://theprint.in/india/education/only-34-indian-schools-h... ).
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by niutech 2y ago
It's called distributed computing ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing ) and it's long doable using Linux/BSD.
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by niutech 2y ago
Why waste old chromebooks for fun when you could donate them to the 3rd world schools for children? Thinkpads 11e are still proper hardware, I own one. Just install the latest Lubuntu and donate to people in need rather than disposing them.
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by niutech 2y ago
Lenovo Thinkpad 11e aren't junk. I own one with Ubuntu and it still serves me well. Why people in the 1st world disassemble them or throw away rather than upcycling by upgrading OS and donating to the children of the 3rd world, like OL
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by niutech 2y ago
There are more Gecko-based alternatives to Firefox: Mullvad Browser, Zen Browser, Floorp, GNU IceCat, next to LibreWolf. There used to be also Pulse Browser and Flock Browser.
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by niutech 2y ago
There are many Gecko-based browsers: Zen, Floorp, Mullvad, LibreWolf, IceCat. Why not use them instead?
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by niutech 2y ago
If not LibreWolf, why not use Mullvad Browser, Floorp or Zen Browser, both based on Firefox?
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by niutech 2y ago
Servo is already embeddable, you can use it in Tauri ( https://servo.org/blog/2024/01/19/embedding-update/ ) or Qt ( https://www.kdab.com/embedding-servo-in-qt/ ).
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by niutech 2y ago
Why not open source Skype then?
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by niutech 2y ago
> Does having your own, 500 kloc C++ real time video chat stack make sense any more? Yes, if it is less bloated than Electron-based. See Jami, which is a native app and it's distributed and open source.
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by niutech 2y ago
There are also Jami and Tox as decentralized Slack alternatives.
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by niutech 2y ago
Jami ( https://jami.net ) and Tox ( https://tox.chat ) are better, being P2P and open source.
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by niutech 2y ago
As a P2P Skype alternative, there are: Jami ( https://jami.net ) and Tox ( https://tox.chat ).
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by niutech 2y ago
This is another remainder that crucial business communication should be based on self-hosted solutions to be independent on third-parties and for privacy reasons. There are good and even more lightweight open source Slack alternatives: Next
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by niutech 2y ago
Have you seen what is happening with Slack now? It's down for hours. Doesn't it teach businesses that the crucial instant messaging should be self-hosted for privacy & independence on 3rd party? Why would businesses use your h
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by niutech 2y ago
To be able to print it and fill in by hand or by typing on a PC? To be able to save the filled-in form in a portable file?
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by niutech 2y ago
JS in PDF is sandboxed in Chromium, like WASM. It's not a security hole.
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by niutech 2y ago
You can run MuPDF in Wasm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096113
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by niutech 2y ago
How about OpenXPS or DjVu?
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by niutech 2y ago
How about using QuickJS instead of full-blown V8? For example, Elinks has support for SpiderMonkey, QuickJS, MuJS: https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/blob/master/doc/ecmascript.t... and takes a few MB
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by niutech 2y ago
Congratulations! But does it support Google Account login? And ReCAPTCHA?
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by niutech 2y ago
Better Brave Search

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