Gonna get my news one pixel at a time just like grandpappy did on his 9600 baud.

It’s actually incredible for getting real reading done without my ADHD taking over and opening up 30 tabs of “ooh whats this?”

Oh shit my bad! Leaving the info up anyway, in case anyone else is wondering why only two major engines is a bad thing for the open internet.

I do, in fact. I get that they are typically open-source, and I also understand how ridiculously difficult it is to create one from scratch. If LibreWolf or whoever want to make privacy focused browsers based on mozilla foundation or google’s work then that’s fine and I support it, but I’m personally curious if there are any mainstream browsers that don’t have any (or minimal) reliance on google and mozilla foundation. Someone pointed me towards an engine in development Servo which looks quite interesting! Hopefully there will be a browser based on it soon.

https://www.spacebar.news/servo-undercover-web-browser-engine/

At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windows and Tasman on Mac, Opera used Presto, some embedded devices used NetFront, Netscape had Gecko, and KDE made KHTML for its Konqueror browser. Those browsers eventually faded away or adopted a competing engine to simplify development. KHTML was the basis for Safari’s WebKit, which in turn became Chromium’s Blink engine, and Netscape’s Gecko engine became the foundation for Firefox. Opera ditched its custom Presto engine in 2013 and switched to Chromium, and Microsoft Edge made the same move in 2020.

This is a danger to the open web in more ways than one. If there is only one functioning implementation of a standard, the implementation becomes the standard. The web becomes to Google what Java is to Oracle. It also means the limitations and security flaws in Chromium affect most other browsers, which became a topic of conversation with Google’s recent Manifest V3 transition.

lol if it ever gets to that point i’m just gonna go straight Lynx.

Oh good, more rust! (j/k i don’t have the feverish hatred of rust that some people seem to)

That’s still a fork of Firefox, isn’t it? I was hoping to find a reasonably modern browser that doesn’t rely on gecko or blink. I’d be okay with a WebKit browser but I don’t have a Mac.

If anyone has any suggestions for browsers hook me up, I’m running out of browsers with thier own engines to try. I don’t see much point in using, say, LibreWolf if the engine is still the same as Firefox (Gecko in this case). Maybe I’ll give NetSurf a try and pretend like it’s 1996 again.

edit i don’t see much point because doing some about:config shenanigans is nearly the same amount of work to me as switching browsers.

Had a co-worker who would eat at their desk so they could use their whole actual lunch break to take a shit lol. The only thing I regularly saw him eat was butter chicken.

never forget

absolutely going to!

Naw, we just need equal access to cocaine. Level the playing field with subsidized cocaine I say!

Oh shit, and it’s made by Mike Schur? Beam me up, Ted Danson!

Right, that’s what I’m saying. We have cheap gas/petrol but food prices here are skyrocketing.

Might not be able to buy groceries but at least we have $3.00/gallon, or $0.80/liter, fuel for our planet destroying pickup trucks!

Hahaha TAS had some absolutely unhinged episodes, I’m glad I watched it just to see the callbacks in LD. Love that they brought back the three-part alien to do that crew evaluation in the holodecks. Also not just Satan, but needlessly sexy space-wizard Satan.

But is it sausage war or sausage peace?

I knew vaguely that Early Grey had something called bergamot in it, but I was fully unprepared for it to be citrusy! Almost “bright” tasting.

Hah, was that the deus ex machina they ended up going with? I’ll be honest I’ve tried to watch Shore Leave at least 3 times and I don’t think I’ve ever made it to the end. It’s just so silly. Allison Pregler did a pretty funny breakdown of the episode.

“Back in my day we didn’t need any fancy ‘holodecks’ to trip balls!”