The PDF standard is so complex that it makes it implicitly not really open, as it’s basically impossible to implement it fully

I mean, if you have a royal family, you’re asking for this shit

I mean, when you see most programmers, you want to believe it :)

Perceived complexity*

The question is more “considering the state of the world and the reality of computer programming job, should I consider becoming programmer” and the answer is no.

How do you expect mail privacy while using gmail?

This is absurd.

This is like saying that if nazi propaganda becomes the main selling point of web browsers, then firefox should add it just to stay relevant.

The advantage of firefox is (was) that it takes a stance instead of blindly following market trends. Following AI, no matter how immoral and damaging it is, just to avoid a hypothetical loss, is absolute bullshit.

They are doing it because they lost the will to take a stance, and this is what is killing them. Straying away from the opensouce, privacy centric stance is costing them their user base, and people who weren’t wanting such a stance are not going to move away from their usual browser with AI and whatever.

It’s exactly the thing that leftist parties do when they try to appeal to the nazis, they just get buried in their own stupidity.

Why do you think firefox-based browsers are getting more and more popular? It’s because they bring back firefox where it should be, because no one with enough brain to want to use firefox, wants a firefox with data collection and AI slop.

Unless it becomes very illegal to make hostile bots (which will never happen), the internet will be something only accessible through IDs and biometrics.

Hell, if you will.

1. Ask what was the purpose of the code
2. Delete all the slop crap
3. Make the code from scratch

It keeps on coming back and ladybird supporters keep on trying to tone it down because they don’t want the project to die. But yeah, the guy seems like a big piece of shit.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html

Here’s one, you can find more stuff by searching the name of the dev

“We want rust for safety. That’s why we made the code in the most unreliable way to code known to humanity”.

Not surprising from the devs that think that not being a fascist is political I guess

Edit : ah apparently the guy is not trying to be an enlightened centrist anymore and is a full-on nazi. Heh, who could have guessed? /s

There will be people defending ladybird no matter what huh

I mean both. But while I understand that there is for now not a lot of alternatives for web scripting, there is a lot of backend languages which makes backend javascript even worse.

Anything else, basically. There’s not a lot of languages that are currently used and much worse.

My preference would lean towards something like Nim, probably, but I’m definitely not the best one to answer that. But javascript and its whole ecosystem is rotten (I mean, that’s sort of the reason the article exists here) and it is just not fit to make anything. The fact that people even bring javascript as the backend is a bit crazy to me.

I mean, it’s good, but what needs to be replaced is javascript.

I relate more to meters than an arbitrary bus. And science communication is about making things clear as a priority, and this does the opposite.

I was commenting on the title.

What does “a bus” bring instead of a measurement in meters? Nothing, so why put it as a title?

You’re the one deflecting, for some reason, and trying to ignore the title which is supposed to be the first thing you read.

Everything but metric, huh

Not always bad? Wtf is that nazi crap?

Kicking someone to a place where they don’t want to / cannot live is not bad?

Even if you kick someone out for “right” reasons (which is already not proven to exist) it is still bad, that is the point, if it was something nice it would not be used as a punishment.