I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @[email protected] on Mastodon.
Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.
That’s not to say that upstream isn’t important. It absolutely is! It’s just that derivatives are generally better.
In my case it’s ESPN+ to watch hockey games. ESPN only checks geolocation when you first connect to the stream. So long as you don’t turn off the stream you can watch the entire game. So I turn the VPN on for about 10 seconds and then turn it off. Works every time… at least last season it did.
I use the OpenVPN configuration on mine to get around geoblocks. It works fine but I do need to disable IPv6 to force my client (a Roku) to connect over IPv4.
I have found that after about 45 minutes the bandwidth tanks and my stream looks like potato quality. Maybe because I’m on free tier and am streaming HD content? I did find out that the website only checks my IP address on startup so now I only run the VPN long enough to connect.
I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of “man those people are constantly in the news.”
I looked into this because I thought that you must be missing something, but yes, you are correct.
Both the F-Droid package as well as the one on the Proton’s GitHub page do not allow for guest logins. This is curious. Perhaps the guest account option requires some sort of non-free library? I’d be interested in the answer to your question.
I’m not trying to disparage anyone who likes Linkin Park, but my opinion is that, in general, alt rock from the late 90s through the early 00s has aged really poorly. I used to listen to that music a ton when I was in high school and college, but I don’t anymore.
I’m not skilled enough to be able to speak to that.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but all I need is a fuse plugin. I don’t need specific syncing like a OneDrive/Google Drive app.
It’s unclear that they need to handle a specific flavor when they could release a Flatpak. I think the community wouldn’t have any problem tweaking the dependencies for particular distros.
There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.
It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.
I think it’s fair to think that they could refocus their efforts on the browser if they didn’t have that large slush fund from Google. I don’t think “hey we don’t take Google money anymore” is going to lead to a lot of new donations, however.
it sounds like no one else does either
Maintaining a browser that doesn’t rely on someone else’s upstream code is quite an ordeal. Of the four main browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox), 3 are built by large for-profit enterprises and the other relies on money from a large for-profit enterprise. Browsers are very complex pieces of technology and can’t be maintained by 3 guys on GitHub in their spare time.
Close. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.
They could probably raise more if Google went away
I’m interested in how you think Mozilla would raise more than half a billion dollars if they didn’t take any money from Alphabet/Google. Genuinely. In what ways could Mozilla raise money that they’re not doing right now?
Microsoft’s most important customers are businesses, who generally don’t deal with this (they have corporate images). Home users also generally don’t deal with this given they buy a computer that has already been configured.
Linux-based systems have always needed to be better because almost no one buys a computer with $DISTRO already installed and configured.
I had forgotten about that and now I am sad that I’ve been reminded.
If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.
It’s also in the The Cask of Amontillado. Great word, ejaculate.
I met a man from France who said that the French spoken in Montréal is “real French.” I was pretty shocked to hear that.
Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.