Cosmic Cleric

Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

More than just a good read, that’s one of the project/programming Ten Commandments.

Can’t tell you how many times over the decades I’ve had to argue with project managers about that.

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Sounds like good times, indeed.

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No. It was for a Star Wars roleplay but not a video game. It started life in the newsgroup de.rec.sf.starwars

Ah, ok, nice! Was that the old D6 version, or the newer D20 one?

and I played the role of Emperor.

You dark person you! 😜

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Apologies for being off-topic, but the domain name, “swg-empire.de”, does the ‘swg’ part ‘Star Wars Galaxies’ by chance?

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I thought svg files scale properly??

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Like the new icon for Dolphin:

Was quick browsing for openwrt and found the banana pi r3.

One thing that surprised me when I was looking to upgrade my old router ith OpenWRT is if a firmware for your router supports ALL of the features/hardware of that router. In my case, Wifi support was not supported, so I had to disregard using OpenWRT as a choice.

So be sure to look carefully at the firmware that you find. I personally had just thought that if a firmware exists for your hardware that all of the major (but maybe not minor) features would be supported, and that is not always the case.

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I’m not disputing that change happens, but it doesn’t happen as fast as you suggest, or as slow as I’ve seen in the past.

In either case, a small group of developers can maintain an existing code base and add new features to it. I’ve seen it (AND done it) with my own eyes before.

I truly don’t mean to be argumentative, but I have to push back when someone tells me the equivalent of “0% chance of that being possible”, when I know that’s not true (and apologies if I’m misinterpreting what you said, but that’s the impression I’m getting). Agreed, its not 100% possible either, but its closer to 100% than it is 0% possible.

Even for the sake of argument, lets say some “BIG NEW THING ™️” comes along, and the devs don’t have enough resources to implement it. It doesn’t mean the browser dies that very moment in time. There’s plenty of time to migrate to another browser at that point, it takes something along the lines of less than an hour to move from one browser to another (we’re talking personal here, not corporate).

Anyway, I take your point that WHATWG has apparently replaced W3C, and that they move faster. But I’ve also seen allot of products/standards come and go in the name of HTML5 over the years (and even before HTML5, the days of Client/Server, and other coding religions before that) to know that each don’t have to be supported completely on day one, but just the ones that “win” the popularity contests.

One last thing …

In the coming years, building or maintaining a browser engine will be expensive.

If an OS like Linux can be done, and well, so could an open-source codebase inherited browser. An OS is allot harder to maintain than a browser engine is.

Edit: Typo.

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I don’t think developing a web browser to keep it up to date with new web technologies and new security requirement is just “maintenance”

Internet standards are pretty stable and mature at this point, and they can always port over security fixes.

I wouldn’t imagine it would be that difficult maintaining the existing code base.

Obviously I’m not saying it’s super easy, but once the product is mature you don’t need a huge staff for it, at least not in the short term.

Having said that, my point was just to alleviate the fears of the OP, who didn’t want to move away from Firefox because they were afraid that what they moved to would die if Firefox does. My point was just to say they would be a long lag time before that would happen.

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As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn’t live on, neither will these forks.

Why? The other teams have the source code, they can just continue extending it or just maintaining it.

And having just switched from Firefox to LibreWolf yesterday, it took all of 20 minutes to do. It’s not like you’ll be hung out to dry without the Internet if you are correct. You would just switch to another browser again.

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😆 I don’t think LibreWolf has view for market share and plebs.

I’ve never met a software developer yet who wouldn’t want their program to be popular and widely used.

Also, when it comes to browsers, the name of the game is to get support from the big websites, which is done by having major/popular usage of their browser.

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From the blog post…

You won’t be pampered with a one-click installation for all. Instead, you’ll need to take the time to review the documentation and set up the security and privacy features that you’re willing to trade off for comfort and convenience.

Yeah, ouch, thats not going to sell with the Plebs, and limit buy-in from them, and market share.

They really should try to fix that, and not just hand wave it away as a problem.

Market share is the lifeblood of the browser wars.

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From the article, what appears directly after the colon…

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

The whole article is worth reading, especially the part where Microsoft says it doesn’t own your content. Seems they’re aware of Safe Harbor laws.

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I mean, its just a ctrl+c and a ctrl+v. 🙂

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It looks like the Eternity client doesn’t support subscript?

Don’t know what to say, my account is on Lemmy.World, and that’s their instructions on how to format one’s comments. /shrug

In the past (tenish months ago) I heard this same issue, and I tried removing the subscripting, which made the footer text the same size of the rest of the text, and then I was getting people complaining about my footer text being too large for a footer. My hope was that ten months later, all clients would support subscript fonts/text.

Honestly, at this point I’d suggest you talk to the devs of your client, to support subscript font/text.

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Because.

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Nah, I think it’s neat as well. Lemmy would be more boring if no user had idiosyncrasies.

Kind of a sad state of affairs for us all, that wanting to license your own content would be considered an idiosyncrasy, but I get what you were trying to say. 🙂

Hell, I’ve even tagged you with “CC BY-NC-SA 4.0” in my Lemmy client -

Well I’m not the first to use it, I learned to use it here from someone else, but open source licensing notoriety is something I can live with. 😜

which means I will confront you if you ever stop doing it.

Honestly it would be me just leaving Lemmy (again) if the harassment gets to be too much (Edit: Example: https://lemmy.world/comment/15320340).

But I’d rather be here than Reddit, even with the lesser moderation that happens here.

I do appreciate your support, thank you. 👍

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Why all the tilde symbols? That’s what makes it quite distracting and hard to read for me tbh.

I’m using the Lemmy.World formatting (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html). I’m subscripting the text/link to make it smaller/footer.

It sounds like your client is not supporting that. You should speak with the devs of your client about that. Here’s the actual formatting string being used by me…

[~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en)

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Well, scrapers probably would ignore it.

Maybe, I wouldn’t doubt it, if true. We live in the age of “ask for forgiveness and not permission”. But the law is the law, and forgiveness may cost them some $$$ down the road. At the very least it leaves them exposed vis-a-vis ‘Safe Harbor’ laws-wise, when some other powerful entity wants to go to war with them.

In either case, I’m not going to give up my rights just because currently laws are not enforced. Like most things with humans, things move back-and-forth throughout time, and what may be overlooked today may be scrutinized thoroughly tomorrow.

(And for the record, you’re the bazillionish person to tell me that. The repetition is real.)

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TOS can’t change Law, can’t strip away rights that you have.

Law always trumps TOS.

In fact, if a company tries to via their TOS they are opening themselves up for big risks/lawsuits, as they are trying to gain ownership of your content, voiding their Safe Harbor law protections.

They can’t have it both ways, thats not how the Law works. Either they have the protection, or they own the content.

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