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Comment · 3 years ago
I don't see Ladybird ever being seriously useful. Already serious browser projects like Brave, Arc, and Orion struggle to keep me off of Firefox.

Servo is honestly doing the correct thing by focusing on embed-ability into other projects, something that has been basically dominated by Chrome alone

Comment · 3 years ago
if you don't have time to look into it then you shouldn't just blindly spout incorrect information, just saying.
Comment · 3 years ago
so basically, you're suggesting that the terrorists goal to attack the US and destabilize the globe is correct, and the terrorists won?

sounds like the war shouldn't have happened, and the correct solution was not to do that

Comment · 3 years ago
when the planet is dead we can't go anywhere
Comment · 3 years ago
by having the Linux kernel be a sub part of a larger system. literally look at WSL2
Comment · 3 years ago
a reimplementation that copies the interface has no need to copy the license. GPL people just get scared because they know their license can't prevent people from rewriting their own software (of course, such an idea is ridiculous).

the GPL is not a perfect license, there is no such thing.

Comment · 3 years ago
how do you pronounce gif
Comment · 3 years ago
I might be too harsh, but it is not so trustworthy that they found bugs within the original sudo after less than a year of effort. those other devs had over 40 years to find it
Comment · 3 years ago
it's completely irrelevant
Comment · 3 years ago
the source is open, it's just not open source. You can't be pedantic about things they didn't say, and you don't get to retroactively define open to only be definable by OSI.
Comment · 3 years ago
you will never fight the libertarian mindset on hacker news, you argue about monopolies and they just hear "winners"
Comment · 3 years ago
how could they be?
Comment · 3 years ago
is this the level of discourse we're at? calling banks frauds when actual frauds scam people? hilarious
Comment · 3 years ago
what are you actually arguing? because he is compelled to answer questions, why is that different from being compelled to read a headline for a question of "did you write that/approve that" etc.

he agreed to take the stand, he agreed to everything. what would the lawyer object with "your honor, they're making him read" lmao

Comment · 3 years ago
not with crypto though, because it's all a scam or a front, there is no actually successful crypto projects, unless you count successful as having scammed a bunch of money out of people's hands, in which case, yes theyre all pretty much successful

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