Focus. People donate for the browser but the funds are used for other purposes meaning the browser doesn’t get the attention it should. If you think it’s not a distraction to even distribute funds it is because you have to at least spend time and energy picking between options
Then they're doing it wrong, because exactly zero donations to the Mozilla Foundation go to Firefox, that's a Mozilla Corporation project. To support the browser, purchase their side services instead.
Which was GP's point, people (rightfully imo) assume that donating to Mozilla helps the browser.
Mozilla is being misleading and is the one who should be criticized, not the person who's donating to them and didn't read the fineprints regarding where the money is going.
The Foundation website also states it, but they try to weasel word their way around it: Firefox is not listed as one of their programs but as being maintained by the Corporation, which shares its revenue back to the Foundation (not the other way around).
How is Mozilla funding a private Google Photos alternative “competition against a world of Chromium”?
Maybe you didn’t follow the thread close enough — the complaint isn’t that funding Firefox is counterproductive, but that shoveling dollars to a non-Firefox product does nothing to help Firefox compete against Chrome/Chromium, which is kinda hard to argue against, no?
Are all of those things you said, and do, readily available in one easy to siphon up database? Easily searchable and reportable to nation state entities? Can I or LEOs read your Hacker News posts and comments, and easily determine exactly who you are and that your previously open tabs where porn and anarchy related websites?
No. RECALL is a damn privacy and security nightmare. Don't act like it's saving the world, it's intent is to close the walls in around you.
> Can I or LEOs read your Hacker News posts and comments, and easily determine exactly who you are and that your previously open tabs where porn and anarchy related websites?
Not directly but in combination to other information it could.
The fact is, these kind of recording tools are not meant to publish your information to everyone.
> Don't act like it's saving the world,
I am not acting like that. I have no plan to use RECALL (I don't even use a single windows computer) nor any similar software.
However I find it funny that in any news about RECALL you see so many "privacy nightmare, will someone think of the children" comments while similar open source or proprietary projects for MacOs and Linux, or browser extensions predating RECALL were unanimously praised for their usefulness.
As any tool, you have to balance the risk of a leak in case your systems (or those that host your data) are compromised but it isn't in any way different than any other data you have online or locally on your computer.
You have as much if not much more to lose if your primary email account is compromised and you kept received email in the mailbox.
I agree, and am looking for other alternatives, that aren't chromium based; but not finding any modern browsers that fit that bill. So I still use Firefox. Any recommendations?
There's nothing left. That Ladybird Browser[0] is the biggest name in the game outside of Firefox and Chromium but it's pre-alpha and if they don't switch to a memory safe language there's no point to it.
That leaves you with Firefox and chromium derivatives, either LibreWolf if you want something Firefox based or Brave if you chose to get assimilated. Both have their issues: LibreWolf, like Firefox, lacks about a decade in security enhancements chromium implemented and Brave with their cryptoshit and questionable calling home behaviour hasn't been particularly trustworthy.
> Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available?
> Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.
> However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect. We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages.
> That Ladybird Browser[0] is the biggest name in the game outside of Firefox and Chromium but it's pre-alpha and if they don't switch to a memory safe language there's no point to it.
There's WebKit, which shares lineage with Blink (Chromium) but is separate.
Air-gapped networks have gotten more scarce in the day and age of the cloud computing. Expect for certain DoD and cleared spaces, I've even seen PLC networks internet connected....
Not even; around here. The benefits of McDees or fast food was it was fast and cheap. Now it is neither, and still crap quality. I'd rather spend my $6 on a much higher quality burger from a local place. Often faster even. $5 at McDees is lower quality, slower service, and just not worth it.
I don't expect a steak at McDonald's. So I compare my alternatives of where I can also get a hamburger. Every single option, is better.
Please share this information in a non Google, non Microsoft format. Perhaps make it a plain HTML page or PDF and link it directly from your primary website.
Having a .local suffix doesn't really seem like a feature.
Also, I still don't see why this is better than ngrok. If anything, I'd turn it down because there's functionality (an AI assistant) that I don't want.
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