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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Piped and Libretube stopped working for me, they're requiring sign up now, it's sad :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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good comments are upvoted for a reason and I wanna see those first... before scrolling to the bad takes... haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

One of the best cases for building a versatile tool, is accessibility to less privileged populations, for example people who can't efford to have a reliable Internet because of their shady ISPs, they need a browser that renders web content as fast as possible, and also because they can't afford to download apps due to slow internet speeds, Flatpaks could take gigabyte of HDD space and you have to update them later, which is painful in other parts of the world

Even if the user had a reliable Internet and solid hardware, maybe they're a security minded individual, and want to keep their app installs to a minimum. To them many apps are considered bloat and that's dangerous.

I think the difficulty lies in wisely choosing what features to include, before your users start asking : hey, do we really need that ? Or : who uses that ?

that's why listening to feedback is so important

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that's interesting, I'm not sure I understand the idea, do you want the browser to monitor the mobile app time usage ( Jerboa ), I'm i correct ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That would also look cool, aesthetically speaking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

firstly, there's always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.

Oh, how so?

i've actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it

that's cool, yes a browser should stop using resources when you stop using it ( minimize it ), or using that particular tab by making it inactive, chromium based browsers behave like that if I'm not mistaken

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

that's a quite pessimistic stance, yes I do agree that web browsers are complexe and hard to maintain, but they can do more than viewing websites, you can play games, draw art, video chat, PDF viewing and editing, you can do a lot with just one app.. that's the beauty of Web browsers.. The problem is in the Ad business model..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

saying: "no" sounds rude.. maybe something like "no, go touch grass" that'd be better

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not a hard proof, people keep saying Intel ME and AMD PSP are potential backdoors ( key word: potential ) and this argument is good if we're arguing about: which is the best ISA, an Open ISA ( RiscV ) or closed ISA ( x86 )

I was asking for a general example, I know that Mediatek chips included a backdoor but I only found one article that talked about it .. In french..

Mobos : I think it's MSI ( I could be wrong ) that installed a piece of software through a Bios update, which showed they have privileged remote access capabilities ( I couldn't find that source, sorry )

Another example would be ASUS and Gigabyte Mobos, now the initial source says it came from the second hand resellers, but no one confirmed that.. which is scary... because that would mean it came straight from ASUS and/or Gigabyte

I was asking for incidents that you came across that could demonstrate the presence of firmware backdoors, saying having too many bugs is not a good argument, because all software has bugs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

really? It's gold and white for me.. xD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I want my RSS

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