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Wow, had no idea this was a thing. I’m gonna check these out. Man I’m so entering next year.

Yeah i guess I am. Coulda sworn they were based in Kazakhstan. If theyre in any Five Eyes country they should gtfo. Too much copyright crap here.

I remember reading it on the site but I cannot find it now. I know for a fact she is based in Kazakhstan. So says her wikipedia page.

AA’s based outta Kazakhstan though. Lotta good a lawsuit filed in Ohio’s gonna do. At most I could see American ISPs implementing a DNS-level block against the site.

Literally. Canadian news is just American news two weeks behind.

Servo and Ladybird are the two most serious ones right now. Andreas Kling, the lead dev from Ladybird regularly streams his progress and posts about new sites working. It’s been pretty cool watching it over the years get better. iirc their current goal is to get discord completely working in browser on Ladybird.

Love React to. I hope one day I can use it in place of Windows.

Well, like an OS there are people doing entire ones from scratch like Haiku, Harmony and Serenity. It’s a herculean task but its not impossible.

I’m hoping that Ladybird and Servo start forcing competition against Mozilla and Google.

Ladybird got like at least 250k in funding last year by Shopify. The project refuses to release binaries so you’d have to build it yourself. So far the team has completed a JS engine from scratch and hit a 100/100 on the acid3 test.

Servo’s earlier in development but its got some preliminary stuff. They have a few full time devs. The project is written in rust so its getting a lot of hobbyist support too. Their main project is getting CSS compatibility.

Flow is a closed-source browser by some company. Their browser is in beta right now but as evident by this paragraph I don’t know much about its project.

Idk how to check commit numbers on mobile but I’d say all 3 are in the thousands minimum.

Theres nothing stopping a new engine from being made. People wanna say its too hard or whatever but there are budding projects people are working on from the ground up. See Servo, Ladybird and Flow for non-Chrome/Firefox browsers. It’s absolutely possible no matter what these naysayers say.

Just use an alternative power source than the power grid. Water, solar, wind, etc.

You ever seen that post about how classical music is closest to metal? Well Kerry King is our modern day Mozart.

You’ll be fine. Just dont visit shady websites and do fall victim to phishing. The other comments in the thread are good advice too.

Also give this a read since you’re using Python. It could happen to you: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/10-malicious-python-packages-exposed-in-latest-repository-attack/

Theres a reason nobody uses it anymore. Google extended the crap out of it, effectively took over the protocol and then retired it. It bears the same echoes of what’s happening here.

I’d be closer to agreeing with you if XMPP didn’t completely invalidate your point. They did it there and they’ll do it here.

Is threads still even active? The few users I knew on it don’t use it anymore.

Except there isn’t anyone like that. Oh wait, there is. 3rd party. But then we’ll just be going in a circle again.

I can’t continue with this line of reasoning. You are the one whos equating voting third party with not voting and apathy. Nothing will change in the States. Never ever.

Yeah, I mean, even with what the dems/media did against him he did still lose. And he did do stupid stuff on the campaign, irelevant of whoever funded him. He had avenues to continue on and cause damage, such as accepting the green party nomination with Jill Stein (yes I know about the ‘possible’ russian connection there) but alas he just backed down.

I guess I’ll look into the russian disinfo with Bernie then. Far as I was previously aware there was just some screwy things with the Bernie bros but that was it. Don’t know much about his 2020 campaign but I didn’t really take that seriously anyways.

So what? The Russians support anything to sow discord. Just like Democrats supporting extremist Republican candidates to cause mayhem. It’s literally just a facet of American politics and vice versa (American government supporting radical candidates elsewhere). Bernie’s campaign was one of the most progressive the democrats had seen in forever. Even far more progressive than anyone in the squad.

Course these days the guy’s a joke but I don’t feel like going into his ‘fall from grace’.

Sure. Keep up the defeatism. It’s what those in power want. This is probably the only American thing I will never understand.