Post 9t9s8WQxUBhOV2Saps by wzqtparor@pawoo.net
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(DIR) Post #9t8TbRFASOPt3bPY0G by sir@cmpwn.com
2020-03-18T15:26:45Z
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So what year do you think will be the one that Firefox finally gives up
(DIR) Post #9t8TciH0ctpWABsdLE by lain@lain.com
2020-03-18T15:27:41.031404Z
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@sir ~2016?
(DIR) Post #9t8TzZmuLEIoVShcI4 by genbyte@feline.social
2020-03-18T15:29:40Z
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@sir I think they'll try until they run out of money, and then the web will finally be reexamined/cut down.
(DIR) Post #9t8U8jwnwBiMcdhXZg by vandys@mst.vsta.org
2020-03-18T15:31:24Z
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@sir God, I hope never! The only actual alternative to the Google Machine.
(DIR) Post #9t8UJ7oa3Pn1Xco4AK by hackerman@infosec.exchange
2020-03-18T15:33:23Z
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@sir If they add just a few more features, they could still catch up with with google in terms of market share.
(DIR) Post #9t8UQ5YupNwia8nej2 by sir@cmpwn.com
2020-03-18T15:34:03Z
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@hackerman reading this was like reading someone argue that 2+2=5
(DIR) Post #9t8WbnPcKnxZfrA2O8 by friend@linuxrocks.online
2020-03-18T15:57:07Z
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@sirGoogle has basically a monopoly now, meaning they'll get progressively worse from now on. They'll also start locking things down.Both will likely result in increased contributions (monetary or code) to Firefox and Mozilla has no shareholders, so they can survive even a big dump in short-term profitability.In other words, I doubt they'll close shop any time soon, even if the situation becomes more dire in coming years.
(DIR) Post #9t8Z1RnrUyB85nrPHs by ehmry@chaos.social
2020-03-18T16:27:10Z
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@sir Maybe around the year ChromeOS is replaced with Fuschia.
(DIR) Post #9t8xVc0JFP7133rgIK by kick@blob.cat
2020-03-18T16:11:01.093593Z
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@sir They won't give up, but with both Rust and C++ in their codebase, eventually it's going to take so long to compile that W3C will have implemented a few hundred-thousand more specs by the time it finishes.Then they'll announce their new fork of Chromium, where they Rewrite It in Rust.
(DIR) Post #9t9PZbjiyuFo5rniwS by humanleftswatch@mastodon.social
2020-03-19T02:15:57Z
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@sir the hurd is still kind of around so i wouldn't get my hopes up :D
(DIR) Post #9t9PfpbaKZ66qOxfqS by sir@cmpwn.com
2020-03-19T02:16:18Z
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@humanleftswatch I hate to break this to you but the hurd is not really still around
(DIR) Post #9t9QMhw2iunbVYyXku by humanleftswatch@mastodon.social
2020-03-19T02:25:04Z
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@sir limping, bleeding severly but somehow not entirely dead, but yeah describing it as being around is probably a bit generous
(DIR) Post #9t9qI9Q3hydC6oVFSK by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2020-03-19T07:16:20Z
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@sirIIRC that annoying Gnome developer is using HURD as his daily driver@humanleftswatch
(DIR) Post #9t9reh3dQFOmlGKMHA by emilis@cmpwn.com
2020-03-19T07:30:11Z
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@sir Define "gives up".Until we find an alternative to the Web, I think a probable scenario will be the organization collapsing and the project taken up by someone outside US.Look at how FirefoxOS → KaiOS happened. It seemed completely doomed after Mozilla stopped working on it.
(DIR) Post #9t9s8WQxUBhOV2Saps by wzqtparor@pawoo.net
2020-03-19T07:29:38Z
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When the day that Firefox become another Chromium.@wolf480pl @sir @humanleftswatch
(DIR) Post #9tATO6bYYQqQ92qrHk by nifker@mastodonten.de
2020-03-19T14:34:25Z
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@wolf480pl Whats so bad about HURD?
(DIR) Post #9tAUtf4UYeFTyMzrd2 by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2020-03-19T14:51:21Z
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@nifker haven't tried it so can't tell for sure.What I know for fact is that ~25 years ago it was supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread, but then everyone started using Linux as a "temporary" kernel for GNU system, while HURD hit some hurdles with their design (kinda overengineered, kinda Mach microkernel being unsuitable) and developement pretty much stopped.Maybe @sir will be able to give more accurate critique of HURD.
(DIR) Post #9tAUzxszWENI3vchUG by sir@cmpwn.com
2020-03-19T14:52:28Z
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@wolf480pl @nifker that's about right. It has bad performance, it doesn't scale, it's bloated, etc. Basically exactly what you'd expect to happen if GNU made a kernel.