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  • I hate the enshittification too.

    But the cold hard truth is that is seems to at least somewhat help with the funding of the engine’s development all the forks also rely on…

    We all need to find another way to make funding browsers work. I don’t know if that means getting some of the nicher browsers get closer to a workable state (ladybird comes to mind, although I’ve never studied it, I don’t know if their architecture is any good) so that people switch over and they’re easier to maintain as the code is newer and hopefully learned from past mistakes enough to be easier to keep working, or keep firefox forks and figure out how to stop spreading our efforts.

    At some point we also need to get web devs to stop ignoring the look of pages outside of just chrome, it’ll bite them back just like IE back in the day.


















  • Using VLC is easy. Having good musical taste and finding the time to renew your library so it doesn’t grow stale is hard.

    I know, I used to download all my stuff and now I just get YouTube music started on a piece I like and let it autoplay forever while I work, do a tabletop campaign, play videogames… I find that this way, I find the music it plays to be in the right mood 98% of the time.

    It disgusts me to say it but it just works and saves me a lot of time.



  • What’s the exclusion zone of rare earth mines ? Of the terrible chemicals required to extract those products ? Same question with the batteries. What’s the impact of the shade on agriculture ? How about all the steel, concrete and composites on the environment, how do they degrade ? Is it in micro plastics ?

    I didn’t say nuclear energy was good, just that solar panels are worse. The perfect energy source doesn’t exist but currently all the data I’ve come across points to the direction that nuclear is significantly better than all other renewables and don’t require significant battery storage.

    Also if anti-science ecologists hadn’t blocked so many fast neutron reactors, we’d be further along to a tech that can burn existing thorium stockpiles for 8000 years without further mining and while producing significantly less dangerous waste than current reactors. I guess we’ll just buy the design from China and Russia who didn’t stop the research and have currently operating reactors right now.