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If they are going chronologically, the 4channers and other right wingers only got their claws into the project in the last week. So hopefully they didn’t cause too much havoc.


I can’t wait to see their content on the fediverse. They made a video about getting away from big tech but don’t mirror their stuff here. I think it’s a damn shame.

They could even host their own instances.


Interesting, but I’m curious about how it comlaresbto other technologies in cost, maintenance, and efficiency. There are molten salt batteries being tested as well as hydrogen fuel cells, even heated concrete and flywheels.

These seem simple but that can hide complex problems.


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There was no documentation or guide for embedding it into

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If you’d like to embed Servo in your own application, consider using tauri-runtime-verso, a custom Tauri runtime, or servo-gtk, a GTK4-based web browser widget.

Great documentation and exceptional guide! 👏 What next, are you going to tell me that the code is the documentation? “Just read the code”?


So, in order to embed Servo you need:

  • to use Tauri: sure, pull in a huge other project to be able to use our project 🫰
  • use GTK: again, pull in a bunch of unrelated dependencies to be able to embed our project

I can’t give servo some graphical surface (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, DX, whatever), call a function to open a webpage and see it draw on that surface. There’s no lib with documentation on crates.io, no bindings for other languages, and non of the things I mentioned in my previous comment.

It feels like this is built just like Gecko was for Firefox: single consumer with the consumer being the “reference implementation”.


I should’ve been clearer: my misgiving is the claim of “embeddable”. If embeddable means having to read the code to find out how instead reading documentation, tutorials, and examples, nah, it ain’t embeddable. It’s possibly embeddable.

It’s like claiming NIXOS were user friendly, assembly being easy, or Arch Linux stable.


How easy is it to embed though? Documentation, tutorial, examples, etc. Making it as embeddable as Gecko is a losing strategy. Making it as embeddable as Blink and WebKit though, then we can talk about embeddable.


I mean embedding into applications. There was no documentation or guide for embedding it into anything last I checked and this is just a demo browser that’s being released. If embedding it into applications is as hard as Gecko, it will have no chance against Blink and WebKit.



Ai still needs them to mindlessly make a robot factory with AI to print AI. I’m sure it’ll be safe


Oh no, they are making an Amazon series out of too. They’re going to Hollywood the shit out of it to make it palatable to the masses.



The “lib snowflake” screamers and “cancel culture” whiners crying about a game showing the KKK negatively is just too good.



It might become the most watched video of the UK parliament. Whether that will have any effect though, is debatable.

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Hopefully these won’t end up in the ukraine war on the side of Russia 😐

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The US and the West at large just thought China would stay that nice exploitable country for cheap labor forever. Their plans never adjusted to either find an alternative or move back production.

Capitalists praise “the power of the market” for being agile and whatnot, but companies (and many Western countries are being run by companies) target costs optimisation at all costs. They are like AIs with a bias for it and hyper-specialise for it. The only moves companies have are “buy the competitor” and for countries it’s just protectionism until war.

This isn’t praise for China throwing the majority of their citizens into the machine as cheap labor for Western companies, more a critique of the West’s tunnel vision. We will reap what we sowed.

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Oh sweet! a question then for you: can you explain what the FairPhone is missing in terms of security? Do you maybe have notes comparing it to the Pixel? As a security layman, I’m curious.

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Hopefully this also means monetary investment in open source, not just open source usage without a support contract or contributing back. Matrix is a great example of an open source project that is being used by governments but struggling to get paid because governments are employing their own support staff and making internal forks.

But the more governments, agencies and individuals switch, there greater the chance they’ll pay the developers and maintainers for support or features.

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Why can’t you run your own OS anymore? You don’t have to buy a Pixel. This news is about Pixel phones, one of the many many many Android phones…

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Isn’t SailFish a Russian outfit? Also, every time I’ve looked at their phones, they were either sold out or somehow unavailable. Are they still active?

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Get a FairPhone with /e/OS. Give money to people who actually want to see an open ecosystem, not lock it down.

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How is it possible that Huawei is the third biggest phone vendor and most apps still have trouble running without Google Services? I thought they were not able to come preloaded with Google Services for a few years and that they have many customers outside of China. Are all those customers just limited to Chinese apps?

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Do they do reporting with AMD engineers? If not, AMD should be jumping on this as fast as possible.

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Understandable. It’s a pity Google is so embedded in our systems. You can still get a fairphone though. It also comes with regular android. I’ve read in multiple places not to get the official fairphone case. You might have to check why that is.

The good thing about the fairphone is that it has the highest reparability raring of any current phone out there. You can swap put the screen, battery, and other components very easily when things go haywire.

And of course it’s one of the very few companies on this world that tries to give a shit about slavery in the supply chain.

I know somebody’s going to day “get a pixel and put grapheneOS, it’s the most secure phone in the planet”. I don’t know if the Swedish apps dependent on google services will work, but if you do decide to go google hardware, you can try and get it secondhand.

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Fairphone with eOS if you want to get away from Google even more. No google services but access to f-droid and the play store with anonymous accounts.

Or, get a second-hand phone and flash it with eOS or lineage OS.

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Would be great if the patents were invalided, but the bigger issue would be them being accepted in the first place. That shouldn’t even work.

If this does go to court because the patents are considered valid and they can successfully argue that they don’t apply, I’m afraid Nintendo could just hand-craft another patent. They would have been given instructions the recipe during the court proceedings.

But I do wonder if PocketPair could just default on the lawsuit in the US. What kind of effect would that have?

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I wouldn’t make such a prediction as there are many possibilities and people like hanging onto things. One possible outcome could be the introduction of UBI, which could allow people only pursue the jobs or activities the want. That could be upskilling to become a research, becoming a race car driver, or a streamer, starting a company using AI, traveling the world, helping out the elderly, and so much more. There would still be production and consumption with popular products making some companies richer than others, but it could lead to a happier populace within a capitalistic system.

Of course there are dystopian scenarios like cleansing of the unemployed, remigration of the homeless, forced labor, and so much more that could keep the capitalistic system alive.

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Adapt or die. Societies that do not adapt to these changes will not have a good time. It’s easy to ignore workers and just say “well, you’re replaced, now fuck off”. If the government doesn’t take care of them and keep them happy, it could easily have negative consequences for the government.

Imagine if 30% of the workforce were fired within 5 years and couldn’t get a job because AI did everything. Would 30% of the population just be happy going from something to homeless? How would the country absorb such a change? Governments can keep looking at the shiny money companies pay them to look the other way, but just because they ignore to see things doesn’t mean they aren’t happening. Either they are forward thinking and prepare or they will find themselves up a creek.

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There is no gray, only black and white. EA can’t be a bad company because Nestlé is the worst. You’re either good or you’re bad. That’s how the world works 🤷

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Yeah, there’s absolutely no reason people hate EA. They are an insane force for good in this world and there’s reason to ever look past the shiny veneer. After all, everything shiny must be good. I mean, why vote with your wallet when you could just open the wallet and give money to whatever you like without any fore or afterthought. Money doesn’t give corporations any power, that’s just an illusion. Keep consuming and all will be fine.

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Nintendo had registered the patents in a filing not long after Palworld’s release, setting the stage for the lawsuit.

How is that even legal? Decades after releasing something, a competitor comes along and releases their product, so you decide “now’s the time to file a patent” and you can kill the competitor. That should create a very unstable business environment as no new business can be safe when making a patent check as they can be filed after you created a product by somebody else. It makes no sense.

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How about starting a challenge #VoiceLikeAGirl to put on the other shoe in gaming?
Inspired by a discussion I had elsewhere and the article "[Women in Games swaps male and female voices to highlight harassment in gaming](https://www.campaignasia.com/article/women-in-games-swaps-male-and-female-voices-to-highlight-harassment-in-gaming/482231)", how about we start a voice modulation challenge where you have to play at least one online game with a voice modulator to sound like a girl? I'm curious what the experiences would be like.
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Could we please add a rule to ban musk spam?
If lemmy had user-defined filters, I'd use them. Right now I'm downvoting the stuff, but there's already a community for musk-related stuff: [[email protected]](https://kbin.social/m/EnoughMuskSpam)
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