Thanks again! I wasn’t sure where the terms belong on the timeline.

Google was happy to provide this because it meant that they could be the only ones that could write a browser.

Word. That, and so many other things.

Not that this excuses much

No, it really doesn’t. NK has been totalitarian (practically a monarchy) and militarist since birth, and tyrannical for the most time since. That’s where you need to look when you want to blame someone for people starving there.

Yep. My current dentist is Ukrainian. And she’s good.

Anyhow, I wouldn’t call my mum radicalized*, just a general mood of complaining about everything. She spends too much time looking at this stuff and then thinks that’s just how people talk nowadays. And she has no concept of fact-checking or even an inkling of which news to trust and which not. If it comes from a “friend” it’s by default more trustworthy than me saying “well maybe that statistic doesn’t even exist, or if, it says something very different”. That said if we sat together I might be able to talk some sense into her, but we live far apart.

* though I’m thinking with discomfort who she might have voted for

Thanks, that was a fun read.

Preaching to the choir wrt js and how it’s just piling on and on. But then I did say I’m 5.

So WebAssembly could have been a development of Java apps on the web? I vaguely remember that used to be a thing long ago. And Java Web Start is just that? Or is it “to finally start to approach some pale imitation of a decent thing now”?

They’re applauding his dumb boasting. I read good articles on the daily beast, but this is stupid.

My mum too, very xenophobic, spouting half-digested arguments about them using up all our money. And she came to this country as an adult, and heavily relied on support the first few years (well, relied or not, it was given). Once they give into Facebook etc. their brains become malleable like rotten fruit.

Can you ELI not a js coder?

Another chapter in the saga! Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.

It’s another of these clearly illegal things one would think should be fairly easy to solve - even without diplomatic drama - yet no government seems to want to notice?

No paywall for me, even through different entry/exit nodes.

Wired.com is probably the better alternative here compared to Russia-pwned archive.ph/archive.today/archive.is

type 2 fun … good in hindsight

I love that.

I hope it’s possible to get a campfire going otherwise it’s really only half the fun.

And coffee cooked on a campfire is better than any other.

This is a result of Google most likely losing the anti-monopoly trial that’s been underway for a while now, which in my book is a Good Thing.
Focusing on one aspect of it being not so good feels counterproductive to me.

Anyhow, let’s see how this plays out first. First of all I want to see the upcoming separations/selling off of Google’s tentacles actually happening, and actually resulting in significantly less monopoly for Google/Alphabet.
The skeptic in me says that it won’t be quite as glorious as I hope, and funding will just flow differently. Who knows, maybe some other power hungry corp will step up.

OP:

maybe browser technology should be funded by government

Yes, but never directly!

Or them to charge for it, or take more money from, say, Alphabet, for services rendered.

Any of those options will get its users on the barricades. FF will always be in the hot chair.

In the end you’re right, sufficient donations would be the best way.

(And yeah, they made some really dumb decisions. What about Google, Apple and Microsoft? Do they not pay the wrong people?)

It never ends. The browser as we knew it in the early 2000s has become an all-encompassing engine to run all sorts of - well, apps. Can’t really call all of it just websites anymore. Media theaters. Secure banking and shopping. Health provider portals. etc etc etc

It never ends.

And the code base has become so vast, so complex, that you can never be 100% sure that it’s “finished”. Figuratively, there’s always someone who dropped a cigarette in the wet cement some time back. That cement will be ever so slightly weaker than the cement surrounding it and might - or might not - break.

I’m not saying I like this, but it is what it is. The Internet of 2025 has very little in common with the internet of [however far you want to go back].

The professionals.

Maifestspiele roughly 100 years later.

That gave me a good laugh, thank you.

The ones that hold ,500+subs with just 92 mods

Those probably get paid, one way or another.

In the current USA this might even ve an option.

Or they’ll try to use AI only. But these things are not intelligent and won’t be able to produce satisfying results but since everyone is following that hype rn they’ll probably spend a billion before they figure that out…

Of course, if moderation gets worse than it already is, either way, the platforms will evtl. be banned from many other countries, notably the EU.

Alphabet and Meta.

They have a stranglehold on the internet that should never have been allowed to develop in the first place.

But reading the other replies I guess my kneejerk reaction is a bit egocentric. Surely others are more important because they fuck up people’s lives directly, not just via the internet.