skia doesn’t actually have that many alternatives, and skia is well maintained used by a large amount of projects. and none I am aware of are nearly as mature as skia is.
skia doesn’t actually have that many alternatives, and skia is well maintained used by a large amount of projects. and none I am aware of are nearly as mature as skia is.
Honestly, I’m not sure that’s quite a good takeaway. The article itself was pretty much a bland nothing burger and the articles that were cited were, again, pretty bland. The biggest thing I can find is that they won’t be facing off another browser and then it’s like, well duh.
It’s just one of those things. It just feels like the original dude said one thing and the author interpreted it a completely different way.
saying ‘no code’ from rivals seems highly misleading, and I can’t seem to see a hard citation for this, in fact, it very directly contradicts this same sentence from the article
He also said that unlike SerenityOS, Ladybird will “leverage the greater OSS ecosystem,” meaning that it will use other open source libraries for some features.
it would be better to say they aren’t relying on libraries and features from rivals. not that they will use “no code” from them, good code is good code afterall
Boring hit piece that way overblows some issues on the topic.
Yeah, can’t say I really care about this, this seems like a bit of a nothing burger.
maybe if any of those open source github alternatives were actually any decent, most of the “github alternatives” I find don’t even have a functioning search…
EDIT: I also find that github’s discoverability (like this https://github.com/topics/activitypub?l=rust&o=desc&s=updated) is actually great I find so many cool projects using it
Can a webpage glow any harder?
There are good reasons not to federate, Legality is kinda murkey when it comes to stuff like this. Federation could (not saying it would) be used as a weapon against them. I mean, there are all sorts of instances on the federated networks, many of which do not comply with US law. Not just the real shitty stuff, But even instances that just don’t care about DMCA for instance. It could simply be that Federation is just way too much of a hassle, which I really couldn’t blame them. I did try to host my own federated service instance and it was just kinda too much.
Working with android can be a bit of a pain for sure. I’m only talking about android here since that’s all I’ve tested, so don’t apply what I am saying to chromium, Android and Chromium are two seperate projects, by two separate teams. but in the end it’s important to realize that google has actually needs for these devices. As long as you work within the bounds of needs it’s actually not that hard to actually work with. Android has a LOT of stuff for sure.
Android actually allows you to configure most things (granted the documentation is absolutely horrid, Grep my beloved). It is true that most android phones are running proprietary stuff, but this isn’t really any fault of google. Google has gone to fairly great lengths to make AOSP a fairly open ecosystem. Nearly every rom is heavily customized as per customers requirements. AOSP can actually run on most hardware fairly easily. Hell it even works just fine on the vanilla kernel (Waydroid for instance). The Issue is that it’s nearly impossible to market consumer devices with only FOSS/AOSP stuff, the margins on phones are actually terrible. The biggest issue is finding a phone that can accommodate the more open stuff, not the issue with google pushing crap. In the end Google is making devices for people who will fight tooth and nail to grab the gun to shoot themselves in the foot. A lot of their motivations are based on that. But doing your own AOSP is still easy enough. Just need hardware for it.
Chromium and AOSP are not good examples for what you’re saying. Both Chromium and Android have thriving ecosystems of forks and alternatives based on them. Built on the work that Google is doing with them. So I really don’t think those are good examples of applications that aren’t healthy because you can just use a fork.
Yes, Google controls upstream, but there’s no reason why you can’t use downstream.As you said, it puts maintenance burden on the forks, but people are willing to do that. That’s the thing.
EDIT: This is my off account, So, unfortunately, you’ll have to take my word for it, but I did used to be part of an Android ROM team in the past and still do Android work private sector today.
I find that fair, but at the same time, proton has a rocksolid history at this point. OFC they will likely add their features to it, and maybe remove some. But im the end its still open source and under gpl licence, so its not like proton cam change that unless they remove all other commits.
awful name
I think you mean a great name
Yes. I have had many bugs with it, I recently changed to organic maps and have no complaints
Literally never heard of it let alone know anyone who cares…
considering android allows you to actively change the default assistant it won’t be a problem, we already have plenty of apps that use overlays that are foss so that’s not an issue either, so I really have no idea what you think would be locked down here.
dicio is just kind of a clunky app
this is a really dumb take lmao
Honestly, IMO they all suck. I’ve tried most around up until about 4 or 5 months ago when I gave up, and each one has some really annoying issues. that I never managed to work around
I find droidify is close, it has an issue with getting caught on some bits, but the devs are aware of the issue, Neostore isnt bad, but It seems to crash every so often?
I never said they worked perfect. The fact that they work at all is a goddamn miracle. Have you ever read some of the specs for all the things they have to support? It’s absolutely absurd.
Them working good is relative to literally anything else. I could go on for list for days about issues on almost anything. Linux, Windows, OSX, Gnome, KDE. It doesn’t matter whether something has problems or not. What matters if they’re the best that you can get.
Literally, no other browser is remotely close to Firefox and Chrome in terms of how well they actually work. Not a single one. Full stop. End of story. Forks excluded for obvious reasons.
in general, an application can allow you to log in to do things like like and comment, but most applications choose to instead. Comments might be a bit more tricky, but applications like smart tube next support liking and disliking.
It could also be possible to do what grayjay does, and simply open a webview for the video in question