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[-] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago

Ladybird is certainly interesting to watch, it's improving quite quickly.

I know people on here hate it because of one (admittedly not at all nice) gender issue in the codes comments but like... seriously?

[-] HStone32@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

guilty until proven innocent, for it is better that the innocent are condemed than for a guilty man go free. And should a trial be warranted, it shall be conducted not by jury, but by a tribunal of like-minded individuals.

they're live the perfect anti-libral.

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[-] erotador 52 points 2 days ago

chaotic good? ladybird? the browser by devs that refuse to use your pronouns?

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People are losing their shit, calling for boycotts, and throwing around accusations of transphobia over comments in the source code and a single line of documentation? Seriously? And brigading the developer three years after the fact‽ I was ready to write off Ladybird, but damn, this was taken way out of proportion.

I'm all in for equal treatment, but people need to get a perspective. Such an extreme reaction will ultimately hurt the cause they're trying to advocate for. Getting bent out of shape and publicly brigading something for every perceived slight, every time someone's feelings are hurt, or can't get their way, will get them -- and the demographic or movement they represent -- labelled as undesirable.

[-] mke@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

A single line of documentation? How about looking into some context? Hurt feelings my ass, Andreas isn't some innocent, silly little guy who never does anything questionable.

And which cause exactly are you talking about? Because I don't know about you, but I'll stand for real, marginalized people over lines of code of a screen any day.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is why I hate the FOSS community. Everyone freaks out and cries wolf the second a platform doesn't share their political opinion, even if it's completely irrelevant to privacy or FOSS.

[-] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 13 points 2 days ago

Personally, I'd want my software to value basic human decency, no matter how good the code is. If the developer lashes out at an inclusive change in a single line of documentation, I'm not using that browser even if it could solve my taxes.

This is just my take though, and if you want to use the browser, then go for it.

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[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Foss certainly aligns better with left-wing philosophies, i don't think far-right need to be widely accepted in these communities

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[-] HStone32@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I don't think performative politics is a FOSS community problem. It's more of an whole Internet problem.

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This is not about "the FOSS community". It doesn't matter if you developed closed-source or open-source, doesn't matter if you license your software with AGPL or NULA, if you make a comment that's seemingly transphobic/misogynistic, people WILL freak out.

The reason you might see this occur more frequently in open-source spaces could be sue to the fact that issue trackers and PRs provide much less filtered responses than corporate social media accounts and blogs.

[-] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Obviously the FOSS community has a heavy left wing bias. I personally haven't heard anything about Proton or Ladybird being controversial outside of Lemmy and Reddit. Clearly It's not just about transphobia and sexism (which I think is an overreaction). A lot of people in the FOSS community left Proton just because of one positive tweet about Trump (from an Asian immigrant living in Switzerland). I think it's really unhealthy for the FOSS community to jump ship the second a platform doesn't share their political opinions.

[-] erotador 12 points 2 days ago

not sure how exactly I'm losing my shit? I posted a single link, and let people decide for themselves, if your fine with supporting sexist people then nobody is stopping you.

and personally I don't care if you think I'm hurting my cause, people who get this butthurt over some simple words and basic respect, simply are not the kind of people who I want to be around anyways.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I worded that poorly. The "you" was plural (I want the singular "thou" back) and meant to refer to the people who are losing their shit, not any one individual.

(edit) I also just want to point out that accusing me of being a sexist sympathizer and two hours later posting this shit is real funny.

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[-] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've checked out the PR, and it does look bad. But I'd like to see a justification. The comment seems blatantly transphobic/misogynistic. Seems like you're saying that my understanding is extreme. How could yours be refuted?

Brigading was clearly not justified, but as per my apparently extreme opinions, so isn't the original reply?

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Oh what the fuck, dev came off like a fucking ass to a minor suggestion.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

Foss community is so insufferable and toxic

[-] Turret3857@infosec.pub 12 points 2 days ago

can you be more specific about what part of the community is toxic?

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Like the comment I replied to. I understand calling people out but that is such an irrelevant topic to the discussion.

It's not always sunshine and rainbows but I don't see the need to whine about every little thing.

Also note that I'm being fair here. Majority people who are not into foss simply avoid it because of how often they see people bitching about said foss products. It's just not a good look.

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[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

Lmao, a weird choice of a hill to die on. Although, given I've seen ppl refer to a user account as "he" exactly 0 times before that, I suspect the dev may speak smth like French natively, where everything is either male or female.

That said, i'd rather use "it" instead of "they", given an account (and anon one at that) is not a person.

[-] erotador 18 points 2 days ago

I'm fairly certain the main dev is swedish

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[-] KeraKali@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

I'm gonna need some names because I only recognize like, two.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 days ago

Going from lawful to chaotic, good to evil, we have:

  • Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey, and derivatives)
  • Servo
  • Libweb (Ladybird)
  • Links2 (as well as ELinks and other forks)
  • WebKit (used in a lot of stuff, namely Safari and GNOME Web)
  • Goanna (Pale Moon and Basilisk)
  • QtWebEngine (Konqueror, Falkon, and qutebrowser)
  • Blink (Chromium, Brave, and derivatives)
  • Trident (Internet Explorer, old versions of Maxthon, old versions of Avant, and any homemade browser created with Visual Studio).
[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 49 points 2 days ago

(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 days ago

100%, this is either uninformed or some apologia

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Is there any Servo-based browser? If not, it should be called Serval.

[-] drosophila 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Where does Dillo fit into this?

Its got cookies disabled by default, no support for JavaScript, and only partial support for CSS. Just as god intended.

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[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Why is QtWebEngine considered evil?

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

It's effectively Chromium.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

It’s the other way around. KHTML begat WebKit and Blink, then we got QtWeb.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not sure I have a lot of faith in Servo but we are in need of anything better than Gecko. Ladybird is the new one on the block and we will see if it goes anywhere. I like that Ladybird it's own web browser.

[-] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ladybird seems almost singularly focused on macOS development. They say that they intend to incrementally move from C++ to Swift

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Swift is decent, one of the biggest .net (c#) people gave a talk at godotcon about whay he likes it better than c#

It works cross platform, it's just developed by apple

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[-] milliams@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Where's KHTML? The O.G. GOAT.

[-] Baleine@jlai.lu 10 points 2 days ago

Well that's WebKit now

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

khtml deserves to be in the gift to humanity category

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What the fuck? Safari is neutral???

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

That is Webkit, not Safari. Lots of things other than Safari use it.

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