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   Matt Mascarenhas (miblo@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 03:23:19 JST Matt Mascarenhas

   • Devine Lu Linvega
   • tech? no! man, see...
   • golly josh darn

   @klardotsh @neauoire @technomancy Oooh yeah, this history tree looks sweet. And I'm another keyboard navigator here, using qutebrowser for this despite its extortionate memory usage. I also do program in C, but am yet to contribute to any programs other than my own! Nevertheless intrigued to look into Netsurf, and maybe, just maybe…

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 03:23:18 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Devine Lu Linvega
     • golly josh darn

     @miblo @klardotsh @neauoire no offense but the idea of building out the link hinting system in C seems real bad! I don't want to use a browser that has an obscure navigation functionality used by 0.5% of the already-small userbase that could contain a coding mistake which causes private data to be leaked

     there's a lot to hate about XUL and a lot to hate about JS, but building out the user interface in a different language from the rendering engine was 100% the right move; they are very different types of coding with very different constraints

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 03:34:44 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Devine Lu Linvega
     • golly josh darn

     @miblo @klardotsh @neauoire sorry if this came across as too negative; I don't want to discourage you from hacking on what you find fun

     I just get kind of down when I get to thinking about browsers, and the immense gap between where we could be and where we are, yknow?