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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 06:20:04 JST iced depresso
   i should stop doing it but i still feel the need to point out when a search engine does not run its own index. it's like when people say they are going to protest chrome by making a reskin of chrome. or like deuvian where they just flip systemd off and otherwise rely entirely on upstream debian to do everything.
   
   the thing about alternatives is they have to be able to stand on their own. it does not counteract abuse of power issues to have a dozen repeater stations that are 99.9% reliant on the abuser for daily decisions and maintenance.
   
   what you have made is a mod, not an alternative. :neocat_woozy:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 06:27:57 JST iced depresso

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     • Amikke
     @Amikke questionable. its possible for someone else to pick up blink or gecko but nobody actually has done it.
     
     palemoon is one of the closest where i think they have flipped a couple feature flags that mozilla already made on, but eh.
     
     i've never looked in to the browser engine code too hard. my brain melted working on cassowary (though id like to g oback and finish it)
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     Amikke (amikke@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 06:27:59 JST Amikke

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     @icedquinn it’s worse than the Chrome thing, if Google decides to abandon Chrome, all the Chromium people can pick up the torch and develop it. Using Google’s index just means you’re screwed if anything ever happens to it.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 06:31:37 JST iced depresso

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     • Amikke
     @Amikke complicated yeah. but so is rich text in general. i keep running in to a wall that nobody wants to do text formatting.
     
     hell when i look in to making GUI stuff work i am basically doing archeology pulling up old algorithms from people's still online computer science student pages from the 90s where its like "okay uwu here is the foundational algorithm for all basic shit nobody has read this in 40 years"
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     Amikke (amikke@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 06:31:38 JST Amikke

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     @icedquinn yeah but that’s the thing, browsers are hell and nobody wants to develop them, so everyone uses the ones that are already developed and actively worked on by someone else. If that stops being the case they’ll have no other way.