@sun@hfaust i'm getting upset with the free software / privacy movement more and more because nobody wants to put their money where their mouth is. kagi costs $5 a month? nah i'd rather stay with google who i hate. Conversation charges for their build on google play? SCAM. Gitlab gives out 90% of their stuff for free but needs to find some revenue to actually pay devs? Clearly they want to SCAM poor users. thank you for reading my blog post
@lain@hfaust@sun free software advocates are all freeloaders now. They don't care if you're homeless and your family is starving, they just want your code for free.
"But what about Aklilu in Ethiopia, he can't afford $10/month"
No, but you definitely can so fucking pay for it already, you already had 20 years of it for free. Trade the cost of two candy bars per month for software that people put MILLIONS of hours into. It's the best fucking deal for technology in the history of mankind and you're crying about it being too much
What bothers me is the amount of FUD people are spreading. Sure, Mozilla Corp is not great (or straight BAD), but is not like have that many options are the moment.
@lain@hfaust yeah its irritating to me too because like, do the math. If it's free to you, someone is paying, and it's going to be someone snorting up all your data. Don't like it? YOU BE THE CUSTOMER INSTEAD
@sun@EdBoatConnoisseur@LordMordred@neohttps://ladybird.dev/ project by the (former) lead serenityos dev to build a production quality web browser from scratch, which has made enough progress by now that I feel confident in saying that it will be fully daily drivable within a few months from now
@maija@EdBoatConnoisseur@LordMordred@sun@neo the last I heard was that x.com (nee twitter) was fully usable if you spoofed useragent, and probably most websites/spas of similar complexity work as well
@allison@EdBoatConnoisseur@LordMordred@sun@neo oh wow impressive might have to try it out, but palemoon will likely remain the one for me i thinks :02nod: then again i did daily drive netsurf and links for periods so any things doable
@nav@lain@hfaust well yes they should have done this a long time ago because most people now don't want to give them money with all the bullshit they've adopted since then
I have an aversion to giving Mozilla money because their browser out of the box is horrendous. All the Pocket, recommendations, and such are annoying. Also, my image of Mozilla is mostly negative. It's not substantiated by anything concrete. But there seem to be a lot of criticisms of them.
The Mozilla Developer Network site is an amazing resource too. But I still have no interest in donating money to Mozilla.
First, there's the fact that it's a crypto browser, and crypto is largely associated with scams of various kinds.
Secondly, they whitelist a ton of ads from facebook and twitter. Not good.
Thirdly, they spend a lot of time adding features nobody cares about and doesn't give people ways to disable them (VPN, some of the crypto stuff, etc).
Rewards is not opt-in, it's opt-out? except apparently the opt-out doesn't work?
@neo@EdBoatConnoisseur@LordMordred they have integrated their own eth wallet though I guess but it doesn't really do anything unless you deliberately try to use it, there's an icon there but I have never used it.
@feld@neo@LordMordred@sun I don't use shitcoins like the US dollar, trillions on circulation, 1 node, no minting cap, and 1% of holders control about 90% of the supply.
Looking to migrate my assets to a realcoin like the yuan but need a way to simplify the process.
@nav@lain@feld@hfaust any youtube channel I like I give five dollars a month to. Right now I am only giving to Red Letter Media and Technology Connections
I think this is a very good idea. I like something, I give a dollar to a few bucks. It's basically nothing for me. But that pays for a lot of views from me. Same thing goes with open source software. If I find it useful, I see if they accept donations.
I know if I made something open source and someone sent me a dollar, I'd be ecstatic that someone cares so much about my software to even think of giving me money. I once received an email thanking me for like $2 from a dev lol
Granted, I know not everyone has disposable income to do that. But I think it's a good idea if one has the means.
I refuse to give Google money for YouTube. I don't think they deserve it with how they treat content creators and users. I'd rather skip them and directly pay the creators off platform
@maija@EdBoatConnoisseur@LordMordred@sun@neo not so fast lol, we all know the likely outcome of this little situation will be that I hate nixos even more and I'd have firsthand experience to back my claims up instead of just relying on gut instinct
When I needed to send money to someone internationally, I chose a stable coin on a network with a fee that was less than a penny. And that worked really well
We can't get there until there's a ~free way to send money to other people on the internet.
We can't fight back against the existing system unless we directly fund en-masse the things we care about.
You could change lives with 25 cents if enough people are donating... allow people to work full time on these things they're really good at.
I see two main hurdles: getting people to understand the value prop of this new form of p2p internet capitalsm, and getting people to mentally accept a digital currency.
@lain@lain.com@sun@shitposter.world @hfaust@shitposter.world People can start? People have been doing their own Firefox since literally forever. We literally don't need Mozilla.
@SuperDicq@lain@sun You quite do, at least you'd need Mozilla as an upstream. Specially if you'd rather avoid launching effectively chromium or a webkit-gtk browser for the vast majority of webapps and mainsteam sites (which is where palememe, waterfox, SailfishOS browser, … falls off).
Mozilla is likely a better upstream than Google but it's still a pretty bad choice, it's one of the many reasons why I picked WebKitGTK.
@SuperDicq@lain@lanodan if you plan on never syncing back with blink/webkit then it may be okay but chrome is completely saddled with google's business needs as an ad company