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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:43:46 JST alcinnz

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   • серафими многоꙮчитїи

   @djm62 And I like building my own browsers too...

   Though having fallen in love with a language which doesn't have good text-rendering APIs available slows down the work...

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     серафими многоꙮчитїи (djm62@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:43:48 JST серафими многоꙮчитїи

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     @alcinnz your work, thinking about things from first principles, thinking about what aspects of the things we use truly matter, is valuable whether or not some gargantuan quasi-free browser from a corporation makes a misstep

     Honestly, I think massive FLOSSish organisations are part of what we need, but long term we need to architect away from massive anything

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:43:49 JST alcinnz

     While I consider it bad taste to promote my work when Mozilla's having yet another controversy, my advice is being requested. So here goes...

     If you want better choices for browsers, do all you can to ensure all pages you work on are still legible when JavaScript's disabled or unsupported!
     Stop the prevalent over-engineering of the web! Create more resilient pages!

     And if you want to take on a not-*that*-complex project...

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