@allison@mangeurdenuage@olmitch 🤷♀️ I use palemoon or firefox with half a dozen extensions and just accept that a lot of the modern web will be broken, most of it isnt worth saving imo
(never had an issue with archive.org though, on either palemoon or firefox)
I think the biggest obstacle we have right now is that no HLL is good enough for the task of being the Language of Everything. I have certain ideas on what to do but, its a rabbit hole that I dont really want to go down less I fully succumb to NIH syndrome
@allison@mischievoustomato@hidden well, fixing the kernels is basically impossible imo until we have simpler hardware, as you suggested
fixing userspace software *is* possible imo, it would be a large effort but I think it is doable. like producing some kind of emacs++ that you could run as PID1 and which would run everything inside an interpreter for a high level language
@allison@mischievoustomato@hidden yup, the "thousand eyeballs" idea is a myth anyways tbh, for one thing all thousand eyeballs are likely to be looking at the most interesting parts of the code and not the most vulnerable
I am almost certain the NSA has backdoors into OpenSSL and both the Linux and BSD kernels, despite them being open source
@allison@mischievoustomato@hidden the danger of supply chain attacks means some funding source will need to be created, there's way too much vulnerable mission critical dependencies and eventually corporations will want to start paying to figure out how to secure them
@mischievoustomato@hidden@allison yup, absolutely. I dont like "open source" as opposed to free software at all, "bazaar" development doesnt work, without leadership, direction, and funding any sizeable software project is dead in the water, if it manages to make something at all it will be some bloaty disorganized hard to use mess (see: everything made by the GNU Project)
@allison@mischievoustomato@hidden ah yeah that makes sense, though the simplest way for that to happen would just be to run systemd in unikernel mode (which is possible today)