It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of...
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It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of society. Of course, there's an alternative — various third parties, many of which are actively malicious and none of which are remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security, feature parity, or anything else.
Today this is about browsers, but the fact that I have to specify is its own problem.
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@dymaxion probs a good idea to flick some coins to https://servo.org/sponsorship/
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@dymaxion you don't have to _use_ the software just give them some of your hard earned.
but fair enough, sorry
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@quoll
A browser is the size of an operating system. If you can't stand up at least a ten person full-time dedicated security team, separate from all the actual dev work — or have a meaningful short-term path to doing so — you're not building a serious tool for non-hobbyists. Like, nothing wrong with hobbies, but I have more than enough expensive hobbies as it is. Maybe they'll get lucky and in fifteen years they'll have something useful with a big enough team to back it up, but I'm not betting on it. And to be clear, ten security engineers is a bare minimum even if you're working in a memory safe language with generated parsersfrom scratch.