mke @ mke @lemmy.world

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Yeah, and Linus mostly handed off the project to Junio Hamano quite early on (same year, 2005). Seriously, huge kudos to Junio for all his work. Still, it's fun to say this quirky guy who likes penguins started not one, but two free software projects that took the world by storm. Humbling, even.

Not necessarily! Maybe we would live in a world of mercurial, or even some other alternative.

And it wasn't bitbucket (botbicket?), but BitKeeper, which gave the Kernel folks a license to use BK, but with some restrictions. Among those was a "no reverse engineering" clause, which is what eventually lead to the revoking of that license—lots of interesting articles on this!—frustrating Linus for a few weeks, and finally the start of Git.

IIRC it's both, sort of. They've contributed a lot to mercurial and, yes, that's largely thanks to mercurial folks being more open and receptive to their desired changes compared to git. But they also have internal tools that build on top of mercurial, tools that you're very unlikely to see used outside facebook projects.

They said they're quite serious about it, actually. While it's quirky, I don't see anything wrong with it. It's... weirdly charming? I'd never use anything like it, but it's fun to see something different amidst a world of copy-pasted contributor covenants.

As is their code of ethics.

Oh, him. Thanks.

nowadays he's running the Brave browser.

Yeah, that's what I knew him from. Figures he would go on to lead a browser infamous for its controversies.

I'm sorry, I don't think that's entirely correct:

Servo aims to provide an independent, modular, embeddable web rendering engine source - About Servo

I think it'd be better to say they're working on becoming a modern, easy to use alternative to the likes of Gecko and Blink, the engines powering Firefox and Chrome, respectively.

I saw nothing about plans to become a fully featured web browser, even in the roadmap. Do you have anything else to share that supports the browser idea?

I've already seen people suggesting "expand on hover" to Mozilla, on Connect, I think. Hoping they consider it, later on.

To be clearer, at least for now, they're literally separate checkboxes. I have the sidebar on, AI off.

I would love it if Mozilla cast the AI trend aside

I feel you... :^(

I believe I remember reading that Apple gets a share of the money from google searches by their users, too. That's an absurd amount of incentive to sit on your ass and never try anything different.

I'll try to add a source here, later.

Edit: it is now later:

An expert witness for Google let slip that the company shares 36 percent of search ad revenue from Safari with Apple.

Source - The Verge article

Oh my, could you share more information about the homophobic CEO thing?

And a JS engine! Firefox uses Mozilla's SpiderMonkey, unlike every other (Blink/chrome-family) browser which uses Google's V8.

Once again, note that if you're the kind of user who shuns Brave because the CEO says stupid stuff every once in a while, you'll probably not look fondly upon Ladybird's project lead and main developer being scared of pronouns.

See the issue on github.

If you don't care about that, it's an interesting project. Can't say I approve, though.

Posting this to inform people and let each one decide what to do on their own. Don't harass anyone, please.

Local translations, heck yeah! I know it's not the case for everyone, but I'll even take worse translations in the short-term if it means being able to ditch google and friends.

Hey, I think it's possible you're misunderstanding how the system you're referring to works, as well as its purpose. It's happened a lot.

I'd like to try to help by answering any questions I can and clarifying things, if you're willing to talk.

Honestly, I'm blocking it simply because I'm tired of opening a thread thinking there's a seed of discussion, and it's just MBFC bot. Will probably do the same with AutoTLDR. This isn't working; comments might be the wrong interface for this.

The AI assistant stuff is currently an opt-in experiment.

Sometimes, there are already resources explaining more clearly and thoroughly than we could. And although I'm unsure if this case qualifies, there are definitely topics that can't be reduced to a few sentences. Thus, a reputable link is often worth more to both sides: it saves the explainer time and effort while informing the target far better.

If you don't want to engage with the content, I believe there are better ways to go about it than being rude to people who were likely trying to help.

If you genuinely think LLMs are anyway capable of even basic reasoning despite all arguments towards the contrary, I honestly don't want to try convincing you anymore. You're asking for a miracle out of me—to explain consciousness itself, even—while you can just say "but there's a chance" even though LLMs can't get basic facts right.

Saying "we don't know, and it's complicated, therefore there's a chance, maybe, depending" is barely the beginning of an argument.