oh commonlisp. you came and you gave without taking.
what a beautifully-written lambda. i'm not finished reading source but i can't think of a reason i wouldn't prefer to use nyxt over every other browser when i'm in x11.
I think the new web will be one made up of closed off islands that use strict paywalls to finance themselves. I also think the total amount of content will be lower and that the remaining platforms will more heavily skew towards "safe" guidelines.
It won't go back to the early web, but it will certainly survive. Much like life, people find a way. If there is demand, innovators will find a way to meet it.
The webs continued existence is not dependent on surveillance capitalism.
> Much like life, people find a way. If there is demand, innovators will find a way to meet it.
That's like saying that life is equally good and the US and North Korea because "people find a way" to work around problems. There's a real way in which economic inefficiencies reduce our standard of living. Making advertising worse on purpose is just a race to the bottom, all feel-good crusading without any end benefit to humanity.
"But I won't be tracked!", the privacy people say. So what? What harm will you have prevented?
I really thought Firefox did all of this already too. I have no justification for not having truly checked. Hopefully other browsers from Safari will not be far behind.
I hope that there might be a way to safely auto-sync my Firefox profile, bookmarks and history especially, to Safari iff it's really the more secure of the available browsers for iOS.
It seems a bit absurd that this is still a reason to say 'fuck ubuntu' when they listened to user feedback and reversed that feature. I can't think of any other similar missteps in recent years.
> I can't think of any other similar missteps in recent years.
I stopped using Ubuntu a while ago due to a large number of individually minor "missteps", so I don't have any equally blatant/memorable (or particularly recent) examples, but there were enough of them to be a constant hazard of updating anything.
(For similarly large, there's systemd and wayland, but neither those are specific to Ubuntu.)
Also, someone (for analogy) dumping toxic waste into a drinking water supply, and then listening to feedback and ceasing to dump toxic waste into the water supply, still seems like a damn good reason to say "fuck those guys in particular" to me, and that's what shipping malware in a software update amounts to.
i can't quite maintain my favorite hyper-vigilant hacker-dev mental posture while switching between i/o devs