There's an opensuse package (unofficial) if anybody is interested in checking it out today. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:xpufx/ladybird
I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
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Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#92Hello friends! I am very excited about this indeed :) If you’d like to know more about Ladybird, I did a presentation about it at the Web Engines Hackfest in Spain just two weeks ago: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs
Hey akling, since you’re building a browser I’ve got to ask, do you have any thoughts on https://htmx.org/ or whether it could be supported as part of some extension to Ladybird?
I thought htmx is just a library, does it need support by the browser?
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux is Linux thanks to large involvement of big tech. It remains to be seen if any Big Tech companies would be interested in seriously supporting development of an open source browser.
Big tech used Linux to wage a proxy war against Microsoft from a safe distance without needing to actually commit to anything. Linus Torvalds had nothing to his name when he started working on Linux. He was just some kid from Finland, but the audacity the project gave it attention and visibility, and visibility came with funding. I think in general a hint of audacity along with being able to demonstrate capabilities…
> A lot of people have a vested interest in shaking up the tech world.
I'd imagine you're one of us, considering you went full-time on your search engine :)
We had Andreas demo his OS / browser [0] at Handmade Cities [1]. These conferences are what I run full-time independently. I'm excited to see a flourishing of audacity, so to speak!
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#94Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.
Servo was moved to the Linux Foundation in 2019, and earlier this year Igalia (an open source consulting company) contributed funds and developer time to advance the project. I believe they have a small team full time on it. You can read more here: https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/ https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214 So, your "wish som…
> an open source consulting company
Not sure how to feel about this combination, are they any good?
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#95Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.
If only there was some kind of foundation which could choose where to spend the many millions of funding it receives each year...
Then who is going to fund market disruptors such as Pocket?
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#96Hello friends! I am very excited about this indeed :) If you’d like to know more about Ladybird, I did a presentation about it at the Web Engines Hackfest in Spain just two weeks ago: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs
Hello there, great work! I have been following since a long time, back when you were on Freenode IRC. If you do bridge your Discord to IRC, please do announce it somewhere.
One suggestion: maintain your compatibility with Linux, as this would likely bring more people to your browser and lower the barrier to work on the browser.
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about the fact that all your institutional knowledge is now not visible outside of Discord, not indexed and barely searchable? How do you feel about the fact that the long-term survival of this knowledge is at the whim of a company that is mostly focused on the gaming community and has no vested interest in preservation over longer time periods? When was the last time you found an answer to a question…
My experience with semi-private chats in modern times is that it encourages more conversation that are visible to more people since everything people say is not going to be trivially searchable for all time by anyone. In the age where the media and those with an axe to grind (and frankly the person interviewing you for a job in 10 years) have figured out how to dig up anything you ever said in under 10 minutes the we…
I'm more concerned about the people that need help with something, but don't ask on Discord for any number of reasons.
I suspect 1000 people use Google to solve a problem for every 1 that joins a Discord and asks.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How do you feel about the fact that all your institutional knowledge is now not visible outside of Discord, not indexed and barely searchable? No different than an office workspace no?
Discord is a replacement for IRC, forums and mailing lists - not for hanging out in meat-space.
The Internet is moving towards a meat place replacement.
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
My experience with semi-private chats in modern times is that it encourages more conversation that are visible to more people since everything people say is not going to be trivially searchable for all time by anyone. In the age where the media and those with an axe to grind (and frankly the person interviewing you for a job in 10 years) have figured out how to dig up anything you ever said in under 10 minutes the we…
I'm more concerned about the people that need help with something, but don't ask on Discord for any number of reasons. I suspect 1000 people use Google to solve a problem for every 1 that joins a Discord and asks.
Discord servers aren’t fully private. Messages can be extracted. Neither Google nor Discord need to officially do anything. The people of Discord servers can decide how info can be publicly shared. There are nuances to care about like people’s privacy and comfort.
Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Realistically another browser engine really isn't needed. 2 is enough. Currently the internet is what Chrome is - if Google decides that they don't like something on the internet, they can just wipe it. Firefox is dying. (And Safari is... well... it does things). The internet has been rotting away for good part of the last decade. We definitely don't have enough browser engines, we are in dire need of more.
> Firefox is dying Then I don’t understand how this new thing will not be stillborn. It is years before becoming usable and even then it will be worse than Firefox.
Firefox dying is not because it's lacking in any form of quality.
Firefox is dying because mozilla exists only as a tiny sheet of cloth over the dummy that google brings out whenever they need to dismiss antitrust/monopoly concerns.