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Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
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Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#62Ladybird is great, but Omarchy is a weird choice. Why can't DHH / Basecamp sponsor David's hobby distro if he wants? The browser ecosystem is dangerously centralized and another independent rendering engine would be welcome. In contrast, I don't see the value in yet another flavor-of-the-week Linux distro. Even sponsoring Arch directly would make more sense here.
Also isn't it just a script to install some stuff and customize
That's what I thought but I just checked and 3.0.0 was released 5 days ago and it has an ISO.
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#63The post does not mention how much money they are giving. Maybe I am a pessimist, but unless the number is in tens of millions or hundreds of millions (very unlikely), I don't think it helps the development of an independent browser very much. Google probably has poured over billions of dollars into Chrome development over the years, and if you look at what Chrome supports, it's massive. I seriously doubt anybody els…
Go look at what the Ladybird project has accomplished with much fewer resources. Ladybird will soon be as good as Firefox.
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#64The post does not mention how much money they are giving. Maybe I am a pessimist, but unless the number is in tens of millions or hundreds of millions (very unlikely), I don't think it helps the development of an independent browser very much. Google probably has poured over billions of dollars into Chrome development over the years, and if you look at what Chrome supports, it's massive. I seriously doubt anybody els…
LuaJIT was developed by one person. Ladybird doesn't need hundreds of millions of dollars, it needs interpreter specialists who are willing to lend their time to the project, and an army of volunteers to work on the rest of the rendering engine.
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#65hmm. Increasingly it feels like I shouldn't be using cloudflare.
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#66I don't use it myself since I'm a long time Linux user, but I'm a big fan of Omarchy brining Linux to the masses. This is great that Cloudflare is sponsoring it!
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#67I cannot for the life of me understand the Omarchy hype. The Linux community has been theming their distribution installs for decades. What distinguishes this from that?
It's just a very simple Linux install meant for developers. It's not for people who have used Linux before but meant to be a way for new people to try it for the first time.
And it's getting a lot of attention because of DHH. Doesn't look half bad either which helps.
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#68Ladybird is great, but Omarchy is a weird choice. Why can't DHH / Basecamp sponsor David's hobby distro if he wants? The browser ecosystem is dangerously centralized and another independent rendering engine would be welcome. In contrast, I don't see the value in yet another flavor-of-the-week Linux distro. Even sponsoring Arch directly would make more sense here.
I have to say, a single announcement that Cloudflare is sponsoring specifically these two projects does start to look a bit like an attempt to curry favour with the grassroots part of the tech right: give “their guys” some money and praise and maybe they’ll stay off Cloudflare’s back for a bit. And to be clear, that’s not to say that it’s bad to sponsor Ladybird, or maybe even Omarchy.
Is Ladybird a tech right thing?
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#69I’m skeptical. Cloudflare clearly wants to move us to a future where only approved browsers are allowed to access the web. People have been fiercely debating whether that’s a terrible thing, or whether that’s the least bad practical solution on offer for website owners. I don’t want to make a judgement on that, but I don’t think the observation that CF is pushing us in that direction is very controversial. But an ind…
why you acting like cloudflare forced people to use their services????
there are a alternative on the market like akamai and fastly
people free to use their favorite cdn over CF lol
Re: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
#70I cannot for the life of me understand the Omarchy hype. The Linux community has been theming their distribution installs for decades. What distinguishes this from that?
>What distinguishes this from that? More eyes on it, DHH has a big following.
Also, there's always been a section of the desktop-Linux user community which is inclined to get very excited about about hypebeast window managers. Back in the day Slashdot was absolutely buzzing about Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(window_manager) .