Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

Post by bigyabai » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC

scared_together wrote: post #116

bigyabai wrote: post #107

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Apple isn't the only one standing in the way of a Google hegemony. If they are, then the web is already fucked since neither corporation has a benevolent track record pertaining to Open Source. Apple just can't compete without steering privileges that are equally harmful to the open web.

> Apple isn't the only one standing in the way of a Google hegemony. Who else would you consider? Chromium-based browsers from companies other than Google are still contributing to Google’s hegemony. And Mozilla is funded by Google.

Post by nkotov » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

robinhood wrote: post #76

oefrha wrote: post #19

I’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…

I don't understand why we always assume bad faith. I wish more companies were like Cloudflare actually - trying to balance the need of revenues while trying to do good for internet and open source as a whole. As a normal user with a few sites, I'm glad they provide what they provide to block bots, attacks and everything AI.

Post by CSDude » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #35

I 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?

Post by babypuncher » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

boxed wrote: post #124

robinhood wrote: post #83

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The great strength of Omarchy is the fact that they've repackaged every good things from many different projects (arch, hyperland, and many packages) so I can install a fully functional distro with nice defaults, and every hardware working (bluetooth etc...), in less than 3 minutes without any interaction whatsoever. And it just works. Not because of Omarchy per se, but because they scripted the hell out of it so it…

Isn't that just Ubuntu?

Post by cosmic_cheese » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #127

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #118

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If/when Apple is forced to start allowing Blink on iOS globally, all it takes is a hearty marketing push from Google and devs putting “best viewed in Chrome” badges on their sites for Safari’s marketshare (and with it, Apple’s influence) to plummet.

Given how AMP eventually died, it seems unlikely that web developers would go along with it. What’s in it for them? Also, I don’t see any sign that Google even wants to do it? This is not really evidence-based reasoning, it’s just “I can imagine something evil that Google might do.”