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If anything would rile the regulators, Google making Gmail compatible only with Chrome would do it.
My name is Peter Sherman. I wrote a non-HTML, non-CSS, non-JavaScript browser several years ago (in theory, it could be easily adapted to those standards by including code and hooks for the appropriate parsers and interpreters. (Software Engineering side-observation: Why aren't browsers delivered as independently functional component parts, that is, why are the codebases for most browsers that use a lot of libraries typically tightly coupled to those codebases?))
Anyway, point is, I may be able to help you with your quest if you reach out to me... my email address is:
peter.d.sherman@gmail.com
I can give you all of the basic theories with respect to what you're trying to do, and hopefully make the software engineering process a little bit easier by showing you how to appropriately divide ("divide and conquer") the entire task into much more managable, approachable, and understandable subcomponents...
Let me know, and I'll try to help you!
Anyone else who is similarly curious can also reach out to me, via email, too!
If more than one person is interested -- perhaps we should put together a group?
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> Stuff is bad, fascism is on the rise, mega corporations control more and more wealth, those two things feed on each other, book banning in the US, war in Ukraine, my country is burning due to global warming, ... and all of this bad news damages the psyche. Turn off the news. We are living in unprecedentedly peaceful and prosperous times, and it's only getting better day by day. That is a fact. If you feel otherwise…
Ah yes, America is famously calm, Eastern Europe is doing fine, and there's no incoming global climate issue. Just because we're doing good in absolute terms compared to wars and plagues of the past doesn't mean we're doing great.
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> Stuff is bad, fascism is on the rise, mega corporations control more and more wealth, those two things feed on each other, book banning in the US, war in Ukraine, my country is burning due to global warming, ... and all of this bad news damages the psyche. Turn off the news. We are living in unprecedentedly peaceful and prosperous times, and it's only getting better day by day. That is a fact. If you feel otherwise…
> We are living in unprecedentedly peaceful and prosperous times, and it's only getting better day by day. There are a lot of people who are a definitely NOT more prosperous or peaceful. Democracy is decreasing world wide. Young people in the US are NOT as prosperous as their parents and grandparents were at their age. Global warming is causing serious issues which we are only beginning to address. Maybe things are g…
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> I get angry about not being able to do anything about anything. And this is my way of trying to do something about it. It's the best I can do. This attitude is gold, and it's what changes the whole world. What you said about the misery of "news" resonates with me. In psyops we call it "sapping". Propaganda designed to demoralise, dispirit and corrode resistance used to come from our enemies . The classic example wa…
>> As you do, I find the discourse around tech to be a pit of dismissiveness, avoidance, denial, resignation, and learned-helplessness. Do you think this is why people are abandoning the GPL license in favor of MIT/BSD? Something about the fight the GPL aims to win being a hopeless fantasy? In the face of the sentiment you and OP express, I'd think GPL usage would be widespread.
From my POV the GPL certainly seems alive and well, and the ideology of the Free Software movement remains sound and strong.
What I'm alluding to is the wider public. In we literally walked around town interviewing young and old. Soon as I can, I'll share the results in a HN submission.
> And how about browser-specific extensions that make sites unusable from other browsers (sorry, you cannot view your gmail with Firefox. Please install google chrome)? This has happened, and as soon as lawyers find a way out of monopoly issues, it will happen again. If anything would rile the regulators, Google making Gmail compatible only with Chrome would do it.
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No it's not the tech news that he's saying is bad, it's the ads.
Huh? The author is very explicitly writing first about general news, and then about tech news. > I do like to follow tech news, and for me, this is done 98% through Ycombinator’s hacker news. But I started to get the same feeling I had ten years ago: it’s all negative. That's followed by the list of some sample categories negative tech news that they are concerned about. Most of them have nothing to do with ads. Even…
Especially giants like China and India are doing very well.
So the news is contraceptive? I can easily believe that.