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Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by Dahoon »

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u wrote: post #150

I know it's almost a meme at this point, but maybe Apple should buy Mozilla (or financially support them in some way)? The enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of way. Surely Apple don't want to cede more control over web standards to Google? They both promote valuing user privacy, so it's not like they don't have some common ground. If Apple really wants to stick it to Google, they could make an iOS App Store policy…

It is privacy Vs "privacy". Not really comparable. One works actively to help people have privacy, one is using the word to sell devices. An Apple owned FF would be a FF I would leave after many many years.

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Post by pferde »

cyphar wrote: post #239
nerdponx wrote: post #221

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Not just the UX. It's dog slow. I've never had a good experience using it, no matter how much I want to like it.

Have you tried it with a different homeserver (either hosted or some other community server)? Matrix.org has a fucktonne of users (~5 million from memory), and given how little funding they have it's shocking that they can afford to run a homeserver at all. I've run my own homeserver for the past few years and I haven't ever had any issues with performance (even when talking to people on Matrix.org).

I can attest to that. I run a Matrix homeserver for a small community, and it's blazingly fast all the time.

Everyone should migrate off matrix.org sooner rather than later. I fully expect seeing regional public Matrix homeservers popping up here and there eventually, just like regional public Jabber servers did back in the day.

Or, indeed like public e-mail providers did.

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Post by tester34 »

v1vek wrote: post #270
wolco wrote: post #231

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Myth or reality? The world vs sf and the valley? I'll go with the world.

history has been with the valley (so far ...)

That's interesting topic

What about Tencent? and things like HK's HFT

What about competitive security? here's huge variety in countries e.g 2 very strong teams are Poland based

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by roboyoshi »

swyx wrote: post #236
gkoberger wrote: post #113

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Yup! Here's the base SVG I started with: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s... Everything else is just CSS!

ok for those who were as obsessed with this as i was... I took the base SVG and cleaned up the CSS to try to understand what was going on with the animations minimal repro: https://svelte.dev/repl/7eea2eba3707414aa62c9ea53b92ad2d?ver... quick youtube discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKnZNjdpp8&feature=youtu.be I didn't get everything bc you can only get so far looking at the output CSS - he used Stylus he…

thanks for the breakdown! Now we're all a little bit smarter.

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Post by benhurmarcel »

desert_boi wrote: post #199
stingraycharles wrote: post #192

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So then where does the 200k - 400k come from? That salary would be outrageous for software devs over here in .nl, let alone for a non-profit.

I'm an American who worked in Germany. I interviewed in the the Netherlands, but was horrified by how low pay was in the industry.

It's more the American tech wages which are an outlier. Salaries in Europe are much lower but quite normal compared to the rest of the developed world.

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Post by vbezhenar »

doublerabbit wrote: post #171
jernejzen wrote: post #139

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Man, I’d really love to see Matrix to become a standard. I’d love to use it as a major goto chat/communication tool but i get frustrated with UX. Pls pls, don’t screw it.

I've been trying to get people to join "element" but it just makes the whole chat sound awkward "Hey, want to join me on element? compared to "hey, want to join me on riot". Element just doesn't have the same ring and sounds less exciting and dull. It's not even listed in search engines, especially DDG, so I then have to give them the URL which adds to the awkwardness. It was a bad move in my opinion. Sure sure, the…

Isn’t it more appropriate to say “join me on matrix”? Element is just one of the clients.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by Whiteshadow12 »

IgorPartola wrote: post #244
doublerabbit wrote: post #171

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I've been trying to get people to join "element" but it just makes the whole chat sound awkward "Hey, want to join me on element? compared to "hey, want to join me on riot". Element just doesn't have the same ring and sounds less exciting and dull. It's not even listed in search engines, especially DDG, so I then have to give them the URL which adds to the awkwardness. It was a bad move in my opinion. Sure sure, the…

It’s a terrible name. I have forgotten it three times already since they’ve changed it and I was actually trying to pay attention to their project. And just now reading about it, it took me a minute to remember what Element was referring to. It’s not too late, change it again! Pick any element that’s easy to spell off the periodic table and go with that: Vanadium, Thorium, Boron, hell even Helium. Or go with a conduc…

Those are really good names, not just for Riot/Element but for other products or features.

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Post by Yoric »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #82
rebelwebmaster wrote: post #29

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If revenue from Firefox isn't enough to pay the bills anymore, then not funding R&D is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

'revenue' from Firefox was never enough. It's only really just struck me that of course Google funding them made a dependency and 1) made the company grow beyond its needs, and 2) made it not seek self-sufficiency. If Google are stopping the money then FF is like a person with no money taken in by Google and hooked on drugs; once they're kicked out they can't fund the habit and reliance on Google has meant they've no…

Used to be the case. But then, at some point, Mozilla decided grew from ~300 people to ~1200 people to both attempt to remain feature-competitive with Firefox and try new things.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by revjx »

gkoberger wrote: post #178
agrippanux wrote: post #175

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I really like the boat/panda; how did you create that SVG? Source code says it was generated by Sketchapp, which I am not too familiar with. Overall great job, its super slick.

Hey! The initial SVG was made in Sketch (looks like this: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s... ), and I animated it with CSS. Normally, I'd use a combo of Sketch (for making the assets) and GSAP (for animating)!

Wonderful job. Great illusion of depth with just SVG and CSS. Reminds me a bit of Wind Waker.
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