Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
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What about servo?
Perhaps Servo isn't apolitical enough. 🥹
Remember, technology is political and our major technology-related problems are political, not technological. We wouldn't be building alternative browsing engines if Chromium was a community-built project, unaffiliated with an ad company.
E: FWIW, this comment suggest the initial political Ladybird snafu may have been remediated.
I think that kinda weird and bad statement from the ladybird lead makes way more sense when you realize that his first language is german.
German, like other gendered languages, uses the male gender for an unknown person, using a genderless pronoun like "they" in german is a deliberate political stance that would prompt debate and is unusual and, frankly, weird, since the male pronoun is used as a neutral one.
Given that he apologized and changed it to they later, and no other incident of the sort happened since, I personally am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The ladybird contributing guidelines currently read:
Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.
Is it surprising to anyone?
Or maybe servo didn't mourn the fascist Charlie Kirk enough: This is Ladybird's Creator.
At least both projects funded by cloudflare support fascists. Omarchy is by DHH, who is not a good person
They doubled down and showed their true colors. AFAIK they never tried to improve the situation after that.
They don't appear to be sponsoring that one
Isn't Ladybird adopting Swift as their preferred language? I'm slightly confused on why Ladybird over Servo. But I am sure people at Cloudflare have more knowledge than me. So I guess there is a good reason.
Cloudflare alternatives anyone?
I'd say Bunny CDN is pretty good, but here's a more complete list: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/cloudflare
CF aside, I'm not the biggest fan that Ladybird decided on Swift, since it's such an Apple-centric language. Wish they'd sponsored Servo instead.
Servo kinda died when the main people left
Swift is open source (Apache 2) and is a very pleasant language to work with. I would have gone with Rust, personally, but I can’t fault anyone for choosing Swift. It’s a very underrated language.
Ladybird instead of Servo? And then some obscure desktop environment? What the fuck are they even trying to achieve here? We already got some big names and they're betting on the small ones?
Ladybird has been a serious competitor for months, and its ideology is excedingly good and user-oriented, so thats why
Idk why they sponsored Omarchy, but it looks cool, altough I dont see what they'll get from that
Omarchy is a Linux distro.
And I think ladybird is a bit larger of a project than servo, and they can't sponsor every single browser engine.
Omarchy mentioned!!
Ladybird needs to be careful who they accept money from
Cloudflare PR. Fuck them. Blocking VPNs from accessing websites is very open web of you.
Cloudflare blocks VPNs at the request of whoever is running the server. There are tons of websites running on Cloudflare that work with VPNs.
There are also many Lemmy instances that are intentionally blocking VPNs because they have to to stay afloat.
Exactly. My employer uses Akamai, which is larger than Cloudflare. Akamai provides the ability to block traffic from Tor, traffic from VPNs, traffic from any countries you desire, and so on. They also provide managed lists of countries listed in things like ITAR so you can easily block them if you want.
Nope. Cloudflare use a complex set of fingerprinting tools that determine security scores. It's literally social credit system for web user agents and the site admits have little control over that.
I'm using a VPN with my cloudflare reverse proxies right now. That blocking is configured by the website owners, not Cloudflare.
It is Cloudflare that creates this functionality and gives access to it to its customers though.
For what it's worth when you set up your site on cloudflare you get to choose how strict you want security to be and what URLs it applies to, or just disable it and use it only as a CDN. Or even disable routing entirely and use it only as your DNS.
It would be nice if they were more clear that enabling some features might block legitimate users though.