4d ago

Oh no!

Look at these sponsors! I wouldn't use Ladybird in 1750 BC.

61 comments

Non-browser companies I don’t like are sponsoring a browser engine alternative so they don’t all end up getting hosed by Google’s lock-in.
As long as the end result is what I want I am alright with jerks I don’t like footing the bill if our separate self-interests are momentarily aligned.
This is a wait-and-see for me.
- Yeah. Corporate sponsorship for the purposes of "get us the hell out of this monopoly" is kinda how open source has worked so far.
  Sometimes its fine. See: Linux
- Thank you, an intelligent comment
Damn, thats a really low quality copper sponsor
Yeah, as if finding FOSS alternatives to mega-corp software wasn't hard enough, now i have to care about the politics of a sponsor's co-sponsor's ceo's husband's dog's groomer before I install? Pass
- I think this is a joke about the first copper-tier sponsor.
This is a silly take. It's an open source project from a non profit creating a new browser option
- The joke is Ea nasir as copper sponsor: !reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
  It's just a ~4000 years old meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir
  
  Swoosh 🤦‍♂️ thank you
- Yeah the other side of this is that there is mandatory 1 sponsor and it is Alphabet/Google
  Edit: read the list and noticed the primeagen is on there so I guess it must be evil
- Agreed. I looked into this and it seems like an honest effort to try and prevent a total Chrome monopoly.
  A fresh browser is a massive project. Web standards are massive, and complex, and growing.
  It would be nice to see Firefox killing it, but they aren’t.
  
  there's another non-fascist browser rendering project yknow, with less hype around it but just as promising imo
  ~~and also it's made in rust so you know it's good~~
if something is sponsored by futo, shopify and 37signals???? run
i trust Ea-nāṣir more than i trust DHH
- update me is this part of the joke or is there some problem with futo im unaware of
  
  futo collaborates with and platforms curtis yarvin, a self-described fascist
  they also did a bunch of other shady bullshit which the article talks about, but which i don't consider to be as important
  
  FUTO is seemingly lead by an entirely unrelated toxic individual. But as for 37signals:
  The open source web application framework Ruby on Rails was initially created by David Heinemeier Hansson for internal use at 37signals, before being publicly released in 2004.
Ea-nasir? I'm out.
- Didn't he sell that dodgy copper way back when?
I work in the copper industry and can confirm we get shit sponsors.
Content not viewable in your region.
Could you provide an alternate link? Or maybe use the image button to upload it to your instance so it's out of the control of some corporation?
(Imgur deleted a bunch of content for the crime of not having a paid subscription, and they geoblock my country because the data protection commission threatened them with a fine for selling children's browsing history and they'd rather take it out on users than simply filter the accounts they auto-tagged as children out of the data they were selling. We left reddit for a reason. Imgur is no less moneygrabbing.)
- I know I need to get used to at least ImageBB but I forget all the time. In case the other reply also doesn't work, I uploaded to ImageBB as well. >>
  
  Thank you for taking the time to broaden access. It's appreciated.
- I was gonna reply but you were faster, thanks. :)
  
  Thank you.
Oh no!
Not me!
I never lost control.
You're face
To face
With the man who sold the world.
He's gone :(
Content not viewable in your region
- Someone already asked me to upload to other than Imgur, so did I, but forgot to edit the main post. Should be fine now.
  
  Thank you!
K
- Cu
  
  I'm a potassium tier sponsor myself

61 comments