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Zagorath , vor 19 Tagen an Memes in Hey she tried her best ok

stress balls in funny shapes and things like that.

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol

Next time don't buy squishy dicks for work colleagues.

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None of the Chromium forks are hard ones

For now. If Firefox became a Chromium fork, ideally it would stay that way. But if Google did make things too hard in the way you describe, then I would suggest Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, etc. should share a sort of medium-hard fork of Chromium. Keep their own track with features they need, but keep it close enough that the basic rendering engine can still be merged in from work Google does.

We need diversity in web browsers

That's an ideological position. I don't agree that there's any inherent value in the underlying browser engine being diverse. If anything, I think it's useful for it to be consistent and predictable.

As I write this, I'm talking myself into a slightly different position. Maybe they don't need to fork Chromium, but it would be valuable to dump Gecko in favour of Blink. I don't actually know what Chromium gets you besides Blink (and V8, which I lump together with Blink because for the same reasons, I think it would make sense to unify around). Stick with Blink & V8 to let Google to the work on the rendering side (while still being able to contribute back yourself where necessary), while maintaining your own browser and extension ecosystem. So web developers get a single platform to develop against, users get the full experience of any site they visit regardless of their browser, and Mozilla can maximally utilise their development resources in building and maintaining features that differentiate them.

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[In the voice of Janet] Not a nut.

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it is still developed and maintained by Google

Sure, but Google has no control over any forks of Chromium. They can't control Edge, or Brave, or Vivaldi, or a hypothetical Mozilla fork. And if those other forks want, they can collaborate together to maintain any features they want to have that Google themselves don't want.

Like, yeah, more funding for Firefox would be the ideal case. But that's not something Mozilla really has the ability to effect. They can choose what engine they're using. And using Chromium would allow them to essentially "steal" the work Google has put in, while not preventing them from changing stuff that they don't like. In fact, in some respects it would help them even with that stuff they don't like from Google, since they can pool resources with other privacy-forward browsers like Vivaldi and Brave. I honestly see it as win-win.

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I don't use Google Chrome, but there are plenty of other chromium-based browsers out there.

This isn't the first time I've run up against technical shortcomings of Firefox, either. I used to frequent a site which made use of the CSS class column-span. Chrome added full support for that class in early 2016. I was probably accessing this site from about late 2016 until about 2018 or so. Firefox didn't support column-span until December 2019. The whole time I used the site, Firefox simply could not render it in a usable way.

I've said for a long time that we'd be better off if Firefox switched to Chromium. They clearly don't have the resources to keep up with the rapid pace of change on the web. 5 years and they still don't support a browser feature that Google got out in a out 1 year and I think Edge got it done in 2 or 3 (and unsurprisingly, Apple has it ready day 1, though that's an unfair comparison for obvious reasons). Three and a half years behind other browsers in getting out a CSS feature that's being used live on the web already.

If they based their browser on Chromium, there would be so much less work for them to do. They'd have to spend some effort maintaining features Google has decided to drop, like Manifest V2, but they wouldn't be alone in that effort, since they can pool resources with the likes of Vivaldi and Brave, and maybe even Microsoft in some cases. So I'm the end a much higher percentage of their resources could be spent developing features that differentiate them and help maintain them as a great privacy-focused browser, instead of merely keeping up on the treadmill of platform change.

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When they get their shit together and implement support for operating system features that other browsers have had since 2019.

Zagorath , vor einem Monat an Memes in I refuse to believe that they made that abomination of a sequel

I had never heard of the sequel until a day or two ago when the YT algorithm fed me Schaffrillas' video about it. I still haven't actually watched it, and based on that review I think I'll keep it that way.

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You thinking of Animal Farm? It's a more direct allegory for the Soviet Union.

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So the first file acts as a sort of index? From the earlier comment I thought it was autodetecting the presence of the numbered files and expanding what it found.

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Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc

Oh so it's just kinda a part of the rar specification then? How did that work on CDs or floppies, if presumably you'd have had to swap out to insert the next part?

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I still to this day don't know how it worked, but I remember back when I would pirate games and often there would be like 20 different compressed archives, but somehow you only need to decompress one of them and the game would install. Was like magic.

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How do you get that feeling without making a decision to do something really gross? Why did they choose to smoke that first gross death stick?

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What I don't understand is how people get addicted to smoking in the first place. It hasn't been "cool" to smoke in my lifetime. Going near a cigarette as a non-smoker is gross as fuck. Who decides "I don't care about my health or the gross smell, imma do this thing with no upsides" before being addicted?

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It looks like a Maccas burger. Famously long-lived.

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I'm inclined to agree with this comment, to be honest:

Use Barak Obama page as an example. First sentence is about him as a US President. The second sentence is about something he was particularly special for -- bring first African-American US President. Both sentences are above the portrait.

The same should be done for Donald Trump -- first sentence is about him being a US President. The second sentence (still above the portrait) is about him being the first US President convicted of a felony