Update was from 3 days ago, I’m really hopeful ladybird could be a future browser option to help break the stranglehold chrome has over the market, while Mozilla is struggling to find meaningful direction.
It seems like an exciting project with monthly progress updates :) they keep chipping away at compatibility.
I’m not sure I really understand the point of this. Even if you hate Mozilla, the Gecko engine is excellent and it would make far more sense to fork it than to start a new one from scratch.
Building and maintaining a browser engine is hard. FOSS means that everyone is of course free to pursue the projects that interest them, but this doesn’t seem like a great use of effort to me.
What about the anti lgbt stuff? Thoughts…?
I wasn’t aware of anything along those lines, but reading through the whole thread of discussion was interesting.
Things seem ambiguous currently I’ll have to keep an eye on that issue, I appreciate you mentioning it
Can you elaborate on that?
Someone made a PR to refer to users in documentation as “they” instead of “he”. The lead maintainer rejected it saying “This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics.” and then added a part against personal politics in the code of conduct. One brigade attracted for good reason later, another maintainer quietly merged the PR. It’s very weird, but not anything too serious IMO.
So weird, since “they/them” have always been used to refer to people who’s gender/sex is not known!?
Definitely won’t be using ladybird then. If someone hates trans folks and just women in general enough that they literally see using inclusive language to refer to theoretical users as politics I don’t see any reason to do anything to elevate their work.
What about the anti lgbt stuff? Thoughts…?
It is important to remember that turning down a pull request does not make a person (or project) anti-LGBT.
Sadly, I have seen bullying and brigading from people who claim to be supporting inclusiveness, more than a few times. That behavior alone would be enough to sour me on them personally, and on any change they had submitted.
And, of course, there are other perfectly valid reasons to decline a PR as well.
Asking for changes we would like to see is fine. Demanding them is not. Resorting to character assassination when we don’t get what we want is absolutely not.
Hey, quick question, what do you think of the lead developer of LadyBird calling Brendan Eich, known homophobe and CEO of Brave, “Senpai.”
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It’s completely unrelated, right? He just doesn’t know, right? I’m sure nobody ever tried telling him. Or maybe he’s only capable of perceiving technical information, so the rest of Brendan’s history never entered his head?
…Not at all, he’s fully aware, and he regrets joining the people who spoke out against Brendan, something he only did to fit in. He should damn well know Eich is a homophobe if he’s so smart, he just doesn’t give a shit.
