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Or the maintained open source alternative Free Pascal and its Free Pascal IDE.

Original article is removed?

https://archive.ph/aylYu


Why was original article removed?

that's really impressive.


Of course, local climate is also a huge factor. You also see that within EU and USA.


To an extent, I suppose. There is also something to be said for just wanting to get outside. Summers in the pacific northwest are also a lot of really long days.

Just writing that, though, makes me realize that most of the northern sections of the US are inline with what we call western Europe? Would be neat to see this broken down by latitude as a crude cohort check.


Most of the northern sections of the USA are on the same latitude as Southern Europe, reaching at most into South France. Germany, the UK are further north than the 45th parallel.

A lot of Europe experiences longer days than PNW during spring to summer.


Why is Ladybird going to be more successful than all the other failed browsers?


I've been optimistic on ladybird after watching the speed of progress with tests in their monthly youtube updates, they are quite well presented.

Ladybird is also not ideologically captured by anti freedom extremists with self contradictory beliefs. Mozilla refuses to allow anyone to donate to firefox development because they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.


> Ladybird is also not ideologically captured by anti freedom extremists with self contradictory beliefs. Mozilla refuses to allow anyone to donate to firefox development because they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.

Can you expand on this? This feels wildly editorialized.


So there are 2 Mozillas: There's the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. The corporation develops Firefox. The foundation takes donations. For reasons I don't claim to understand (IANAL, and I gather there's tax law stuff involved), the foundation apparently can't give the corporation money to work on the browser. This leads to a regular point of confusion and a complaint because people would very much like to financially support the browser, but there is literally no way to donate to it. Now I believe (again, IANAL) that there are ways they could arrange things so that people could give money to the corporation for the browser, but they have not done those things. A person could plausibly argue that that's because Mozilla Foundation wants people to donate to the foundation and not the browser, though I'm not sure if they've ever publicly said anything explicitly. (If they have, I would very much appreciate links.)


Where does this come into play?

>they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.

It sounds _incredibly_ suspect, frankly.


Mozilla's self stated mission as a self proclaimed "global crew of activists" [1] is to "more than deplatform" [2] people they disagree with. Deplatforming just means censorship in this context and they want people they don't like more than censored, they want them off the internet completely. Pretty dangerous for a company making a browser to list infringing on people's human rights as a goal, but they've convinced themselves they're the good guys.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-o...

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need...


lmao


The makers of other browser had either worse incentives, or were bad at getting attention, or couldn't execute, or offered just a reskinned Chrome/Firefox, or included too many avant-garde features that nobody asked for, or existed back when Firefox was liked enough to make them irrelevant.


> Hybrid cars only make sense from a CO2 perspective if you charge them and drive exclusively on electricity inside cities, with only an occasional fuel refill before long distance trips.

For many people the local fiscal perspective outweighs the CO2 perspective. Hybrids are often financially speaking more interesting than thermal due to tax incentives.


I believe it's understood that OnlyOffice devs are (mostly) Russian. And that in todays world Russian software companies have to go through hoops to be able to send/receive invoices/contracts/etc.

Some parts of their portfolio are not FOSS, these are the components in the commercial edition (the hosted/embeddable version of onlyoffice).

I have customers running OnlyOffice and we've never seen anything suspicious in our security tooling.

So I believe it comes down to your opinion/mindset around the whole Russia thing.


This all sounds very similar to the hundreds of excel/spreadsheet "killers" out there.

But excel math is easy to outperform, ChatGPT etc wont be.


Sure. But it also sounds very similar to every successful database-backed company where each tenant has < 1m rows (almost all of them).


How is it possible that the labour force suddenly produced all those tech workers domestically during a pandemic?

What's not adding up is the qualifications of those people that got overhired.


Might also be dependent on your location.

I have a EU model (LG) and I was able to decline some privacy popups which gives me a functional but dumbed-down version of the OS.


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