Yeah no thanks I'll happily be out the 300$ a year if it means having an enjoyable browsing experience
Brave Browser
Samuel Smith
Logan Roberts
"Free" is too confusing, use libre instead.
Cameron Myers
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Logan Mitchell
Chase Reyes
No it's not. People understand free software as gratis software because this is what many in society are first taught. Therefore we can improve understanding by establishing the context of freedom whenever we (the free software activist) refer to free software. I personally use terms like "freedom respecting software" and "software that respects the users' freedom".
Connor Wilson
text browsers are shit. textmode in a UNIX braindamage shell is literally just as bad as any modern GUI. web means static content. static content is text, but also images and videos (yes they are static despite that they have animations you fucking retarded autist who's about to "debate" me on this). Links in graphics mode is the best approximation of how the web should be.
now imagine if you payed $300/year for a browser. just kidding it would still be absolute dogshit
phoning home is malicious you cock sucking faggot. you just wouldn't notice this because you're too used to your garbage software doing much worse things
because thats what the distro is for. the only one fucking thing UNIX does right. you shouldnt need to update plugins either because you shouldnt have any plugins
Liam Carter
Actually things like umatrix/ublock are useful even with javascript off. You can dynamically change the content of a page like if there's a html tag that gets enabled since you don't have javascript you can auto remove it. Or if there's CSS you hate the guts of you can auto disable/change it. Its still fucking retarded you need something like this instead of it being builtin to the browser to autoadjust such things.
Also known as phoning home, wasting bandwidth, and a backdoor all at the same time.
Ian Rodriguez
That would just be bloat if built into the browser. CSS has no real application aside from making brochures.
A web page should either conform to a language a static document viewer (such as Links) can interpret or be regarded as non-conforming. Non-conforming websites can be parsed by priveleg-isolated programs into useful categorized data.
The real OS will not require updates but will still have distros for layman users.
See unlike UNIX apologists I actually have a realistic software model. But yes, there actually are small parts that absolutely cannot have bugs. No matter how you slice it in any system and they should be isolated from untrustworthy code (no UNIX system does this).
Thomas Ward
Are you larping as the unix hater or do you genuinely have braindamage? All the code on your system should be trustworthy you braindamaged cunt. If you don't control/understand/trust the code it shouldn't be ran.
All of it should not have bugs of any kind. Look at systems used in engineering planes or medical devices for fucks sake. A bug of any kind in one of those means possible death or injury. You simply can not have any bugs from any possible input/output as everything should be tested and or checked for every scenario.
Henry Reed
No, that doesn't matter in capability-secure code or some forms of non-turing-complete code. Unless you're worried about side channels, but even in your shitty mainstream OS sidechannels are just as unsolved. In both cases you need to design critical components to remove side channels. There are still open questions like how side channels can be avoided with dynamic memory allocation and scheduler. When webshitters get their heads out of their asses and "web apps" are replaced with real software, that software will be run with minimal or no privileges. It does not need to be trustworthy since it processes no sensitive data.
We're talking about general purpose computing, not medical devices (which are basically implemented as webshit right now, and yes they need a total system analysis to work).