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I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Firefox, safari, chrome, edge. Depending on your perspective that's either 3 or 4.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is another bullet point on the list of MAGA stopping or confusing the flow and accessibility of information.

We are to know nothing about what they are doing in the world, ideally.

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Sounds wonderful

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

So I spent two days hacking together a Gemini client script in tcl/tk. It's near 700 lines already, some of those are dead weight (client certs, stuck cause pki module in tcllib doesn't know of hashing algorithms newer than sha256), but it's usable for reading pages, viewing images, saving either and answering prompts, with basic history. A fully functional client is supposed to be doable in 1-2 days in like 200 lines of code in something. So it's a clumsy mess.

And yes, it feels like it's a lot of what we need web for. Suppose I got client certs working and this were a Gemini service. I'd follow a link saying "post something", I'd type this comment into a prompt and send the request, and on the next update it would be here, right under CN from my client cert used as nickname. One could have such links under every comment. One could build threads.

So maybe yes.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

One browser tab holding a few YouTube visits consumes about 350 MO of memory. I think we have added enough functionality to the browser

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