maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

@mrfry i'm not trying to argue in bad faith here i'm just saying that making a web browser in 2024 is far from a trivial task with what monstrosity the web has become and the people hoping that mozilla gets crushed as a byproduct of the google antitrust case are only wishing for things to get worse

@mrfry so you think that a ragtag group of people can fork a browser made by a much larger entity and never ever need to pull from upstream ever again? with the ever changing standards of the web (thanks Google)?

and Vivaldi is a chromium fork

@mrfry you do realise that to fork firefox there needs to be a firefox, right?

how's that OS/browser from scratch project going anyway, is the lead still claiming to be "apolitical" while shaming minorities out of contributing and pointing out bad actors in it?

maybe i just leave the web and use only irc and telnet bbses as my only means of internet so i don't have to deal with any of this

"mozilla bad because LLMs".... okay..... but what's the alternative that isn't built on top of chromium or firefox then

if mozilla goes in the google antitrust case do you think someone else who won't use LLMs will continue to develop firefox?

like i just want to understand what's the long term goal here because every time i tried to go back to windows 98 and not deal with modern software the same kids crying about this told me i shouldn't be putting it online because it's unsafe

@sam i did it with an nginx rule!

map $http_user_agent $brnotice {
    default         '</head>';
    ~*Chrom         '<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maple.pet/notice.css"></head><div class="impnotice">You are using an unsupported browser. Please visit <a href="https://getfirefox.com">this website</a> if you would like to upgrade to a supported browser.</div>';
}

and in the server block:

        sub_filter '</head>' $brnotice;
        sub_filter_once on;