Downloading a video is functionally identical to watching the video. I’m not 100% sure they can’t tell, but they certainly shouldn’t care… You’re not circumventing anything by downloading a streamed video, they just obfuscate the download functionality.

You just close the window. I’ve seen this twice in the last three years and never experienced any actual change – still no ads or even black screens where ads should be.

lol okay then I’m pretty mystified. Seems like all of the major features of Discord will either be directly replicated or have functional equivalents.

So it sounds like the lack of multiple text channels is the main missing feature? I haven’t used it myself yet so I’m assuming those don’t exist, but the concept of a server seems to be pretty one-to-one with a persistently hosted workspace.

From my understanding, currently the lack of a persistent superpeer makes a long-standing community unrealistic without someone remaining constantly connected, but once that’s implemented it would just be a persistent workspace. Publish the link in a centralized location for your project and bam, you’ve got the equivalent of an official discord server.

What functionality do you think is missing?

Firefox. They’re still great, people keep freaking out over extremely benign changes.

Vim and emacs are the two most popular keyboard-driven text editors, and are something of a meme in the software world.

Really a better analogue would be tiling window managers like sway, i3, bspwm, dwm etc. but they’re also harder to get started with.

“look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power” meme but with Vim (or really this is a rare case where I have to hand it to emacs since it can basically run a whole OS)

Yeah fair, most of the more granular systems go that way. I know Pathfinder fights can take a minute as well.

Combat can be fun, but DnD in particular reeaaally drags sometimes. An excellent DM helps, but even Dimension 20 takes a full session for a big combat encounter, which is usually just exhausting IMO. I much prefer systems like PBTA that keep combat pretty breezy and improv-friendly.

I think we all know this, but it’s the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.

Right which is why I told you about the non-profit which is the organization that’s dedicated to the open web. I feel like that’s pretty clear.

Donate to the corporation. They’re the people who work on the product.

What point do you think you’re making here?

If your concern is that the money goes to efforts for an open internet, and not too enriching any executives, then you want to donate to the non-profit, not the corporation.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/

The Mozilla Foundation is the parent non-profit of the for-profit Mozilla Corporation.

So… Donations but more, and cost-cutting measures. That’s not a new revenue stream, unless by “asking the users for money” you mean charging for the software…

Where are these grants coming from? They already take in donations and it’s not nearly enough to pay the engineers. Sure I’d love it if the c-suite took a pay cut but the truth is that a modern web browser is a big enough project that it basically requires an enterprise-size team dedicated to its maintenance.

Exactly what I expected: a restatement of the terms, pointing out that they’re not onerous at all, and a link to jwz’s blog, the single person on earth with the biggest hate boner for Mozilla.

They need money and they don’t get much from donations. I’d love to hear everyone’s ideas for how they can generate enough revenue to keep the lights on without either making deals with Google or engaging in any form of advertising or data trading.

There’s absolutely a line where I would start looking elsewhere, but this ain’t it.

Sure, I don’t think it’s like toxic or anything, but I also understand why Martin viewed the situation as an impasse requiring a decision from on high. Also, from my limited understanding it sounds like the new code was in a sequestered rust-only section of the dma subsystem, so I’m not clear on exactly what new burdens were being placed on the C dma maintainers.

If you read the article, the main issue is not the fact that it’s Rust itself, but that it’s a second language entering the codebase. There’s definitely some validity to the argument.

My personal view is that any C developer who doesn’t want to learn Rust is going to kick themselves once they do.