Re: After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird web browser developer

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From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird web browser developer
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Date	2024-07-05 08:49 +1000
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In comp.os.linux.misc RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> wrote:
> <https://lunduke.locals.com/upost/5823666/ladybird-web-browser-developer-attacked-by-unhinged-dishonest-activists>
> 
> Two days ago, the Ladybird Web Browser made quite a bit of news -- with 
> a major investment and the establishment of a new Non-Profit 
> organization to build a "from scratch" web browser.
> 
> Positive, non-controversial, non-political, very nerdy news.

More interesting news than this nonsense actually. It was exactly a
year ago when I last tried Ladybird and, given the hype, was quite
disappointed to find that its general page rendering ability was
around equivalent to Netsurf. But compared to Netsurf it was much
more buggy and incomplete, as well as much bigger and a real pain
to build from source (which everyone is/was expected to do).

I did look closely enough (mainly to fix build failures) to see
that there was a lot of work underneath though, just not all coming
together yet (or possibly completely misdirected at ticking overly
specific boxes). This news might be a sign it's time to take another
look. But then again given how much time I wasted on the last
attempt only to never run it again...

> Unfortunately, within hours of the spotlight being directed at Ladybird, 
> a group of activists launched an all-out-assault on the open source web 
> browser -- by smearing it as "Transphobic", "Mysoginistic", and (this is 
> absolutely not a joke) suggesting that the Ladybird developers actively 
> support and promote human slavery.

Huh. People have complained about Mozilla/Firefox being left wing.
They did things like styling their posters after Soviet propaganda
artwork:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/

Seems like Ladybird might have just been trying to head off that
sort of thing. But apparantly that was enough to swing their image
the other way. I hope they know that nobody sane really cares about
the politics of programmers who developed their open-source Web
browser of choice anyway. Indeed the percentage of Web users who
even _think_ about that is sure to be even smaller than the current
usage share of Firefox.

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After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird web browser developer RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2024-07-04 07:27 -0400
  Re: After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird web browser developer The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-04 12:43 +0100
  Re: After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird web browser developer D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-04 23:32 +0200
  Re: After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird web browser developer not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-05 08:49 +1000
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