My midwestern US schooling taught me almost nothing about African or diaspora history beyond the slave trade. When I learned that there was a whole big huge continent whose history I didn’t know, I was fascinated. Simultaneously, I was awakening to the systemic injustice that Afro-folks experience in the United States, and wanted to learn as much as I could about their background and context.

Maybe so, but I would say they’re more alternatives to Firefox than any of the Chromium forks are to Chrome (except Arc, I guess) by nature of the fact that you don’t have to strip telemetry out of the Gecko codebase in order to ship a private fork.

It’s also worth noting that almost all of this stuff was open-source. If you wanted to, you could still use most of it, continue development on it (and in some cases, such as FirefoxOS, its development is continuing without Mozilla’s involvement). Not so with stuff killed by Google.

You currently only have three choices in web rendering engine, unless you want to go REALLY esoteric:

• Blink

• WebKit

• Gecko

Blink is Chromium, meaning Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, Vivaldi, ug-c, Konqueror, etc. It is built, maintained, and controlled by Google, and currently has an approximately 81% market share on the internet.

WebKit is Safari, and is only really usable on Apple products (and is the only engine available on Apple’s mobile products outside the EU). It enjoys about a 9% market share as a result of its wide install base.

Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation for Firefox, yes. But if you want any sort of web independence, you have to have a browsing engine that is not controlled by a major corporation. Otherwise, you’re just going to have a duopoly that can make whatever web decisions they want to.

Really, Don? This is your big play for the news coverage this weekend? Weak.

Well, that was just an example. We can ban the cars in more places than just school zones, I’m happy with that.

One thing at a time.

The idiot trashy human beings aren’t trying to kill my kids except when they’re in a car on the street we’re trying to cross, so I think getting rid of the cars would help tremendously.

We walk our kids to school pretty much every day, and I 100% agree.

Almost exactly three years ago, at a school about four miles away from ours, a driver killed a seven-year-old girl on her way home from school, and the very next morning a driver ignored the signal and cut me off as I was trying to walk my own kids across the street. In the next couple of months, a city ordinance meant to improve pedestrian safety was shot down by the state because it was “anti-car.” Since then, any efforts at traffic calming around schools has been slow-rolled and ignored at pretty much every opportunity. Car dismissal is prioritized at our kids’ school (we’ve actively had to go inside and pluck our kids out of the car line at the beginning of every school year so far because they don’t pay attention), bus dismissal gets second place, and this is the first year that the crossing guard has been there every day.

Literally the only positive thing that we’ve seen around our school is that they’ve reduced the road from two (very thin) lanes in each direction to only one; that has helped tremendously, but even just this morning a driver who wasn’t paying attention almost hit the crossing guard as we were about to step out into the street.

I am shaking with rage even thinking about it right now. The situation is dire out there, and our elected officials are doing worse than nothing. Our school administrators are making it worse.

Talk about radicalizing. I want to start slashing tires.

Yep. The “always open in container tab” gets a little fidgety because Reddit uses a whole bunch of different domains (some of which it only flips to for an instant while redirecting elsewhere), so it takes a bit of work, but I’ve been able to successfully silo off Reddit, Xwitter, Meta, etc. into their own distinct containers that are independent of everything else I do.

I just dont like cases and take the risk. Phones are nicer looking without.

No doubt, but I don’t have that kind of cash to burn on the aesthetics.

Neither is a good split, he is charging as much as spotify for content he did not create and keeping half.

Hosting and maintaining an application actually has some pretty non-trivial cost associated with it. If it’s half of revenue, then MKBHD actually isn’t taking very much at all.

I dont know what the sticky hands comment means.

I’m not brave enough to use my phone without a case, because I know I’ll drop it. Either you’re braver than me, richer than me, or you have better grip than me.

Fifty fifty is what MKB said was the split, which is a predatory figure.

50% of the revenue or 50% of the profit? Because if they’re paying the artists first and footing the bill for hosting the app out of the other 50%, that’s a pretty good deal.

There are a lot of people walking around with cracked screens who would seem to disagree.

WebKit is really only available on Apple devices in any meaningful way.

Im not rich and I use my phone without a case

I guess you could also have fairly sticky hands.

and watch some of those reviews.

Yeah, sometimes I do too, if only for the novelty of it. But they’re certainly not for us.

The app is a bad idea with a bad deal for artists.

Citation needed. Do you have any data on the app’s profit share structure? Because at the price they’re charging, if they’re passing on a decent share of it to the artists, it sounds like it’s not a bad gig.

There’s also this infamous story. And also this one. I recognize that anecdote is not the singular of data, but there’s a pretty substantial paper trail on Fiverr.

So if I’m doing my math correctly, that’s 49%-45% for Harris in the popular vote. And that 49% is pretty much right on where she’s been polling in traditional polls. But Trump has been polling way higher than 45% recently—so if this is in any way true, he’s got a much tougher path to victory ahead of him than the standard numbers suggest.

Marques has a decent chunk of his fan base that’s…kinda rich? That’s the only thing that can explain why he reviews supercars and expects people to use their phone without a case. So if he’s directing some of that fan base’s money toward artists, I’m all for it, assuming the profit sharing is reasonable (and I have no reason to believe it’s not).

I mean, I’m not going to pay that sort of money on a wallpaper (I almost always use photos of family or friends anyway). But if the people who buy it like it, and the people who sell art for it are treated well, you go MKBHD.

Fiverr is the worst. They enable abusive clients to find victims, and AI con artists to find marks.

WELP that’s enough internet for today.