kiryin

I use Firefox exclusively on all of my devices, but my opinions on both the browser and Mozilla are pretty grim. Apart from the advancements in first-party isolation and containerization I can name very few "features" intorduced in the past 5~ years that I view in a positive light. Firefox has become less configurable, in other words more hostile to the user, chasing after chrome with every new pants-on-head UI decision, while abandoning important technical research like Servo that could've brought them to the bleeding edge of browser development. I've come to terms with my position as being held hostage, simply because the only other option is Google and thus infinitely worse, but I am not happy. Change is needed.

This is an important issue. It's baffling to me how greenwashed everything electric is, despite almost universally having major problems in either manufacturing materials or waste products. But environmentalism is just a business these days, I don't know why I ever expected anything different.

The solution to the harm inflicted upon the environment by humanity isn't some new feat of technology or invention, it's downshifting. In every field, not just in individual's private lives.

I'm sure everyone here has heard more than enough of this, but Chrome is the one actively killing the web, and more importantly turning it into a rube goldberg monstrosity before it's eventual inevitable abandonment by every sensible human being.

Safari/webkit, as far as I can see, is merely trying to help. Perhaps not proactively, but by showcasing slight conservatism regarding which kind of bullshit bells and whistles get implemented. They're no knight in shining armor, and I shudder as I compliment Apple on anything at all, but they're doing what they can while still keeping their users satisfied.

If you care about the web and want to see it survive, build to Safari's standards. It's the least YOU can do.

attitude control, yeah, we've all had one of those days.

Not great, not terrible

I would avoid Telegram even not having read this. Their homegrown encryption and secretive nature of the back-end creep me out. The irrational part of me is also wary of the developers' background. At the same time I also can not bring myself to trust the other popular options either. Whatsapp should be a pretty obvious case of facebookiness, and signal suffers from the same lack of back-end transparency and decentralization as Telegram. And, believe me I don't want to bring this up, but Moxie is just such an incredibly untrustworthy figure I wouldn't be able to sleep at night trusting his thing.

The only option with any real adoption (still not at the scale of the previously mentioned though) is Matrix. Having familiarized myself with Olm and their implementation of it for the purpose of building clone for educational purposes, I feel safe trusting it. You can't go much more open and transparent than Matrix does.