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Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)

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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you agree with the idea that submitting a "minor nitpick" PR suggesting that the software doesn't refer to all users as male is "personal politics" and deserves an angry response for even suggesting it?

You sure do sound like someone who would agree with Lunduke...

Being a woman or being transgender isn't "political". Vocally opposing inclusiveness is asshole behavior.

Not even mad that he's not accepting a low-effort PR. It's trivializing people's existence as "political" that makes him shitty.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Making a low effort argument against a straw man that was never stated. You sure you aren’t a conservative?

No, I disagree with the idea of digging into years of history to drag up the one thing to be mad at and bandwagon over with a loud mob with surface level care that move onto the next bandwagon in a week. Typical to Twitter behavior. Doesn’t actually help anyone, typically hurts the movements they claim to support among everyone else.

I’m about the farthest from Lunduke you can get, he’s just not wrong in this specific instance. You don’t know me, “you sure do sound” is a silly attempt at internet games. Yawn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I guess what I'm saying here is that if you agree with Lunduke's sexist take, you're just revealing yourself to be a sexist.