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"A lot of developers still believe the Web would be better if we had One Browser To Rule Them All. At first, that might sound nice in theory. Less testing! Less inconsistency! Less bugs! But this is forgetting our users. Would it be good to effectively force them to use a single browser? To deny them the possibility to choose their preferred user interfaces and features? Of course not! It’s forgetting that competition drives innovation. "

"When every blog has the same hero section, when every portfolio follows the same grid, when every restaurant site looks interchangeable, we create an echo chamber of sameness. The cost isn’t just visual monotony – it’s the slow erosion of the web’s ability to surprise, delight, and showcase truly individual perspectives."

Bootable distro like DBAN, except it's actually been updated since 2015. Runs on 32 and 64-bit Intel/AMD
(via BoingBoing and Schneier on Security)

Linux kernel, FreeBSD userland, LLVM toolchain, Musl C library.
"...a general-purpose Linux-based OS born from unhappiness with the status quo. We aim to create a system that is simple, transparent, and easy to pick up, without having to give up practicality and a rich feature set."

The company is shutting down (and shutting down their servers), but now they're going to release an open-source self-hosted server so families can keep the existing robots running without the cloud service.
"They could’ve just walked away like their original communication said they were going to, but instead they listened to their customers and changed their minds."

2024: "Since this issue was posted, Brave has injected their affiliate code into links and leaked DNS when supposedly using Tor. I was unaware that they had previously whitelisted Facebook and Twitter trackers while claiming to block trackers. It still removes site ads to place their own with a cryptocurrency kickback scheme on top of it."

2019 article on Brave's cryptocurrency/ad scheme at Butterick’s Practical Typography
"Brave isn’t offering a new idea. It’s just substituting one set of ads for another." "With its nonsense about privacy and authenticity and integrity, Brave is holding out its ad system as some great ethical leap forward. It’s not."

Forum thread about hardening security for ClassicPress installations

Combination of Solid Pods (Personal Online Databases) with ActivityPub, enabling more interaction

Another fork of the project that became Hubzilla and Friendica. No branding, just features. Built around the Facebook interaction model instead of the Twitter one. Implements nomadic identity.