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sustainability researcher,
shitposter about futures, games, music, mechs


ChipCheezum
@ChipCheezum

Still pretty incredible that the most public and recognizable voice in promoting games as an "art form" is Geoff Keighley, a guy who doesn't actually care about any of this and also looks and acts like a failed test subject in a long line of experiments trying to create Mark Zuckerberg.


vae
@vae

every new TGA event with a celebrity appearance is yet another reminder that Geoff Keighley mostly just wants to get attention and celebrity handshakes for himself



ticky
@ticky

Genuinely feeling like we need to organise an anti-Chrome movement in the same way we needed an anti-Internet Explorer movement a decade ago, the difference I guess being that Microsoft eventually joined the movement to kill it, whereas Google are unlikely to

Chrome is almost as dominant now (north of 60%) as Internet Explorer was during the second browser war

Unlike Internet Explorer, which did much of its damage by becoming the market leader and stagnating, the team behind Chrome is taking steps to actively sabotage user safety features and the standards upon which the open web is based

There are at least a couple of attempts to combat this but they're very basic

Anyway tl;dr for the health of the web please stop using Chrome and its derivatives1; use Firefox or Safari, or consider other non-Chrome-based alternatives like iCab. Google do not deserve to be entrusted with this much influence in this post-Don't Be Evil era


  1. Yes, that includes Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.; they all use Chrome's rendering engine and will almost certainly follow Google's lead on technical implementation and engine features. And that's on top of Brave being founded by one of the worst people in tech, and Opera being pretty much as bad these days.



blep
@blep
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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

"everything is chrome" is great because we can have things like Vivaldi, the most respectful and customizable browser ever made, and have them be dog fucking slow on a computer with an 8-core 4GHz CPU with 64GB of RAM, because the UI is written in fucking Javascript and is running on V8.

Slow and inefficient software makes CPUs throttle up to compensate. How much power are we wasting because everything is based on Chrome and Electron? How many thousands of tons of CO2 are being pumped into the atmosphere solely because of the modern web-based software development ecosystem?


kyrinn
@kyrinn
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vae
@vae

... I am actually qualified to answer that last question and will need to do some math this week some time. Reposting so I can make it a mental note to do so.



margot
@margot

i’m sure that someone’s already posted this but this part of google’s proposal to add drm to websites is a hell of a tell in terms of how they see users

source: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md


vae
@vae

left out here:
CAPTCHAs and all the rest of that garbage has been about feeding ML algorithms from the start.
It was never about proving we're human.
It was about building a training data set for their garbage "AI" projects.
sources: https://aibusiness.com/companies/-i-m-not-a-robot-google-s-anti-robot-recaptcha-trains-their-robots-to-see
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence