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> most people wouldn’t choose PHP for a new project

Is this really true?

I used to be a full-time PHP developer but I personally don't touch that language anymore. But it's still very popular around the world, I've seen multiple projects start this year use PHP, because that's the language the founders/most developers in the company are familiar with. Probably depends a lot on where in the world you're located.

Last Stack Overflow survey had ~20% of the people answering the survey saying that they still use PHP in some capacity.

I don't read "patch" as necessarily a "source code patch" per-se. Even if they just add/modify one line in the build script, I'd say that particular distribution of the Firefox application to be "patched".

Your comment has about the same amount of relevancy to a generic Bitcoin story as saying "9/11 never forget" in the comments of a story about Boeing airplanes.

Usually the meshes have parts of the network that is connected to the internet, and you either automatically get access to those nodes so you can route via them, or you can request access to be able to reach the wider network.

Really depends on the mesh, I don't know the specific answer for NYC mesh.

This seems to be the study itself: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...

The title is "Intravenous psilocybin attenuates mechanical hypersensitivity in a rat model of chronic pain", which makes a lot more sense than what the current article title seems to want to say.

> From testing the current version of Servo, it still has a long long way to go though, until it becomes a usable browser.

In reality, I think you're waiting for a different project. Servo is like Gecko/Webkit, it's the browser engine. As far as I know, they're not aiming to build a browser, just the engine part.

What you're waiting for is someone to start using Servo as an engine and provide the browser chrome :)

How long is a rope?

There is already a bunch of "completely detached" networks out there, organized via wifi links. Freifunk, Guifi and NYC Mesh are three examples of such networks, where you can basically avoid the current internet infrastructure as long as you get hooked up to the mesh network. Lots of interesting services deployed on these networks too :)

No, because Electron embeds Chromium/Chrome, Tauri uses whatever the platform already has.

How much of that cost is the browser vs the cost of the browser engine?

Servo currently describes itself as a "web rendering engine", so I don't think they are aiming to become a full-featured browser, and I'm not sure if there is an important distinction between "browser engine" vs "web rendering engine". It makes it sound like they only want to focus on the rendering part itself.

> Can anyone tell me whether Servo is "ready enough" to use for small noncommercial projects?

I don't think it is, yet. But why not play around with it and see if it's enough for your use case? Hard to know exactly without knowing what you need to be able to do.

Personally, Tauri currently hits the sweetspot of being way lighter than Electron, but still provide (mostly) the same benefits.

Depends on what kind of editing is needed. Most professional photographers I encounter use Lightroom, but they don't do any heavy editing like cutting out/in actual objects, but just modify color curves and whatnot.

Besides, Photoshop really isn't a competitor in any way to Figma, they have two very different use cases. Closest competitor would be Adobe Illustrator.

> Patent trolling is not a company category

Oh I'm sorry. I meant to say "Patent Trolling Companies", is it easier to understand now?

I'm sure you are aware that there actually is a category of companies that just participate in "patent trolling", and do nothing else. Not sure why you're being so pedantic about the grammar instead of trying to reply to the actual arguments...

> Is there any plan at Mozilla to eventually use Servo for Firefox or did them basically stopping working on it end any hope of that?

Initially, I think Servo was never meant to be integrated wholesale into anything. It was a experiment playground to evaluate ideas without having them coupled to mainline Firefox, and be able to iterate on things quickly.

Once the ideas were validated, they were integrated into Firefox without pulling in their entirety of Servo.

The "Quantum Render project" is one example of this, where the WebRender compositor was first created in Servo, and eventually integrated into Firefox mainline.

> finishing our integration with Tauri (thanks to NLNet)

This is really exciting! Hopefully can lead to tiny packages (compared to Electron) but still a consistent rendering story across platforms.

> Seems like if you've only come up with patent trolls

I'm not sure how valuable it is to argue with someone who cannot read two messages up in the message hierarchy...

Absolutely, that I agree with.

But even so, Figma's prices have been increasing, the product is being segmented, they're increasingly pushing for various addons, even if Figma still is cheaper than Adobe.

If you're licensing a patent to others with reasonable terms, it's not a patent troll.

I understand you think they provide a service since you seem to not understand what a patent troll is.

As a reminder, a patent troll company is a company "that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll)

They don't sell any services, don't do any (reasonable) licensing, nor provide any goods.

Ok, lets hear you argue for what service a patent troll provides.

I don't think so, I read and understand the "OR" in there.

Patent trolling. Domain flipping. Just two I can think of in 30 seconds, I'm sure there are more out there :)

> Prices will creep up, product segmentation will be introduced, pop-ups pushing expensive service add-ons will eventually appear

Have you used Figma lately? All of those things have been happening for years with Figma, even before rumors about the Adobe purchase appeared.

> provide a good or service

> profit from doing so

Is the first actually a requirement? I can think of plenty of companies that do the second part well, but have nothing to do with the first one.

Highly dependent on the country.

In some countries I've lived, the government has refused to do anything against companies refusing a refund for various things, even if the conditions for the refund is matching. In other countries, I've had very helpful government people issuing a "letter of concern" (not sure exact translation) and the companies doing the refund quickly after that.

> The interesting thing is null, because here the distinction sort of breaks down.

Kind of like zero, represents "nothing" but also "something", at the same time.

Ironically, You missed the point of my comment :) I'm talking about things outside of code and certainly not about storing data about domain-specific things.

Ok? Not sure what you want to talk about here, you probably need to give us a bit more context, especially if you even acknowledge you haven't even opened up the article to talk about the submission itself...

Sometimes, the situation when something gets created and designed, looks very different from the current situation you're in N years later. So what might have looked like a boneheaded decision, could have been the best decision at that point.

But us engineers like to lament our predecessors' code, I'm guilty of this sometimes too. But I try to remember that I don't have the full context of how things were when the code was initially written.

Via the innovation of "credit", which gets used by poor people (including me when I was poor and dumb) to purchase things you in reality can't afford.

> “If you go to jewellery, you have a few brands, if you go to fashion, you have a few brands, if you go to cars, you have a few brands,” he said during an interview at the new Bang & Olufsen store in London this week. “In audio luxury, there is nobody else.”

If I was a worker at Bang & Olufsen, the final quote would definitely make me cringe. There is both better and more "value-for-the-money" brands that are still expensive and would be called luxury, but its marketing is aiming for audio professionals rather than "luxury consumers".

> If a large enough group of admins decides they are very much against this, they will not only block Threads, but block anyone who does not block Threads.

I don't think this is true. The instance my group is using isn't participating in any of the fediblocking/blocklists stuff, and hasn't been blocked by it.