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Brave might be known for being a browser that protects its users' privacy, but some of the practices the company behind it has engaged in are questionable at best.
https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/04/06/why-i-recommend-against-brave/
Alex's Notebook · “Why I recommend against Brave”Brave might be known for being a browser that protects its users’ privacy, but some of the practices the company behind it has engaged in are questionable at best.
War Story: The Hardest Bug I Ever Debugged, by @jakevoytko:
https://www.clientserver.dev/p/war-story-the-hardest-bug-i-ever
Client/Server · War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
SMIL On?, by @geoff (@csstricks):
CSS-Tricks · SMIL on? | CSS-TricksWell, it turns out that SVG's built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it's good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported.
Question you should ask yourself today: Can I get my entire office to ditch Big Tech and embrace the Vivaldi way of life? 
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@surfhosting Well that's just big tech creating their somewhat closed ecosystems to lock you in with convenience. Google also hides that you need an extra app on the desktop to access their service, which is the #browser.
Speaking of #browsers the fantastic #Vivaldi browser has a calendar/tasks app built in (desktop version). Do check it out. To sync tasks with your mobile devices, you still need the DAVx5 plus something else setup, as their mobile app does not have the calendar/tasks built in. I run Vivaldi on the desktop and my devices, and on the phone I use DAVx5 plus #DigiCal for events plus the wonderful #jtxboard for tasks.
Note that Vivaldi on the desktop allows you to have tasks that are only local on that machine without syncing to some server.
So I can set #DuckDuckGo as a default search engine in #Safari on #iOS and it even will show suggestions while typing a query. But I can’t do the same in #Firefox on #iOS. I know, I can set it as a custom search service there, but suggestions will not work then. That’s very strange.
#browsers #degoogle #fuckery
Zorin OS (Linux) Ditches Firefox for Brave
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://youtu.be/eydR2dl60-k
Trying to optimise http://floppy.museum for (even) older browsers. Some of the issues I'm trying to solve include utf8-to-latin1 translation (the original HTML has some silly double- and triple-byte characters), and variations of JPEG that simply aren't understood.
Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing
#retrocomputing #browsers #floppy #museum #html #BrowserWars
Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing
#retrocomputing #browsers #floppy #museum #html #BrowserWars
Installed a Mastodon client, Elk, on my main Win10 (Yes, I know!) machine, so that it runs quietly in a corner of the second monitor. Got me thinking about how many other things I could get running outside the browser. Stuff like email wasn't always browser-based, and as with so much in tech, we have moved towards generalised solutions rather than single programs that do one thing really well.
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@brucelawson Sigh. This is going to make firing up a Windows VM for browser testing even more tedious.
It's bad enough that it's essentially impossible to test Safari in a VM in Linux without giving macOS a separate graphics card and monitor.
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@emu : given a domain name (*) for a website with an APPARENT owner, DV certs do not provide ANY security because users have no reasonable way to determine whether said domain name DOES NOT belong to the apparent owner.
Phishing is wreaking havoc on the internet. There are lots of people like you who DO NOT provide ANY solutions.
(*) In some message (email, SMS, chatapp, DM, ...), found by Googling, out of a QR-code, in a paper letter or on social media.
A DV cert may be fine for your home NAS, but not for your bank. Unfortunately big tech does not want users to see the difference between a fake and a real bank (or any other critical website) in their browsers.