I'm honestly surprised they made 10,000 sales.

It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

Pear works well on white pizza

Twitter clone by Facebook. The worst part is they're implementing ActivityPub and will federate with Lemmy and Mastodon instances.

(Pay)checks and (account) balances?

I'm not sure who told you that an installation on a USB thumb drive should boot "almost instantly" - that's a much slower device than a proper HDD or SSD, and it's normal for booting off of those to at least take a bit of time. The slow boot and the slow performance when running are probably both the same thing - slow disk I/O. A fast CPU helps run computations quickly, but installing and launching programs involves a lot of writing and reading files, which doesn't have much to do with CPU speed.

All insurance is built on denying payouts. That's the entire mechanism by which they extract profit.

What do you mean by moist?

They're just poking fun at a typo in your post title

1. Website requires user to visit using particular browser
2. User refuses to use said browser
3. ???
4. No profit

Your title mentioned GPT as in the partition table. The other user thought about ChatGPT.

"Just" fork it. Right.

It's a massive undertaking to maintain a fork of something that large and continue pulling in patches of later developments.

Not to say that Brave doesn't have the resources to do so - I really don't know their scale - but this notion of "just fork" gets thrown around a lot with these kinds of scenarios. It's an idealistic view and the noble goal of open source software, but in practical and pragmatic terms it doesn't always win, because it takes time and effort and resources that may not just be available.

They did. That's why Beeper Mini exists.

https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/

https://www.wired.com/story/beeper-android-iphone-texting-blue-bubbles/

Beehaw defederated from a lot of other major instances.

we're charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house

Oh how I wish I could buy a house for that kind of money. You should go look at what housing costs in Canadian cities.

Is that a Lemmy community... ?

Generate the binaries during test execution from known (version controlled) inputs, plaintext files and things. Don't check binaries into source control, especially not intentionally corrupt ones that other maintainers and observers don't know what they may contain.

AI on its own isn't a threat, but people (mis)using and misrepresenting AI are. That isn't a problem unique to AI but there sure are a lot of people doing dumb and bad things with AI right now.

I know I'm not the only one but I'll say it anyway:

Altoids Sours.

The marshal of the court :-)

MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was also the original developer of Java. Oracle acquired Sun. So I'd say any niceness there is in spite of, not because of, Oracle.

Also... Java's still pretty nice :-)