You’re not supposed to have to do it to the same degree as you do with AI

I think every other Us based company has to follow the same laws, as you’d expect tbh.

Organic Maps said not to blame this on Microsoft but rather on US law

The above codecs-extra change meant that we now didn’t really have an use case for org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 since codecs-extra had FFMPEG’s internal H.264 decoder and the libx264 encoder.

Sounds like it was basically replaced with codecs-extra

They’re MIT licensed.

Not using different user accounts, that’s a paddling

And for someone not knowing what that is, it’s a way to install and update stuff no matter what the distro, without messing with distro repo or otherwise messing stuff up.

Someone really should’ve replied with

My attack was built with Curson

That’s where the delay comes. Though I guess it does point out that even with just Firefox the differences are small in how quickly you get updates.

Did Zen come from flatpak and Firefox from deb?

And how’s that working out so far?

I think it was US OFAC sanctions

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regulations-and-open-source-us-ofac-sanctions

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/ (links to the OFAC sanctions set up after Russia invade Ukraine)

The OFAC sanctions do have quite a few lists, with one of them being “Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions”, so it could be fear of harmful actions and not just retaliation for the invasion

US laws prevented them from contributing while employed in a sanctioned company. Sucky situation for those individuals.

Weren’t Russian contributors (from very specific sanctioned companies) rejected from contributing because of US sanction laws and with Linux Foundation being HQ’d in the US?

Lemmy isn’t 1-on1 discussions

Thanks

Let’s hope it doesn’t get much worse than this. The direction is pretty alarming.

The added benefit of going with one of the downstream forks is that you can be sure they’re not gonna pull some new monetization trick next month. That does count for something.

It doesn’t count for much, if they do that I can just switch then.

I’m confused. I’ve already made my decision when I used them before and it doesn’t seem like the main thing (them being just downstream of Firefox) has changed? Like said, I don’t see the benefits being big enough to warrant a switch.

I’ve just soured on them from when there has been issues. Some security patches took a while because of the changed codebase. Good if that doesn’t happen anymore though.