Currently it is controlled by thugs in the USA. Same difference?

> Currently it is controlled by thugs in the USA. Same difference?

I hate to make such a prosaic answer, but, independent of there being thugs in the USA or not ... two wrongs don't make a right.

Having the options between internet controlled by the USA and internet controlled by China is almost certainly better than only having one of those two options. Competition keeps any of the two from degrading service too much, and if you are ideologically or politically unaligned with one chances are you are at least somewhat aligned with the other

So go fix your wrongs, make the world better. Until then it is just pot calling kettle black

It’s Elon though, that’s worth atleast several wrongs.

I mean just banning stuff because some media companies want it is brain dead, but immediately calling for daddy Vance and mommy Musk is just pathetic.

Setup AdGuard and never look back

Whats special about Orion? Why would I use it instead of FF or even Chromium?

I think Kagi at this stage have a better reputation than Mozilla, and Chromium is not seen as sufficiently independent from Chrome, and hence from Google’s anti-user decisions.

That said, closed source is still a deal breaker for a browser for me, or I’d probably already be using Vivaldi.

The built in ad blocker is phenomenal. Only Brave is as good on this front. It supports extensions from both FF and Chromium. It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs. Kagi as a company has generally pretty good ethics and respects their users. That’s enough to make it compelling for me.

> It has a really neat integration with Kagi private search in private tabs

What's the integration you're referring to here? This was something I was interested in, but as far as I can tell if I enable Kagi Privacy Pass it's enabled browser-wide, not just in private tabs.

Ah - I just did not realize that privacy pass was available as extension to other browsers but of course that makes sense. It’s built in to Orion. You still have to enable it when you switch to private tabs. It’d be nice if it was automatic!

FF and Chromium are controlled by the biggest advertising company on the internet, while Orion is developed by a privacy focused search engine.

But isn't it basically also just a rebranded Chromium clone, thus still heavily depended on G?

Orion is using WebKit. Chromium itself was a fork of WebKit. I don't know how much Chromium code gets upstreamed to WebKit any more, but Google certainly doesn't control it the way they do Chromium.

WebKit development is mainly driven by Apple, which isn't great from the perspective of having a browser free of corporate influence, but I trust them more than Google.

No, it is not.

It uses webkit, which is what Blink was forked from but likely has more in common with Safari at this point.

It's a webkit browser.

Don't worry about it, you're not even invited to use Orion.

lol

Nothing, really, other than it being closed-source, based around Webkit and to be sold/distributed under the Kagi moniker. If that combination scratches your itch this is for you, otherwise there are many alternatives.

> do we trust the fascist regime of venezuala or the fascist president of the U.S?

FTFY

I'm involved in the development of the voice assistant for the VW Group and I find it pretty good honestly. You can control quite a lot via voice and it works pretty reliably.

It actually worked for me, got my last promotion that way (IC -> EM)

I don’t consider a line level manager a promotion. I consider that the fifth level of hell.

The pay bump was nice, but I totally get where you're coming from. I'm actually thinking about moving back to IC

My biggest issue with line level managers is that they don’t control budgets or have any real authority - raises, promotions, etc.

I love managing initiatives - just not people. But anytime I have been bought into a company where I was responsible for major company wide strategy, I made sure I reported directly to someone with authority - a director or a CTO. It was mostly small companies.

Even now where as a staff level employee where I do report to a line level manager (who is at the same salary band as I am) who I like and respect very much, I am making sure I have visibility and the ear of my skip manager and my CTO about things I care about - without stepping on my managers toes.

What things do you mean exactly? I'm not following all of that too closely

Out of curiosity, what are these workflows?

I don’t use x2x but use xev and xdotool for automated regression testing of GUI tools.

I can’t find a low-effort, high-portability, low-menory way to do it with Wayland.

Local and also in CI pipelines.

wev+ydotool?

I might be in the wrong Wayland desktop environment; I couldn’t get it to work reliably. Headless Wayland was really complicated when I last tried it, and quite memory heavy.

I’ll try again this month!

Not the GP, but I recall the KeePass password manager using xdotool for its autotype feature. I struggled to get xdotool to work correctly back in 2014 on a Debian 7 personal computer. Not familiar with 'x2x' or 'xev'