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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    2 months ago

    from their Wikipedia page Iā€™m starting to get why Iā€™ve never previously heard of The Browser Companyā€™s browser; itā€™s about a year old, itā€™s only for macOS, iOS, and Windows, and itā€™s just a chromium fork with a Swift UI overtop and extremely boring features you can get with plugins on Firefox without risking getting your entire life compromised (til Mozilla decides thatā€™s profitable, I suppose)

    Arc is designed to be an ā€œoperating system for the webā€, and integrates standard browsing with Arcā€™s own applications through the use of a sidebar. The browser is designed to be customisable and allows users to cosmetically change how they see specific websites.

    oh fuck off. so what makes something an operating system is:

    • the whole UI got condensed down into an awkward-looking sidebar that takes up more space instead of a top bar
    • you can re-style websites (which is the feature that enabled this hack, and which must be one of the most common browser plugins)
    • you can change the browserā€™s UI color
    • it can run ā€œits own applicationsā€? which sounds like a real security treat if theyā€™re running in the UI context of the browser. though to be honest I donā€™t see why these wouldnā€™t just be ordinary web apps, in which case itā€™s just a PWA feature