only 90s kids remember when recaptcha was helping project gutenberg transcribe old books instead of feeding the google machine learning beast so they can make cars
So we started shipping WebRender in Firefox a few weeks ago. Completely new rendering engine written in rust, big departure from how we approached rendering before. We are gradually enabling it for different hardware/OS configurations and a couple of million users have it now.
What's kind of blowing my mind, having worked on 3 large-ish rewrites, is that since WebRender shipped, telemetry has reported less crashes per user with WebRender than without.
This is *not* how big rewrites usually go.
re: gdq meta (-)
"another bad thing at gdq oohhhh this is why i never watch gdq it's always shit and full of shitty people"
your perception revolves entirely around negativity and you should consider examining that internally instead of projecting it
re: gdq meta (-)
there is a lot of valid criticism to go around but i guarantee you sending a hot take on twitter/mastodon is going to do absolutely fuck all to address it
re: gdq meta (-)
yeah, the drama happens on-site. nobody here is happy about it. but we're still having a good time and we're still raising a lot of money for MSF. it turns out the event is NOT, in fact, entirely defined by shitty things people do and the peanut gallery's perception of it.
by the way, my new avatar is by @pinnapop@twitter.com! here's the full image. rina's very good at what they do and you should follow them if you don't already!! #floraverse
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