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.

Disney’s live-action ‘Snow White’ reboot starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot seemed like a can’t-miss project five years ago

lol

Well Pierce Brosnan is Irish

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

I think they’re fun action movies so I guess why not

I just don’t care for downstream projects on browsers, with software so critical I want to get the updates in as fast as possible. I know some of those mentioned in OP had issues with that in the past. And not much reason to anyway for me to switch, Firefox works perfectly fine for me, so there’s not much added benefit.

I use Firefox. I don’t like the changes but I don’t want to use any downstream browsers and I don’t think any of the not-downstream alternatives do better.

I wasn’t ready to see that my friends are Brownshirts [34]. That they actively cheer on the genocide…I wasn’t ready for my friends being [concentration] camp guards, party officials, propagandists.

Yeah that’d do it