Also: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/112717330526232080

And to build independent browser not sponsored by google is a soft of an ideological motivation. If only it is not a pure marketing lie. There are no technical reasons for being sponsored by Shopify but not by Google. I would say there is no much of an ideology either.

And other things about the project are also concerning me:

• It uses Qt for UI, while modern browsers can draw UI with their own engines. A redundant dependency which also will harm modularity and embeddablity.
• Modern browsers have complexity of operating systems. It’s just a waste of resources to build an independent browser from scratch, but not to make the engine reusable.

This is a poor choice.

The other things: It’s so independent (from google), but already got sponsorship and changed the landing page to a typical landing of a startup. This independence is populism. Just enough one for feeding their adepts with promises. I won’t be surprised of possible advertisement integrations made “for maintaining independence”.

NGMI.

They live in the C++ age.

I wouldn’t assume the right strategy for inputs. To an outsider they are all indistinguishable, but the sender, an exchange for example, can mark operations (withdrawals) done with the same account and store that information. Every input has 16 potential members selected from the blockchain. But if tx has many inputs, and each input has among the ring one previously marked input associated with the same exchange account, it will be likely that tx was created by the person with that exchange account. If the person later will try to deposit this coins to another account of the exchange, probably exchange could link two account, at least as potentially linked. So input aggregation can give additional hints for EABE attack.

Probably, it is better to aggregate inputs earlier, before churning, and don’t mix churned coins with unchurned. But Monero need more general improvements as FCMP/FCMP++.

No. Regular payment transactions with change also have two.

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/1415 https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/5399

I would say better to pay more attention to inputs and input aggregation and to avoid it if possible.

All monero transactions now have two outputs at least, even sweep txs.

It is quite opinionated though.

Oh, I see also by their screenshots, that Bluefin also spoils the UX of GNOME with custom extensions. So I will consider it the Manjaro (or Mint) of immutable distros.

Silverblue is an official Fedora edition, almost exact Fedora Workstation, but immutable. I use it. universal blue is a third-party project and their images are bloated with additional “features”: packages, drivers, etc. Bluefin contains Homebrew for example. It’s how they describe it, but I haven’t tried it to say more precise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

When an Arch user tries NixOS.

PackageKit

Bad to whom?

At least it is not a cheap copy of Windows.

But do not give network access to this spyware.

And for humans too. Copyright is a fraud and always has been.

Tor Browser does, but differently. It attempts to behave in the same way an all platforms, ignores installed libs/fonts/etc, uses letterboxing against resolution fingerprinting.

https://support.torproject.org/tbb/maximized-torbrowser-window/

Oh, but so many people in the world identify themselves as religious. Why they do not want to see an artificial God?

I wish to live in a world where the media doesn’t consist of articles about how some rich or famous person says or thinks something.

It is comparatively to Debian/Ubuntu derivatives. Even Arch and NixOS probably have more users now. Lately I see some popularity of uBlue derivatives among new users, but I don’t know how many people use it, and where the popularity comes from.