This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine - Lemmy.World

I’m just posting an update on the Servo project, a Web Engine written in memory-safe and secure Web Engine, that Mozilla ditched when it laid off 25% of the workforce (including the Rust and Servo developers) in 2020, and raised CEO Mitchell Baker’s salary from $2.4M in 2018 to $6.9M in 2022. As much as many of us love Firefox and the early spirit of Firefox and have a strong attachment to the branding, there is an argument to be made that that a new, modern non-legacy based web engine is the way to compete with Blink and Chromium. And perhaps its a way to create a viable alternative that is out of the control of the disappointing direction the leadership keeps taking Firefox and Mozilla, including with decisions related to user privacy. So with the steady progress Servo has made in the last year and half since it was created, I think there’s an argument to be made for the community to step up community funding of Servo and help it flourish and see what it can kind of beautiful and super fast thing it can become. Here’s the year of progress report from Rakhi Sharma at the Open Source Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtlD_7JAs8 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdtlD_7JAs8] You can follow their progress on their blog: https://servo.org/blog [https://servo.org/blog] their social media: https://twitter.com/ServoDev [https://twitter.com/ServoDev] and https://floss.social/@servo [https://floss.social/@servo] You can help sponsor Servo development here: https://github.com/sponsors/servo [https://github.com/sponsors/servo] I downloaded the newest build of their very basic, basic Servo shell, and loaded up ESPN.com [http://ESPN.com] and it loaded up so fast and rendered it so nicely (post writing, pre posting edit: and then crashed by the time I wrote this up and got to this part and decided to take a look at it again, haha). It reminded me of the first time Firefox took in elements of Servo in the Firefox Quantum release. https://servo.org/download/ [https://servo.org/download/] And you can see some people trying to build a browser around it: https://github.com/versotile-org/verso [https://github.com/versotile-org/verso]

U.S. urges Israel against Gaza ground invasion, pushes surgical campaign - Lemmy.World

>The Biden administration is urging Israel to rethink its plans for a major ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and instead to opt for a more “surgical” operation using aircraft and special operations forces carrying out precise, targeted raids on high-value Hamas targets and infrastructure, according to five U.S. officials familiar with the discussions. > >Administration officials have become highly concerned about the potential repercussions of a full ground assault, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters, and they increasingly doubt that it would achieve Israel’s stated goal of eliminating Hamas. They also are concerned that it could derail negotiations to release nearly 200 hostages, particularly as diplomats think they have made “significant” advances in recent days to free a number of them, potentially including some Americans, one of the officials said. > >The Biden administration also is worried that a ground invasion could result in numerous casualties among Palestinian civilians as well as Israeli soldiers, potentially triggering a dramatic escalation of hostilities in the region, the officials said. U.S. officials think a targeted operation would be more conducive to hostage negotiations, less likely to interrupt humanitarian aid deliveries, less deadly for people on both sides and less likely to provoke a wider war in the region, the officials said.

U.S., in policy switch, urges humanitarian pauses in Gaza - Lemmy.World

>After weeks of declining to back growing international calls for “humanitarian pauses” in Israeli airstrikes to allow a steady flow of aid to enter Gaza, permit American and foreign citizens to exit into Egypt and facilitate the release of hostages, the Biden administration is now fully in favor of them and is pressing Israel to agree. > >The abrupt policy shift comes as the humanitarian situation inside the enclave has become more dire and much of the world has declined to follow the U.S. lead in withholding public criticism of how Israel is conducting its war against Hamas. > >David Satterfield, President Biden’s special envoy to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, has been in Israel this week seeking progress on both aid and egress to Egypt. But according to U.S., United Nations, Egyptian and Israeli officials, many of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity amid a welter of finger-pointing among those involved, no substantive progress has been made.

Families of kidnapped Israelis meet Netanyahu, only to find unknown family boosting PM - Lemmy.World

The article has a soft paywall. Just put in an e-mail address to get access. Here’s a relevant excerpt: >Journalist Jacky Levi and his partner, whose five family members were abducted to Gaza, said last night in an interview that Netanyahu tried to create a divide between the families. “There’s a deliberate intention here, we are sure of that, no one knew him,” Levi said of one of the four family members who unexpectedly joined the meeting. “We’re looking into who he is and who he represents, because it cannot be that he just showed up out of nowhere to a meeting with the prime minister.” > >Tzvika Mor, whose son Eitan has been missing since the attack, said on Monday in an interview with Kol Barama Radio Station that he was the one who participated in the meeting. “I want to debunk the lie that we arrived out of nowhere, it’s a lie.” > >“No one can just opportunely come in and meet the Prime Minister. We represent four families whose loved ones were abducted, and we wanted to convey a national message to Netanyahu. We need to stop this whiny behavior. We need to win the war. In a time of war the people of Israel have to make sacrifices, even when our children are there, and prevail,” Mor added. So basically, a Netanyahu lackey who has a child missing, comes “uninvited” into a prearranged meeting with families of hostages drawn from an organization set up by these families, gasses up Netanyahu, and argues against hostage negotiations and calls for the families to prepare to sacrifice their family members taken hostage.

Asking Palestinians to say that Israel has a right to exist is like asking Native Americans to say the USA has a right to exist. What about Israel exists and has the right to continue to exist? - Lemmy.World

Israel-Hamas War: Piers Morgan vs Bassem Youssef On Palestine's Treatment | The Full Interview - Lemmy.World

The clarity of Bassem Youssef on what’s gong on here is amazing.