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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It’s not technical and more political.

    Google is a surveillance company with a huge impact on web standards thanks to its insane market share. Apple on its side uses its forced monopoly to prevent websites from competing with its app store. Gecko depends on Mozilla that depends on google for 90% of its revenue, and is today a good “look we’re not a monopoly” excuse for google.

    I don’t think people want a new engine because the current ones don’t work. They want a new engine because they want the web to be truly open.















  • Yes. The price of a subscription for unlimited public transport in Paris and the surrounding areas is more than 80€/month. So if such a pass were to actually offer all public transport it would be a huge net loss since all Parisian would switch to it and start paying much less.

    On the other hand public transportation subscriptions in smaller cities is much much less expensive, so for non Parisians this may not be worth that much.

    Not sure how that would play out regarding redistribution of wealth.