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Much as I appreciate LWN (and subscribe), my understanding is that it is losing money. Jon posts periodic updates on this.


At least you don't lose access to LWN just because you upgraded your OS or switched platforms.


Talk to me about G+ and chromium getting fubared due to Debian bug #682616.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682616

Edit: clarifying, G+ tends to strongly favor chromium, and the latter's broken as of my most recent update.

But, yeah.


There's a difference between a bug and being tied to a platform for one application. To be fair, you can always switch to another OS (or even another distro) and use chromium.


While I largely agree (and have found that G+ actually is pretty usable under FF16), the point I was highlighting is that Google are (for somewhat understandable reasons) pushing very hard at the concept of what a Web browser is, and what it's used for (they really, really want it to be an app platform, not just a media presentation tool), to the extent that their site degrades significantly under other browsers. Which creates a pain point when Google's own browser fails to function under my preferred OS.

And I don't really see scrapping that OS just to use a single website. There are other alternatives (VMs, etc.), but they're not particularly attractive either.

The IOS6 specificity of The Magazine really is pretty brain-damaged though.




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