Mozilla is out here unleashing levels of slop previously believed to be impossible. Some of the absurdity gets picked apart in this thread.

Anyway, development of Servo resumed a couple years ago after they managed to scrape together a couple of grants. This past October they tagged their first release (v0.0.1) and have made a few more since. It looks like things are finally moving somewhat. They will be giving a couple of talks this weekend at FOSDEM.

It is not a suitable replacement yet, but watch this space.

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    note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.

    The not-Flash intro and the ascii art are cool. I wish more websites did creative things like that.

    edit: to be clear, I mean the loading screen that looks like a terminal window, the racoon video that rapidly flashes between different camera angles because AI video generators can’t maintain coherence for more than a few seconds is bad