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Servo v0.0.1 9 months ago

If you have a basic site that doesn't work you can open an issue on the repo. If you have some relatively simple site, its useful for the team to know what features that people are using are broken.

Servo v0.0.1 9 months ago

That's roughly correct. The other side of this is figuring out a release process and thinking about versioning.

Speaking only for myself, I think a big part of this is that to be comfortable recommending any browser to be used as a typical browser would require a pretty substantial base set of security features/layers. Servo has a few pieces in place but some of those features are only available on some platforms. It is much easier to recommend it to be used as an embedding solution where the embedder is usually choosing to only render specific pages as an app.

It is pretty exciting, there's lots of big projects constantly being undertaken in the codebase. In terms of being "greenfield" I will say that the layout engine got rewritten starting in 2020, became the default in 2023, and the legacy one got fully removed in early 2025. There's a lot of reorganization and re-architecting going on in the net and storage components as we speak. There's opportunities to redesign systems to align with newer versions of the various RFCs/WHATWG specs. Basically lots of work to do to stay modern.

The location they have that's "well into construction" is SPARC, which is not intended to be a net power production facility. It will host their net gain demonstrator that they intend to have first plasma in next year and target a net gain demonstration in 2027.

ARC which they announced siting for and is intended to be their first grid-attached net power provider only just had the location selected so I don't believe its got much construction going on yet. The goal for that plant to be producing power is "early 2030s".

The Path of Exile wiki made a similar move a few years ago. Fandom was such a limitation for the community and the ads and page speed were awful. Now the Minecraft wiki will have to spend effort beating the Fandom site on SEO so that people get directed to the actually updated wiki. For Path of Exile there was a browser extension that would hide the Fandom from search results and redirect you to the new community wiki.

It actually was expected to do a flip and perform stage separation. It was a problem when it kept trying to flip and Starship didn't separate.

The explosion at the end was the Flight Termination System. In case of uncontrolled flight you detonate the rocket to keep it from flying somewhere dangerous.

Outstanding work, I wrote an incredibly naive simulator of Starlink coverage using H3 over a year ago before we even knew that Starlink was using H3 internally. The community over in r/Starlink wrote some other simulations too and we all stopped short of actually calculating based on gateway reachability and ISLs weren't in use yet either.