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Last year it was IoT

by agilob 3y ago

sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago
Or blockchain, Or metaverse, Or something else utterly useless that no one wants or asked for
janice1999 3y ago
Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.
- pas 3y ago
  at least boot2gecko made 1000x more sense than a painfully vague "focus on AI"
  - 1attice 3y ago
    I love FF and T-bird hard, but I have this mental image of a huddle full of brilliant, 20-year-plus systems engineers sitting in a room staring at a whiteboard with 'AI?' in the middle of it. "Ok, everybody popcorn up some ideas. Don't be shy." [one of them opens a laptop and begins fiddling with a flame graph]
    - reducesuffering 3y ago
      So Bighead and Gavin Belson? https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9 https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9
- lupusreal 3y ago
  At least that was plausibly related to browser development, vis-à-vis ChromeOS. With "AI services" they're totally dropping the pretext of caring about Firefox.
- jeroenhd 3y ago
  FirefoxOS may have died, but its fork KaiOS did quite well, shipping on tens of millions of cheap phones in developing countries. I think these countries are moving to Android/iOS as they get wealthier, but the legacy of FirefoxOS was quite successful. It's just that Mozilla never got much out of it.
timmg 3y ago
Is that true, or just a joke? It's honestly hard to tell.
- agilob 3y ago
  I swear 2019 was last year https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthi...
KennyBlanken 3y ago
And hilariously, Mozilla screamed blue-bloody-murder when people asked for Webserial (which they define as a standard themselves!) in Firefox which would make flashing devices much easier, for developers and users. One asshole Mozilla employee responded with "no, the danger is too great" and spouted a crazy theoretical involving someone's pacemaker getting connected to Firefox and malware blah blah blah. People pointed out that Firefox access people's cameras and microphones, and Chrome offers Web Serial support and users have to allow the permission and pick a device to connect to, a site can't just connect to any serial device. Cue handwaving about "we have higher standards than that smelly privacy-violating evil browser." What a bunch of fucking clowns.

Last year it was IoT

by agilob 3y ago

Last year it was IoT

sjfjsjdjwvwvc 3y ago

Or blockchain, Or metaverse, Or something else utterly useless that no one wants or asked for

janice1999 3y ago

Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.

pas 3y ago
at least boot2gecko made 1000x more sense than a painfully vague "focus on AI"
- 1attice 3y ago
  I love FF and T-bird hard, but I have this mental image of a huddle full of brilliant, 20-year-plus systems engineers sitting in a room staring at a whiteboard with 'AI?' in the middle of it. "Ok, everybody popcorn up some ideas. Don't be shy." [one of them opens a laptop and begins fiddling with a flame graph]
  - reducesuffering 3y ago
    So Bighead and Gavin Belson? https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9 https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9
lupusreal 3y ago
At least that was plausibly related to browser development, vis-à-vis ChromeOS. With "AI services" they're totally dropping the pretext of caring about Firefox.
jeroenhd 3y ago
FirefoxOS may have died, but its fork KaiOS did quite well, shipping on tens of millions of cheap phones in developing countries. I think these countries are moving to Android/iOS as they get wealthier, but the legacy of FirefoxOS was quite successful. It's just that Mozilla never got much out of it.

timmg 3y ago

Is that true, or just a joke? It's honestly hard to tell.

agilob 3y ago
I swear 2019 was last year https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthi...

KennyBlanken 3y ago

And hilariously, Mozilla screamed blue-bloody-murder when people asked for Webserial (which they define as a standard themselves!) in Firefox which would make flashing devices much easier, for developers and users. One asshole Mozilla employee responded with "no, the danger is too great" and spouted a crazy theoretical involving someone's pacemaker getting connected to Firefox and malware blah blah blah. People pointed out that Firefox access people's cameras and microphones, and Chrome offers Web Serial support and users have to allow the permission and pick a device to connect to, a site can't just connect to any serial device. Cue handwaving about "we have higher standards than that smelly privacy-violating evil browser." What a bunch of fucking clowns.