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by Vinnl 5mo ago
Mozilla is paid when people search on Google through Firefox. If you're not searching with Google, you're not using Google by proxy. (Work at Mozilla, but not related to this - this is just public info.)
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by Vinnl 5mo ago
Is that a webview loading Gmaps? That's not what I expected to call "degoogling", haha. The OSMand UX is clearly not made for casual use, but Comaps is basically the main user-friendly application. It is missing a couple of c
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by Vinnl 5mo ago
Also note the Mozilla standards position on this API: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#i... Or this summary on its status: > Mozilla: Opposed > WebKit: Opposed > Microsoft:
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
This is the specific position posted today/yesterday: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#i...
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Oh heh, now on the frontpage through this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959463
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Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web. We oppose this API(mastodon.social)
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Huh. Looks like my account is only two months younger. I'm not nearly as emotionally attached to GH though.
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Heh well, that article says it "clearly infuriated executives at the company", and links to [1], which is exactly what I described. But banning it on Discord does kind of retroactively prove their point, I suppose. [1] https:&#x2
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
"get offended" is just what the clickbait news cycle made of it. It was based on the post at [1], and this is all it said: > We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium in terms o
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Interestingly that seems to be in response to [1], which might indeed be the trigger for this. [1] https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vibing-capturing-screensh...
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Heh, looks like it's not in its own training data: https://flipbook.page/n/d739a0bbc3664ba2aad331c90fef7406
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Yes, but that service is running locally.
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
It's more like criticising a criminal when they are helping some grandma across the street, thereby treating them more harshly than the criminals that don't do that. (Also known as the "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics&quo
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
I think "No, this was not funded by donations".
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Took me a bit to find, so here's it quoted: > Thunderbolt is funded through a dedicated investment from Mozilla and is being developed by a separate team focused on enterprise AI products, distinct from Thunderbird’s donation-suppor
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Looks like still a bit early for me, but if you add an RSS feed to your blog, I would at least be reminded to check it out again later :)
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
k9mail's developer called it a day, so this is still strictly the better outcome. If you want an unmaintained version, why not just install the old version?
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
I'm not a Thunderbird user myself, and obviously everyone's experiences are different, but I've seen lots of people happy with Thunderbird's development. And just the fact that they've ensured that k9mail is still m
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Ah fair enough.
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
I think that indeed might explain why it looked wrong to me - though weirdly "affect" looks perfectly fine to me now!
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Right, I kinda get the definitions, but usually I have no problem with them, i.e. the correct one also "sounds right" to me. I wonder why it didn't in this case? Edit: hmm, re-reading it now, affect does look right. Weird.
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
That was a different user who wrote that.
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
That's basically how you could describe what happened. Those competent people are using Mozilla's infrastructure and trademarks, but otherwise running on donations.
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
One thing that's important to note (which holds for the Mozilla Corporation too) is that the for-profit thing is a legal status, but the Foundation (an official non-profit) is the only shareholder, i.e. the only entity that "profi
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Yeah it's all a bit complex (just like the US tax code, I suppose). MZLA (which makes Thunderbird) is a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Corporation (which makes Firefox) is also a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundatio
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
As a Dutch person, I experience exactly this dilemma: ringing the bell feels like telling people to get out of the way, when often there is plenty of space for me to pass through, but I know that there's a significant chance that the
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Heh, you were walking right up to my viewpoint and then turned away. A parliamentary democracy with proportional representation has way more influence IMO, and you'll find another couple of relatively well-run countries that work like
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Often it's very likely that previous ones won't need to change significantly, in which case disposing of having the full context while waiting for that review ends up slowing you down a lot. In those cases, often the main cause of
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
Jujutsu is interesting in that it appeals both to Git enthusiasts, and people who strongly dislike Git's UX. It's great to see it spurring more innovation in the ecosystem around it. Though if it can just make stacked PRs widespre
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by Vinnl 6mo ago
I think this is the first time I read something online where an organised person has a system that works well, but it doesn't look good, haha.

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