drpossum

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by drpossum 2y ago
> FF exists off of good will and the search deal Firefox exists off of google and their antitrust deal.
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by drpossum 2y ago
"We were actually selling your data according to 'courts' so instead of making good on our promise to literally never do that we just memory-holed it. Not sure what the big deal is please continue to trust us."
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by drpossum 2y ago
> let's see if we can make this honest! They're beholden to who gives them money, which is not us.
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by drpossum 2y ago
Funny, I got downvoted to hell when I said this exact thing some while ago.
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by drpossum 2y ago
While that may be true Apple's opinion is the only one that matters and the author has not provided transparency about it . People are entitled to that transparency if they are soliciting money.
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by drpossum 2y ago
But it's no longer a donation (regardless if that word is used or not) when you offer things like material support of the app in exchange for the money. Then it is actually a support contract. If they are not registered a non-profit
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by drpossum 2y ago
I agree it's overbearing, but if that is the case they should consider choosing a different method to distribute their app for which they are trying to solicit my money that they don't find overbearing. Mixing money and third part
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by drpossum 2y ago
That should change the calculus for payments, but they a) still need to affirm their model was deemed acceptable to Apple, if they're limiting their market to EU users they should b) say so up front, and c) limit access to the app and
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by drpossum 2y ago
Have you actually released this or passed Apple's review process? Soliciting external donations for higher level support gets into a grey area about Apple getting their cut from the apps it distributes. If you haven't registered
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by drpossum 2y ago
Memecoins are also "collectable" and for "social interaction" without "expectation of profit but you can get profit as long as you say the magic words that it's not expected" whereas cryptocurrency is &quo
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by drpossum 2y ago
I would like to see this used as evidence of Microsoft's endorsement for using those scripts in court.
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by drpossum 2y ago
> If the attention economy is a race to the bottom, then the most popular content should be stuff that doesn't quite break the public decency rules. I'm not sure I follow if that's indeed what gets people's attention
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by drpossum 2y ago
I'm of one mind about this because > Unfortunately they've been stupid They could have had an enormous amount of good will and they do nothing but burn it. Weird how they get a lot of money from google and then, while techn
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by drpossum 2y ago
Chrome is absolutely not a step in the right direction if this is pushing you away from Firefox. Look at the number of forks that strip out this nonsense and behave functionally identically instead.
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by drpossum 2y ago
You're not where you think you are.
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by drpossum 2y ago
Mozilla's messaging for the last few months has really reminded me of the old anti-smoking ads from the 2000s. Technically performing their responsibility, but actually extremely obnoxious because the people behind the funding didn&#
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by drpossum 2y ago
You can't. Ever. So you just need to live with uncertainty.
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by drpossum 2y ago
I live in a house with my wife.
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by drpossum 2y ago
This is exactly it. They're covering their bases as they roll out AI garbage no one asked for.
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by drpossum 2y ago
There is something deeply wrong with the donate nag: The money goes to funding Mozilla-branded nonsense (e.g. misguided adventures into the VPN space), overpaid executives and bloated administration (as they actively shed developers [1][
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by drpossum 2y ago
This is just taking stock svg icons and editing some basic svg properties. This isn't particularly useful for a logo as a) stock logos pretty much by definition don't offer a lot of distinguishment for what they are trying to rep
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by drpossum 2y ago
I use LLMs pretty liberally and I can say with 100% certainty I am not going to leave an open microphone in my home hooked up to an LLM connected to a place I do not control that is actively trying to "learn" about me.
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by drpossum 2y ago
Again, and I cannot stress this to you enough, get a lawyer and talk to them if you wish to proceed that way. I am not a lawyer, but I will say guessing and saying "magic words" like they ward off C&Ds and lawsuits is not an
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by drpossum 2y ago
If you can't convince yourself that a UI test could test something that might break, I'm not sure a discussion here is going to help you.
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by drpossum 2y ago
Pretty cool you got Warren Buffett and Cathie Wood to sign off using their names in your ad and code. I'm sure you took this seriously and ran it by your legal department regarding personality rights. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by drpossum 2y ago
Except we are talking about Linux specifically, the "users" here in your analogy are people working in the collective kernel code, and there is a unique culture and set of practices around maintaining this because it's not
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by drpossum 2y ago
I fail to see how this is a relevant question and "the real issue" with respect to Rust. How is this situation any different from a pure C kernel? There are already protocols on how this gets handled - maintain backwards compa
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by drpossum 2y ago
A better question would be "can I use PowerBI on Linux?", to which the answer is "no". This is assuming the obvious "use the web app" or "run a VM or other Windows mimicking layer" was already consid
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by drpossum 2y ago
I don't understand what this is supposed to clarify in the context of what was posted.
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by drpossum 2y ago
Consider that your reluctance to move and your overvaluing of "technical discussion" is the actual problem.

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