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by hn_submit 2mo ago
They're not spending $400 million a year on development. Unless you're including management fees of course.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Simple it ain't, but it's certainly doable if you have hundreds of developers working on it. It will reduce maintenance further down the line especially as far as vulnerabilities are concerned.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Then maybe I should tell them what they shouldn't do: waste their money on management and other projects not directly related to improving the Firefox browser.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I've given up on technical solutions to internet spying and tracking. Even with NoScript, uBlock Origin and "Enhanced Protection" in Firefox turned on I always have the feeling Google and Facebook still know everything about
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Don't forget Ladybird. It's coming along nicely too and it's currently being rewritten in Rust, which should give it a leg up on the rest of the bunch. There are a few others, mostly A.I. slop like NorthStar.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Porting code from one language to another is much faster than writing it from scratch. I'm currently porting my own code from Python to C++ and it's a snap. Mozilla could've chosen to port the C++ code to Rust, but they didn&
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
The head of a non-profit shouldn't be raking in millions. Not even in the Valley! Instead they dreamed up the idea of being a multi-billion corporation next to the non-profit so they could give management commensurate compensation.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Despite the oodles of money Mozilla receives it manages Firefox poorly . Because of that its market share has been slipping for years. Soon it may become so insignificant that Google will cut back funding to say, tens of millions a year. A
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Mozilla should've finished rewriting Firefox completely in Rust to give them an Unique Selling Point. They didn't because of management's hubris to build their own mobile operating system to take on Google (its largest financ
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I love Firefox but feel little pity for Mozilla which receives $400+ million a year on search placement in their browser but spends only a tiny fraction on its development. The rest is wasted on greedy management and frivolous projects to g
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Intel wants to integrate DRAM with the CPU [video](youtube.com)
3 points by hn_submit 2mo ago|2 comments
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Intel wants to produce DRAMs again now that AI is set to permanently alter the demand for RAM. But they want to integrate DRAM with the CPU, which could lead to huge speed increases, just like Apple has done with its M-CPUs.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
No it can't. The only thing you'll end up with is an arms race. An arms race companies like Google and Facebook are destined to win because they have unlimited budgets to fight ad-blocking because it's what made them filthy r
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I believe tracking and privacy invasions cannot be solved through technological means, it needs to be solved through laws and regulations. We need to prod our representatives to ban the selling of our private information. Websites themselve
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
The only way to keep ads off Facebook is to stop using Facebook.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Look, stupid companies who use A.I. to generate their code will simply fail. Companies that use bright engineers to engineer their product and write code (and pay them accordingly) will thrive and thrash the competition. Darwinism in action
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I personally blame all Brits since it's they who allowed their government to pass laws like the Online Safety Act and RIPA Part 2 without so much as a whimper, let alone protest. In other countries government buildings would've be
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Linux desktop share rises to 22%(zdnet.com)
4 points by hn_submit 2mo ago|1 comments
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Desktop Linux market share is on a roll in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Rising to 22% on some days of the week. MSFT's valuation has lost a trillion dollars since early January and I'm sure Redmond must be worried conside
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Dropbox is a name everyone knows, just like OneDrive and Google Drive. But fact is that Mega, an end-to-end encrypted file storage service just like Dropbox but where only you can see your files, is a MUCH better product. I've alway
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
C will not die but it will simply fade away. Rust is the new black and it will supplant C/C++ and almost everything else short of virtual machine languages like Java/C#.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Britain is the original Orwellian society!! They even practice DoubleSpeak and DoubleThink in Blighty, especially in government and parliamentary circles.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
No one is going to buy glasses that only show ads, that's obvious. They'll start out with something useful like glasses that recognize people and show you their public Facebook profile info. Or you look at things and it will ident
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
They'll keep trying because there's big advertising dollars to be had. Everything you look at will result in a "relevant" ad. Google already found out the hard way that these glasses aren't socially acceptable. Meta
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Why is Meta insisting on forcing these "pervert" glasses on us? I can tell you why: advertising. I bet some "pervert" within Meta (may Zuck himself) has already thought up that whatever you look at will result in you get
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I can't take any Big Tech company that still uses PHP seriously. Sorry.
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Impressive for $8000. But its low top speed (80km/h) only makes it suitable for urban transportation. Also, I doubt this thing will be able to pass the NCAP (EU) or IIHS (USA) safety certification so they wouldn't be able to sell
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
How would this be any better than Facebook? I mean, in the end all social networks want to be Facebook, right? As soon as there's talk of an IPO or private equity becoming involved you know it's going down the same shithole that
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
Email itself is not encrypted but the links between email servers are. That makes it non-trivial to intercept email. However, most people these days are using webmail from the big-tech companies which makes it relatively easy for LEA and in
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by hn_submit 2mo ago
I call this "sovereignty washing": American companies pretending they can magically free themselves from the U.S. CLOUD Act by setting up a paper European presence. Anyone who falls for this is a fool wanting to be fooled.

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