iteratethis

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by iteratethis 2y ago
I'm guessing because they don't want to. Their "mission" is much larger than Firefox.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
Well, I just explained you why. Firefox subsidizes the mothership which is doing a lot of non-Firefox activities. When you carve out Firefox, the mothership is gone.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
You need to separate intent from messaging, it's how the game is played. The US is taking a strong lead in brokering a deal. It got Ukraine and the EU to make large concessions (mineral deal, extra EU defense spending) to signal to the
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by iteratethis 2y ago
Many people want to donate to Firefox exclusively but you can forget about that. Mozilla will not carve out Firefox because it's the only reason that the mother org gets half a billion of free money from Google. Carving out Firefox mea
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by iteratethis 2y ago
It's funny you mention this. Mozilla was one of the first to accept crypto donations. Then some 3 years ago an ex-Mozilla employee posted a rant on Twitter on how this effectively makes Mozilla super evil. It went somewhat viral and M
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by iteratethis 2y ago
You state that the non-Firefox activities of Mozilla are good, as if an established fact. I'd reason that there's no consensus on this at all. Some things might be perceived as good, some neutral or bad, and many might be perceive
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by iteratethis 2y ago
This polls suggests that there's some decision holding back Mozilla from ditching Google, and that with enough pressure, they'll finally do it. They're long aware that they should. They made the strategic announcement some 7-
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by iteratethis 2y ago
We need to be honest about what value Firefox really has left. Commercially, it's completely irrelevant. On big websites it doesn't even show up in the top 10 browsers and it's almost entirely absent on mobile. Site owners ca
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by iteratethis 2y ago
The ceasefire is basically the world asking Russia: do you have any interest in any long term peace at all? The answer is probably "not really" but Russia cannot signal that this early on. It's more beneficial to say "ye
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by iteratethis 2y ago
Russia will not reject this ceasefire. It concedes absolutely nothing which basically forces Russia to say yes to it. Because if they don't, they looks so unreasonable that actual negotiations will fail. My guestimate of the Russian po
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by iteratethis 2y ago
"The United States’ alliances are an incredible power resource, and its actions should not undermine them." Well, too late. The article repeatedly makes the point that any blockade strategy requires allies on board in order to be
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by iteratethis 2y ago
This to me is the ultimate sign that Mozilla has zero values or principles. They've long advocated that Big Tech is a problem, but as soon as somebody tries to actually address it and this coincidentally impacting Mozilla, they abandon
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by iteratethis 2y ago
A few days ago the press secretary of the White House closed the session by commenting on a hockey game to be played that night between the US and "our soon-to-be 51st state", whilst grinning. A declaration of war packaged as a pr
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by iteratethis 2y ago
"You Europeans don't need to worry. We will not abandon you in case Russia shows up in NATO territory because we have too long of a history together and strong commercial relations." This history has been wiped out in a month
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by iteratethis 2y ago
I want to paint a picture of what type of "ally" the US is in normal circumstances, from a Dutch perspective. A superpower versus a speckle of a country. The growth of our biggest airport had to be capped for various reasons. That
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by iteratethis 2y ago
Quite a lot of cash to generate AI stickers in messenger.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
This is good for Americans because their new "External Revenue Service" is going to get very rich this way.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
There's no such thing in a product as complicated as a laptop.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
It's not an awful law. The Digital Market Act is a bit of an overreach but the AI law is not. It classifies AI into risk categories, so that it doesn't kill anyone, carelessly handle sensitive information, etc. A chatbot can easil
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by iteratethis 2y ago
The punch line is that more expensive is better in cases where you buy something just to flex wealth.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
You picked the wrong country. I'm from the Netherlands and it's not in a dire state. It has newspapers across the spectrum. Volkskrant and Parool are left-wing, AD is centrist, Telegraaf is center-right. To name a few. This reflec
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by iteratethis 2y ago
It's loss-making at current usage, and usage per user will exponentially grow.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
This is the Musk algorithm in action. He cuts, removes and simplifies until it starts to hurt, and then slightly dials it back. He does this with rocket engines and staff. Now he's doing it with government services and the US as a whol
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by iteratethis 2y ago
The US ranks #55 in press freedom, all positions in the top 10 are EU countries.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
I'm afraid ethics have nothing to do with it. If a major force does not add AI capabilities to their military, the others will. It's a new cold war arms race. So you have to do it. There is no ethical discussion to be had where th
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by iteratethis 2y ago
Well, yes, that's what I was saying. But a West without the US is not a tiny change.
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by iteratethis 2y ago
The thing with cars is that this is one of few things where Europe can do a MEGA. We can buy our own and the reasons to do so seem to grow by the day. I honestly have found it always very lame to virtue signal by means of buying a car or to
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by iteratethis 2y ago
I mean there will be no West as we currently know it. The US is now a hostile state to former allies that collectively make up what we call the West. Thus the West disintegrates. Each disintegrated part will of course defend itself in case
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by iteratethis 2y ago
The reason war may be coming is because the West is falling apart. The US is isolating itself and bullying its allies. Alternative powers wanting to do something expansive never had a better moment in time to do so. There was no war forthco
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by iteratethis 2y ago
True. Federation is a disaster. Like you say, the simple use case of having consistent likes and replies doesn't even work. This breaks conversations. An OP hosting a popular thread will see the same/similar reply many times becau

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