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by shock 6y ago
> rust increases safety or productivity in actual use? compared to what?
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by shock 6y ago
I've been holding off on buying it until handwritten text recognition works on device without sending the data to the cloud. I had hoped it would have happened by now, but it looks I'm gonna have to wait a while longer.
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by shock 6y ago
And yet they still renewed the garbage that is Another Life for a second season.
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by shock 6y ago
> The loss of extensions is unfortunate, but not surprising, given they've been gone from mainline Firefox for some time. What are you talking about? How have extensions been gone from mainline Firefox for some time?
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by shock 6y ago
My impression from the layoffs thread from a couple weeks ago is that the Foundation does not employ engineers working on Firefox.
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by shock 6y ago
> I really dislike how browsers decided everything is a search. Not browsers, just chrome. The rest followed.
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by shock 6y ago
> Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's chairwoman and CEO, had no love for the project. In December 2015, she declared Mozilla platform engineers were paying "tax to support Thunderbird." She suggested that Thunderbird be spun out
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Mozilla Signs Lucrative 3-Year Google Search Deal for Firefox(pcmag.com)
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by shock 6y ago
> altruism alone wasn't enough to pay the bills. That certainly depends on how big the bills are.
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by shock 6y ago
> "Open source" doesn't necessarily mean "practical to maintain." Can an open source organization maintaining a fork of Firefox in their free time in addition to the obligations of their regular job keep up with
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by shock 6y ago
Here's how a leader acts: https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-sator...
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by shock 6y ago
Is there any browser that implements container tabs à la Firefox?
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by shock 6y ago
> You do get that the total compensation for 250 FTE's is probably in the neighborhood of $25 million/yr. In 2018 she received almost $2.5 million comp from Mozilla. Assuming that her comp has not decreased since then, that wou
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by shock 6y ago
> I've put no words in your mouth. Yes you have. You have made the implication that I'm asking you to act according to my wishes/opinions. I can hold an opinion without asking you to act according to my wishes/opinion
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by shock 6y ago
While I was getting ready to reply and say that most of my comments in this thread talking about the CEO were meant as general comments not referring to a specific Mozilla CEO, I went and read the Wikipedia Page for Mitchell Baker, so while
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by shock 6y ago
> If you think that is a reason to abandon Mozilla I have made no statement about abandoning or not abandoning Mozilla for corporate doublespeak. You're the second Mozilla employee that is putting words in my mouth in this thread. I
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by shock 6y ago
There are enough power users in the world to keep Firefox relevant.
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by shock 6y ago
Computers are powerful enough these days to have multiple browsers installed and running simultaneously. One could have used Firefox for general browsing and just used Chrome for Netflix.
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by shock 6y ago
I wish the EU would get behind Firefox development. It would certainly be in their courtyard, given how much energy they've spent battling monopolies and toward creating a market in which there is competition.
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by shock 6y ago
> Mozilla's mission is to make the internet a better place for everybody. "Don't be evil".
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by shock 6y ago
> And at the end of the day, that's mostly Tree Style Tabs, uBlock and a menu bar. I regard Firefox Container Tabs and Rust as the most useful things that come out of Mozilla.
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by shock 6y ago
> Honestly I wish we had more activists pursuing something else than money. This is very hard to do without money. Money gives you freedom. If you lack money, other parties can use money, and whatever money can buy, as leverage against y
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by shock 6y ago
> But by all means please tell us why our motivations for working here are wrong. I guess among the work offers you had when you made your employment choice, Mozilla's was the best. Would you still work at Mozilla if you were gettin
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by shock 6y ago
I did not tell you whether you should or shouldn't be political. I'm asking you a second time, please stop putting words in my mouth.
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by shock 6y ago
> That's possible, but survival of Mozilla the software house making a lot of other stuff that generates revenue which is not the browser is none of my concern nor interest. I can see why as a Mozilla employee it would be your conce
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by shock 6y ago
Trust me, if I could decide this, my life would be all rainbows and sunshine :). At least for a long while.
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by shock 6y ago
> Yes, as a non-profit, we should be held to higher standards, but not impossible standards. > OTOH, sometimes it just seems unreasonable and absurd. Stuff like, to paraphrase, "Look at the corporate doublespeak in that press rel
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by shock 6y ago
Please don't reframe my words. Nowhere did I state that "mozilla's politics are just corporate speak". I don't know enough about Mozilla's politics, to make that statement. What I did was to point out what read
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by shock 6y ago
At various levels it has to compete against Redhat/IBM, Microsoft and other Dekstop and Server OS vendors.
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by shock 6y ago
> Layoffs are by far the hardest thing for a CEO to do. Seeing up close and personal several CEOs that laid off people, I saw very little evidence of that. Some even happily talked about vacations and buying yachts, when not in employee

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