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by staktrace 6y ago
This is a relatively narrow view of the Internet, though. You're talking about a web-standards silo kind of thing, which I agree is bad, but is not the sum total of the problems affecting the Internet. See https://internethe
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by staktrace 6y ago
(301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24122250 )
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by staktrace 6y ago
> So you feel that it is better to do many things and fail at all of them than it would be to do one thing and succeed at that because that one thing has no meaning in the world that would result? I feel it is better to do many things in
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by staktrace 6y ago
> Has that been mentioned in a meeting somewhere? Not explicitly, but I do recall meetings where the announcement was along the lines of "we are choosing to make a dividend payment to fund the Foundation work..." which implies
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by staktrace 6y ago
Money is fungible and dollars are dollars. Donating money to the Foundation means less of the Corporation's dollars have to go to supporting the Foundation (which they do via dividend payments), and so more of the Corporation's do
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by staktrace 6y ago
Maybe you should contribute to one of the many "fix bugs for money" websites where you can specifically donate money to get bugs in open source products fixed. It's even better because it doesn't have to be a Mozilla emp
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by staktrace 6y ago
This is a bit of a silly argument, because money is fungible and dollars are dollars. Donating money to the Foundation means less of the Corporation's dollars have to go to supporting the Foundation (Edited to add: which they do via di
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by staktrace 6y ago
This is a bit of a silly argument, because money is fungible and dollars are dollars. Donating money to the Foundation means less of the Corporation's dollars have to go to supporting the Foundation, and so more of the Corporation&#x27
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by staktrace 6y ago
> And for Mozilla it was a huge distraction, one they could ill afford. This is demonstrably false. Rust was designed for use in browser development, and it has successfully been adopted into Firefox. The payback is increased security, s
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by staktrace 6y ago
The original purpose of Rust and Servo was to build a better browser. Rust was designed with browser development in mind, and is used increasingly in Firefox. That was an investment that has paid off in spades. (Edited to add: But I agree i
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by staktrace 6y ago
I don't see how losing Firefox would end up with an "even more silo'd, broken up Internet". Firefox can't fight that by itself so just having Firefox by itself isn't going to make much of a difference to what B
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by staktrace 6y ago
> Get the most secure and most user friendly, privacy first, standards compatible and feature rich browser out there and you'll survive for another decade at least. Get distracted by new and shiny stuff and I'd be surprised if
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by staktrace 6y ago
The Debian Foundation also doesn't have to compete against Google on a product that costs millions of dollars to build and maintain, and that Google throws billions at in marketing.
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by staktrace 6y ago
I feel sorry that your life has been surrounded by people with so little empathy.
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by staktrace 6y ago
Rust is largely community-owned now. There are some Mozilla employees still working on rust, but not many.
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by staktrace 6y ago
People aren't clicking on ads to buy things because they've all been laid off. Economies are circular.
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by staktrace 6y ago
The structure is set up that because it reflects the goals of Mozilla. Firefox the browser is not the end goal, it's a means to making the internet a better place. And that's what the Foundation is about. The corporation also pays
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by staktrace 6y ago
Mozilla's mission is to make the internet a better place for everybody. Having an open web browser is a part of that, but nowhere near sufficient to accomplish the goal. The "vanity ambitions" you are talking about are the th
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by staktrace 6y ago
Like MIDI
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Igalia's open prioritization experiment for contributing to browsers(frederic-wang.fr)
49 points by staktrace 6y ago|16 comments
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by staktrace 6y ago
WebAuthn is basically this, public key crypto applied to web login.
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by staktrace 6y ago
We have this problem at Mozilla. The Firefox codebase is a monorepo and source of truth for the WebRender project which lives in a subtree. The source of truth used to be a separate github repo and it was synced into the monorepo regularly
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by staktrace 6y ago
Both Firefox and Chrome have implementations of scroll anchoring which is intended to fix this. The implementations are different and neither is perfect, but in a lot of cases they do help with jumping.
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by staktrace 7y ago
You could improve it by making it not a one-liner! Usually making it a multiple-liner can improve readability. And unless you're typing it into the command line directly everytime you run it (as opposed to putting it in a file that you
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Rant/Opinion: Your biggest problem right now is denial(medium.com)
3 points by staktrace 7y ago|1 comments
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The Human Screenome Project(screenomics.stanford.edu)
1 points by staktrace 7y ago|0 comments
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by staktrace 7y ago
In this respect (and probably others) Mozilla is more like a ragtag army of rebels than a uniform-wearing platoon of soldiers. The blog is hosted on WordPress because the person who started it found it most convenient, and it never got migr
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by staktrace 7y ago
No one voted for climate change either, yet here we are. Sometimes you just have to deal with reality.
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Pwning Avast Secure Browser for Fun and Profit(palant.de)
3 points by staktrace 7y ago|0 comments
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by staktrace 7y ago
This describes my experience exactly as well.

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