We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
- Bought an AdTech company
- Added AI features to Firefox
We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.
One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.
That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine
The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.
Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?
What would I fold a Macbook Pro into? Quarters?
Ontario has now passed two different bills banning cell phones in school. It’s a great distraction from actual problems. I fully expect we’ll pass a third in a few years if our provincial government is re-elected
Teachers don’t need a sheet of paper at a legislature somewhere to take away cellphones. They can do that already, and if the kids disobey a legislature won’t help. I assume no one is expecting kids to go to prison for having a cellphone
What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?
The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953
They might be thinking of malware spread on floppy disk or a usb stick. A restarting computer with sus media inserted might have treated them as a boot device back in the day and run the executable code with higher privileges
I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures
The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade
More misogynist for this specific angle, but I’m sure there’s a fair bit of misogynoir intersectionality there
It’s surprising to me
Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat
We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem
Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet
We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem
The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect
We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors
Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented
Huh, I didn’t know Tunisians felt strongly about their Carthaginian heritage
How do you feel about “demonizing” or “dehumanizing”? Same concept, older lingo