Comment by GFischer | Hacker News Reader

Comment by GFischer | Hacker News Reader

The actual title is "Mozilla Awards $585,000 to Nine Open Source Projects in Q2 2016", and text says "one additional award – to PyPy, the Python JIT compiler, for $200,000".

The other projects awarded are:

Tor - https://www.torproject.org/ Tor is a system for using a distributed network to communicate anonymously and without being tracked.

Tails - https://tails.boum.org/ (" secure-by-default live operating system that aims at preserving the user’s privacy and anonymity. ")

Caddy - https://caddyserver.com/ Caddy is an HTTP/2 web server that uses HTTPS automatically and by default via Let’s Encrypt

Mio - https://github.com/carllerche/mio Mio is an asynchronous I/O library written in Rust.

Dnssec - https://www.getdnsapi.net/ This project is standardizing and implementing a new TLS extension for transport of a serialized DNSSEC record set

Godot Engine - http://www.godotengine.org/ Godot is a high-performance multi-platform game engine which can deploy to HTML5.

Pears - http://pearsearch.org/ PeARS (Peer-to-peer Agent for Reciprocated Search) is a lightweight, distributed web search engine which runs in an individual’s browser and indexes the pages they visit in a privacy-respecting way.

Nvda - http://www.nvaccess.org/ NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free, open source screen reader for Microsoft Windows

Edit: added project descriptions from

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...

Also, moderators changed the title to the one in the article (original submission mentioned PyPy only).

Hey, I'm the one who received the MOSS award to work on Mio. Funny hearing about this today.

The goal of the Mio work is, in part, to implement a higher level, future based API on top of Mio. The award has been amazingly helpful to allow me to focus on getting it done.

I actually announced Tokio on Wednesday, which is the result of this work:

Announcement: https://medium.com/@carllerche/announcing-tokio-df6bb4ddb34 Code: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio

I think the work is headed in a good direction. I introduced a `Service` trait similar to Finagle to make working with services easier. I also provide a new streamlined way to write non-blocking IO services. The blog post describes this in more detail.

I'll be around if there are any questions about Mio & Tokio.

Congratulations! I love seeing FOSS get real financial support. And yes, I donate to many, many FOSS projects a year.

Great, for the same reason I switched back to Firefox for all my browsing needs on all my devices. I think using Mozilla products is also an important way to support them.

Delighted, but not surprised, to see Caddy on this list. An excellent choice, to be sure.

AFAIK, they also donated to the Django project a few months ago!

I that grant was for Channels integration, which has been postponed until at least the next release.

I hate how firefox force users to go to about:config to disable javascript, and to disabble css is more work. The dumb message in about:config, pocket and hello. I don't like any of this /end rant.

Each add-on increases the surface attack area. I only wish a better lynx

Edit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709

Firefox was never intended a better lynx; hating on Mozilla for that is a bit ridiculous. Have you considered using surf or xombrero?

That's technically true, but before it was firefox (before it was Firebird, even), It was intended very much as a stripped-down gecko frontend written in XUL, much closer to Lynx than the firefox we all use today.

Servo is very similar in useability to lynx right now, if grandparent is interested in trying it out.

Stripped-down compared to the Mozilla Suite, which came with an email client and HTML editor, but the browser itself was intended to match and extend the Mozilla featureset.

this is very much not true. Phoenix was not intended to extend the featureset.

From the release notes of Phoenix 0.1:

> Not only does Phoenix aim to match the featureset of Mozilla -- subtracting features deemed geeky and better offered as add-ons -- but it extends it. For example, it adds customizable toolbars and quicksearch in bookmarks and history. It will soon offer an add-on manager, a better wallet, and a new downloads sidebar pane.

http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_r...

Yeah, it was really nice when it didn't have the add-on manager yet. just a small, XUL-based browser. Made me switch from Galeon.

Still didn't ever complete the suite, though; Thunderbird tackled email, Sunbird handled contacts. Good thing, too; Seamonkey was a pig on my pentium 133 w/32MB RAM. Played quake fine, but just couldn't handle Seamonkey. Phoenix got me extra life out of my ancient hardware.

These days, Xombrero is getting me the same sort of extra life out of my ancient (or otherwise under-powered, e.g. Raspberry Pi) hardware. It's a very light frontend to GTKWebKit with a glorious vi-like UI.

Now I wonder if it would be worth making something similar in XUL...

I imagine adding the feature of a one click javascript disable would cost a lot of money to mozilla. I wonder how much? That is a very honest question.

that's what I signed up for, back when it was Phoenix. These modules were supposed to be optional.

however, merging Torbrowser is something I can support; everyone automatically gets a privacy upgrade, and the web stays open as a result.

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