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PCChris··on Promoted Add-ons Pilot
Mozilla files IRS form 990 ("Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax") annually due to their nonprofit status. This can be found at the bottom of their "State of Mozilla 2018" annual report [1] and contains some details about their financials (as of November, 2019 at least). The linked page itself also contains some information about how Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation are structured and operate.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/

PCChris··on What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too
> it didn't want to sacrifice being a good language for being a popular one

I think this is the key. The motto that you mentioned is often clarified/refined as something like "avoid 'success at all costs'".

PCChris··on Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
If you actually click through Google's result pages, you will find that there are actually only about 87 results. Even if you "repeat the search with the omitted results included" Google returns only about 226 results. Google's estimated result count is routinely off by so much as to make it virtually useless.
PCChris··on αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
Because that's the name of the post/"format"...

> I started a project which called Cosmopolitan which implements the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε format. I chose the name because I like the idea of having the freedom to write software without restrictions that transcends traditional boundaries.

PCChris··on Chrome Music Lab
"Making Music but every sound is Chrome Music Lab": https://youtu.be/6t86lJ-N9jo
PCChris··on Perl7 is a fork of values
They are talking about the next iteration of Perl 5. https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/
PCChris··on German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
They do say on the same page you linked that "Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."