bjord

I'm not editorializing here. here's one of many examples:

"Please, Donald Trump, kill the Jews, down to the last woman and child. Leave nothing left of the Jewish menace..."

re: ukraine, I'm not sure how that's remotely relevant here and frankly I think you're doing ukrainians a profound disservice by comparing the two

if you look at my background, you'll see I understand this better than most

all of the above is true, but just to be clear about who we're discussing, weev is a genuine neo-nazi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#Alt-right_affiliations

heads up: it installs a persistent background process that silently squats on the default kafka client port (9092) at startup

are you using webp photos?

hate to break it to you, but this isn't accurate

current malicious compliance by websites aside, would this not put the onus on browser devs to, site by site, identify which cookies are actually "necessary"?

side note: ublock origin has optional filter lists for blocking these banners

because they'll be trained on karpathy's implementation

what exactly is entertaining about what's going on with H1Bs right now?

sounds like Firefox OS would've been right up your alley(?)

check out the XCover line, though apparently this year's model makes you choose between fingerprint and headphone jack (XCover7 vs XCover7 Pro)

you do give up a lot camera-wise, though

you're just speaking of the Galaxy S line, there are at least four other Galaxy lines, some of which dropped these features only this year and one of which has all of them (XCover), though it looks like this year's release makes you choose between fingerprint and headphone jack (XCover7 vs XCover7 Pro)

samsung is the only smartphone manufacturer that still makes phones (though not many) with all the features I want: microSD slot, dual physical sim, side-mounted fingerprint reader, headphone jack, nfc, and regular (long-lasting) security updates

they also have service centers pretty much everywhere in the world, so I can always get my phone fixed (for a reasonable price, as a result of their ubiquity) if and when I inevitably break it

would I also prefer the option to unlock my bootloader? yes. if I'm honest with myself, is it a deal-breaker? sadly, no, I no longer use custom ROMs

it's clear in the thread that he got permission to do so

it's also reasonable to assume he had more information about the state of the location given his access as an employee, particularly given that it was a full two months before he actually retrieved them

except this is a vc-funded american company stealing from an indian solo dev

no, I think you're right—there's definitely something missing right now

but more likely it's going on and we're just not seeing it

in general, though, I think once a certain amount of money is involved, people just start to get rabid and everything becomes a lot less fun

throwback to that brief period where people would mine bitcoin (ineffectively) using ASICs in their USB ports

That doesn't necessarily change the overall mission of the organization, but definitely does give them more flexibility to offer paid options to help sustain development, should they see an opening in the future.

This is more or less taken directly from Thunderbird's website (which I think is a fair comparison): "Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. This structure gives us the flexibility to offer optional paid services to sustain Thunderbird’s development far into the future."

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/about/

I don't actually think there was (or needed to be) one...keep in mind they're a non-profit. I think they just wanted to make the internet a safer place, but semi-extraneous (particularly unprofitable) projects sadly need to be cut aggressively with the rising threat of the google antitrust suit, as they may lose most of their income.

are you paying for any of them or only using the free versions? and which models specifically are you using?

it's the name of the company

In theory, that sounds great, but in practice, why should we trust manufacturers to reliably test their own products?

definitely

if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant

side note, thunderbird is already independent and democratically-managed by the community (as of a few years ago). the way I understand it is that they effectively just use mozilla's resources for legal, logistical stuff

I agree completely that something needs to change procedurally—this can't be allowed to happen again

well, yeah...if mozilla's been selling all our data, then screw firing leadership—they as an organization are rotten to the core and should burn

but I honestly think that's a totally unreasonable conclusion to draw based on this kerfuffle alone

it sounds like you and I have completely different understandings of the world, so I'm genuinely not sure I can convince you otherwise, but let me give it a shot

to oversimplify into a couple points:

* people make mistakes, especially in communication—it happens! I misspeak (or often don't fully consider how people with different POVs will interpret what I say differently) all the time, personally

* nearly mozilla's entire remaining userbase has stuck around because of mozilla's independence and focus on privacy. everyone with a brain knows full well that selling all user data entered into the browser is the single biggest possible violation of that. therefore, how would mozilla continue to exist as a company in any capacity if that were actually the case? they would have zero users

finally, I'll leave you with hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

and no, a decent manager shouldn't have to literally review every little thing every single one of their employees does

obviously something needs to change here procedurally, but micromanagement across the entire board is not the answer

and therefore firing management for this is not really solving anything other than satiating the bloodlust of the mob

yes, this was a big screw-up all things considered, but crucifying people for a (relatively straightforward, imo) comms issue just seems...borderline violent?

> For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “sale of data” is now “broad and evolving,” Mozilla’s blog post stated.

> The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

mind you, I sincerely doubt this ever even came across the desks of leadership—if it's legalese compliance bullshit, why would it?

that seems wildly excessive

either way, the ants are more fun