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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 22:58:22 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?

   #opensource #firefox #mozilla

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 23:11:43 JST GoatsLive

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     @nixCraft The question now is what are the alternatives? A fork of Firefox not doing that crap would be very nice if it had all the same features. I really need the container tab function.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 23:13:23 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Danny Colin

     @dannycolin thank you for the heads up! regardless of that they are pushing AI and selling data et all are bad move.

   • Danny Colin (dannycolin@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 23:13:24 JST Danny Colin

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     @nixCraft Ahah bad timing for this 😂.

     FYI, Sylvestre from Mozilla replied on HN:

     "Please don't read too much into this ;) We moved from self-hosted Discourse to hosted Discourse. The transfer was initiated late from the Mozilla side (my bad) and the automatic system from Discourse kicked in."

   • Roberto Otárola Estrada (robertootarola@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 00:22:19 JST Roberto Otárola Estrada

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     @nixCraft “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” - Hanlon’s razor

   • Witty Dragon (wittydragon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 00:23:26 JST Witty Dragon

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     @nixCraft Greed and Trump.

     As Trump is now in power, all these large corporations will feel empowered to be more pro money, pro selling data, pro fucking users data, pro I don't give a damn as I won't be investigated.

     Browsers and search companies will ALWAYS find a way to sell data - openly or avertly. Cookies, now fingering, next will be fisting.

   • Chema Unchained (chemaunch@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 00:48:34 JST Chema Unchained

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     @nixCraft It reminds me of what happened with Unity 3D some years ago.

   • Clot (clot27@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 00:48:45 JST Clot

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     @nixCraft capitalism never works, learnt the hard way

   • DistroWatch (distrowatch@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 00:55:17 JST DistroWatch

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     @nixCraft "It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?"

     I think ruining projects is a side-effect, not the purple/goal. Management/CEOs want to wring the most short-term profit they can out of an organization while they are running it. That usually means damaging the product/reputation in the long run, but they'll be retired by the time their greed becomes a problem.

   • theearthisapringle (theearthisapringle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 01:08:16 JST theearthisapringle

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     @nixCraft I got librewolf yestrtday

   • RejZoR (rejzor@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 01:28:05 JST RejZoR

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     • Danny Colin

     @nixCraft @dannycolin Ai in itself is fine. Local LLM translation in Firefox is really good and I'd take it over Google Translate any time. If Mozilla is planning on adding local LLM summary of webpages, fine. If they train it on their own systems and not on user's I'm fine with it.

     Firefox is the only browser that still gives us flexibility with about:config. Don't like the Labs panel? You can turn it off. Don't like this or that? You can turn it off. They just need to fix their communication.

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 01:35:42 JST Urzl

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     @nixCraft I wondered too whether this was a ploy to intentionally destroy their browser. I'm at a loss for better explanations why they'd destroy their reputation so meticulously.

   • Billy Inghart (billyinghart@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 02:11:38 JST Billy Inghart

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     @nixCraft friggin a. How can we incentivize suits and shareholders to care about long term health and sustainability instead of short term gains?

   • Radio Azureus (radioazureus@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 02:14:41 JST Radio Azureus

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     @nixCraft

     Quite absurd how a CEO can broker a deal for an organization like Mozilla in this manner

   • Meki (meki85@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 02:31:16 JST Meki

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     @nixCraft I'm just hoping that #ZenBrowser stays viable until #ladybirdbrowser can take over.
     #firefox was already too dependent on kickbacks from G...

   • MBEverding (mbeverding@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 06:26:29 JST MBEverding

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     @nixCraft wait what. What about net neutrality?