Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
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Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
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@GreatBigTable
This is sort of happening with Servo, which started as a Mozilla project to improve rendering on Firefox before it got cut and ended up in thr hands of thr Linux Foundation: https://servo.org/
@jwz@logomancer that would be nice if it turned into something. I remember when Firefox was an upstart pet project.
It gained momentum and features that people actually wanted. After a while, it was hard to ignore.
That's what we need right now.
A large swath of people keep asking for tools without AI. It sounds like Libre Office is experiencing a surge in usage because of this. It would be great for a browser project to step into this gaping void.
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Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
@jwz fuckin' magic beans
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Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
@jwz "That much money has an event horizon." 🤣
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Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
I'm old enough to remember when the AI company with $1,400,000,000 in the bank held a bake sale to keep their mail reader running. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111546146333271392
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@oblomov @cstross @jwz Consider that Mozilla being cooked has a few decades of history.
Back around 2007ish, I was working with a few folk who either came from or later went to Mozilla. Anyhow, some of them were involved with the XHTML 2.0 spec.
Which was finished.
But then got ditched.
Because Googleites insisted a "living spec" was the right thing, which can only be implemented by whoever throws the most money at it, and we now have HTML5 and a browser engine monopoly.
And Mozilla?
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Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
@jwz Why is this tagged brand necrophilia?
Weird ass stuff man
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@oblomov @cstross @jwz Consider that Mozilla being cooked has a few decades of history.
Back around 2007ish, I was working with a few folk who either came from or later went to Mozilla. Anyhow, some of them were involved with the XHTML 2.0 spec.
Which was finished.
But then got ditched.
Because Googleites insisted a "living spec" was the right thing, which can only be implemented by whoever throws the most money at it, and we now have HTML5 and a browser engine monopoly.
And Mozilla?
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@jwz It feels like someone needs to pull a Firefox on the Mozilla Foundation like Firefox did on the original Mozilla browser when it had lost its way.
Take the core technology of Firefox & fork a non-AI browser that is focused on the web. That's what a large swath of people want. Then let the downloads do the talking.
Firefox "won" because a lot of people were using it. Web developers loved it.
Make a browser that people fall in love with because it works and is fast & reliable without AI.
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IIRC the WHATWG was set up before Google had its own browser (I think it was Mozilla + Opera + Apple at the time?) and it almost made sense, although there was no reason to ditch XHTML 2.0 altogether. What really drives me mad is that EVEN IF one could consider the XEvent and XForms interface to be suboptimal for the kind of “dynamic” web that was being pushed (possibly by Google behind the scenes) that was really no reason to throw away the whole of XHTML 2.
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IIRC the WHATWG was set up before Google had its own browser (I think it was Mozilla + Opera + Apple at the time?) and it almost made sense, although there was no reason to ditch XHTML 2.0 altogether. What really drives me mad is that EVEN IF one could consider the XEvent and XForms interface to be suboptimal for the kind of “dynamic” web that was being pushed (possibly by Google behind the scenes) that was really no reason to throw away the whole of XHTML 2.
There are still so many features that had been introduced there (client-side includes with fallback, “everything is a link”, etc) that are still sorely missing 8-(
I wonder if there was also a growing dislike for XML in general behind this choice? (hurr durr namespace confusing). It's ironic that we have to thank MS for pushing for the little support of XML in browsers we still have (and they are now working on removing 8-/).
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Europeans for some reason:
❌️ "Digital Sovereignty"
✅️ "Digital Soverinity"
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@Alyssa you're welcome! 🙋🏻♀️
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Giulio Regeni: riprende il processo
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2026/01/giulio-…
Con una sentenza depositata oggi, la Corte Costituzionale ha dichiarato l’illegittimità dell’articolo 225, comma 2, del codice di procedura penale per violazione dell’articolo 24 della Costituzione, nella parte in cui non prevede che l’onorario e le spese del
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Se avete il mio stesso modello di automobile cercate almeno di averla di un altro colore! Sono stufa di cercare di entrare a forza nelle vostre auto!
#boniovelhodetto
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@_elena
isn't running their own instance at https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about kind of launching/funding a social media platform 😉
(i know, an instance doesn't make a whole platform...)
Have fun at #FOSDEM
@euronews
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@mau il lavoro agile è la rovina dei palazzinari, delle banche che ne contengono i mutui sofferenti, dei petrolieri e non solo.
Infatti lo smart working è il nemico del Sistema Paese: capi e capetti di infimo valore investono la maggior parte della propria giornata lavorativa nel controllare che le persone
entrino in orario,rimangano ferme alla loro postazione di lavoro partecipino alle loro riunioni inutili, mostrando quanto sono inadeguatinon se ne vadano via prima.Ora, non so se hai una vaga idea di quali disastri potrebbe combinare uno di questi capi se impiegasse tutto quel tempo nella gestione dell'azienda o del proprio ufficio? 🤣🤣🤣
