Preston Maness ☭

Mozilla agrees that we need to improve search competition, but the DOJ’s proposed remedies unnecessarily risk harming browser competition instead.

The only one hurting browser competition is Mozilla. They want to keep sucking at the teat of BigTech. They don’t want to be a non-profit with a focused mission, constrained by recurring and one-off revenues. They want to be an adtech company, bUt wiTH pRivAcY. The judge should absolutely rip the band-aid off. If Mozilla sinks, it sinks.

China diverts doomsday asteroid… to maintain its big panda paw’s grip on the world’s rare earth mineral supplies. Don’t look up!

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We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history. And that willingness to take on the hard things, even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

But you’re not doing the hard things. You’re doing the easy thing. Capitulation to surveillance capitalism is the easy thing.

Dover: it’s either a breeze or completely inscrutable.

Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

ESRI is in the position that Microsoft and Adobe want to be in, a de-facto monopoly.

“in the highest exalted way”

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8g4d-rnhuSg

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. CONFESS THAT YOU ARE A BOT.

The companies hawking e-cars have much larger advertising accounts with NYT than those hawking e-bikes.

The gold filter was good and you should say it.

Meanwhile, BOINC is right there, with far more useful work for your idle GPU to do.

Nooooo! One of my favourite XKCDs is now ruined!