- the_biotTrue, and it doesn't get mentioned enough. These supposedly world-changing advanced tech companies sure look sloppy as hell from here. There is no need for any of this scraping.
- I have to wonder, who are you talking to?
- When you work for Amazon, your computer is monitored to the point they check your keyboard typing speed. Dystopian doesn't even begin to describe it.
- This just shows that censorship, once started, always runs out of control.
- > They invest the vast majority of their resources in Firefox.
Says who? I have never seen figures that show this. It also doesn't excuse the gigantic amounts of money wasted on irrelevant things, or executive salaries.
> And they have had some incredible successes: Rust, Let's Encrypt ...
That's pretty charitable. LE was a wider industry initiative, and while Rust was incubated in Mozilla AFAIK, they also let it slip through their fingers.
> Maybe there was no realistic way to do better. Maybe thanks to Baker, Mozilla still exists.
How on earth are you defending her behavior? It was utterly shameless and indefensible. Do you work for Mozilla?
> Mozilla needed and needs to find other products
No, it doesn't. It needs to bank its giant wad of cash and learn to live off the interest plus whatever it can get in donations. Mozilla does not need to be a for-profit company, it needs to be a non-profit making a browser. That was always supposed to be the mission, from day one.
> Do you really think they could make Firefox so good that the non-technical public would go through the effort of dropping Chrome
They did when IE was shoved down people's throats, and Firefox was the better browser. They did when Chrome came around and started taking over. Most people even now get pushed to Edge or Safari, yet still end up using Chrome. People switching browsers is a thing.
- That's a fair question. It's of course my opinion, not hard fact, but here goes:
- They have for years been trying to add stuff to Firefox that nobody wants, and were privacy violations. The "marketing studies" come to mind.
- They have for decades been wasting their time and money on everything BUT Firefox, and failing at literally all of it. You can't help but notice the stellar incompetence of Mozilla leadership.
- They have for a long time been raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Google, pissing it away on useless stuff, but mostly on enriching the management layer. How can somebody like Mitchell Baker be making millions of dollars a year while simultaneously seeing Firefox market share drop to damn near zero? This is a thoroughly corrupt organization.
- You're assuming Mozilla would be successful at a privacy play because they are a trusted organization. I can't stress this enough: they are not.
- > we are hearing so many terrible stories about travellers being harassed or unwelcome when trying to enter the US
There have been a few stories like that, but that is not a new thing. The US has been horrible to incoming tourists for a long time. You get treated like a criminal just for wanting to visit. I've got a few of stories of my own like that, going back decades.
Chalk this up to revulsion with the US president and his actions, across approximately the rest of the world.
- The article mentions suspiciously similar looking devices on Aliexpress for less than $10, but it looks like under $3 even. This seems like a very cool thing to hack on, for that price.
- That comparison shows "Deblobbed? Yes" for GrapheneOS. That implies they've replaced (most of) the blobs for wifi, bluetooth, 5g chips etc.
Is that actually true? It's such a big deal, and I see little to no work being done on this front.
Anyone have any idea what GrapheneOS actually deblobbed?
- This looks like just the thing to protect self-hosted git repos from the AI crawlers that are overwhelming open source projects right now.
- Or better yet, don't. That 6502 assembler syntax in there is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
- They had an outline of the story for several more seasons, and the showrunner has described how it would have gone. I am very, very grateful they decided to stop when they did -- they were about to ruin the show.
- Better at what though? Maybe he's just great at getting hired and promoted, without the benefit of actual skills or deep understanding of anything, and now finds himself in ignorance of all that he surveys. I've known many people like that.
- I've had a hell of a time getting into embedded linux professionally. I don't have that specific job experience on my resume, but lots of related open source work, writings, kernel work etc -- I can do this, I just can't prove it very well.
What would you recommend I do? Looking for any more devs?
- That's great, but it doesn't always turn out that way.
Twice now I've started open source projects, got them to varying levels of success, handed over to another maintainer, and watched it turn to shit. Luck of the draw, I think :-(
- Even before the Perl 6 insanity dropped, there was a serious underlying problem in the Perl ecosystem: CPAN. There was this module (I don't remember its name, or author) that was pretty important: you'd end up using it if you were serious about Perl.
One day, around 2000 or so, the author/maintainer, a well-known guy in the Perl community, updated the package with an incompatible API. If you used that package, you had to update your code. There was no backward compatibility, nothing. To make things worse, the README stated that it would AGAIN change API in the future, but he didn't know yet what the change would be.
I considered this disastrous maintainer behavior, as I'm sure anyone reasonable would. It was clear I had to stop using this package, and anything else this guy could get his claws on. But there really wasn't a massive outcry that I could see, nobody calling him out for this crap.
That's when I knew I had to stop writing code in Perl. I tried Ruby but found it unstable at that time. Next project I used Python, and never looked back.
- There is no source, nor even a way to order one or find out more. It was abandoned 4 years ago.
- That's more like obfuscaton, you got lucky there!
I've reverse engineered lots of things, but the one time I actually got paid for it (this is more a hobby to me), I got the exact opposite of what happened to you.
I quoted some small amount to document the protocol to configure some embedded device that I thought would take a day or so, and it turned into a two-week nightmare. Turned out there was no configuration protocol, it was firmware updates always -- and internal parameters were just overwritten along with the code. So I ended up having to disassemble a big chunk of the firmware before I could configure the device.
- > How much of your life will you "live" on autopilot?
If you start doing it in school, presumably the rest of your life, since you'll have no skills or ability to learn.