"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…
I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.
Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.
This is a longshot, probably doesn't exist, but I'll put it out there anyway.
Does anyone know of a phone number that can be called from a mobile provider in the U.S. that will provide a 16 kHz or higher echo test? I know some providers can interface with VoLTE using AMRWB.
I only know of +1(804)222-1111, which runs Asterisk, and is standard 8 kHz.
Values are a much stronger indication than culture fit of what the person will do when there is no norm yet. Instead of culture fit, look for values alignment. Not the marketing version of the values, though, the ones they actually hold.
A key logger company, for example, cites independent thought, transparency, and trust as the values underlying their decision to track everything done on company hardware. - @phire at #Monktoberfest
I had a customer email me and say “The company is asking all contractors to take a voluntary 10% cut in the bill rate.” With the implication that those not reducing their rates would be the first to have their contracts cancelled.
I sent them a link to the company annual report where they spoke in glowing terms about their $5 Billion dollars in profit last year and replied “I think they’ll be just fine.”
If you had "Mozilla leadership gets roasted by furries" on your bingo card, congrats.
The new one-time-purchase version of Microsoft Office is out.
As usual, Microsoft warns that it’s inferior to the subscription version, since it won’t receive updates and… *checks notes* … lacks the Copilot AI integration.
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Its absolutely amazing and I would suggest you look for it on Youtube later today! The beta will first come to a new app on your phone and then gradually move to the Envision glasses and finally to the web which would mean a desktop aplication.
🥳 Exciting news! @loops, the #Fediverse's answer to TikTok, receives a grant from @nlnet! 🎉
Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!
Hello! 👋
Meet the W3C Team w3.org/2024/09/w3cteam.html
We are a international public-interest non-profit where since 1994 the Members, staff and public develop open standards and guidelines for an interoperable web to connect and empower humanity.
Our focus: security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.
With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone.
My main laptop is in the shop so I'm temporarily using another, and boy howdy do I miss how many ublock blocklists I've enabled on my main system that I haven't on this one yet.
Getting pretty damn sick of every other website stealing focus for their cookie consents/signup forms. How do people deal with this?
And buy your ublock blocklist maintainers a beer or other beverage of their choice, because they deserve it!
Aira X Meta Ray-Bans Beta: Over 75% of Waitlist Now Live!
Over 3/4 of our waitlist now has access to Aira’s professional Visual Interpreting via the Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses! Audio and video are working smoothly, but imagine how much more powerful these smart glasses could be with deeper Meta integration. That’s where we need your help!
If you already have Meta Ray-Bans, it’s not too late to join for Aira early access:
- Open the Aira app
- Go to “More”
- Tap “Smart Glasses”
- Select “Meta Ray-Bans” and complete the form
Your Voice Matters!
To unlock the full potential of hands-free professional visual interpreting, we need your advocacy for better integration with Meta.
Check out our blog for resources, launch details, and a link to our video overview on YouTube:
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I couldn't find any tally counters for #GNOME, so I wrote one.
Tally allows you to keep an arbitrarily large list of counters, colour coded however you like, with a filter mode to hide what isn't needed at the moment.
Install it on Linux from Flathub ⇒ flathub.org/apps/ca.vlacroix.T…
Kasasa is an app for you're taking a screenshot for your own reference and you want it's contents easily accessible. For these ephemeral snapshots, the app can hold them in it's own window. It's best used when you set said window to "Always on Top". If it's blocking something important, just turn it transparent by mousing over it. Capture and hold screenshots with Kasasa!
You can get the app on Flathub here: flathub.org/apps/io.github.kel…
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •I like Mozilla, or rather I liked what Mozilla once was. Over the years I've volunteered time on various Mozilla projects - both online and in-person. I've advocated for Firefox for two decades.....
Time after time, especially in recent years, I've given Mozilla the benefit of the doubt - because I both believed they were honestly doing things for the right reasons.
I no longer believe that.
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Browser development and maintenance is a costly endeavor - any firefox fork has to either commit to that upkeep, or rely on being able to sift critical changes from unwanted cruft in a timely manner.
Ultimately I think the only way we can dig ourselves out of this mess is by making it easier to build and maintain browsers (There are perhaps alternative foundations to build on, such as servo on the horizon - but they too need funding.)
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Short term....we have two cross-platform browser engines.
Both maintained by advertising companies - both with a multitude of forks claiming to disable and/or patch out the bad stuff.
But ultimately, both base browsers - and this the underlying web standards - are being primarily driven by the needs of advertisers.
Cranberry Sauce is People!!!
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •mcc
in reply to Cranberry Sauce is People!!! • • •Cranberry Sauce is People!!!
in reply to mcc • • •cy
in reply to Cranberry Sauce is People!!! • • •No, they didn't see an opening and took it. They swindled and deceived people, rigged the game so only they could win. Don't talk about Google like some dashing maverick, deftly dodging the sluggish giants. They're bullies, and cheats, and should be referred to as such.
Sorry but I'm sick of framing this abuse as if it were something to be admired and respected. Cutting edge? Really?
Cranberry Sauce is People!!!
in reply to cy • • •Cranberry Sauce is People!!!
in reply to Cranberry Sauce is People!!! • • •@cy
Maybe the Google plan was always to dominate the market, but Chrome didn't catch fire because of that. It caught fire because it made browsing easier and web development tolerable. Every web developer I knew back then developed on Chrome and tested on the other browsers in later stages of the process. 2/2
cy
in reply to Cranberry Sauce is People!!! • • •It didn't make anything easier though. Every webdev I knew showed little to no critical thinking, and just went where the hype is, so they started developing on Chrome because of the marketing saying it was the hip new thing. Nobody questioned it, or did any sort of critical study or comparison.
It's true IE was garbo.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to cy • • •@cy @AlgoCompSynth
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History repeating. It happened with Internet Explorer before. But everyone seems to forget.
I have been calling Chrome the "New Internet Explorer" for a reason.