Mozilla '23 Ann. Report: CEO pay skyrockets while Firefox Marketshare nosedives

Link: lunduke.locals.com/post/505329…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

#firefox #mozilla

Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives

The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla's reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyr…

^{Bryan Lunduke (Lunduke)}

#XMPP Summit at #Brussels

Reminder for the 26th XMPP Summit on February 1st & 2nd 2024 in #Brussels!

The event is open for everyone interested. Please sign-up!

wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…

#jabber #rtc #openstandards
#interoperability #decentralization #chat

📽️ Lights, camera, remix! Let your imagination run wild with our Public Domain Day Remix Contest. Create short films featuring materials moving into the public domain in 2024 for a chance to win up to $1,500!

Deadline: January 17, 2024
Details: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/pu…

Pablo #Iglesias prefiere volar su propia marca antes de permitir que se le rebele. Y eso es, in a nutshell, el motivo por el que #Podemos está en descomposición

#España #política #noticias
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¿Debe Podemos Galicia ir a las elecciones con Sumar? - Diario Red

La mejor decisión que pueden tomar las bases moradas es apelar a la inteligencia del votante gallego de izquierdas que sabe que cada cita electoral tiene unas reglas diferentes según el ámbito de representación que se elige y, en este caso, para el 1…

^{Editorial (Diario Red)}

#XMPP Community

Find XMPP folks at the Chaos Communication Congress #37c3
in the ChaosZone.

Yes, they got stickers!

37c3.c3nav.de/l/c:0:126.93:123…

#jabber #standards #chat #CCC #protocol #federation #xep
#decentralization #interoperability #OpenSource

In 2023 we've added lots of improvements to our secure email service. 💪

Next up: Search for the calendar! 😀

Check out all significant features that we've added in 2023 - and what we are planning to implement next: tuta.com/blog/tuta-2023-featur…

Finally saw the new Cybertruck in person

#meme #shitpost #StolenFromReddit #tesla #musk #cybertruck

The first in a series of essays on antisemitism in German folk tales.

Feedback would be very much appreciated before I turn this into a blog post.

#antisemitism #folklore #Germany
patreon.com/posts/95038025

Antisemitism in German Folklore - Host Desecration | Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles

Get more from Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles on Patreon

^Patreon

People defending AI scraping practices say: “well, humans do the same. They read then remember what they’ve read.” That analogy is flawed:

1. We pay for access
2. We don't swallow Terabytes per second
3. We don't constantly retrain our parameters on Terabytes of the same data
4. We don't resell those patterns
5. We are not commercial machines

nytimes.com/2023/12/27/busines…

New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Work

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

^{Michael M. Grynbaum (The New York Times)}

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I love this! More stories like this should be published!

Disturbed stops show to comfort scared girl
youtube.com/watch?v=mz-DUpvEDF…

Disturbed stops show to comfort scared girl

^YouTube

Tusky 24.1 is here!
It mainly consists of fixes for regressions in 24.0, see the release notes* for the full list

* github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/rele…

Release Tusky 24.1 · tuskyapp/Tusky

The screen will stay on again while a video is playing. PR#4168 A memory leak has been fixed. This should improve stability and performance. PR#4150 PR#4153 Emojis are now correctly counted as 1 ch...

^GitHub

A couple of Android developers and I are organizing an Android App Developer Meetup at Day 3 (tomorrow) of #37C3.

„Are you developing an Open Source App for Android? Is your App distributed over #fdroid? Are you using reproducible builds yet? Do you have an opinion on Java 21 vs Kotlin? Do you have a favorite restriction Google introduced in a recent Android version?
If the answer is yes to any of those question the Android Open Source App Developer Meetup is for you!“

events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hu…

On this day in 1999, 24 years ago, we started hosting the #curl source code on Sourceforge. Like all the cool kids. CVS baby!

In 2010 we switched to using git, hosted on #GitHub: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/03/23…

Energetická transformace: jaderné fúze

Národní laboratoři Lawrence Livermora se v roce 2022 podařilo po deseti letech pokusů úspěšně "zažehnout" fúzní reakci. Od té doby se jí to podařilo ve 3 z 5 pokusů. Ke komerčnímu využití je daleko, celková spotřebovaná energie zatím hodně převyšuje výkon... Ale "nyní víme, že to bude fungovat.".
Americké ministerstvo energetiky proto zřizuje tři nová výzkumná centra pro jadernou fúzi.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023…

Happy Birthday to the Legend! 🎂 🎉

@torvalds

#linux #linustorvalds

Mujer con discapacidad y una interpretación torticera del sólo sí es sí. Qué podría salir mal ... para la mujer con discapacidad?

El Supremo rebaja la pena a un condenado por una brutal violación a una joven con discapacidad

noticiasdenavarra.com/sociedad…

El Supremo rebaja la pena a un condenado por una brutal violación a una joven con discapacidad

La violencia empleada fue tal que la joven sufrió una "hemorragia masiva" y necesitó atención quirúrgica

^{NTM / EP (Diario de Noticias de Navarra)}

Yesterday, the German politician Wolfgang Schäuble died. While he wasn’t Kissinger-level evil, he was still ultra-conservative, corrupt, and deeply misanthropic.

That’s why it feels weird reading all those articles and commentaries in German media praising his record-long career in parliament without even mentioning all the inhuman shit he’s done over the past few decades.

It might sound harsh, but we’re better off without politicians like Schäuble.

dw.com/en/germany-ex-finance-m…

#WolfgangSchäuble

Germany: Ex-Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble dies at 81

German CDU mainstay Wolfgang Schäuble has died aged 81 surrounded by his family. Schäuble was Angela Merkel's finance minister during the eurozone debt crisis and once looked like a future chancellor.

^{Deutsche Welle}

Checking in on whether #bluesky / #atproto has become any more like a communication medium, and... nope. almost unchanged since i looked at it last in June. Bluesky is a spectator platform where a small number of accounts receive most of the visibility and smaller accounts are effectively invisible. The introduction of new feed algorithms (to the degree that happened, there aren't really many that I can find in wide use) did not change that. This is a non-normative analysis: in some cases, it is good to have a medium that promotes some very small number of posts and accounts, eg. to surface singular events, etc.

From a 25h sample of the firehose...
- 600k posts, 2.4m likes, 250k boosts, 350k follows
- 40% of posts receive 0 likes, 70% receive <= 1
- accounts in the 99th percentile of likes received 44% of likes, accounts in the 95th percentile received 74%
- 40% of posts were from accounts within the top 95th percentile of accounts by likes received.
- the maximum number of likes for a post by an account not in the top 95% is 32.

The first plot below shows the cumulative sum of likes received on the y axis against each account in the sample on the x axis - this includes accounts that didnt' post during the sample (but would still have posts that could be liked, so this also shows the extreme recency bias). The second plot is a hockeystick showing the number of likes (*not* cumulative sum) received on the y axis per post on the x axis.

For background, the default algorithm only cares about likes, boosts don't matter, which is why i am calculating things by likes here - they are the primary algorithmic signal.

These are the same calculations that I did back in June, but this time i'm leaving the firehose open to do a longer sample to be able to parse momentary virality from persistent effects.

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