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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register

Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto.
Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.


This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.

And this interesting bit.

Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.


#Mozilla #Firefox #TESCREAL


Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature
Liam Proven (The Register)

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There is a massive CRISIS in farming and food: Door to Freedom is building a coalition and a campaign to educate the public and turn this looming crisis around.

The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now. We were just featured on Zero Hedge.
Meryl Nass (Meryl’s CHAOS Newsletter)

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#way back
In only a moment we both will be old
We won't even notice the world turning cold
And so, in these moments with sunlight above
Ed Ames would be 98
youtu.be/bzVbxq8h1BI?si=FPlVeG…

My Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do")

Provided to YouTube by RCA Records LabelMy Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do") · Ed AmesMy Cup Runneth Over℗ Originally released 1967...
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#haze
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blow my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
"Mitch" Mitchell, British drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience) would be 78
youtu.be/WGoDaYjdfSg?si=Oc9-9j…

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Official Audio)

"Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceListen to Jimi Hendrix: https://jimihendrix.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Jimi Hendrix YouTube Channel...
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Rolling Stone - Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot goes full Nazi, calls itself ‘MechaHitler’ rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

Grok Calls Itself 'MechaHitler,' Spouts Antisemitic Comments

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)

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Google continues the industry-wide trend of jamming AI down users' throats, making it difficult or impossible to opt out, and potentially endangering the privacy of communications: neowin.net/guides/google-can-n…

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here's how to stop it

Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
David Uzondu (Neowin)

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I want this for the retrofuturist movie I will never actually make.

It is currently up for _free_ on #seattle Craigslist and would make one hell of a set piece if you are that sort of person.

seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip…

#set #retrofuturism #prop #WhatEvenIsIt

An Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine in a shop, consisting of a red and black trunk-like base with wheels and aluminium (maybe) trim, a large red boxlike device with a light and a needle display atop of it, and atop of _that_ a tryptich of three large vertical panels connected together with deco metalwork, the outer pair being some sort of collection of printed data and the centre panel being large panel displays with physical needle indicators presumably showing... Centred above that is some sort of projecting bronze part, kind of T-shaped, but with bell-shaped cones on the end. What are they for? I've no idea. it is a device of great mystery.

FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine - free stuff - craigslist

FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine. What an antique! I have no idea if it works but it would sure look great as a display piece once cleaned up. You haul, no...
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khm

it's a device for tuning automotive distributors. looks like it's missing the chuck? you clamp the distributor onto that arm, and then a chuck is supposed to go from the plate up to the distributor. you put the wires on it and the thing spins the distributor at various speeds (see the 'engine speed' gauge) and the firing points show up on the plate at the bottom. the charts are various ignition timing information for various engines, so you can see how far off your distributor is and figure out what you need to change.

I haven't seen anyone use one of these things since I was a little kid, and I'm old as hell

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$280 Midea MAW08V1QWT U-Shaped AC Window Air Conditioner (8,000BTU)

8,000BTU $280
10,000BTU $320
12,000BTU $360

dealigg.com/story-Amazon-Prime…

#deal #delete #airconditioner #airconditioning #ac

Best Deal: Amazon Prime Day Deal: Midea MAW08V1QWT U-Shaped AC Window Air Conditioner (8,000BTU) $280 & More

-- Midea MAW08V1QWT U-Shaped AC Window Air Conditioner 8,000BTU $279.99 -- Midea MAW10V1QWT U-Shaped AC Window Air Conditioner 10,000BTU $319.99 -- Midea MAW12V1QWT U-Shaped AC Window Air Conditioner 12,000BTU $359.99
www.dealigg.com

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Never mind Russia, North Korea and Iran, a majority of Canadian citizens now see the neighboring United States as the “greatest threat” to their country.

Fifty-nine percent of Canadians view the U.S. as a major risk.

politico.eu/article/canada-us-…

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Canada


Most Canadians now see US as a ‘threat,’ study reveals

Europeans are still most concerned by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Pew Research Center survey shows.
Ferdinand Knapp (POLITICO)
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enoch_exe_inc

North Korea only became like this after the US blew up their entire country, killed about a fifth of their people, and then sat next to their borders for seventy years with guns pointed at them (and also sanctioning the hell out of them after the end of the USSR). Iran wanting to have nukes is due to the understanding that Israel has them, and getting their nuclear facilities bombed has not only not eliminated their nuclear weapons program, but fully justified it.
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Seattle voters recently approved a 5% payroll tax on high incomes to fund social housing, aiming to build permanently affordable homes for a range of incomes. The initiative could generate $52 million annually for the new Seattle Social Housing program. theconversation.com/from-seatt…

From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes

Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
The Conversation
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shortstories

It is actually very difficult to externally rotate the hips as much as they do in ballet for some people that have never trained in it even if they can do the splits and had a lot of yoga

Balancing on only the toes instead of the whole foot is also challenging

These two features make ballet exercise unique compared too many other common types of exercise and uniquely different than many other types of dance

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shortstories

Princess Tutu is a Japanese Anime that goes into great detail about ballet style when people move

Even when they are running or dance fighting they run with the hips externally rotated like in ballet

If you like ballet I strongly reccommend watching Princess Tutu if you can watch the whole series for free

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aahl1dP…


Princess Tutu - Trailer (Upscaled HD) (2002)

Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious school...
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Sardonic Smile

@shortstories My sister did ballet for years. She did not pursue it. She was remarkably fit and lithe.
We are estranged...
This reminded me of her.
Sorry for rambling. Perhaps it was just cathartic release.

Aside: yoga is not a fitness regime. It is a spiritual practice to be grounded with Nature. Western ideas have subverted it. Unfortunate.

Also: The Russians were clearly better at this performance of Swan Lake. Synchronization and smoothness of movement.

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I thought Hatsune Miku was a guy ?

Hatsune Miku is a virtual singer and character created by Crypton Future Media, and her voice is provided by Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.
Saki Fujita is a professional voice actor who has been known for voicing Hatsune Miku, Ymir, and Ritsu.
She was born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, and has been active in the voice acting industry since 2005.

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Catastrophic floods have occurred in Western Himachal Pradesh, with 14 known to have died at 28 people still missing. Many houses, businesses and roads have also been damaged or destroyed.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
indianexpress.com/article/indi…
Wrecked cars in flood debris in somewhere near Mandi.

Cloudbursts, flash floods in Himachal: Rescue operations on to find missing, IAF airlifts relief material

170 roads including one National Highway, disrupted in Mandi; 243 across the state
ENS (The Indian Express)

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Programming a computer is not weird or abstract or even that difficult. It's just writing a list of steps in a format your machine can understand. In theory, a human being could also "execute" a program as well if they understood how it worked.

And computers are just electronic circuits that are designed to execute stored programs. Programming is the original way to use a computer.

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Man is kidnapped from a Walmart, by masked people wearing DHS-marked clothing in Bernalillo County #NewMexico. Video at bsky.app/profile/thejenniwren.…. I believe this is a Walmart between #Albuquerque and #SantaFe. Tough to watch, but we must bear witness.

This sort of awfulness is happening in many states. It is why I’m so active in fighting fascism in mine. If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend getting involved in your local Indivisible group. Find it at indivisible.org/groups.

Find Your Group

Indivisible

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“Studies show actually deporting workers en masse from industries that rely on undocumented labor does little for U.S. workers … [and] actually reduces job opportunities for American-born workers.

That’s in part because many American workers, even those outside of immigrant-heavy industries, rely on the services generated by low-wage, undocumented labor — the costs of which would rise with mass deportations.”

#Politics #USPolitics #Immigration

From: @ai6yr
m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11481926443…

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

KPBS: Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here’s what really happens (Personal commentary: there are extremely few US citizens who would take ANY of these jobs) https://www.kpbs.
AI6YR's Mastodon

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Folks here will notice that I’m less frequently detailing lower court opinions that attempt to stop the Trump regime’s lawless actions. This is because enough time has passed for enough appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for U.S. to know that no matter how carefully a lower court judge explains and supports her rulings, the Supreme Court will act as lawlessly as the Trump executive. 1/ #LawFedi
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It is pretty damning when #SCOTUS Chief #JohnRoberts is actively working to dismantle and destroy our Country, with the assistance of Sam Alito. Forget Benadict Arnold! John Roberts is going to go down in History as the greatest #traitor to our Country.

Heidi Li Feldman

2025-07-09 02:53:58

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Folks here will notice that I’m less frequently detailing lower court opinions that attempt to stop the Trump regime’s lawless actions. This is because enough time has passed for enough appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for U.S. to know that no matter how carefully a lower court judge explains and supports her rulings, the Supreme Court will act as lawlessly as the Trump executive. 1/ #LawFedi

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