what else would i be talking about

I’m a programmer. I was expecting languages, OS, open-source, APIs, file formats. What we have been calling “stacks” for the past 30 years but which has been hijacked by web devs.

You tell me. What is a Google stack? What is a Microsoft stack? The other guy was talking about a “tech stack” which practically means nothing.

It’s a great combo between 1984 and “this place is fucking boring.”

They could have left 10 year ago. They didn’t and never will.

That’s worse. If someone was telling me about “google or microsoft stacks” without explaining what it is, I would laugh.

Are you talking about OS, mobile OS, GUI, web, SaaS, APIs, services, subscriptions, servers, cloud, VMs, …? What the fuck is a stack? Stack is a term that has been stolen by web devs and means nothing anymore.

They should collaborate with IBM, they know how to handle that kind of thing.

IMHO islamophobia is a trend that people tend to use to shut people up. They also forget that France has been regularly attacked by muslim terrorists since the 80s/90s. All the muslims I know don’t care about that crap and they live their lives like everyone else. You wouldn’t even know they are muslims.

It is the new generation that is offended every five minutes because, for some reason, France don’t like seeing traditional religious clothes from the middle ages all over the place, which comes from the catholic church that ruled with an iron fist until the revolution (and for an additional century from French people who were still deep into the sadistic teachings of the church).

Firefox is the kind of software where I would gladly pay $10 a month to support its development.

Dismantle Mozilla, give the money to Firefox, profit.

I can’t find it anymore but they had the same experiment around 2015 I guess. If you upvoted too many trolls or far-right people, you could be punished for this. The idea is not new.

Which is one more stupid thing from Mozilla. Imagine if, 10 years ago, they had made a combo of: Firefox, Thunderbird, email hosting, maybe some kind of online office thing and a drive, Sync… That could have been the ultimate productivity package for “Office” stuff inside one convenient subscription.

Instead we now have Office 365, Google Docs, and nothing more.

It’s weird because I remember Reddit implementing that maybe ten years ago. If someone can confirm.

I’ve been boycotting Starbucks for 10 years because it’s shit coffee, and McDonalds for 30 years because it’s shit food.

What kind of stack are you thinking of?

People decided it was a new N-word because it was a medical term a few centuries ago. I don’t understand it either.

They don’t need a ToS to run Firefox. But they need a ToS to allow Mozilla (not Firefox) selling the data.

So, yes.

The whole ToS is the problem. It violates the first rule of FOSS: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

The fact that they are dragging their feet proves that they intend to keep it to sell something or use that data (hint: that would be perfect to train a LLM or sell specialized ads). And they’ll do it over and over until we are too tired to ask.

Firefox does not need a ToS because it’s a tool. Sync or Pocket maybe, but not Firefox.

I like it when the only useful piece of information is missing: https://github.com/electronicarts

The resources are missing but you could already have those everywhere else on the internet.

I’m eagerly awaiting the new version but I already like it. They now admit that they are sharing and sometimes selling private data (anonymized or not, same thing).

I guess it’s not limited to Brazil or black people. Any change in their routine seems very complicated.

They should explain what happens in technical terms because it’s more confusing every day.

Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”)

It looks like the pride and accomplissement of Electronic Arts. They will fuck us but don’t have the guts to say it out loud.

better address legal minutia around terms like “sells.”

When you’re masturbating over the meaning of a simple word, you should stop everything and focus on better endeavors.