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May I ask what do you do to financially support yourself, if the gig at Firefox is pro bono?

I think greedy execs are a much bigger problem than "The people just here for the paychecks".

Why else would you "work", if it weren't for the pay cheques to support yourself and your family?

It's the same for me. I'm in Australia and on my work laptop I'm connected to an American VPN. It's showing my location as USA. I was wondering how it's detecting the country.

> maximize shareholder dividends This is the whole reason why middle class is dying and power and wealth are being consolidated amongst the rich.

I've been through two restructures and both times I'd full access to everything for a month until my position was being decided. There thousand plus employees affected and not a si…

A 2mph bump isn’t nothing. If it failed to stop it can trample people. It can still do damage to elderly or disabled people. The 17mph collision may have caused some minor damage t…

Are the facts presented in the article incorrect?

Shouldn't these workers in Phillipines be required to be licensed to drive cars in the USA to operate those vehicles (even remotely)? I understand that they're not really driving t…

Thank you!

Ahh thank you! I saw a few photos from last night's Aurora sightings down here in Vic, Australia. Maybe next time! :)

Well, they make perfect sense to buy down here in here Australia. When I replace my current seven year old ICE car, it'll either be a diesel or a petrol electric hybrid. In either …

Are there any resources to track Aurora sightings or predicted sightings?

Environmental restrictions! All our data is on cloud and for customer privacy we're not allowed to download anything locally. We've access to most of the LLM models from all big ve…

The site/visualisations look great. But having used AI tools in my programming, I still haven't been able to justify the cost (to the planet too) vs benefit. I've noticed that it's…

Soon there will be a subscription model to use certain features in the fridge! Spherical ice and fast cooling will cost $9.99 per month!

Care to elaborate?

Thanks for sharing this.

I learned VB .net when it first came out back in 2003 (might have been earlier). VB was quite widely used back then and now days it's declined in popularity a lot. I checked the re…

Countless bodies consisting of the said meat have been responsible for the advancement of technology so far. If these meat brains don't contribute to any new advancements then the …

Totally agree with this.

> “not living in Soviet Russia” Nothing screams "fear mongering" like comparing with living in Soviet Russia. Look, we can argue all day. There is no right or wrong answer. I don't…

As an Australian citizen I'm not fully in favour of this. But I think I agree that we need some protection from companies like Meta/Google etc influencing our youth based on the Am…

what's the alternative? Is it really information or misinformation?