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Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by d1plo1d »

lightninglu10 wrote: post #133
d1plo1d wrote: post #122

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Hi Patrick, I've been prototyping end-to-end encrypted 3D printing over webRTC. Would decentralizing remote 3D printing fall under the banner of fixing the internet?

hard to tell over this short description. best thing to do is join our slack ( https://join.slack.com/t/mozillabuilders/shared_invite/zt-el... ), and join for open office hours and see if you can get feedback from one of the mentors. regardless, you can def apply! no downsides.

I'm always interested in feedback. Sounds worth it even for that tbh. Cheers!

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by ohyeshedid »

nixpulvis wrote: post #140
ohyeshedid wrote: post #136

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While you're waiting for someone to do that, you could always stop giving them your money, time, and attention; stop using their products.

Working on it... it's not quite so simple though. I did however quit working for them, despite the promise of a nice desk in the space ship. Apple is in no way the worst offender, but they are in many ways the largest. With great prominence comes great indifference it seems. How can anyone defend the decline in quality Apple's entire line has suffered in the past years. Qualities that enabled my personal development…

It definitely doesn't help that there's really only one other ecosystem for smartphones, currently.

I think we're probably all desperate for action and paralyzed by the scope, in a number of ways. Don't beat yourself up about it, there's only so much control you have over the situation. What I suggested is not simple, but it is possible and may be the only control you have in the end.

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

I think alt open-source smartphone operating systems like PostmarketOS, PureOS, UBPorts would be a great candidate for this.

The need to breach the duopoly in mobile smartphone ecosystem is now greater than ever if we need to protect the future of mobile computing and the data(lifestyle) of individuals using it; considering smartphone is the first computer for ~ > half of world population.

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by saurik »

brobinson wrote: post #84
sjroot wrote: post #61

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Looks to be a play on the word “Angle” - in the context of news, this is the point you’re trying to convince your readers of. “What’s your angle?”

I pronounced it in my head as "vungle"...

I went with "vingle".

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by s_gourichon »

kybernetikos wrote: post #53

The irony of posting this link, when for me the site doesn't even work because techcrunch.com redirects via guce.advertising.com which doesn't dns resolve. It's annoying, but it's not too bad, because after having looked at their deceptive, user-hostile (and in my opinion illegal in the EU) practices, I'm pretty resigned to never going to another oath/guce site again. It's sites like techcrunch and their siblings tha…

Feels ironic, could be considered "meta", that the link goes to techcrunch and my screen shows:

> uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading: > https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=...

Yes, there is a dire need for fixing the Internet.

Oh, by the way, remember, when fixing the Internet tools and protocols... The following sentence was written thinking of aircraft hull design, isn't a browser some kind of "netcraft" that has become too complicated and needs a redesign?

"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by _8j50 »

lightninglu10 wrote: post #6

Hey all, Patrick here & one of the mentors for the Mozilla Builders "fix-the-internet" incubator https://builders.mozilla.community/ . We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C. 1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the ha…

I have a good idea for literally replacing layers of the OSI model with new interoperable protocols that solve problems of authentication,latency,bandwidth waste and decentralization. But alas,not a single line of code written.

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by PudgePacket »

_t0du wrote: post #24
lightninglu10 wrote: post #6

Hey all, Patrick here & one of the mentors for the Mozilla Builders "fix-the-internet" incubator https://builders.mozilla.community/ . We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C. 1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the ha…

I am not an expert, but 75k seems disproportionate from the effort and time the requirements seem to be looking for. For the lofty goal of "Fix the internet", 75k seems more like "An extra few weeks of runway." What am I missing?

Weeks? A startup looking for funding of this amount shouldn't be burning anywhere near that amount (tens of thousands a week!)

This should be months, up to a year for 1-2 founder team.

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by afandian »

ByteJockey wrote: post #121
xrd wrote: post #100

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I am learning Svelte, so I typed that in: https://wiby.me/?q=svelte Two links came back: "Facts on Farts" "NiceJewishMom.com" Not a good first impression.

In it's defense, svelte is actually a word that appears on both of those pages.

One of the big questions about search engines is "what is it trying to do?"

The simplest is "search for doc that contaons" . But we're used to "search for document about concept" by now. ISTRC Bing called themselves a "decision engine".

I don't know what Google is/trying to be now, but it often thinks it knows my business better than myself, excluding critical words.

I don't think there can be a universal answer. The corpus gathering is a huge barrier to entry, but having a common corpus would still allow room for competition on diversity of querying methods.

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by ngold »

lightninglu10 wrote: post #6

Hey all, Patrick here & one of the mentors for the Mozilla Builders "fix-the-internet" incubator https://builders.mozilla.community/ . We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C. 1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the ha…

Sounds fun. My brilliant idea. Go make a browser with the UBlock Origin guy. Since it's kind of a standard for safe browsing these day's.

Re: Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

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Post by gkanai »

lightninglu10 wrote: post #6

Hey all, Patrick here & one of the mentors for the Mozilla Builders "fix-the-internet" incubator https://builders.mozilla.community/ . We have 3 different offerings for this Summer. All incubator style, meaning you meet weekly or biweekly with mentors and we really try to help drive you from point A to point C. 1. $75k investment in a startup. MUST be serious about wanting to build something awesome and put in the ha…

Has there been a public review of the last incarnation of Mozilla's funding of non-Mozilla projects, Mozilla Labs and Mozilla WebFWD? I feel like an honest and open discussion around what went well and did not go well with the last time this was done from Mozilla should be a prerequisite to doing this again or the same mistakes could be made.

https://www.mozillalabs.com/

https://www.mozillalabs.com/webfwd/

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