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Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

dependenttypes wrote: post #55
causality0 wrote: post #9

It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.

Or spends 2.5m just for its CEO yearly (not to mention the other executives). I guess it is easier to fire the servo/rust people who did actual work rather than any of the designers or the higher ups.

This also turned up in the other Mozilla-related thread 12 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129926

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by seabrookmx »

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u wrote: post #150

I know it's almost a meme at this point, but maybe Apple should buy Mozilla (or financially support them in some way)? The enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of way. Surely Apple don't want to cede more control over web standards to Google? They both promote valuing user privacy, so it's not like they don't have some common ground. If Apple really wants to stick it to Google, they could make an iOS App Store policy…

How would that help Mozilla financially?

I'd guess most of the FF iOS users don't even realize it's not Gecko under the hood, and don't even know/care what Gecko is.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by ryantgtg »

speedgoose wrote: post #116
ygjb wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC Facebook has more than 100 privacy engineers (it's been a few years since I spoke to recruiters there). Facebook has challenges, but it also presents an opportunity to work on security and privacy challenges in way that doesn't exist in many places in the world. Interpretations of other peoples values is largely skewed by their perception, and rarely takes into account the practical realities of working on priva…

Considering Facebook's business model, I would guess that these engineers are there for privacywashing (like greenwashing).

Are you under the impression that Facebook doesn't have privacy guidelines and strategies for its users just because its privacy goals don't align with yours? Just because they aren't the bastion of privacy doesn't mean they disregard privacy completely. Simple example: If I set my profile to be viewable by friends-only, that is a privacy feature. There are 800 more examples like that pertaining to protecting user data.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by giancarlostoro »

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u wrote: post #150

I know it's almost a meme at this point, but maybe Apple should buy Mozilla (or financially support them in some way)? The enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of way. Surely Apple don't want to cede more control over web standards to Google? They both promote valuing user privacy, so it's not like they don't have some common ground. If Apple really wants to stick it to Google, they could make an iOS App Store policy…

Other buyouts I have been thinking about is Microsoft buying Canonical. Although Canonical buying out Firefox sounds interesting as well but Canonical seems to have gone through a similarish phase where they shut off certain projects.

One other thing that would interest me is Mozilla buying out Fastmail but I am not too sure that would drive the sort of revenue Mozilla needs. There are a few mergers out there that could occur. I mostly mention this one cause it Mozilla had an email service I would pay for it. Especially if its pay only. I want someone who isnt crawling my emails beyond spam detection to manage my email situation.

Heck whats stopping GitHub from buying out Mozilla with its new fatter wallet?

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by rurp »

dgellow wrote: post #40

This animated SVG is dope! Really cute, seems to be done only with SVGs and CSS animations as far as I can tell.

The 'M' in Mozilla slowly drifting away is a great touch as well :)

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by gkoberger »

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u wrote: post #150

I know it's almost a meme at this point, but maybe Apple should buy Mozilla (or financially support them in some way)? The enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of way. Surely Apple don't want to cede more control over web standards to Google? They both promote valuing user privacy, so it's not like they don't have some common ground. If Apple really wants to stick it to Google, they could make an iOS App Store policy…

This is how we got into this mess in the first place. Google was the "good guy", up against Microsoft and Apple, and funded Mozilla. After all, Google didn't care about web standards or building a browser! They were a search engine.

So Mozilla became dependent on Google, and here we are.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by Igelau »

riffic wrote: post #13

fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)

Which it should. I was confused because I really thought from the title that this was some new initiative from Mozilla. It's not affiliated; just trying to preserve the Old Boy Network.

Re: Mozilla Lifeboat

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Post by staplers »

gkoberger wrote: post #130
colmvp wrote: post #128

Some of these are weird. > What PartnerStack is hiring for: Infra devs, Python devs, JS devs, Product, Marketing Yet on their actual Lever.co jobs page the only technical role is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer?

That's the reason I added an alumni contact! Careers pages often are a lagging indicator of what jobs are available, which is where the value of a good network comes in.

This whole thing reeks of nepotism and this comment reinforces that.
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