Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by lisper » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 12:28 AM UTC

Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs
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Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by foolzcrow » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 12:32 AM UTC

Mozilla supports censorship and banning for wrong-think. So I don't care what happens to them.

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by suby » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 1:14 AM UTC

Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online.

Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by DHPersonal » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 1:34 AM UTC

suby wrote: post #3

Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online. Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

I just started renting my own cloud storage space for moments like this.

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by Mandatum » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 1:45 AM UTC

suby wrote: post #3

Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online. Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

Not given priority right now - it's getting abused by malware authors. Confirmed via Mozilla IRC.

You can set it up yourself really easily (got it running locally on Mac in 5 mins), throw an auth'd gateway in front of it to keep it away from bad actors: https://github.com/mozilla/send

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by Tanath » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 1:46 AM UTC

Seems unlikely. The layoffs happened before they got a new deal: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f...

Now they can bring people back.

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Post by gruez » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 1:54 AM UTC

suby wrote: post #3

Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online. Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

>Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

have you tried https://catbox.moe/ (or others https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Pomf.se/Clones)? Not sure what you mean by "shady", but most of them provide a direct download without any interstitials.

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by sbierwagen » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 2:52 AM UTC

suby wrote: post #3

Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online. Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

I've mostly heard of people using Magic Wormhole for this https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole Never used it myself

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by wavesquid » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 3:37 AM UTC

Mandatum wrote: post #5

suby wrote: post #3

Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online. Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.

Not given priority right now - it's getting abused by malware authors. Confirmed via Mozilla IRC. You can set it up yourself really easily (got it running locally on Mac in 5 mins), throw an auth'd gateway in front of it to keep it away from bad actors: https://github.com/mozilla/send

I thought mozilla irc was shut down?

Re: Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs

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Post by fooker » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 5:33 AM UTC

Tanath wrote: post #6

Seems unlikely. The layoffs happened before they got a new deal: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f... Now they can bring people back.

>Now they can bring people back.

Or they can increase executive compensation.

How far in advance do you think these deals are decided before public announcement?