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Just because a company’s mission is positive or aligns with ones values does not mean the company itself is good or is actually carrying that mission out.
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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?
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.
I’m glad to see the healthy skepticism towards Mozilla lately, they have long been a sacred cow in tech. Just because a company’s mission is positive or aligns with ones values does not mean the company itself is good or is actually carrying that mission out.
I am also always surprised that Mozilla receives so much praise for its technology stack, when their core source code for Firefox and Thunderbird is such a buggy pain to work with.
I understand that they inherited a legacy codebase, but I'm not sure that playing catch-up with Google on (in my opinion) useless features like WebUSB was good technical management. In fact, I would argue that letting technical debt accumulate to the point where you need to rewrite large parts in a completely different language and deprecate technologies still in use (e.g. XUL) is more like an admission of failed technical leadership.
So I am honestly surprised that Mozilla is cutting projects and firing developers, yet nobody seems to take action to reduce the overhead of their apparently incapable management.
Don't put a lawyer in charge of a tech company.
I remember just yesterday there was a great article on HN that discussed bullshit jobs and counted corporate lawyers towards the "goons". The rationale was that if nobody has them, nobody else needs them.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bullshit-jobs-australia-2...
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.
Now that you've made a start you'll probably find you start adding services to that box under the stairs. Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money? Run something like Airsonic and you can stream your own media. Instead of having Xi Jinping watching your goldfish through that IP camera you can put the thing in a dedicated network zone, run a VPN on the box and make the camera only accessible through that VPN. The possibilities are close to endless, the costs are low and coming down all the time, power consumption can be negligible if you choose the right hardware. If in the end you don't like running your own services you can always use something run by someone else so why not give it a try...
I’m glad to see the healthy skepticism towards Mozilla lately, they have long been a sacred cow in tech. Just because a company’s mission is positive or aligns with ones values does not mean the company itself is good or is actually carrying that mission out.
Agree, but you seem to be turning downvoted-transparent. I am also always surprised that Mozilla receives so much praise for its technology stack, when their core source code for Firefox and Thunderbird is such a buggy pain to work with. I understand that they inherited a legacy codebase, but I'm not sure that playing catch-up with Google on (in my opinion) useless features like WebUSB was good technical management.…