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Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Re: Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

danielscrubs wrote: post #4

I'm cynical at heart. Anyone else that thinks that some higher up have done something racist and now the PR/HR machinery is working full time preemptively wash the brand?

It's more just likely people at the top are not very passionate about technology but are very passionate about social issues.

I know a lot of people look to Firefox and therefore Mozilla as being a beacon against the big three and browser monoculture but there is evidently a disconnect between what most of us want from Mozilla and what interests the people in charge of Mozilla, judging from the engineers who were let go the other week.

Re: Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Post by stingraycharles »

ppf wrote: post #12
randompwd wrote: post #6

#SaveFirefox #DefundMozilla

As I understand it, the build process for Firefox is now so painful it might be beyond saving.

What happened that caused that? I remember from about a decade or two ago it was already relatively involved (on par with OpenOffice and the likes), is it worse now?

Re: Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Post by ppf »

ecmascript wrote: post #8

So are we supposed to ignore the fact that Mozilla is now openly racist? Does no one realize that stuff like this is as racist as it gets? They literally base the competition on a skin color.

I've known for a while that Mozilla's focus is not on producing technically excellent software. However, their latest actions and messages have only accelerated my desire to move away from Firefox - they are now just another "socially-aware" activist group, complete with ambitious ladder-climbing upper management, and apparently burdened with maintaining a browswer.

Re: Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Post by xmodem »

stingraycharles wrote: post #13
ppf wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I understand it, the build process for Firefox is now so painful it might be beyond saving.

What happened that caused that? I remember from about a decade or two ago it was already relatively involved (on par with OpenOffice and the likes), is it worse now?

I recently had reason to build both Chromium and Firefox from source and Firefox was considerably simpler, on Windows at least

Re: Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Post by ppf »

xmodem wrote: post #15
stingraycharles wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened that caused that? I remember from about a decade or two ago it was already relatively involved (on par with OpenOffice and the likes), is it worse now?

I recently had reason to build both Chromium and Firefox from source and Firefox was considerably simpler, on Windows at least

Fair enough, my information might be out of date.

Re: Mozilla funding $245,000 for Black artists to show how #AI can reinforce/disrupt

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Post by Normille »

ppf wrote: post #14
ecmascript wrote: post #8

So are we supposed to ignore the fact that Mozilla is now openly racist? Does no one realize that stuff like this is as racist as it gets? They literally base the competition on a skin color.

I've known for a while that Mozilla's focus is not on producing technically excellent software. However, their latest actions and messages have only accelerated my desire to move away from Firefox - they are now just another "socially-aware" activist group, complete with ambitious ladder-climbing upper management, and apparently burdened with maintaining a browswer.

"Get woke. Go broke" --as the Gabsters say.
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