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Even if that were true (it’s not - high collateral damage is not the same as not making a distinction), that doesn’t justify us deciding to also treat Russian civilians as military.
What's the fucking difference when thousands of civilians are dead and millions displaced?
It's worth remembering any discussion you see about Russian tech topics right now is almost certainly influenced by paid Russian propaganda agents. Here's two news articles that may provide more carefully edited context. https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-98-0-1-has-one-big-cha... https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-cris...
It's time to ban Russian geo IPs from HN.
Firefox was going off the rails for a while now. Notice, the worse they become the more they will indulge in politics, censorship, emotional blackmail instead of doing their jobs: building a better browser.
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Once the war in Ukraine is over, maybe there's an opportunity here to focus a boycott on them ?
"Yeah I know there's other war stuff happening all over the place, but maybe if they wanted people to care, they should get better at going viral!" https://youtu.be/6-LRS9A-rW4
but I'm coming at this from the recent feelings of shame from realizing that what I'm feeling now about my friends and family in Ukraine - while I didn't do anything except speaking out against it when (for instance) the war in Libya broke out - so what moral standing do I have now in asking even those Russians that do NOT have friends and family in Ukraine to potentially wreck their own lives to stop this war ?
Hence (I hope) I'll act more about these issues in the future, and hopefully I'm not the only one.
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Hard to pass up $500M/yr
Just for the record, what is it that Google is paying them $500M/yr to do? I haven't installed Firefox for while, is Google the default search engine or something? edit: Upon more searching, I find passages like this: >in 2020, Mozilla Corporation’s revenue was $466 million from its search partnerships (largely driven by its search deal with Google), subscriptions and advertising revenue. [0] as well as a fine from F…
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Just for the record, what is it that Google is paying them $500M/yr to do? I haven't installed Firefox for while, is Google the default search engine or something? edit: Upon more searching, I find passages like this: >in 2020, Mozilla Corporation’s revenue was $466 million from its search partnerships (largely driven by its search deal with Google), subscriptions and advertising revenue. [0] as well as a fine from F…
Google pays Mozilla to exist. I wouldn't be surprised if other browsers get either checks or favors for existing. All of this is to make Google not seem like the monopoly it is.
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More violent regimes than Russia?? I am not sure they exist right now. Nobody else is threatening nuclear war, while invading a peaceful neighbouring country, slaughtering civilians.
I understand that you have language barrier and can't, for example, watch Ukrainian TV. Have you ever seen President Poroshenko bragging on national TV about how he will make Donetsk children hide in basement? Have you ever seen Arestovich, current aide to President Zelensky, two years ago, saying on national TV that large scale war with Russia is only possible way for Ukraine? Have you ever seen Ukrainian pupils cha…
And while you are busy doing that, your country is killing civilians by the thousands, turning cities into rubble, explicitly and undeniably targeting civilians, to get Ukraine to stop fighting the invasion.
Your glorius leader is Vladimir Putin - and from the looks of it - you have the leader you want and deserve.
Please enjoy the consequences.
Firefox was going off the rails for a while now. Notice, the worse they become the more they will indulge in politics, censorship, emotional blackmail instead of doing their jobs: building a better browser.
I don't understand this claim. If Mozilla is so awful at developing Firefox, why isn't anyone forking it? Open source is not an empty slogan
Actually there are some forks (Waterfox, Librewolf, Torfox, etc.), but they are focused on removing anti-features rather than on developing.