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Re: MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information

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Who owns MDN? I thought it was disbanded by Mozilla few years ago.

It is now maintained by this club, I think: https://openwebdocs.org

FWIW, OWD writes open source technical content and is not responsible for the design of MDN nor the blog, ads, or login and membership features of the site. That is done by Mozilla.

The OWD team writes technical documentation on APIs, HTML, and JS. OWD also works on information architecture and browser compatibility data. They contribute mainly to https://github.com/mdn/content/ and https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/.

Mozilla, not OWD, is responsible for Yari, the platform behind MDN Web Docs (https://github.com/mdn/yari). The MDN blog, ads, AI and design, the MDN infrastructure, are fully owned and controlled by Mozilla.

I know some folks who work on this content and TBH it’s the folks we’d want working on this content.

Re: MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who owns MDN? I thought it was disbanded by Mozilla few years ago.

It is now maintained by this club, I think: https://openwebdocs.org

No, these people write only docs. Mozilla seems to have rebuilt a dev team, after they disbanded the MDN team a couple of years ago, with the goal to extract money from the community work.

Re: MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information

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Imagine putting an LLM anywhere health, safety, or regulation are involved. It would be engineering malpractice.

Don't worry: nobody would be incautious enough to hook a safety-critical system up to a general purpose computer, of all things.

That's not even funny.

A lot of these systems are running actually on Windows, in version that aren't supported since years.

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