I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
@Gargron@Jeremiah The for-profit corp is wholly controlled by the non-profit one.
Like the OP, I don't really agree with the CEO's salary (and would not donate for that reason), but Mozilla did increase their revenue considerably over that period. IIRC she has made arguments about her pay scale vs other IT executives that sounded plausible (the $6 mil is not her pay scale BTW; most of that was bonuses tied to the new revenue).
Caution: Brendan Eich has been grinding this axe loudly for years
Before the internet, we had a pocket encyclopedia and a dictionary on the coffee table so we could look things up when having drinks with friends, if someone said something questionable.
Then the Internet became a vast teach-in, and later the far right rose up to kick sand in everyone's eyes.
These objects, the old encyclopedia and dictionary, can be viewed as the products of innocence or quiet repression. But I don't know how "innocent knowledge" can be a thing.
If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with #Threads, you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.
@TheFederatedPipe There's a difference between scraping and Threads AI saying it has a moderation grievance over something you posted on another instance.
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
@ThatOneKirbyMain2568@rob299 Yes. But also Meta's screwed-up moderation systems will be brought to bear against fedi instances. The latter will essentially have to endure a shitty AI-generated smear campaign.
This story has so much going on that it's hard to figure out which parts to fit into the headline, but here goes:
4chan trolls are using Bing AI to make pro-Nazi, Great Replacement and other racist & antisemitic memes -- and verified blue-check accounts are spreading them on Elon Musk's X, where they're going unmoderated even when flagged as hate speech, and reaching millions despite X's claims to have cracked down on antisemitism.
We're a long way from anything like this happening, but, man, seeing Threads profiles light up here conjures a potential future where you might follow Instagram, TikTok, maybe even YouTube accounts and more right from Ivory. How much better could it be to be able to repost or quote-post the /original source item/ instead of a link to some external site every time. ActivityPub all the things!
@stroughtonsmith None of you will have the nads to moderate Threads' behavior. And their own twisted moderation systems will smear smaller instances with actionable (as in police) accusations.
The main reason they are starting with ingress is so their moderation AI can start judging fedi content.
Complete, 100% disaster. There is no prospect for compatibility. Stop treating the fediverse as if only the apub protocol matters!
Spoutible is soaring to new heights with our latest integration of #Mastodon for seamless cross-platform posting. Now, you can broadcast your thoughts on Spoutible, Bluesky, and Mastodon simultaneously, ditching the need for any extra apps or extensions.
"It reminds me of Europe’s dark days of depositing colonies on other people’s land. The stories of how unprepared the settlers were are sad, hilarious, and repetitive. And, now we learn that we are planning for at least one more sequel."
I don't think there is any comparison. Space settlements in the near-mid term will face a class of lethality that is hundreds of times worse than what ancient colonies faced. Their children will probably hate them during their short lives.
As it should. SMRs will not bring costs down, and their backers are still in a cult of denial about energy storage (that its absolutely necessary whether renewables or nuclear dominate).
Nuclear never approached anything like "too cheap to meter". But it was a handy slogan to justify building nuclear weapons infra. Then when Soviet Union collapsed – when the motivation became solely economic – it only took a couple years for reactor starts to take a permanent nosedive.
One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.
Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.
Yesterday's election brought progressives to the Boston City Council, a pro-housing mayor to #Revere, and in Central Mass., one State Senate seat held for decades by Dems flipped Republican. (See replies for stories on these).
#Ohio voters enshrined reproductive rights in the state's constitution via ballot question.
G7 nations are urging action' to help civilians trapped in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting.
Even when Democrats and Republicans agree that a headline is misinformation, Democrats are much more likely to say it should be removed and Republicans to say that would be censorship.
Democrats are more likely to show a partisan bias in wanting to keep up headlines that align with their views than Republicans.
May be confusing people with the idea of state censorship.
What it comes down to is whether private entities have the agency to stop organized harassment & dehumanization campaigns. IOW, are "the rest of us" even allowed to have a digital life? Who gets to blare inauthentic content at other people, drowning them out?
Republican influencers tend to rate very low in authentic follower metrics. So it makes sense they want troll armies to continue reinforcing their idols.
The key point that I think a lot of engineers still don't get is that their job is not about making widgets that get plonked on top of the world. This is about changing the shape of things inside a working system (Planet Earth) to shift how it operates. Those widgets become part of that system - it's like operating on a living human. The engineers of the future mustn't see their job as creating things external to the world. #science#engineering#climate#Earth
@helenczerski I think when engineers focus on creating "disruptive" new tech, they are actually thinking holistically about society (but not the Earth).
A disruption of a system is the creation of an entry point for exploiting and dominating it, or unraveling and liquidating it. So I think engineers and VCs they deal with have become skilled at identifying large-scale systems.
When confronted with Earth's boundaries, some will re-assess but others will say the real prize is outer-space.
"Trump can be impulsive, but he’s proven himself to be shrewd when it comes to positioning himself as a victim of institutions seeking to hold him to account."
@lawfare He's trying to start a civil war, so heaping contempt upon the courts is par for the course. Violence against the press, violence against Congress, violence against the courts.
I don't think it has sunk in for these people in the justice system: they are dealing with a particularly nasty and sadistic cult of personality and Trump is the leader.
@mvario The truly weird thing about this is how everyone wants to call Johnson a weirdo, instead of considering it may be a ploy to facilitate spying. #espionage
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...