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- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 day ago:
I love IRC. I run my own instance where my friends and I hang out. It's super easy, and a lot of fun!
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 day ago:
They got a lot of money by selling out their users. They are still getting a lot of money by selling out their users.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 4 days ago:
Wait, you mean the people that hoard all of our resources and don't pay taxes will leave? Oh noes! 😱 What will we do without them.....
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 5 days ago:
LoL, that wasn't the original internet. That was years after the internet had been around. <joke here about these kids needing to get off my lawn>
- Comment on Parallel Empires 1 week ago:
Did it? All of the laptops I've gotten in the past 5 years still have those ports. But I don't buy Apple stuff.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 1 week ago:
Like this? fold-out rj45
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?
But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the "recommended pages"?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
They get money from Google and advertisements. Did you think Mozilla made it without paying their employees and executives?
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
The costs only ballooned because the companies keep bloating themselves. It's gotten cheaper to make games, but more expensive to run giant companies that pay ludicrus amounts of money to executives.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Money for their executives
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 1 week ago:
Agreed. When I tried Lemmy, it didn't have filters, so that was an immediate no for me. I just don't get the appeal of being fed a list, and not being able to filter out the noise.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 1 week ago:
"When you've lived a life of privilege, equality feels like oppression"
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Yes. I find a lot of people actually learn what they are talking about before talking about it. I also find that a lot of people read what I write, and address those points, rather than points that I never made.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
And I have a hard time addressing people who refuse to research, and keep arguing against things that I never said.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Citation requested
Do some searching here, on reddit, etc. You'll find it.
Good for the massive waves of people who want to give Mozilla money. They already can https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/?form=donate-header
That's not what I said. I said that they wanted to donate to Firefox, not Mozilla. I find it very telling that Mozilla doesn't let them do that, but insteads forces people to donate to the org, that overpays it's executives.
Oh yeah. I LOVE when my boss tells me that I am going to get paid less but I will be more effective because of it. Oh, wait, no I don't.
Who said that the people who are actually working on Firefox would get paid less? I certainly didn't. I clearly said that the useless executives would get paid less
Honestly? it sounds like you don't care about reality and just care about things being ideologically pure for you with the expectation that it will all work out. So... maybe try to educate yourself on any of all this before trying to have a discussion about it?
I have. But you clearly didn't read what I posted. If you aren't going to address the things that I wrote, why comment?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
The userbase does want to give them money though. I constantly hear people say that they want to donate to Firefox, but Mozilla doesn't let them do that.
Also, I never said that Patreon would give them more money. It would be less money, but it would be more effective, as they could finally ditch the worthless exectutives that keep draining Mozilla's resources.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
I feel like I'm mis-understanding your argument. Are you saying that Mozilla can't do things that other groups are already successfully doing, because "The popular people make too much money" doing it, and "They are already getting that via the Mozilla Foundation"?
That doesn't make sense to me.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
But these executives clearly don't have the right skills, so they should get less pay.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
But they have a strong history of paying a lot for CEOs that don't have the right skills and connections. It's not just this one, it's a systemic issue for them.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Because they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
What about Wikipeida? Internet Archive? All of the products/services that live on kickstarter/patreon/gofundme/etc?
People are more than willing to pay for the things that they love, but Mozilla knows that people wouldn't be willing to pay enough to continue floating the Executive salaries. That's why they don't transition.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Oh, so they and their friends are part of a panel that chooses each others salaries? I wonder how that ends up with everyone getting bloated salaries. Such a mystery.
It doesn't take a genious to figure this out. Look at executive salaries from other companies. They are clearly over-compensated on average.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Are you really asking why would the people at the top of an organization choose to pay themselves a lot of money?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Some random dude promising to "donate from time to time" is not a valid business model.
A lot of people donating, while not spending that money on dumb projects, and worse exectutives is a valid business model. Mozilla just doesn't want to do that, because they care more about their executives than they care about Firefox.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
They could try asking for donations, while getting rid of the massive drains on their budget.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, you can't even donate to Firefox. You can only donate to Mozilla. It seems pretty clear to me why they set it up that way....
- Comment on Political Views 2 weeks ago:
Spiders would be great at that. They work super hard!
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
I've been saying something similar for years: Consoles going online was the worst thing to ever happen to them. Their selling point used to be that you'd put in a cartridge/disc, and it would "just work". Now it has all the downsides of PC gaming, with none of the upsides.
- Comment on What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital) 2 weeks ago:
I only buy digital, since I don't like having a lot of "stuff" around. GOG is my goto, since I can just back them up to my server. I only tolerate Steam for special purchases that aren't offered on GOG, probably ~2 games a year.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 3 weeks ago:
I will never understand why businesses want to let someone else control their infrastructure. Putting your money-maker in someone else's hands is just telling them that it's OK to give you the squeeze later.
