Readit Newskbrosnan commented on We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch blog.glitch.com/post/chan... · Posted by u/js4ever
Is this the end of fog creek? I remember they had shut down most of their services by the time their rebranded to glitch.
I wonder if anything is left of the company besides Joel's blog posts.
Trello sold to Atlassian. Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow sold to Prosus FogBugz sort of lives on at https://ignitetech.ai/softwarelibrary/fogbugz but it looks like one of those companies that buys software solutions and retains the minimum staffing to keep lights on.
kbrosnan commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg
And Thunderbird?
It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation.
Not only is not in order, I tried a few emails and in all of them I get a bunch of sites that I've never used. I wonder if it's fetching the wrong data?
I regularly have doppelgangers that sign up for services with my email address.
I've been added to door/visitor notifications. I have received medical information for them. Retirement package info. A telecom internal tracker. A Doubleclick account for a while. Lessons for their children. Countless rewards accounts.
kbrosnan commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore
Why is the mozilla-firefox org full of forks of the main repo named after trees?
They are used for large scale landings or when a project needs to track trunk development but will churn a lot.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/DisposableProjec...
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kbrosnan commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin
They've been pretty hard at work to offer services that will let them wean themselves off of Google money. This is how much of their income came from search royalties yearly according to their independent auditor reports
2023: 75.8
2022: 86.0
2021: 87.8
2020: 88.8
2019: [^a]
2018: 95.3
2017: 95.9
That is the Oath Verizon/Yahoo search contract settlement.
kbrosnan commented on Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division techcrunch.com/2024/11/05... · Posted by u/atestu
I would gladly pay $2-$5 a month without thinking for ff/tb if they committed to open accounting with user voting and a ruling council headed by devs and technical thought leaders. I think at least 1-10 million other people would too!
The empowered userbase would then direct Mozilla to make other solutions for their most pressing needs (maybe search or email or anti tracking) instead of the lame ideas they have wasted resources on
That is more or less how Thunderbird works. Donations fund a development. Members of the community elect the Thunderbird Council. It would take a huge rework of MoCo (Firefox, Sync, VPN, etc) to function in that way.
kbrosnan commented on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out blog.nightly.mozilla.org/... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
The cat was out of the bag, when browsers got tabs.
They are already tiny window managers, and may as well lean into it.
Tabs state management is simpler and more battle tested. Split pane browsers will need to relearn some of the same problems/security found when tabed browsing was introduced. They will have unique problems/security as well. I would be interested to see how split pane browsers deal with focus stealing JS especially with timeouts or other shenanigans.
Simpler software could satisfy web users.
Could reduce potential for surveillance and annoying distractions. Easier to audit and control.