major505 (u/major505)

major505 commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3

I'm not familiar with Zen, but how do you reconcile that Waterfox frequently lags behind upstream Firefox in terms of security fixes? Yes, you get a perceived gain in privacy, but is that worth potentially exposing yourself to additional vulnerabilities?

major505 · 3 days ago

IT dosnet lag long, since both have pretty activity communities.

There are other variations that are a little faster in issueing the updates, but they are maintained by small teams, so they have more change of being corrupted by bullshit, specially this day and age where people take politics too damn serious.

Too be honest, except for niche uses, I just abandoned firefox. Their engine is behind, lags in sites that use too much javascript is visible, when even opening 3 or 4 tabs makes they browser lag behind.

I just keep it in my system this days to access some sites in my work computer and test UI rendering in firefox. Other than that, I had to surrender to chrome and its variations.

major505 commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3

jfrifkfnfofifmk · 4 days ago

Mozilla rebranded itself as a "crew of activists". Browser is just a side business to generate revenue!

major505 · 4 days ago

They are probably a money laundy scheme this days. I used to donate every year to Mozilla. Of course, small ammounts because Im not rich. Today they would have to beat this money from my hands.

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major505 commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3

major505 · 4 days ago

Well, is no mistery that today the best versioins of Firefox are the non official versions like waterfox and zen.

NObody trusts mozilla anymore, specially after they turned into an add company and started paying their CEOs exorbitating ammounts, considering what was being invested in their core business (supposedly making a better browser).

major505 commented on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047... · Posted by u/50kIters

major505 · 17 days ago

We are deep in Metal Gear Solid territory here.

major505 commented on The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy simonandschuster.com/book... · Posted by u/brunohaid

n4r9 · 24 days ago

Are you talking about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

It looks like nothing actually happened...

major505 · 23 days ago

Thats what they want people to believe. In the same time industry titans in the US like Ford where funding the ascencion of the nazi regime because they feared what happeing in Russian, without properly understanding the context that make possible the revolution to occour in there.

NOw they pack the "revolution" in a neat way to sell people the impression they are revolting against a system at the same time they sell fear for them to give up righs in the name of safety.

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major505 commented on James Cameron Says Netflix Movies Shouldn't Be Eligible for Oscars worldofreel.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/randycupertino

major505 · a month ago

I would say that he have a point if movie theaters came back as the blue colar entertainment of choice. But greed studios, financing over expensive and mediocre movies like the ones James Cameron does this days killed the cinema as an viable middle lower class option, killing small street theaters in favor of over expensive multiplex rooms, so fuck James Cameron and his opinion about what Netflix should or should not be eligible.

major505 commented on APT Rust requirement raises questions lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

major505 · a month ago

IS funny because thanks to efforts from companies like Valve, Linux seens to finally been receiving the recognition it deserves, Rust evangelists and weirdos who claim morality superiority to the rest of mortals, are going to put everything to loose, because of this obsession of rewriting tools that actually work for many years without bigger issues, just so they can say their language is superior.

IF there was some glaring problems with tools like sudo, sort, apt, and you have a superior version, sure, go ahead. But this is clearly not the case. Sometimes the rust version is just the same, or even inferior, but people are ready to plunge into destruction just to say their distro have the latest and greatest. Its just vanity.

Maybe the conspiracy theories that big tech finance the crazy incopetent people from in position of power in open source projects that they no longer can compete, in order to destroy them from the inside, is not that far fetched.

major505 commented on Tell HN: Azure outage · Posted by u/tartieret

bob1029 · 2 months ago

For some reason an Azure outage does not faze me in the same way that an AWS outage does.

I have never had much confidence in Azure as a cloud provider. The vertical integration of all the things for a Microsoft shop was initially very compelling. I was ready to fight that battle. But, this fantasy was quickly ruined by poor execution on Microsoft's part. They were able to convince me to move back to AWS by simply making it difficult to provision compute resources. Their quota system & availability issues are a nightmare to deal with compared to EC2.

At this point I'd rather use GCP over Azure and I have zero seconds of experience with it. The number of things Microsoft gets right in 2025 can be counted single-handedly. The things they do get right are quite good, but everything else tends to be extremely awful.

major505 · 2 months ago

I like azure. I think they are more intuitive tua aws and good, and they have good prices for startups ( essentially free for a whole year )

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