If Mozilla released a separate passwords app so you could manage and access your passwords outside of Firefox I think the two would be more comparable. That would promote your passwords as part of your Mozilla account, not just Firefox.

Bitwarden excels here, and i think is the model to beat. However, Mozilla would have the advantage since their browser integration would essentially be built-in and first class.

Otherwise, unless you use Firefox exclusively for everything I just don't think a single browser is the right place to manage passwords. I would say that's true even for a broad audience, given the importance of passwords and security in the modern age.

Bitwarden is also nice in that you can "lock" access to your passwords while keeping the browser open. That way, for the 99% of the time you're just browsing the internet you essentially don't have access to all your passwords "open". The last time I looked at this I had to enter my master password on opening Firefox, even if I didn't need access to my passwords. That meant that "unlocking your vault" is essentially tied to opening the browser. That alone was enough for me to bail on it.

The degree of singular outrage this guy produces is something else. It's like a switch flips in peoples' brains and they go through a two-minutes (or maybe two hours in this article's case) hate session when they comment about him. Who else has gone from such adoration from the general internet to such revulsion?

This works in a zirp environment after the Steve Jobs era where a single company released one success after the other. People believe anything and have personal interest in pumping claims they know to be at best exaggerated, at worst outright fraudulent.

The problem for Tesla, though, is that we aren’t in a zirp environment anymore so money will become harder and harder to come by and they have exhausted the early adopters. They are already suffering deflation in their prices, having to cut prices to stimulate demand which still seems to result in lackluster numbers relative to valuation.

I don’t see how this company is going to sustain its valuation given the basic fundamentals at play.

BTW, it’s important to understand that Elon is incredibly focused on the share price and his genius perception. This was made evident in 2022 when he split the stock in an attempt to create incremental buyers during a very tumultuous time, but he was careful to do a 3 for 1 split so that the stock price would still be three digits (it was around $900 at the time) so that the perceived value wouldn’t be diminished.

He’s also made reference to the share price and worked frantically on Twitter to try and pump the share price and hurt short sellers on many occasions. CEOs who are overly concerned with share price fluctuations are always a red flag for me and in Elon’s case it is abundantly clear he needs to keep the savior image going. I would not be at all surprised if the timing of the CT delivery event came about due to nervousness over the slumping share price.

If you invested that $250k in Tesla shares rather than a Tesla Roadster deposit it would be worth more than $4,000,000 now.

The next law I want passed:

The "Cars can't require a network connection" law: Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it, (which must be a user serviceable physical hardware switch, fuse, jumper, etc). All functions of the car must remain permanently operable with no nagging of the user to reconnect, other than an optional initial prompt to inform the user of the change. 0 repercussions may be brought on the user for disabling the network connection, such as 'we can't diagnose/fix your steering because it can't connect to the network' or 'we can't update your infotainment system with your network connection disabled', as those updates could easily be done via the OBDII port.

Hell while we're at it, pass this same thing for robot vacuums, garage door openers, and 1000 other "smart" devices.

It’s not that I don’t believe that his car couldn’t detect an oncoming car- my four year old Honda does that easily on a regular basis. I simply don’t believe that videos like this aren’t staged anymore to push a particular story by people who are Tesla enthusiasts/cultists.

There have just been one too many questionable videos trying to promote FSD as far better than I know it is on Twitter. Apart from the desire to promote Tesla it has the added benefit of getting instant engagement because it presents a potentially dangerous situation on video.