The Mozilla employees are just Google plants. The web standards are now controlled by WHATWG who are all members of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Mozilla and they are not interested in pushing standards forward or making browser improvements. They are only interested in ensuring entrenchment for their corporations. That’s why they created WHATWG. There is nothing any non-compromised Mozilla employee can do. The ship has sunk. Either someone hard forks Firefox or we continue down the current road.
They don’t owe you a complete list of reasons why they’re close sourcing their software. They are not a publicly traded company and no one (customers) actually cares if the product is open source or not.
Open source is dead, AI-pundits are applying the wrong lessons. No one has to accept AI or play the game all these AI companies don’t work if everyone stops publishing. Let the AI generated content industry have the publish space, they're very adamant about taking it over and watering it down with slop.
I wrote some very nice expressive text for our deployment guide. My project manager took the guide and had Gemini break it down into plain boring bullet points. AI and the pundits can gf themselves in their journey to kill human expression.
Here is what I wrote in the guide:
"Post Deploy Responsibility
If you made it this far, say “Wow I really did it and it was so easy!”
Did you say it? Good. Now you are entirely responsible for any issues or bugs that may arise from the newly deployed code. Don’t go anywhere until the deploy has finished (usually takes a few minutes). While an issue or bug may not leave you directly at fault, you are responsible for coordinating any rollbacks or remediations that may be needed until the next deploy."
Here is what the product manager slopped it into:
"- Post deploy responsibility
- You are responsible for performing QA upon deployment
- You are responsible for any issues or bugs that may arise from newly deployed code
- You are responsible for coordinating any rollbacks or remediations that may be needed until the next deploy"
My paragraph wasn't long, hard to understand, or poorly written. I wouldn't have objected to a rewording or some changes but the project manager chose to just copy paste it into Gemini and copy and paste it back. So my take is that they didn't understand what I wrote. Which is a few sentences long and frankly sad if a paragraph is too intense for you to read. When my project manager did this during the meeting I said, "RIP human expression" and their response was a very hasty "no that's not what's happening". This is what all the pundits want to do to everyone and society. Don't believe them that "it's just a tool", that is just a tactic to get you to rollover so they can shove more AI in your face.
And your paragraph had a much bigger impact on the reader. Your paragraph reads like an experienced senior developer teaching you to not screw things up, while the AI generated bullet points sound like generic ToS that everyone ignores.
This is the future now that AI is here. Publishing is going to be dead, look at the tea leaves, how many engineers are claiming they don’t use package managers anymore and just generate dependencies? 5 years and no one will be making an argument for open source or blogging.
You can't unless you've chosen to back up your WhatsApp messages to iCloud/Google in which case it's Apple/Google responsible for preserving the messages and subject to their encryption standards, nothing to do with Meta.
Try logging in on a new device and putting your main device into aeroplane mode as soon as the login succeeds. Loading of old messages on the new device will stop.
The human species. "We" doesn't include everyone and doesn't necessarily imply the process happens through collaboration and planning (conspiracy). The race to automation is happening as expected; outside any group control and bound by competition. Game theory suggests the end result is us being replaced, if we make it that far. "We" as a species are the ones making it happen.
The Potus is literally a pedophile, criminals are here to stay and winning. Your camera company supports them as long as they have money and/or control of the system.
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