Back when Samsung saw Android as a legitimate threat to their business model, and they made alternate apps to every Google offering, I think they did have a better ecosystem. I think that has waned in recent years, though.

And I say that as someone who loved Samsung phones at least until 2020, when they gave up on the SD card and started giving up on camera quality. I still think they make the best devices out of the box (between screen and camera output, and not overheating) but they’ve been lazy at the top

Samsung has retired their messaging app. Google Messages is the only option on Android.

(cc @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world)

This comment was enlightening.

If we look at just the ratio of expenditure. We have an NPO (on paper at least) that just went from spending a ratio of 4 to 1 between developers and managers to spending a ratio of almost 2 to 1.

I agree, but I’ve seen so many arguments that “you need to pay the CEO millions, otherwise you’ll lose a CEO that’s definitely worth millions.” Not a great argument, but I think it’s somewhat laid bare by breaking down their actual salary versus their bonus, which is… Over nine times their salary.

It’s almost unfair that JWZ has to be grouped in with the same historical figures around Firefox as Netscape ghoul Marc Andreessen and JavaScript ghoul Brendan Eich. Firefox (and predecessors) aren’t managed by the best people.

I genuinely appreciate Niko’s pushback against the absolute BS that various political agents push under the guise of critiquing tech or wanting improvement. (Notably, because these criticisms are dictated by their politics and are often hypocritical, and there is no “right way” for Mozilla to behave to them… except to embrace their own politics or cease existing.)

I wish there was a popular non-political agent that was capable of critiquing Mozilla’s finances, especially because my biggest issue is with them is the combined $65 million Mozilla devoted to AI and venture capital (mostly AI), and how they proceeded to lay off employees that were part of a division that was actually making money. To the protests of their manager. Who was then also laid off.

FWIW, the Mozilla CEO salary actually went down in the last year we have records. From about $6.9 million to $6.2. (The base salary is still around $600,000, and the rest is a bonus.)

Check OP’s posts

I like at least one of Nico’s other videos, and while he makes technically correct points…

“Nothing changed”

If this is true, then Mozilla can delete their entire Firefox license. Nothing will change a second time.

I also saw this comment which I agree with:

The Linux Experiment is probably being too harsh, for this issue, but leaving Mozilla for understandable reasons (enough is enough etc), whereas you are giving them too much benefit of the doubt.

When it comes to personal privacy and sovereignty, nobody should ever give a legal document the benefit of the doubt. I think it is rational and healthy to search for a worst possible scenario in order to know what a company can do with a document you have accepted.

I see what you did there

Interesting equivocation, but until Mozilla Corp specifically explains how they sell your data, it is unhealthy to be anything but skeptical about why they refused, repeatedly, to clarify.

Also your private browsing data is not the same as your public post data.

It’s been a while since I watched a documentary about him, but apparently it was both… Either way, incredibly horrid treatment.

I blame 4chan’s constant harassment of the man for his speech and early death. They invaded his live streams and gaslit him into believing, among other things, that he was in a relationship with someone else. Collectively, I think they’re responsible for his suicide.

“Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left.”

The Ford Foundation is located in New York City at the Center for Social Justice

The Ford Foundation is one of the primary foundations offering grants that support and maintain diversity in higher education

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ford+foundation

cc @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca

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the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said

What part of my post isn’t something he said

Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.

God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.

ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.

The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.

Is this for human beings, or is it for Google to show their investors to prove that AI is totally going to revolutionize something eventually?

Screw Google either way, I’m not going to use their search engine either way, but this doesn’t feel like a product they are genuinely committed to releasing. Maybe I’m wrong, and in that case, screw them even more.

Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn’t great, but the developer isn’t Brave.

Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven’t tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that’s especially true for non-flagships

Discord knows everything about its users. Why don’t its users get to know about the future of their app