@thegibson @theruran I don't have a ton of insight yet, all-hands meetings on the schedule this week for more details.
Fwiw, i happen to work on the accounts team doing subscription platform work to support things like the new VPN. I guess a bunch of market research was done that pointed to the need to actually sell new products & services - i.e. folks won't generally pay for the Firefox that's been free all these years. At least not in the numbers we need to keep going
Feeling capped-out.
Like in EVE Online when you run your armor repair modules until the capacitor's drained. But you can't disengage from the fight.
Capacitor recharges by a sliver. Module immediately depletes it again. There's still armor getting repaired, but it's just at such reduced capacity as to not quite matter.
@oranje Back then, the situation was that it appeared Desktop was dying and Mobile was the Next Big Thing. Firefox could live on Android, but never be released on Apple's OS.
The "where Mozilla would be now" calculation back then was that Mozilla would be dead without a response to Mobile.
There did seem to be an opportunity for an open web competitor in the Mobile OS space and Mozilla had many of the components to do it. So, it was a big bet.
Alas, it didn't quite work. And Desktop didn't quite die. So, 20/20 hindsight and all that
@oranje As for the new programming language thing - i.e. Rust... IIRC, that started in large part as a response to the expense of dealing with common footguns in programming an enormous thing like a browser. Wasn't ginned up for the hell of it.
The EVE Online analogy breaks down, because you can fit a ship such that capacity recharge matches module discharge rate.
Not sure I can rearrange the modules in my head so effectively.
As I'm ~processing recent events~, I keep wanting to chime in on a bunch of different threads.
As a pressure relief, I just managed to redirect myself to a brain dump on "criticizing moronic assholes who are only good at leopards and locks"
@Nikolai_Kingsley I mostly just fly logi and cloaky haulers in null sec
@Shitlord@dobbs.town my secret is my brain is always gone dumb
@peregrine Have you considered Project Gemini?
@Shitlord@dobbs.town girl get pragnent
Also, I keep thinking that my "notes" wiki is just where I'm going to stage a bunch of half-baked ideas, some of which will become Proper Blog Posts.
Instead, I think I've just made a shitty new blog for which I've yet to get a functioning RSS feed
@craigmaloney Yeah, that reminds me I need to get around to ginning up a feed for the wiki that I didn't intend to become a blog but yet somehow has become a blog anyway.
@peregrine Not trying to be snarky, but I think we've found that there are many different permutations of groups who want "the web we have, with slightly less. and backwards compatible" and attempting to satisfy any one of those groups infuriates all the other groups.
@brion@mastodon.technology 🥊🥊🥊
@brion@mastodon.technology I think I saw that internet fight and I was like... hmm I'm not sure if-- oh wait I see-- oh yup yup
