lambalicious @ lambalicious @lemmy.sdf.org

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"liver spots"? ESL here so there's idioms I don't grok.

Storm in a teacup!

I don't.

Yeah, hot take, but basically there's no point to me having to keep track of all that stuff and excessively worry about the dangers of modernity and sacrifice the spare time I have on watching update counter go brrrr of all things, when there's entire peoples and agencies in charge of it.

I just run unattended-upgrades (on Debian), pin container image tags to only the major version number where available, run rebuild of containers twice a week, and go enjoy the data and media I built the containers and installed for software for.

Oh if only Proton could learn this power!

This sounds nice and all, but it's 2025 and it still can't migrate posts.

The screw-ups keep mounting like they want to be Google.

They (and we)'ve got to admit, the solution is not going to come from within their (managerial) ranks.

At this point I'd be happy to offer my services as a BDFL for Mozilla, at but a small fraction of the wages of any of their C-suites.

Measles? No no no, we're talking America here, you mean

Freedom Sores

You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to:

Do anything illegal or otherwise violate applicable law,

So is Mozilla saying that you can not use Firefox to access pirated media, recommend abortion clinics, denounce the Palestinian genocide, etc?

for free

Not if those five friends had to pay for PS5s!

There is not, at any point, a real necessity to sell your clients so that you can pay your employees, or viceversa.

Pitting the workers against the consumers is the strategy of oligarchy bourgeois.

I'm going to stick to Firefox for the time being at least for the clients where I managed to get Firefox ESR accepted. For everything else, it might be the time to switch to Librewolf. Among other advantages, they have enabled jxl support.

Which I'd consider not a variable anylonger tbh: anything on the internet that is not put behind a login wall should be assumed as scrapped, machines can work 24/7 like humans and downloading is easy.

Like sure, we gotta fight that, but technology for open access is not the field where that fight has to be fought.

A more factual and literal reading:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox,

"If we deem anything as "necessary to operate Firefox", such as selling your data, then you automatically grants us all rights to do that".

We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible.

You have that! It's implied by provision when you distribute your software under eg.: GPL!

Is it so hard to just be an ethical company?

Companies, by definition, can not be ethical.

What we need is for Mozilla Fd to become a employee coöp.

While you are factually correct, Firefox is explicitly stating here that they have the right to terminate an individual’s use of their browser, a freedom that was protected under the MPL.

Shit, just noticed this. This means Firefox stops being FOSS and can't any longer be distributed by several distros, right?

I wonder if Debian is going to restart Iceweasel...

May I suggest we switch to a gopher or gemini internet?

Honestly you already start at paragraph 1 with a wrong premise and then go down from there. Allow me to point you to the very beginning, to your first emphasis:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox,

This doesn’t mean you’re giving them a license to do whatever they want with your data, it means you’re giving them the ability to use that data explicitly as you choose to navigate the web.

Here's the trick: they are not operating Firefox, we are. It's a system that runs locally and under our instruction on our devices. When I type something in the URL bar, or when I click Open File, or when I mouse over the screen, Mozilla doesn't have to do anything: everyhting happens locally. No data should be being transmitted or be processed over their systems: Firefox is not a remote desktop / "live service" application.

...Unless...

And there you have it. That's why those terms are here.

It’s what’s known as “vulture capitalism” or “parasitic capitalism”,

So, capitalism.

Or please kindly enumerate what other kinds of capitalism provably exist.

I don’t think mutual aid can work well like that on the internet. Works great in person,

That can be an incredibly privileged position to be in to say. Some people are in situations so bad in their meatspace life that "the random internet" is actually more trustworthy.