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I like your thinking. Let me explain mine. From a purely logical point of view, maybe something like playing Sim City, Civilization, or other infratructure building Sims this would make sense. In peace time, and if all players were like Spock, or of the same hive mind. Because like the BBC and Popular Science articles you linked this could be much more by co-bundling pipelines of all sorts (DATA!) with it, maybe even part of a global HVDC smart grid. The costs shouldn't really matter, compared to the money the military (No matter which) burns. It could also be the enabler of (environmentally responsible?) aquafarming, seasteading, nodes of wave- and offshore wind energy farming which would branch off from it. You'd need many platforms for security, emergency and maintenance reasons along the way anyways.

But it would be very vulnerable and probably protested for all sorts of business and political reasons. Just look at what happens with proposed pipelines, high-speed rails, the bitching about where to put stations, the NIMBYism about where not, and so on.

In this case there could be less NIMBYism, because open-seas, but think of the ship builders, and the giant complex of companies operating the built ships. Wouldn't you think they object to that? Just look at what ferry operators did when some tunnel or bridge opened, making them obsolete.

So we have them, and their interests, against a potential network of submerged floating tunnels enabling all sorts of nice things, making them almost obsolete, too. Similar for Aerospace. 500kph seems doable without vacuum. Half the speed of air-traffic. 350 to 400 kph even more so, and already IS in operation at 350. Now imagine freight trains running at 250 to 300kph on separate tracks. Which you would want to have anyways, if only as reserve/backup for maintenance reasons. And now imagine a grid of these. Criss-crossing the seven seas, and having transport-hubs/nodes, switching yards, resort cities, free towns, permanent in-situ sensors, whatever, out there.

Can't have pirates though, or war.

What do you think about that?

edit: I'd opt for smelting all the container giants, bulk carriers, and similarly obsolete stuff to build this. With nuclear power, if need be. I don't care. The same for most airplanes, because less noise.

Seawards, Ho!
It's good I need to use the apple laptop & Xcode only just to build my flutter app, otherwise I would have given up just how slow it is, every click takes ~5 seconds.
Well, start to make paying for the main product possible. I don't donate as I don't want to support for other mozilla's initiatives.

I'd however gladly pay around 10-20 euros / month for firefox.
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Https multiplied latency by three when opening websites compared to 10/15years ago where many websites were http.

And also many websites include more tracking, for example Google search results used to directly send you to the result page. Now they first send you to Google so that they know you clicked but it also adds noticeable latency.
Ads and privacy just do not belong and cannot be together. Why…
I think that is one of the value proposition of fly.io -- by bringing compute to the edge, you can comply with local data privacy policies, along with some interesting ways of building web apps, and get great data locality and low latency.
Oh, of course let's conduct a trial where we give aspirin to children and see what happens! I gather you'll be volunteering your own children? How nice of you!
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Also, as you have the muncipality-shortcut at the beginning, and then two user-definable letters, you freqently see "rude" combinations, and noone bats an eye.
BIT-CH, MON-GO, ANA-L, DIL-DO. (And those are just the combinations that are understandable in english which I saw when driving). I'll never forget the face of the guy at the Zulassungsstelle when I was there with a friend who wanted COC-K-6969. He got it it, btw. When I tried some years later, AC-DC-666 sadly was already taken.
I agree, but tell that to the "money people" in big game studios ;) The web simply isn't on their radar, even mobile isn't for the most part. They want strong centralized platforms like Steam, EGS, Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo and a platform owner to negotiate with.

This can change very quickly if there's actually some breakthrough web game, but that hasn't happened so far, and nobody wants to be the first to take the risk.
Okay.
https://donate.mozilla.org

Edit:
My assumption was that a proportion of the money donated to the Mozilla Foundation is used to fund Mozilla Firefox.

I stand corrected (but I still consider the foundation worth supporting).

A follow up question for those replying to this comment: does the revenue from Pocket and/or the Mozilla VPN help to fund Firefox?
imagine the phrase "see you later" was offensive, or perhaps its abbreviation "cu"

the combo "cv" could then become problematic.
and yet all the other women who aren't earning much gets blamed for stealing viewers and money from guys who aren't the last bit entertaining.

justice? hardly.
For example because Chrome treats Google cookies differently [1]?
This is a red flag for people. With Firefox you at least know what you get.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064537
Hmmm, if they insist, but let me at least pay to remove the ads.
If their CEO salary was not paid in millions dollars maybe the users would be more keen to donate money?

I never saw a fundraising like the ones from Wikipedia.
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You can repair a car. Doesn't mean you should repair your own car. Making a mistake can be dangerous. But professionals who know what they are doing have easy access to components and information about the layout of your cars internals if they need them.
Difference from Amazon Redis or Redis enterprise?
Well, no. Donating to mozilla does not equals funding the browser. They also have some more or less questionable initiatives.
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Not a literal lake, that's just a colourful metaphor for being rebuffed.

The fact of it is evident from the Cloudflare blog, but I don't particularly recommend giving that the time of day, since as with all content marketing it is also self-serving humbug.
That seems like pure speculation.
I don't get how they could get a chart that is so hilariously bad into a technical post. No numbers & no tick labels. It only shows that newer = better, which is pretty much obvious from the title.
I don't think they're referring to the nationality of the people involved, but rather the nationality of the institutions.
Oh yes, it's my only browser. I'd like to pay for it. Even though I live in an area where they aren't presenting ads yet.
Nah, I think it's fair that very rich people who can be suspected to be skipping taxes lose their right to privacy, at least financial privacy.
I've lost hope for Firefox when the browser started opening spyware-infused ("tag manager") sites describing how Mozilla takes privacy seriously, immediately after browser's installation and before the user has any chance to add uBlock Origin or other Firefox add-on that limits spyware/malware execution on their device.
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Thanks for the kind words :). Beauty can be subjective, but here is something we’re striving for https://moot-books.github.io/moot-KTU/CSE/S6/CN_CS306.pdf. Initially we would typeset the books using vanilla LaTeX which produces the standard quality books you expect from traditionally publishers. In the long run the goal is to produce books that look similar to this https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/co... , but optimized for readability for different book types.

English is not my first language, but its still no excuse, I had run it through Grammarly, will check again for mistakes.
I don't disagree at all, but the comment I was responding to was saying that globally it's "massive" which it really isn't. Every little helps, but this is little.
In a pilot study like this, the effect size is only thing that matters.

In this study the effect size is so small that it would not make this treatment very effective even if it was real.
What the browser giveth, the web developer taketh away.

I tremendously hate it and it’s not like developers are incapable of building performant software, quite the opposite. But that’s just not where the resources go. The common sentiment (I have heard this directly uttered) is “If the user has 8GB of RAM, why wouldn’t I use it?”.
Meh, the feature is easily deactivable, the settings are clear and extensive. As far as ads go, it's one of the best implementations.

Firefox still has no alternative in the privacy / user-centric space (don't mention Brave, I'm gonna get mad). Mozilla has done a lot for the web, I can give them some slack for exploring different revenue models.

Still, I'm going to keep on eye for this kind of practices in the future. I don't want them to get too comfortable with it.
Well, is a good idea actually.
Years ago I heard Microsoft was open sourcing .Net. and I thought that was a clever idea. But with all the drama coming out of the community now for years and years I seriously question the intentions behind that move. It seems to me Microsoft just wanted a bunch of free coders on their .Net projects.

And it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft set out to destroy a community of volunteers either.
I used to give money to Mozilla Foundation, I stopped when I realised it actually wasn't going to Firefox development, which is done by Mozilla Corporation. I even reached out to their support, and no, there is no way to support FF but with your eyeballs.

With that feature, that I will of course disable for my personal use, I will not be able to recommend Firefox to other people any more.

Please let us pay!
Although your headline is correct imho, I think there are lots of things that the orchestrator might need to do above this, especially if you want the tool to be cloud agnostic so that everyone can use it, which just makes things a little more complicated.

You might want to add something to the existing system, like another web server. These tools have to "add item and wire it up to load balancer".

You might want to scale up. This might work natively or it might require creating new larger instances and then getting rid of the old ones.

You might want to update the images to newer versions.

You might need more public IPs.

You might be adding something to an existing larger network so you need to reference existing objects.

You might need to "create if not exists"

etc. I think your argument covers the intiial use-case in most places but any system used over time will need the other stuff done to it, hence the "complexity" of the tools. tbf, I don't think Terraform is that complex in itself, I think because it is in config files, it can be more complex to understand and work with.
maybe go the other direction and try to cut expenses rather than trying to make more money? Firefox gets hundreds of millions from Google alone in royalties, that is not enough to build a web browser?

Firefox has lost almost half of its users since 2010, yet it keeps burning more money every year. Run the company in a lean way, cut the fat, do one thing well. It's like Wikipedia, every year they seemingly find new ingenious ways to burn more cash.
a) There's a limited supply of bitcoins
b) The amount of bitcoin you get decreases as more are made
c) The larger the network the more it costs to make a bitcoin
d) Some bitcoin are deleted forever, accidentally.

So a) Bitcoins become harder to make, and b) The total possible number of Bitcoins goes down.
I didn't know about it, thanks.

But I'm software engineer, and I didn't know about it. I don't think most (as in 95%+, even in tech) people would know difference to care. My point is visibly – firefox seem to be just as ad-hungry as competition.

They could be better behind the scenes, but customer wouldn't know it.
nope, this doesn't go to development, only to their community and outreach programs.

Mozilla Foundation != Mozilla Corporation
Firefox marketshare has gone down from approx 16% in 2015 to about 6% in 2021. All the while the strategy to monetize and generate revenue streams while maintaining trust has been a challenge. Nothing they have been doing in the recent past has got me to go back to Firefox.
Onboarding new developers into a project is a time-demanding and costly process, isn’t it? Just finding a proper specialist isn’t sufficient. We all know that every software development company has its own practices and uses its own tools. And those tools might be even in-house developed.

Therefore, it doesn't matter how skilled and experienced your new team member is, they will need to learn a lot. Sometimes, it takes pretty much time for them to learn all about the project they start working on (to start coding new features, for example), about the company’s corporate culture, and the commonly accepted practices and processes. Needless to mention the extensive documentation, and similar.

In most cases, you might not even be sure that your new team members can handle all the load of new information on their own. So, somebody more experienced is needed to help them, to guide them through the labyrinth of new information. This “somebody” is one of your more experienced developers, and they also will spend their time on onboarding procedures, guiding and coaching their new colleagues. It means more expenses.
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What's the issue with ACAB?
That donates to Mozilla, not Firefox. That is what people have the problem with, they cannot directly donate to a /product/
Poland is in the EU, the sticker is not enforceable. The seller (not the manufacturer) must provide two years of statutory warranty.
Because all the browsers you mention are controlled by megacorps who want to own the web for their own gain. As mismanaged as Mozilla is, they are in it to make the web a decent place for users.

This said, of course, I hate this "feature" and I'll make sure I disable it.
What’s wrong with paying market rates for a CEO?

Do you think they should find a CEO below market rates?

Have you donated money to Mozilla or Wikipedia?
I expect if Mozilla made opt-out a paid feature, then all that would happen is that Firefox would be forked without ads, and the general public use Chrome or Edge anyway.
I don't care about Mozilla. I just want to support Firefox.
Yeah, it really sucks. I've been using Firefox for 15 years or so but this shit is just so discouraging. Can't we have one piece of good software that doesn't try to shove "relevant" "suggestions" from "trusted" "partners" down our throats?

I just want a browser that isn't controlled by the ad mafia.
It _affected_ the whole network, and _effected_ the whole outage ;)
Soda and cigarettes are also some of the most used things in the world…

No it doesn’t follow that something being used means it’s a net positive
> apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app

This is a relatively straight forward request that maybe doesn't go as far as most people imagine here. Pressing "delete" doesn't instantly delete all user data and it's not expected to. In some cases there may be subsequent steps and some data may be kept for legal reasons*.

The point is very sensible, if I can request the creation of an account or subscription easily in the app, the reverse process should be just as straight forward. If an app can give a one button "create-subscribe-pay" experience then when it comes to deletion you shouldn't suddenly fill out paper forms, or send letters at specific times in the month. And that's if you can even find the info on how to do it in the first place.

Now you can trigger the deletion and know that they have to do something about it, at the very least get clear instructions on how to proceed.

*When it comes to banks, they are subject to laws and regulation that many other companies/services don't have to deal with. Which is why Apples makes this provision:

> We encourage you to review any laws that may require you to maintain certain types of data, and to make sure your app clearly explains what data your app collects, how it collects that data, all uses of that data, your data retention/deletion policies, and more as described in the guideline
Isn't it wrong to say that you, as user, are bound by their privacy policy. That would be something the site itself is bound by.
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A lot of dark patterns are opt-in or "We're trying out something new, it's just a test" to start with. Until they're silently upgraded to opt-out a year or two down the line. Then the opt-out gets moved to the ass-end of a legacy settings menu under a generic name under the pretext of UI renewal. Then a couple more years later the "It's been like that for years, what's the issue?" line can be used to shut down anyone who still cares. It's best to nip this kind of thing in the bud.
As an example, the majority of current drug targets are membrane proteins, of which most are multimers, which makes stuff like this a key part of predicting important protein complexes. Membrane proteins are also notoriously difficult to get structures of which makes it even more interesting.

BTW, I'm not sure how well AlphaFold predicts structures that are part of multimers in the first place? But since they have to be (relatively) stable as a monomer before locking in place, I guess they can be predicted without considering their final part of a complex. Still, feels like some kind of symbiosis between this and the structure prediction itself could exist.
What fleet-level changes are you referring to? The energy saving is certainly a nice thing (environmentally if nothing else) but it's not energy they are paying for. I don't see how it would change Google's operations in any way.
not OP, but for the lifetime of the hardware ? or, at least, should be specified in T&C when buying the hardware

I am still pissed off that my 2012 Macbook Air is no longer receiving OS updates - compare that to Microsoft that allows me to run windows on basically any PC
changing a phone number does about the same damage to your reachability than deleting you (fb-)account and creating one with a new name.

facebook is less of a public registry than the phone system thou.
Because it’s still a better browser in many ways.
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What do you think happens to you when you love, when you hate, when you feel rejected, appreciated, embraced, venerated, when you feel like you're being venerated without effort, you may feel like you're cheating and get a rise of it, or feel guilty from it, but in every case there's an endocrine response.

All of these chemical pathways are triggered by the hollow nonexistent social interactions, it can be an emotional rollercoaster and at the core is stimulation by endogenous compounds that can also be chemically addictive. You're finding a distinction that simply isn't there.
> Firefox Suggest is a new feature that serves as a trustworthy guide to the better web, surfacing relevant information and sites to help you accomplish your goals.

BonziBuddy [1] described itself in a similar way

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
i guess whatsapp runs on your phone?
But there's not a massive economy of scale, and anyone can jump in and be at the same level as anyone else at that time.

If I have a million bitcoins because I got in on day 3, I don't have an advantage of making them today.

If I have a million PoS coins, because I got in on day 3, am I more likely to get more than someone who just started?
> don't mention Brave, I'm gonna get mad

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Agreed. I am completely fine with them trying to run their own ads. It's much better than indirectly funding them through Googles Ads. But just be upfront about what you're doing.

This extends to the splash screen as well. No "disable ads" button just "not now" or "settings".

In contrast the settings dialogue looks fine.
> Trading cards are ponzi schemes too. From an entertainment point of view, they are created for the purpose of being fun to trade.

No, not really. You're confusing the concept of intrinsic vs perceived value, and completely ignoring the concept of utility.

People who buy cards for fun do it because it's fun, just like we could spend money to rent a sports car, go on a vacation, or drive around a test track. The monetary value of a hotel say from last month is zero, but that does not make hotels any type of fraud.

What would represent a Ponzi scheme would be, say, advertising Beany Babies as a safe and guaranteed investment to attract speculators, sell them Beany Babies for a hefty markup, and proceed to leave them holding the bag.
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He wrote that he dislikes the language – and so do I.

I feel like this kind of marketing language is only there to obfuscate the real reason why things are done. They want to include ads to help finance Mozilla – the main goal isn't "to enhance and speed up your searching experience". Calling the introduction of ads an enhancement for the user is just dishonest.
One thing I can't see mentioned is disaster recovery. We expect the cloud to be largely bulletproof but that has been proven wrong, we could easily lose something for multiple hours, which for a SaaS business is very bad for business. When Azure London went down for 6 hours, or whatever, we should have been able to recreate our microservices cluster in another centre but we simply didn't have it setup like that and had to live with the outage.

If we had to recreate any of our cloud system manually, it would take an enormous amount of time and would probably not work properly since we forgot those registry settings/frameworks/configurations that we did 2 years ago.

Part of the point of IaC is the ability to recreate all of most of what we need at the click of a button. Even if you had everything documented, the physical time would be prohibitive.
Anything exposed to the open internet devolves into porn or racism or both unless active effort is made to prevent it. I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)