I realized a few months ago that mozilla is run by google drones, so it no longer surprises me that mozilla kills itself.
But the level of stupidity is amazing. I think the people who work there are deliberately recruited in regards to who is the better one at killing off mozilla.
For those who don't know german, Jaeger is "Jäger" is hunter/ranger. A somewhat neutral term in itself but there is also a slight, somewhat remote connection towards some part of the history ("Jagdstaffel" and what not). I have absolutely no idea if this has anything to do with it, mind you - but since the main authors appear to be in the USA, I find that very awkward. Why not just stick to some english name? That would seem a much better it. Or perhaps they think german names are awesome ... it's also weird when you see all the people write Jaeger rather Jäger...
Yeah. They have now become dependent on external decision makers.
I wonder if we'll have to read notes such as "how patreon was once great" ... before a sell-out to some other company will happen.
However had, that being said, I applaude the guys who actually bootstrapped the whole thing. The 60 million is of course great, but I think that their INITIAL idea worked in practice, is much, much cooler than the 60 million they got.
Unfortunately I fear that Google has become too big for the whole world and will slurp up everything that can be a competition, just like they slurped up youtube too at one point in time. And we all know that money moves people, so there is that - github, patreon, twitch. Google has things to buy.
Oh wow, I did not even notice this until you pointed it out.
So the solution is SO bad that the "amp" tag even becomes part of the URL?!
Now THAT is really weird ... well aside from me disliking AMP anyway, that ... hmmm. We can send people to the moon, probably soon elswhere but ... we have to denote that ... we use AMP by ... a appended string called 'amp'.
> While cost is always something that we consider, our
> goal with our network expansion was to improve
> performance, reliability, flexibility and control
> for our users — which we have succeeded in doing,”
> a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Who believes this?
It was, easily noticable by everyone, wanting to reduce the
cost. Which is fine, everyone does so, so why not admit that
it was the primary impetus?
I would not want to outsource control over any larger company
that I were to run to other, even bigger companies.
There are already certain laws that prohibit certain content.
But this is not the issue in this case; neither are ISIS propaganda videos.
This here is corporate and state-controlled censorship that has no legal basis at all whatsoever aimed at controlling research. That is MUCH worse than propaganda by others.
> Where do you stand on copyrighted content, on illegal
> material (some of which may be legal in some countries
> but not others), distasteful or offensive material?
Again - how does your comment relate to censoring research or information that the US government arbitrarily considers "illegal"?
> If you want to share politically sensitive content,
> I think it's fair to say that YouTube isn't your friend.
Google runs Youtube. So, Google is not your friend. I agree with this.
Note that the primary impetus was actually not necessarily that archlinux has degraded in quality over the years ever since Judd was no longer in charge, but primarily that systemd interferes with everything.
I have this suspicion that the author may still be a happy archer, but systemd made him reconsider. And archlinux made a deliberate decision to switch to systemd without alternatives, so I really can not hold anyone but the new archlinux developers responsible for that.
Projects often change with the "under new management" syndrome - that is inevitable.
> Sadly, this has become a very political debate
This is only partially true. While I agree that there is a lot of conflict between pro-and-con systemd, the major issue is that some random guys here and there decide - and subsequently dictate - onto everyone else THEIR particular mind view. And I think that this is the much more upsetting thing.
> so much of my opinion is based on biased second-hand accounts.
Many who dislike systemd do so not because of "political reasons" but of REAL PROBLEMS THAT THEY HAVE ENCOUNTERED.
I also encounted this, such as an infinite loop of systemd at boot-up time. And I had no patience to want to debug any of it. Went back to slackware again, true and tested; it is only a base for LFS/BLFS for me though. If anyone asks, I rather use GoboLinux - but I also can not recommend anyone currently to use GoboLinux until a few more things have been resolved. It's still the best by far.
There is nothing wrong with slackware per se, mind you. It's a bit slow in its development taste for my taste ... but it is still the closest towards "oldschool linux".
Many years ago, I bought a red hat set of CD and SuSE. Installed both... had a GUI. Knew nothing what to do.
Then I installed debian. I think it was woody or potato back then... xorg did not work, but the commandline worked, so I worked through the old handbook learning *nix. :-)
That was great!
Since systemd, I no longer touch anything of debian. devuan is the true successor here - the debian devs abandoned the users.
Until then, I can recommend voidlinux for one reason - I actually know a few people who HAVE been using it since quite some time among them this famous dude:
And I know a few more ruby-folks who are still using archlinux but may consider switching. I may try to convince jhass for example ... ;) - although I do have to say, voidlinux needs a bit more polishing still.
Are you working for Mozilla per chance?