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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:03 JST tech? no! man, see...

   this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to me

   https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-ai

   first off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-tech

   later it gets worse:

   > Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?

   > A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.

   everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpful

   the silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:04 JST clacke

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     • frog
     @technomancy @frog no ethical browsers under capitalism
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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:05 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • frog

     @frog oh shit; that sucks

     I use the version from debian which has the tracking and other anti-features stripped out

     anyway if your point was that there's no such thing as a good web browser vendor, you won't find an argument from me

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     frog (frog@frogdrool.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:14 JST frog

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     @technomancy Firefox still puts ads in the new tab window. That’s a hard pass for me.

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:51 JST alcinnz

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     @technomancy There's a reason I feel compelled to enter the ring...

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     golly josh darn (klardotsh@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:53 JST golly josh darn

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     @technomancy Simultaneously this proves that you don't actually need to be good at tech to be a tech CEO, and also that Mozilla hasn't learned from a decade+ of completely misguided wandering: if anything, they're showing their hand that they're about to double down and continue burning money in shallow pits to nowhere.