Mozilla has been incapable of making a good business decision since 2009. They've gotten in and out of numerous side-hustles, seeking to make quick cash or create low-effort revenue streams.... usually 18 to 24 months too late to actually succeed.

They have ceded leadership of the browser space to Chrome. Part of how Firefox got worse is that it just started copying whatever Chrome did to cheapen the browsing experience. Another big part is their addiction to messing with Firefox's UI for no reason whatsoever. Firefox used to be the browser for power-users, now the user's agency is perfunctory at best.

Then there was the whole ordeal of disavowing Thunderbird.

Mozilla has new leadership now, packed with even more marketing and PR people rather than a new generation of technical innovators. Their race to 0% market share continues.

MS still has a shitton of legacy code in their repos.

"AI" doesn't explain Windows 8, Windows ME, Windows CE, Windows Vista, the Office Ribbon, or Microsoft Bob.

Without even a pretense of human users. Got it.

Social media is now complete, time to move on.

WordPress isn't just "kinda a mess", it is a 20 year old master class in poor application design and writing terrible PHP.

It is only a matter of time before their "AI" forgets to enable all the security plugins make WP sites seem secure for more than 45 minutes.

It won't be blank.

better aligns with Windows 11 design principles

See? It's going to have ads.

No game released after 2000 comes close. The actual answer certainly came out before 1990, such as:

• Pong
• Snake
• Pac-Man
• Donkey Kong
• Might & Magic
• Ultima
• Rogue
• Zork

Has the package manager it deserves. It is a reflection of the language's community.

NPM is:

• One part "package" "manager" (for very loose definitions of both)
• One part language shims
• One part code snippet landfill

More JS package managers won't fix anything. All the problems stem from what the JS community considers to be a package, and that in JS world DRY actually means desiccated.

No other language's community would sincerely entertain the notion of an is-even package.

Social media platforms have zero user-facing incentive to limit any kind of content.

Content => engagement => ad views => revenue.

They only limit content when it might affect ad buys.

Only the users care about the user experience.

The only reason I run Kubuntu is because Mint dropped their KDE flavor after Mint 18.

Something is deeply wrong within Mint if the entire team lacks the skill set to support KDE. If KDE isn't major now, it will become so as Gnome continues to be contrarian about how everything in Wayland should work.

The user is never the product. The user's data/activity is the product.

Dairy farmers sell milk, not cows.

1. Looking for websites to accomplish rudimentary tasks that should be done locally. If you're a software engineer, you should be able to whip up a script for yourself... ImageMagick, Inkscape, pdftoppm, and other similar things exist.

2. Rightfully not trusting the websites, but using them anyway.

3. Throwing more "AI" at the wall for a quick solution, and hoping its furry (beyond fuzzy) logic vomits as intended.

I'm sure there are more fails. I would use any of these scenarios as an interview sieve to eliminate candidates whose first instinct is to find a website or an app that can do it for them.

That Java and Javascript are not the same language.

Maybe they start small by not being deliberately contrary to what everyone else around Wayland wants to do.

The recent changes to Wayland's protocol handling and governance rules were largely because of Gnome.

This is a fight between a turd and a slightly polished turd.

They both need to be flushed.

"major questions" is a magic phrase to look for these days. In new laws and bills Congress keeps adding "Major questions doctrine does not apply to this provision". this is a power grab by the judicial branch. It doesn't come from any law passed by Congress at all.

What does this mean? For totally unspecified reasons -- no particular boundary or edge, a hand wave about “vast economic and political significance” and nothing can be determined in the executive branch agency regulations. It is unfalsifiable and hazy, it cannot be known what counts as a "major question" or not beforehand to these people. And once it existed it was part of the "logic" of overturning Chevron as well.

https://law.stanford.edu/publi...
https://crsreports.congress.go...
https://hls.harvard.edu/today/...
https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/site...

in the west virginia VS EPA and Sackett v. EPA cases that launched this mess elena kagan said it was bunk "thumbs on the scale."
https://www.supremecourt.gov/o...
https://www.eenews.net/article...
https://subscriber.politicopro...

if they are not supposed to "legislate from the bench" explain how this hazy, untestable chonk of a "doctrine" got counted as "real."