Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

premier internet brainrot here by way of our Word 98 install, the save-to-postscript feature of the printer driver, and ps2pdf out on the real machine

Mozilla’s new CEO: Firefox will become an “AI browser”

In recent years, things have not been going well for Mozilla. Firefox's market share is a rounding error, and financially, the company is effectively entirely dependent on free money from Google for making it the default search engine in Firefox. Mozilla's tried to stem the bleeding with deeply unpopular efforts like foc

https://www.osnews.com/story/144027/mozillas-new-ceo-firefox-will-become-an-ai-browser/

#MozillaGecko

Tomorrow is another day to keep doing your best while cartoonish villains destroy society in every direction

I knew a few people who worked at Mozilla in ‘good times’ and Twitter ‘after’ and they all said Mozilla on a regular day was a much more confusing and toxic org. I think Mozilla will go down in history as the one that squandered every opportunity and chased the wrong thing

I've never seen anyone hating Mozilla as much as Mozilla.

if you *absolutely, positively, must* use a Chromium, consider Vivaldi. do not use Opera. do not use Brave.

if you’re (rightly!) pissed at Firefox for doubling down on AI nonsense, as a web developer I would humbly request that you consider trying Waterfox, Orion or Safari before you move to something based on Chromium; Google are already too powerful, don’t hand the web to them

Take a break before you need it. It will make it easier to prevent burnout.

May you never lose your whimsy or your ability to be silly. 💜

Firefox is too important to be left to Mozilla

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.