01:53:14 https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/?guccounter=1 01:53:24 i didn't know about that 12:06:51 shortens to "adv", they probably want to avoid any ambiguity in being an advertising company? 12:07:05 * njsg notices his sarcasm dial is a bit too high and thinks about procuring more coffee 13:17:14 I am kinda disappointed that Marc Andreessen is actually a piece of shit 13:22:20 oh and he basically prototyped software as a service selling it to HP.. 13:23:49 and sold skype to microsoft 13:23:55 wow this guy 13:27:13 yeah so Marc Andreessen is a major thread in how we got from there to here I never realized that i figured he faded away once he sold netscape 13:27:49 cause his name isn't one that persisted in early mozilla 13:32:43 I only know a bit of what he's been up to from what jwz reports 13:37:51 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/06/i-liked-it-better-when-he-had-me-blocked/ 13:40:59 njsg: read his wackypedia article 13:41:08 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen 13:48:42 njsg: tell me honestly the world wouldn't be on balance better off if 90% of these companies had failed or stayed small and competitive https://a16z.com/portfolio/ 13:52:19 https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/27/microsoft_word_excel_ai/ everything you say these days will be used to train an AI model 13:52:38 you have the right to not complain 13:54:02 and the right to autosave, but apparently *where* it is autosaved is not something very clear 13:54:17 i probably won't rtfa 13:55:27 > "There are circumstances where enterprise customers may want or consent to our use of their data for foundation model training, such as custom model development requested by the customer." 13:56:00 suuu~re 13:57:07 I can now imagine the CEO and the CTO of Widgetcorp saying "We're now an A.I. Corporation - your work contracts have been amended unilaterally to allow us to milk your ideas into a business model" 14:01:59 ugh, awesome, I now have to think on switching hosting providers 14:02:20 my current hosting (whose support / payment portal does NOT work on SM) is now throwing me double captcha hell 14:02:30 first Clownflare's Browser Integrity junk 14:02:34 and on top of that, Recaptcha 14:02:37 UUUGH 14:42:06 it feels great to hardblock 3rd-party autoplaying video crap on your DNS~ 15:02:55 I can't wait for Microsoft to require that in their login form 15:03:41 I mean, they currently already depend on CSS transitions, so the CSS hack I have to disable these makes it not work... 15:29:01 MS ripping off Clownflare? You don't say~ 15:29:26 I'm kinda surprised MS doesn't have its own captcha solution by now 15:29:33 hell, they even seem to be generally anti-captcha 15:29:52 I've never gotten one on any of their products/services, not that I'm a heavy MS user here... 15:30:05 they do like lockouts and disabled accounts, tho 15:41:03 microsoft 15:41:40 well microsoft isn't in to creating things anymore 15:42:11 why should they .. they created the modern world (in an arguably better form) 25 years ago only change is it isn't xml based 15:45:30 and everyone else is on the hook for it cause microsoft is just using 3rd party code more and more 15:46:23 i cast micrsoft's doom the moment they installed wordpress rather than use one of their asp(x) systems 15:46:55 why does a global billion dollar tech company use wordpress? 15:48:02 because they're not a global trillion dollar tech company yet 15:48:50 why shouldn't they? 15:53:35 wordpress is and always has been trash AND microsoft has its own technology 16:26:04 interesting opinion 17:30:36 Ximo-: you a fan of wordpress? 17:39:43 i don't use it. but if wordpress is so "trash" why do they dominate the CMS space? seems like a ripe + ready opportunity to make something not trash and kill their game 17:41:05 Ximo-: This is Tobin you are talking to I know better than everyone that the superior option vs the popular option the popular option wins almost always 17:41:37 business is about being popular 17:41:43 wordpress is a business 17:41:47 you get it? 17:42:01 absolutely i just don't agree with it ;) 17:42:21 Wordpress shouldn't be a business. 17:43:48 i dunno something seems wrong about open source software as a business in and of its self as I compile more free software for my self as I see fit LOL 17:44:13 now a business to otherwise support an open source project that's a different issue but requires careful navigation 17:44:29 redhat used to have a good balance for instance 22:52:59 Ximo-: nsITobin: Wordpress is a bunch of things and there has been somewhat of a little storm recently because of how many of these things are a guy called Matt 23:00:17 https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io 23:00:31 question is how much is this going to affect wordpress the CMS software 23:01:10 some person who used to work at Netscape was indeed asking pretty much that about a recent WordPress update on Mastodon 23:02:55 of the things I did see, it seems he added a checkbox targeting WP Engine, and then pretty much said the state of it didn't matter, I wonder if it can then still have any legal value at all