Yeah, man, I’ve got this chronic fatigue thingamabob and if you’re asking me when I’m most energetic, the answer is never…

I enjoy how he effectively says that Obamacare is pretty fucking good. If you think about it for 9 years and you don’t come up with something better, maybe it’s time to admit that it’s actually a solid approach.

Statcounter relies on web tracking to try to estimate the usage shares. Theoretically, there could be millions of science PCs running Linux, but one guy is browsing the internet with a Windows PC. Basically, take this data with a massive grain of salt…

It’s often a matter of people re-sharing content from other platforms, where the source had already been stripped…

Yeah, vibraphones is where it’s at!

Vivaldi contains Chromium, but it isn’t itself open-source, by the way.

They say of themselves that “for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit”. I would not fully agree with that either, but I guess, at that point the open-source purists have already lost interest anyways.

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/

Or the oven didn’t turn off and the aliens really enjoy briquette.

The fun part is that as a dev, you don’t really know that either. It’s just the file name of the executable. Anyone can rename that.
And even if it’s not renamed, you still don’t know, if your users need to call it with just hx or with ./hx or some other path.

Obviously, you should mention somewhere that the executable is likely called hx, but because that requires an explanation, there’s certainly a tendency to not mention it very often…

Who pissed in your muesli?

I’d be surprised if there is any language that doesn’t have a decent one.

Yeah, SQLite provides a library implemented in C. Because C doesn’t require a runtime, it’s possible for other languages to call into this C library. All you need is a relatively thin wrapper library, which provides an API that feels good to use in the respective language.

As someone who’s seeing this Play Store search result page for the first time, I also find it massively confusing.

Frankly, it looks like just the description page of RealVNC with an info box for “Zoho Assist” at the top (which might be the team that develops RealVNC?), and for some reason there’s also two install-buttons.

You don’t have a chance to realize that it’s a list of search results, because there’s practically no repeating UI elements.

Aside from the sponsored app at the top (which I also don’t find clearly labeled; that “Sponsored” could just be a generic heading above everything), I don’t even assume malicious intent from Google here.
Presumably, they made the RealVNC entry big, because they don’t want you falling for scam apps. But it is absolutely not helpful in this case.

I live in a multifamily house and as part of my rent, I’m paying for services, like for someone to clear the snow off the sidewalk and for someone to wipe the hallway. Which is great.

Except when at the goddamn crack of dawn, the hired gardeneres start revving their string trimmers. Jesus H. fucking Christ. Why the hell am I paying for this? It does not improve my life in any way, it only worsens it.

Funny that, we currently have a downpour after weeks of heat wave…

Donations to Mozilla do not go to the CEO. You donate to the Mozilla Foundation, whereas the CEO that we’re talking about is heading the Mozilla Corporation.
The latter is a subsidiary of the Foundation, so if the situation should get really dire, then the Foundation could hand them some money, but since the Foundation is legally a non-profit, it doesn’t have much more than pocket change.

Incidentally, yes, donations to Mozilla generally do not go towards Firefox development. The Foundation rather works on lobbying governments, as well as community work (which may help win some open-source contributors for Firefox), but they often also just award donation money to less publicly known open-source projects.

What I primarily meant by that, is that you do need some knowledge about financials. Which isn’t hard to learn, but the group of people willing to learn about it has very little overlap with the people willing to do something out of the goodness of their heart.

I am not saying that. What I am saying, is that the vast majority of those devs cannot continue full-time work on Firefox when they need to work another full-time job to actually earn money.

If you’re expecting Mozilla to implode and then LibreWolf to be overrun by donations over night, so they can hire all those devs, well, there’s the first problem that LibreWolf doesn’t accept donations. But even if they did, they’d have to hire the management and such of Mozilla, too. It would be Mozilla in a trenchcoat immediately.

I guess, a Mozilla that suddenly can rely completely on donations, can make more decisions that are popular with those making donations. But yeah, you can already donate to the Mozilla Foundation, and so far, people largely don’t.

Nope, they aren’t. The Mozilla Corporation, which does Firefox development and has the CEO position that everyone’s talking about, is a 100% subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which is the organization that you can donate to.

Look, I understand you can’t get a high school dropout to do this job, but can they really justify earning 10000x more than other people in their companies? Are they 10000x more valuable??

Everyone here is talking past each other. There’s one crowd raging that CEOs do literally nothing, which is objectively untrue. When that is pointed out, people assume it to be an argument that these CEOs should be paid that much, which it’s not.

CEOs do things. If they’re non-shit, they’ll work significantly more hours than normal workers. No, that does absolutely not justify paying them magnitudes more. Their salaries are inflated, because publicly traded companies pay them that much.
Because while the effort a CEO puts in does not match the salary, the impact of their work does so more closely. As in, if they’re doing a bad job, the losses for the company will far exceed that salary.
More importantly, though, you want to keep one CEO for as long as possible. Even if their strategies are mediocre, constantly changing CEOs and therefore flipflopping between strategies is worse.

I don’t think companies care. If you’re the CEO of Mozilla for a year without it imploding, you’re looking very experienced compared to some of the applicants that medium-sized Silicon Valley companies, like Dropbox, Evernote and such, will get.

And if Mozilla is only paying you $200k, they’ll consider it an absolute bargain to give you tenfold that.

Mozilla has around 750 full-time employees. LibreWolf is a few volunteers in a trenchcoat. There is absolutely no way they’ll just take over that work, not to mention without a source of income.