Our time has come! night owls rise up!

Got plenty of popcorn, who wants some? 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

Nintendo: Can we sue them over the designs?

Lawyer: Not really, this shit is impossible to prove

… starts closing the money briefcase

Lawyer: But we can sue them anyway

We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, passionate about display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned. You will be one of the lead engineers that will craft, build, and be responsible for the core systems, both front-end and back-end, that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc). You and your team will be the domain guides when it comes to advertising, providing direction and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla.

Ofc some reading between the lines is needed, they’re not going to just blatantly say something they know will be incredibly unpopular this early.

And like I said, its just another on a pile of mounting evidence of a year of bad decisions

Not in the browser. From web pages sure, but it sure as hell sounds like they’re going to shove ads in the browser like MS has been testing in the start menu. Once that starts who knows, maybe they’ll have their own little Chrome manifest v3 rollout that breaks adblocking for webpages too.

Based on this and the past year of “mistakes” it’s sure looking more and more like they’re trying to push ahead on the enshittification path.

If they’re so desperate to find other sources of income why does the Mozilla CEO not take a pay cut out of that 10 million/year

We’re going to explore doing so in an organic method across our products using the methodology that big tech is generating money, but with a Mozilla spin.

Hm yes, the “we’re built different so we won’t be affected by enshittification” option

that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc)

Ah, the “Mozilla Spin” is to put fucking ads in Firefox, got it.

This is the perfect answer OP, a rich person would most likely never want to see a place like this in person, they’d “send someone”

I don’t think a rich person who “won’t flinch at spending 1.1 million euros” would actually ask those questions, they’d just spend whatever they need on it lol

Like a 60k repair to them would be like 50$ to you or me

Ah, continuing with the ugly AF design language I see. Guess I’m skipping the entire PS5 gen then. See you guys for the PS6!

Looks at the entire networking stack

Yup (unfortunately)

THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES

Me in 2024 holding a 4TB NVMe stick: Still not enough (it’s never enough)

Thanks! I’ll save this, tell myself I’m going to strictly follow it this time and forget about it (again) lol

Is there a historical reason?

If you’re asking that in anything Linux related, it’s probably a Yes 99% of the time LMAO

Ah, makes sense now, that is dumb. I can totally see why they would have issues with automated enforcement, but what you described I don’t see why anyone would be against it lol

I’m confused, do you mean like automated enforcement rules/algorithms like big SM has? I.e. if user gets reported for breaking Y rule X amount of times ban user for Z amount of time and forward to admin for further action?

Straw Man Fallacy: A straw man fallacy occurs when someone misrepresents an opponent’s argument to make it easier to attack or refute. Instead of addressing the actual issue, the person creates a distorted version of the argument that is easier to discredit.

This is what you have done in every single reply you made when I have made it quite clear that this is about the migration being an urgent security issue that the cyber security community at large has been calling attention to.

You avoid all the core points I make and distort them into trivial things that you can easily argue, like the fact that you “Don’t code C much and use Rust occasionally”. It’s irrelevant to the actual arguments and you use it to dismiss the real core issues AKA a Straw Man fallacy

You have failed to argue in good faith and are actually a part of the problem. Good job!

Ah I see your default is to sprinkle in a bit of argumentum ad logicam and add a dash of straw man at the end

Your statement comes across as the migration from C/C++ is more of an upgrade for new features and increased “ease of use” rather than an urgent security issue when it definitely is. It’s more than just a case of a couple of experts and some articles, you’ve got multiple governmental and NGOs like The NSA, The Whitehouse, CISA, DARPA all calling for the migration away from C/C++ to memory safe languages

https://devops.com/darpa-turns-to-ai-to-help-turn-c-and-c-code-into-rust/

“DARPA, the Defense Department’s (DOD) R&D agency, will lean on emerging AI capabilities in a new program to deal with the costly and time-consuming challenge of rewriting C and C++ code to Rust in a move designed to meet the push for federal agencies and private organizations to adopt memory-safe programming languages.”

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/memory_correction_five_eyes/

"CISA, in conjunction with the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and the cyber security authorities of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, said its call for better memory safety follows from its Secure By Design recommendations – endorsed by all of these cyber authorities.

“With this guidance, the authoring agencies urge senior executives at every software manufacturer to reduce customer risk by prioritizing design and development practices that implement MSLs [memory safe languages],” the report argues."

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"CISA suggests that developers look to C#, Go, Java, Python, Rust, and Swift for memory safe code.

“The most promising path towards eliminating memory safety vulnerabilities is for software manufacturers to find ways to standardize on memory safe programming languages, and to migrate security critical software components to a memory safe programming language for existing codebases,” the CISA paper concludes."

Not quite, had I done something more broad than sure. But I reference a specific group of people whose job it is to provide security guidance on such matters. The ones who are out there fighting the good fight, RE’ing malware and busting down botnets among many security things

But I’m sure you are similarly credentialed as the SMEs in the cybersecurity field right?

Tl;Dr: Old farts holding us back, as always

Vast majority of the cybersecurity community: “an absolute ton of exploits come from memory safety issues with C/C++, we should move to memory safe languages like Rust to greatly reduce security risk and make everyone safer”

You: “Ehh Rust has a couple features, but it’s totally not worth switching from my precious precious C”