new rule: if your company puts a LLM bot on the front lines of your customer support effort, your company should be legally bound to adhere to whatever the LLM bot states on your behalf. oh, you put a lying machine at the front door and it's telling people your product does things it doesn't actually do? and now you're stuck making your product do these things? maybe you'll think twice about deploying lying machines...

@jwz@mastodon.social @anildash@me.dm http is stored in the balls

If someone tells you the last day of the year is 123123 just unfollow them, you don’t need that unsortable non-ISO8601 negativity in your life.

Think we are more in need of a New Years Revolution am I right

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#Firefox is by far the best browser on desktop. Let me be clear, I am not saying that because I am ideologically opposed to using Google products. I use YouTube and Google Workspaces. Chrome genuinely has nothing to offer over Firefox. If your website doesn't work in Firefox then I'm not using your website.

There's not a CEO in the world doing $7 million worth of work. Saying this is in line with exec compensation elsewhere is not a defense, it's an indictment. Nor is gender equity in pay an argument when ALL execs are overpaid and where pay equity is worst is at the entry level and among the precariat. Seriously, stop trying to justify a $7 million salary. Executive compensation is a PROBLEM, and while it's nothing specific to Mozilla, you can say this without pretending it's healthy. 2/2

I'd be happy that fireworks are going off at 7:30pm if I thought that would be it for the whole night. But you know it's just going to be nonstop and we can forget being able to take the dog outside without him running back inside terrified now

@james@strangeobject.space THIS is why I resent any type of "productivity measurement". If I as the person responsible for their (professional and sometimes very rarely personal) situation don't know how and what they feel and are working on, I should quit my job. I sometimes hear "but we need abstract measurements to hand up to executive management". No, you don't. Have a talk with them and tell them about the people you are working with. If they don't like this, this is not a good place to be. And regarding 'productivity': some people have a constant outfit of achievements or in software development tickets. That's productivity. But some people 'produce' less individual results, but removing them from the team would lower everyone's productivity. That's generativity. I don't know many colleagues taking this into account or even noticing it exists.

You'll be seeing lots of posts from people saying/boasting what they achieved in 2023. In case anyone needs to hear it... it's ok if all you did this year was get through it... You made it, good job.

DM: "The dragon rests on a hoard of gold." PC: "We gather the town's wealth and add it in. The dragon will surely create jobs now." -N. Ehlers

ONE WEIRD TRICK TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER INCORRECTLY CONNECT YOUR USB 2/3 Throw the computer in the bin. Now you have no failed attempts, as you have no USB slots. Happy to help. 💜

"CoPilot writes code that's almost as good as the code I write myself" is certainly making a powerful point. It's just, well, I don't think it's making quite the point you think it is.

Hey hey hey hey you need to charge your noise cancelling headphones. It's fireworks night. Boost to help others. #NYE

If ever there was an argument against Intelligent Design it's the annual year release process. I mean, zero QA, no pre-release checks. They just YOLO whatever random crap got merged into the next year and don't care.

It's all very simple, you see. You're just confusing the entity named Mozilla with one of the four other entities it set up, all of which are also named Mozilla

The cognitive dissonance of people eschewing Mozilla cos of AI and big salaries and a problematic CEO And suggesting people move to Brave The crypto browser that also does AI The browser who is available through Epic Games Store Taking some share of ad revenue for itself instead of giving it to who it’s supposed to Suggesting affiliate links in the address bar The browser that’s installing pay to use software on Windows machines without asking for consent Helmed by Brendan Eich You know, the JavaScript creator Oh but he’s also the guy ousted as Mozilla’s CEO for donating to anti lgtbq propositions the same guy who seems to hold Covid conspiracy theories in his head Please use a fucking search engine some time 🤡

If you are unhappy with using Firefox OR Chrome, there is a perfectly also-problematic-as-hell browser owned by a homophobe, crypto-twat, and Covid denier right there waiting. You're welcome.

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As someone coming off a decade of working there, I can tell you with some confidence that “you should use Firefox despite Mozilla’s leadership” is far more true and has been true far longer than you realize. But you should also understand that original market-share vs ceo salary meme is a creation of Brendan Eich, presumably born of a grudge, and notably elided his tenure as CTO, during which the worst of that decline happened. You should still use Firefox though.

Can’t believe they’re going to roll 2024 out to Production late on a Sunday, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing any of the bugs in 2023.

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Attached: 1 image Best thing read today: ACCOUNTABILITY 101 ❌I MEANT WELL. ❌THAT WAS NOT MY INTENT. ✅ I BROKE THE EGG.

Own your own website. Own your mailing list. Own your newsletter. Own your blog and prioritise your RSS feed. This is the stuff that works in the long term. Chasing virality on every new shiny platform is a waste of time.

Attached: 1 image #Mozilla asks for donations to reach half of their CEO's yearly salary, while people are getting laid off. Seems to me that the solution is simple.

It's really inspiring to hear about massive tech companies that started as two guys in a garage. Just think: all you'd need is a time machine and a bug bomb

welcome to the week after Christmas, the date is sometime between Tuesday and August, a handful of cheese at 4pm counts as a meal, Irish Cream can be consumed between 6am and January and putting on your high school band shirt from your parents’ closet counts as “getting dressed”

@april@macaw.social "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product" is such a quaint thought in 2023; they're going to make you product even if you pay. Capitalism doesn't leave money on the table.

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If a cisgender person gets upsetti spaghetti because you used the Latin prefix cis- to describe them, I think the best thing to do is comply with their request and use the Greek synonyms homo- (same) and hetero- (different) instead. Problemo solved, my homogender buddy.

infosec best practice in 2023: do not use or install any software

reply guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking discussing

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