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BohwaZ

@gdupont @ploum You should read the slides used in MoFo board meetings then: wiki.mozilla.org/Board

They will tell you what the MoFo board is talking about in its meetings.

Spoiler alert: it doesn't involve Firefox or Thunderbird.

I guess most of the vision for the software comes from the people directly working on it (developers, project managers etc.). Hard to know, I don't work there, but the MoFo board definitely doesn't have a very good opinion of Firefox.

"While the Firefox origin story is powerful it’s not enough to position us for influence the era of AI, big tech and the blockchain."
18 September at 11:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mamot.fr
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Captain Steph
ggdupont

@sirber @bohwaz @ploum
<playing role="devil advocate"> one can also read between the lines that firefox emerged at the internet bubble time where the most pressing technological issues was to "provide safe access and facilitate flows of information" (outside commercial tools).

This is still relevant today but we also have new technological issues with AI models an conversational assistant and even crypto (if only to avoid the scams). In that sense, Firefox/Thunderbird is not enough.
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18 September at 14:51 | Open on framapiaf.org
crazyeddie

@sirber @bohwaz @gdupont @ploum What they're going to do is fix all the memory leaks, gigantic allocations, and useless CPU churn and then replace all that with a background process that turns your computer into a processing cell for an AI and bitcoin mining operation.

You won't notice. Sort of like SETI@Home except you're actively using your computer at the time thinking your computer is actively working for you.

All browser development teams have been secretly working this plan for decades.

18 September at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.social
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