[François Legault] says his government will form a committee of experts to look into issues surrounding gender identity. He said he understands the concerns on both sides of the issue ...
[...] Dough Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce for suggesting that public educators are trying to “indoctrinate” kids who decide to use different pronouns.
One Mozilla developer claimed that explaining PPA would be too challenging
It's not that difficult to explain. "When you visit the website of a participating advertiser whose ads you've seen, do you want us to tell them that someone saw their ads and visited their site, without telling them it was you? Y/N"
But if they asked such a question almost all of the small fraction of users who bother to read the whole sentence would still see no good reason to want to participate. Coming up with one is that hard part. It requires some pretty fancy rationalizations. Firefox keeping track of which ads I've seen? No, thanks.
If there was an option to make sure that advertisers whose ads I've blocked know that they got blocked, I might go for that.
The writer apparently thinks that the previous Mozilla misstep into advertising land was the Mr. Robot thing six years ago, which seems to confirm my impression that this one is getting a bigger reaction than their other recent moves in this direction. We'll see if the rest of the tech press picks it up. Maybe one day when the cumulative loss of users shows up more clearly in the telemetry they'll reconsider.
Pessimists get just as many disappointments, but fewer surprises. Optimism and pessimism are orthogonal to effort and will.
Mozilla has been ad funded since 2005
It was funded through a deal with an ad company. It did not become an ad company itself until much more recently. jwz had a succinct and memorable response to the the absurd idea that really it's been ad-funded all along and that this makes things okay:
You are just another of those so-predictable people saying, "The animal shelter has always had a kitten-meat deli, why are you surprised?"
Yes, Mozilla started making absolutely horrific funding and management decisions many years ago. Today, they have taken this subtext and turned it into the actual text.
I don't mind the idea of them having a go at improving it. What I want (and I don't think it's too unusual) is for history and site settings to be remembered when I close the browser, and most cookies + data to be deleted with the exception of a few sites where they're kept. Configuring this has been strangely complicated for a long time. To get it to work, I had to figure out this procedure:
It is with some trepidation that I wait to see whether they will have broken my configuration, made things easier, or made it impossible to set things up this way when Debian stable eventually updates to the new ESR in the next few months.
Rogers. Fred McFeely Rogers. If you're over the age of 30 that's the answer, and if not then it's still a good answer.
Never mind the small fry. The word "put" has enough different meanings to fry your CPU.
In the 24th century, I mean. It wouldn't have been 1980s USSR-style Communist at any rate.
I don't know if Russia or indeed all of Earth was communist when Worf grew up, but the whole Klingon Empire was widely recognized by people of the 20th century as resembling the Soviet Union, which was nominally communist during the Cold War era of original Trek. Memory Alpha even mentions it. Mostly just because they were "the bad guys" I suppose.
For a minute there I forgot Communist Himbo was even in DS9. I should probably re-watch it after I"m done with Voyager, it's been a good 20 years.
Regardless of how much or how little support one wants to give Ukraine (Slava Ukraini!) it always struck me as bizarre that people thought it reasonable to give them missiles and then expect them not to use those missiles against the country they're at war with.
There goes brave Mozilla, sacrificing its reputation for the good of us all. Jumping into bed with the ad industry in the hopes that later on it might have the chance to whisper sweetly in their ear and ask them to stop molesting the Internet so much.