NetOpWibby's comments

On: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

[NetOpWibby]

Elon's level of stupid feels unique at first glance but then if you look at how many people elected the current president...well.

[adolph → NetOpWibby]

Which given the nature of democracy are many of the same as the people who elected the last one and the one before, etc. Are we not all snowflake-unique kinds of stupid?

My point of gratitude for today is that my level of stupid is not nearly as consequential to others as some folks'.

[antonvs → adolph]

> My point of gratitude for today is that my level of stupid is not nearly as consequential to others as some folks'.

Ooh, a new life goal that I've already achieved, thanks!

On: macOS Icon History

[NetOpWibby]

This is dope, thanks for sharing!

On: The Moat of Low Status

[NetOpWibby]

You might need to a new username, you are the good guy.

On: Nvidia won, we all lost

[NetOpWibby]

I just want Acid Pro on Mac

On: Double is winding down

[NetOpWibby]

You've told me enough to let me know I don't wanna do this.

Traditional finance is secure for a reason! Good they have strong requirements.

On: Double is winding down

[NetOpWibby]

Damn, not even a year?!

On: Touching the back wall of the Apple store

[NetOpWibby]

About a year after the Apple Store opened on Boylston Street in Boston, a Microsoft Store popped up across the street in the Prudential Center. I only ever went in to get a replacement for my Microsoft Arc Mouse that I used with my MacBook (LOL). It was a funny store because the employees felt like it was their moral duty to be the antithesis to Apple...which didn't make sense because the Apple Store had bigger crowds than they did, and that's even after Microsoft added an Xbox play area.

Anyhoo, they shuttered pretty quickly (Apple Store is still there, of course).

On: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

[NetOpWibby]

Cloudflare is the One Punch Man of the internet

[johnklos → NetOpWibby]

Cloudflare protects scammers and want to recentralize the Internet around a for-profit company based in the Untied States.

One-Punch Man is a reluctant mentor, is often broke, loves ramen and cares about others.

They are not the same.

On: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

[NetOpWibby]

I don’t have a YouTube account and yet their algorithm creates a feed for me anyway. Pretty sweet.

This means they’re also collecting data about some random person in my area but I don’t have a Google account either so that data isn’t really useful.

Ad block FTW

At some point I gotta do a network-wide block instead of per computer.

On: Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024)

[NetOpWibby]

This basically confirms my suspicions that:

— Firefox OS would've worked

— Mozilla leadership has always been interested in chasing fads

— Letting smart, motivated people work on cool shit is necessary to create the future.

cries in Bell Labs

[dblohm7 → NetOpWibby]

I worked at Mozilla during this time, originally on desktop and later on mobile.

I think the fundamental problem then (and still a problem today) is that Mozilla only ever had the budget to do Desktop XOR Mobile. Not both.

They basically mortgaged Desktop Firefox to build Firefox OS, but when things didn't pan out was quickly as they liked, they had to revert back to Desktop to save the cash cow.

After that experience, upper management became averse to mobile, to the extent that it was (and probably still is) very difficult to get resources allocated to mobile implementations of Gecko features that are supposed to be cross-platform. In practice many of those features are never implemented with mobile in mind.

[qingcharles → NetOpWibby]

Firefox OS would not have worked, IMO. It fitted a specific place and time (cheap, crappy phones) that quickly evaporated and users demanded a lot more than Mozilla would ever have had the resources to provide.

I wish there was a (good) third option. I actually liked Windows Phone and was sad it was canned.