Over The Line
[ This first appeared over on the Mozilla community discourse forums. ] You can scroll down to the punchline if you like, but I want to start by thanking the Mozilla community, contributors, industry...
View ArticleIntrasective Subversions
I often wonder where we’d be if Google had spent their don’t-be-evil honeymoon actually interviewing people for some sort moral or ethical framework instead of teaching a generation of new hires that...
View ArticleSynchronous Messaging: We’re Live.
After a nine month leadup, chat.mozilla.org, our Matrix-based replacement for IRC, has been up running for about a month now. While we’ve made a number of internal and community-facing announcements...
View ArticleBrace For Impact
I don’t spend a lot of time in here patting myself on the back, but today you can indulge me. In the last few weeks it was a ghost town, and that felt like a victory. From a few days after we’d...
View ArticleText And Context
This image is a reference to the four-square Drake template – originally Drake holding up a hand and turning away from something disapprovingly in the top half, while pointing favorably to something...
View ArticleSynthetic Intelligence
Already, the children of Earth were the most terrifying creatures in the galaxy. They became the stuff of horror stories, nightly warnings told to children; huge, hulking, brutish things, that hacked...
View ArticleHumblebrag Selfie
I had to ride out for an urgent cross-town delivery yesterday, and after blowing through 15km of fogged-out greyscale city like a fast ghost I found myself in a dimly lit elevator thinking to myself,...
View ArticlePriorities Redux
Me, unixy old person: “… and before end to end encryption was standardized, that meant that something called replay attacks were possible. To mitigate this, kerberos authentication was invented,...
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