Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2n
I'm old enough to remember when the AI company with $1,400,000,000 in the bank held a bake sale to keep their mail reader running. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111546146333271392
@thunderbird@mastodon.online You're a wholly owned subsidiary of a nonprofit that owns a company of the same name that pays their CEO almost $7M. Here's my concrete suggestion, pay them less and spend that money on better things.
If your pitch is "but we're a part of Mozilla, not a part of Mozilla", you need to work on that messaging, because come on.
I just renewed some domains, and my registrar is telling me the most outrageous lies, such as: 5 years from now is 2031.
crumbles to dust
https://jwz.org/b/yk2p
Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.
That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.
Mozilla is cooked.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2n
Do you have experience implementing recurring payments using authorize.net? Specifically, I'm interested in gotchas with replaying CIM tokens; best practices for retrying declines; expired cards, etc. Email me.
IMPORTANT: If you have never created a "createCustomerProfileFromTransactionRequest" XML node, this question is NOT FOR YOU.
I'm not soliciting advice about what third party intermediary company I should pay rent to, and I don't ever want to hear the word Stripe.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2l
Coyote who swam to Alcatraz gets much fatter on prison island diet: It's a 1.25-mile journey from Aquatic Park through frigid, current-swept waters to reach the tourist attraction. [...] Aidan Moore, who works for Alcatraz City Cruises, said the coyote...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2i
Stop wearing a watch. Time is a cop.
The Dildo Distribution Delegation.
"I'm going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents." The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, "No. Not like this."...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2Y
Ugggghhhhh this week the amount of amateurish phishing spam that is sliding right past spamassassin is completely out of control...
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Ribley has skelbows
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/01/26.html?utm_source=sp_ma
My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
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