Chilly :donor: / is on Nostr

Infosec, Psychology+SE, OSINT, Privacy, Planes, Linux, Hedgehogs and Environmentalism etc.

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Just a sweet cold robot hacking and doing things

Pretty unfiltered, thoughts my own.

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Official© Title: Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Unofficial Title(s): hacker, sysadmin, threat analyst, pacifist who studies war, helper

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2024-09-18 02:50:45

This is important. So I have to agree that #Mozilla is really taking the wrong direction and betraying fundamental principles.
Still, I think people are missing some important context that is difficult for Mozilla to communicate/admit.
They are probably *very* threatened by the Google anti-trust suit. Which doesn't sound like it makes sense, right?
In 2022, Mozilla brought in $510.389 million USD revenue from the royalties Google pays them to be the default search engine. That's ~86% of their $593.516 million USD total net revenue.
The thing is... Google was just found to be a search monopoly exactly because of deals like that making it *very* likely Google will have to kill the deal if they do not win on appeal.
So what I see is Mozilla seeing the looming guillotine of a 86% revenue cut and is desperately trying to cut down and pivot to survive.
Do I think Mozilla is overall good? Yes. Certainly compared to Google. Do I approve of their recent decisions? Absolutely not. Do I understand their situation? Yes.

2024-09-17 00:22:48

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2024-06-02 13:34:35

This is the first social media site that has uplifted and informed me rather than give me psychic damage

2024-04-10 13:14:30

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[@tinker](https://infosec.exchange/@tinker)
Well your pineapple plant seems to be growing very well Tinker

2024-04-10 13:06:27

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[@tinker](https://infosec.exchange/@tinker)
For a second I thought that was a pineapple ring cut haha

2024-04-10 02:05:33

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[@tinker](https://infosec.exchange/@tinker)
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds"

2024-04-08 13:04:47

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[@catsalad](https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad)
*turns on dark mode*

2024-04-05 19:03:03

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[@catsalad](https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad)
How did you get this video of me at my desk

2024-03-31 00:32:44

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[@tinker](https://infosec.exchange/@tinker)
Psshh I follow you for you