As it says there, Laura Chambers was to take the job "for the remainder of this year" in a "transitional period" before a more permanent choice was made.
But I suppose this removes any doubt we might've had about whether she is keen to continue Mitchell Baker's bright idea of turning Firefox into an ad platform. I had harboured some hope that opponents of that idea were the ones who forced the previous CEO out.
Wasn't Mozilla supposed to be looking for a new CEO? Maybe they should get that done before throwing away millions of dollars on acquisitions? Surely the rush to destroy everything by adopting slogans like "data is the fuel that drives performance advertising" can wait for a few more months?
Well, they listen to the community when what the community is pointing out is a very obvious mistake which has a very high probability of causing a whole lot of bad press, at least.
Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it's our side doing it.
Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it's not as if there aren't Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.
Coal numbers I used were from S&P Global, and looked plausible enough for a rough estimate, in line with other stuff that turned up in a quick search. I should've said "approved" rather than "installed" in 2022, but that's the kind of pace they've been going at for a while.
You'll find lots of people predicting that total coal use in China will start to decline soon, of course. One of these days they'll be right.
For those who prefer more sensible units that's 800km² and an average output of 680MW.
China reportedly installed 86GW of new coal-fired power capacity in 2022 and their existing plants ran at a capacity factor ~50%, so this project is the equivalent of something like 1.6% of the coal-burning capacity they added in that year. But it's also a pretty small fraction of all the solar panels they're building.
You'll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it's not an emulator. It's a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.
our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers.
So obviously the people working on it know that the appropriate place for this stuff is in the screen reader, and/or in software that is designed for producing web pages. Who made the decision to cram it into the Firefox PDF editor instead, and why? Is anyone actually using that when they want to create a new PDF document? Is it just for PR reasons so they can claim there's AI in Firefox now? To impress us, or to make way for more of the same? What is actually going on Mozilla?
But anyway it's a difficult problem, as the example image suggests. It'll be interesting to see how much progress they make.
Before there was ChatGPT to blame, we had the "50 cent army." The fully automated bullshit generators are a cheaper but also a less effective way to do what was already being done. I expect the real problem is somewhere closer to the design of mass social media and the human weaknesses it has evolved to exploit, not so much the super-human powers of generative AI which have been so greatly exaggerated.
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." — Jack Valenti, MPAA president, 1982
