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  • Pocket. A closed source binary blob in a “open source” project.

    Orbit: AI productivity tool.

    Anonym: Ad server.

    Locking down extensions.

    Cutting 250 jobs while raising executive pay 400%.

    In 2021 the CEO made 5.5 million. They got about 7 million in donations that year.

    80% of their revenue is from google. But google encourages them to waste the money on stuff not related to the browser because it’s competition to chrome. Their job us to look like a viable competitor but not be good one.

    The browser is constantly getting worse on performance, user experience, and customizability.

    They have gone from 34% user share to 2.2%. So clearly I’m not alone in my opinion of the current state of the browser.



  • Because this is a science thread I’ll be a bit pedantic. Mostly because I think it’s an interesting topic. It’s a mass-energy equivalence (≡) and not just an equality (=) they are the same thing.

    So it’s meaningless to say convert mass into energy. It’s like saying I want to convert this stick from being 12 inches long to being 1 foot long.

    You can convert matter (the solid form of energy) into other types of energy that are not solid. But the mass stays the same.

    It’s like when people say a photon is massless. It has energy and therefor mass. It just has no rest mass. So from the photons frame of reference no mass but from every other fame of reference there is mass.













  • Could be. Grateful and understanding does describe my two trans friends. However they we friends before they transitioned. So the relationship was established and they knew I cared about them.

    I knew one for ten years before they transitioned. So yeah I try not to dead name them but it takes time to adjust. For me it took about 2 years before I didn’t think of their old name and have to adjust it before speaking.

    I was talking about them with a mutual friend at a party. Someone I don’t know yells at me from across the room “we don’t use that name here.” I’m better friends with them then you and you just made the entire party aware of their status.

    Maybe it’s just the people who make it a big deal publicly and like to challenge people. They tend to be the most noticeable in the community.