<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: matsemann</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=matsemann</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:35:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=matsemann" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by matsemann in "Leaving Mozilla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That wasn't my point, really. But that they chastise Mozilla leadership without offering any other alternative direction than "keeping doing as in 2009".</p>
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<p>Again: Would it have made a measurable difference? Or is it just moaning from a small core? Not saying the core is not important, but I don't think Fx can survive on only us.</p>
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<p>Interesting to read, but ultimately it's very easy to blame "leaders" for everything and I'm not sure it has much merit. It's popular to pile on them and their decisions. But I don't think it's as obvious as people (often here on HN) make it out to be. If Mozilla didn't try out these avenues deemed wrong, if Mozilla spent all money on the browser only, if Mozilla made the best browser ever, would that really make a difference? Would more people use it, would they be a healthier organization now? Mozilla is surviving on the mercy of Google money, it's not a viable strategy.<p>Firefox usage has been declining for a decade. Doing nothing, or just doing the exact same as before, is popular with its fans (including me). But wouldn't it perhaps just have lead to an even more rapid decline?</p>
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<p>Yeah, I guess it's not being a native English speaker, so one just accept most of the words almost as names without thinking about any other meaning the word might have.</p>
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<p>Huh, I've never even considered that those words had anything to do with beer. I've just accepted them at face value, same as any other tech jargon.</p>
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<p>The point is that just telling every maintainer "The security of all our computers rely on you. You are free to tell people to maintain their own fork. Good luck!" isn't something that will meaningfully change anything. I never said saying what you write is illegal or bad. Just that we can't depend on every maintainer doing that to be how we secure our computers...</p>
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<p>I don't really think it's actionable. It's like all those campaigns trying to steer behavior, pretty useless. Don't do drugs. Don't speed. Don't drink and drive. You can't just tell people something and expect it to happen. You need systems and guard rails in place.<p>Relying on maintainers to always do the right thing to ensure our security by telling them what to do is not the way.</p>
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<p>> <i>the security of all our computers depends on maintainers </i><p>Not getting paid anything, getting bullied and harassed while spending their free time maintaining things. Surely this isn't sustainable. And telling maintainers how to act will not fix anything.</p>
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<p>> <i>Tankie is a pejorative term used to describe hard-line, authoritarian communists or Marxists-Leninists.</i><p>For others not used to this term. Quite a weird accusation, Pay08.</p>
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<p>One thing I've seen a bit in Norway, and which is relevant this month, is opinion pieces by "concerned parents" that get their writing into national news, but a quick search show that they're often head of some bigoted organization. Of course they should be entitled to their opinion and be able to express it as any other, but the news papers not disclosing this is unethical imo.</p>
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<p>Why is it so hard to believe? The young adults now have grown up with short form media and instant gratification / dopamine hits from apps. It's vastly different than people of the same age just a few years ago.<p>Not saying everyone else is immune, but those a few years older have also had a period without it.</p>
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<p>Yeah but it's the silent conversion that irks me. My email is no longer self contained or archivable. When I find it again in the future, the files might be gone.</p>
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<p>It was python from the start ( <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892</a> ), but maybe the 2to3 migration, or just a general rewrite you're thinking of?</p>
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<p>The "viral" point was a good one, and which they solved quite cleverly: as a student I got 10 GB for free, but additional 10 GB for each recruited person. Everyone at campus was on a recruiting spree for a while, to bulk up free storage.<p>Of course, that doesn't make them money. But millions of users that then had all their files there and kept using it when no longer students (so paying), and recommended it to their places of work etc.</p>
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<p>At least if bought from Amazon. It will happily accept writing 512 GB to it, but it's not stored anywhere.</p>
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<p>Google will often convert it to a gdrive thing instead. So you're not sending the file, just a link to the file uploaded somewhere. I'm not sure what heuristic it uses, but sometimes when mailing photos like half of them are included in the mail and half automagically uploaded to gdrive instead.</p>
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<p>I remember during covid, cyclists were the ones in my town in a poll answering they missed their commute. It's such a nice way of thinking things through and then clearing your mind, then arriving home not thinking more about work.</p>
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<p>> <i>You don't have to be taught to breathe.</i><p>You sure? Haven't read the book / heard of the author. But after I started freediving and training holding my breath (also called static / dynamic apnea lol) and working a lot on related stuff, I realized I was mostly breathing shallow and with my chest, and not deep with my abdomen.<p>Now I notice it in others. I don't know if it <i>matters</i> in the end. But I breathe a couple of times a minute and then I hear people next to me quickly breathing in and out constantly like a rabbit. Seems stressful?</p>
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<p>Yeah, so weird how biking has become an identity politics thingy. (Not sure if it translates well into English).<p>I enjoy how it's fast and easy to commute, and I keep healthy. Works even in hilly and snowy Norway. I love how fun it is to use my road bike to go fast and get a good workout. I love my gravel into the woods and the serenity.<p>This weekend I'm bikepacking 6 hours into the woods,sleeping a night in a hammock, and bike back. Can't wait!</p>
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<p>Am I using it differently than everyone else? I don't want an upper bound, I want a specific version. So always ==, never >=, and upgrading a dependency is an explicit action. I don't want to suddenly have a never version.</p>
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