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Firefox to the moon.

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To summarize:

FF has been losing market share while hiking chairman salary.

Fediverse support and Mastodon are being discontinued in December.

Mozilla is hiring positions for ads and for AI (Which faces backlash for profiting off FOSS development).

Not so long ago users were also upset with the quiet addition of 'Website Advertising Preferences.'

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Legalized bribery

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Definition: A system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need.

In this case, a digital service provided directly by the IRS, hence the name "Direct File." In contrast, filing by paper is still supported. Tax preparation businesses have been actively preventing the US filing process from being simplified, naturally because that's the reason they make money.

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Is there an alternative to Stack Overflow?

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Could I have a more detailed view of what that would look like? When I want to explore a problem for the layman I go to Wikipedia first and later onto SO if I still can't find the answer in relevant literature. Making my question precise is often enough for me to accept an answer.

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Oh dear

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It's also known, from an invasive frog (cane toad) in Australia, that adaptation can occur due to rate of travel. I'm not sure that's relevant here, it's just another example of how we've found quirks of evolution.

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useless people

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I was a legend for the day I played off an irate customer with my autism symptoms.

I would say that some people under-perform because they're being exploited. Being vulnerable is not ameliorated by productivity, but most of us recognize that this post is not accurate.. right?