CCC VOC👋 #37C3
Migrating to ➡️ @hugh
Will be archived soon.
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Whilst I've really enjoyed my time on chaos.social, it's now a big server and in keeping with the aims of the Fediverse I think it's important to do my part in decentralising.
I'm therefore gonna be migrating over to @hugh at some point in the next month or so 🎉
I hope all the awesome folks I've met and interacted with will federate, so I'll be seeing you over there 🙌
Smolcasm (moved to @car-centric infrastructure has been heavily prioritized and subsidized by modern nation-states, resulting in the construction of countless thoroughfares designed to facilitate commutes for motor vehicles alone - but the chicken, having no concept of any of this, remains a hapless pedestrian, fettered by the limitations of its own two legs and innocence regarding the hostile environment in which it now finds itself, proceeding on this path society deems obsolete
Lance R. VickAt #37c3 they have IRC, and Matrix for text and for voice they setup their own LTE/2G/3G/SIP/DECT network where you bring whatever phone-like device and pick a 4 digit phone number.
Meanwhile in the USA for #defcon they just paid Discord money and told everyone to accept their privacy policy, and even the DC Privacy Village asks people to sign up for Slack and Google.
People ask why I fly to CCC from the USA. It is because that is the closest place to find a thriving hacker culture.
The board game shop has a sale on 😭 This can only end badly (for my Amex bill)
(Correction: they don't take Amex, so it'll be my Mastercard bill)
Being not on $PopularMessagingApplication has gone from being a good way to avoid messaging spam, to actually quite irritating (mostly for other people who are kind enough to still invite me to stuff).
Maybe I need to put my principles aside, and rejoin part of Big Tech?
Taggart 
Okay, listen up:
Mozilla is two different entities. The Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation. The second one? That's the social good one you really want focused on important things.
The Mozilla Foundation, like all non-profits, publishes their Form 990 annually to disclose compensation. Here it is.
You'll see that the top earner there, Mitchell Baker, who is very handsomely rewarded, is actually paid by the Mozilla Corporation, not the Foundation. Put another way, the non-profit is not blowing its funding on a CEO.
And the corp, by the way, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation. It exists to generate additional revenue for the Foundation. That's a good thing too, because donations alone won't cover operating expenses.
The annual report of the Foundation shows a pretty healthy financial situation, and increased investment in public good projects year-over-year.
I don't like everything they do either (e.g. that risible website generator), but I don't actually think they are suffering from a lack of focus. They're suffering from a mature market.
Mozilla is two different entities. The Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation. The second one? That's the social good one you really want focused on important things.
The Mozilla Foundation, like all non-profits, publishes their Form 990 annually to disclose compensation. Here it is.
You'll see that the top earner there, Mitchell Baker, who is very handsomely rewarded, is actually paid by the Mozilla Corporation, not the Foundation. Put another way, the non-profit is not blowing its funding on a CEO.
And the corp, by the way, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation. It exists to generate additional revenue for the Foundation. That's a good thing too, because donations alone won't cover operating expenses.
The annual report of the Foundation shows a pretty healthy financial situation, and increased investment in public good projects year-over-year.
I don't like everything they do either (e.g. that risible website generator), but I don't actually think they are suffering from a lack of focus. They're suffering from a mature market.
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayFor readers across the world, Tom Gauld's end of year statistics on his #reading habits will strike a chord... enjoy
Emmanuele Bassi@Jeremiah first of all: never, ever read what drivel Lunduke vomits. He's scum, and if you're getting your information from him you're basically falling for a huckster.
Second: your donation goes to the Mozilla Foundation, but the CEO is paid by the Mozilla Corporation, and that money comes from the business deals that are, among other things, made by the CEO.
CEO are overpaid? Yes, that's absolutely true all across the industry; is the MoCo CEO paid by donations to the MoFo? No.
benjojo