Could even use the money for new open source projects or for funding the VLC fork.
vinhill
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Cost of development was 221 mio in 2022
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf
The same with resumes. Using a LLM to write a resume and cover letter out of key facts, sending it, turning it back into key facts around the applicant.
Buying previous generation products. I got something like a Braun series 5 instead of the newest series 9, as there isn't that much difference.
Mozilla has a budget of around 200 mil for software development, so the 7 mil are probably not enough. Not defending the high pay though.
Also, AI Integration into browsers could very well be a deciding factor for mainstream users when choosing a browser. So having some expertise around e.g. running LLMs privacy preserving on client hardware for page summarisation could pay off. Llamafile for example, is something cool coming from the Mozilla AI stuff.
Bei mir (RWTH, Informatik) war's normalerweise so, dass man mit ~20 Studenten und zwei Betreuern in einem Zoom Raum war, Kamera einen selbst+Bildschirm+Schreibtisch zeigen musste. Ton musste an sein. Mit einem beliebigen Browser geht man dann auf Dynexite, welches angeblich registriert, falls man den Tab wechselt.
Even if this were not covered by copyright. Our copyright system is broken and laws can be changed. Especially if they don't correspond to what the majority sees as moral.
Tbh, if you get such a notice, you could also disagree with them and get a lawyer. It's just that your situation is much more clearly in breach of copyright.
Google does not just show a link. It scrapes the content of the page to build a search index, i.e. consomes the content. This happens without explicit permission and in the past, there were no opt-out ways. Then they use this knowledge to provide search go users and incorporate ads to make money without paying the original pages. Google also started to show you these handy answers by showing some text section scraped from the page.
Like, there certainly is a similarity. And there is the difference that Google mostly feeds users to the original webpage while GenAI can replace the content.
Content unavailable :(
Actually, what is the reason that Firefox seems to be preferred over Chromium? Is it the license? The control Alphabet has over it?
One has to agree that there is a lot more money poured into chromium, the code is more modern and easier embeddable, it is more feature-complete.
Though, it's good to have two independent browser engines and a non-profit (+for-profit subsidiary) dedicated to a free, open, user-focussed browser.
https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/about-forks
It's basically like a copy of the original repository. But you can pull in and merge changes from the original, make a pull request for the original to pull your changes. Fork+pull request enables you to contribute to someone else's repository. Things like Chromium are in part forks of Safari, just that they diverged over time.