From those projects, which ones are out of scope for the Mozilla Manifesto?

The African nuclear reactors might need more explaining, but the rest seem to be right on the goals:

• Anti-cendorship groups
• Lobbying EU AI regulations
• Tool to reveal censorship on ISPs
• Coding/operations related carbon footprint and pollution, which can be used to prevent people’s access

Is there more information about that nuclear reactor?

Pollution related to computing and coding, seem relevant to the mission statement.

What would be the proper advocacy groups? Would you’ve ever heard of Mozilla without some advocacy group?

Ollama has the best GDPR compliance: my hardware, my data.

https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt

Archiving communications is not optional (yet).

I’m still “using” Facebook, if by “using” we mean subscribing to some groups, sending birthday greetings to old friends, and rarely posting anything. It doesn’t feed me political content, any time it tries to push anything controversial, it gets blocked.

I do get political content on Threads though, but that’s my choice.

Keeping in mind it’s an advertorial for their apps…

Not sure what they mean by “weird characters”, but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.

(the “stochastic parrots” expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)

You’re describing trickle down economy

Give everyone good wages, which is possible, and give everyone a job.

give everyone a universe income

Cognitive dissonance?

BTW, it’s “Universal Basic Income”, the “net worth” is a fantasy, a “100% income tax” is as easy to dodge as any other, and wait for inflation to hit before talking about “the max that any human being should have”.

I sincerely they all die

This is where you’ve gone too far. Please think things through for a productive discussion.

From the article:

For US government use, these kind of services would most likely be run to a separate server to run in a government-certified facility, ideally one certified with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) or similar

[…]

FedRAMP servers do not necessarily have to be in the United States

…so, maybe? 🤷

Well, yeah. There are literally billions of non-billionaires, only thing that’s needed is to join forces and stand up to them: strikes and taxes work wonders. The problem is most people would rather pick easier targets, and fight each other instead.

Jobs are limited, salaries are not, technology already amplifies work output way above everyone’s needs.

Trickle down would work if it wasn’t for everyone undercutting everyone else: billionaires don’t get charged enough, millionaires don’t get charged enough, and people at the bottom keep trampling each other over minimum wage jobs.

The solution starts with people at the bottom joining forces and saying “FU” to unlivable wages, as in unions and general strikes. As long as most people keep seeing each other as a threat, those at the top can play them at will.

Funding organizations, be it businesses, foundations, charities, or whatever, can very quickly consume any amount of money you throw at them. There is literally no upper limit to how much you can pay people to do your bidding.

Fun fact: you can get a machine to do that, for about the price of 3 games. It will even last longer than the games.

Let me know when stuff is no longer locked behind a “Battle Pass”.

I got pretty much all the cosmetics in OW1 without paying for a single lootbox, and definitely refuse to pay for the privilege of FOMO.

Plastics are awesome, they last forever.

People throwing plastics away after less than 50 years… WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!! 😱

(I know, the plastic industry heavily marketed single-use plastics, which should be forbidden outside of medical uses)

People building the yachts, and people operating them, are probably glad for the opportunity to divert some of the money to feeding, clothing, or treating, themselves and their families.

The problem isn’t that billionaires spend money, the problem is that they don’t spend nearly enough.

Helicopters can hover barely above the ground, landing is usually considered to touch down and power off the engine… but yeah, it’s splitting hairs.

If they don’t want helicopters, then they should apply the rules to the airspace. Maybe they’ll change it now.

So… this means the “disappearing messages”, are the correct way of doing this, right?

1. Encrypted message is sent
2. A copy of the message reaches several devices
3. TeleMessage makes an archival copy for record keeping
4. Message “disappears” (is deleted) from all devices

There can be issues raised about Signal itself, the ownership and operation of TeleMessage, or how the archival process works… but otherwise, it looks like a correct workflow.

Why is this article “critical with China”? From the sound of it, the Tianfu Cup is clear about its goals, that’s a surprisingly high level of transparency. All hackathons are geared towards finding and hiring hackers, both by companies and by governments. This way, people can decide whether they want to be recruited by the CCP or not.

if enough people collectively decided to vote 3rd party.

Then it would either become the 1st/2nd party, or disappear into oblivion. If it could became part of Congress, where it could look for alliances, then maybe… but based on current sentiment, it seems unlikely.