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This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy — one thing is clear: ...

This includes the entire Servo team which was working on its next generation web engine that was supposed to be Firefox's ticket to staying afloat in the future. Servo also popularized the Rust language afaik

Aside from Servo, they also axed the entire threat management team, because why would a browser need threat detection and incident response, amirite?

Relevant links:

https://nitter.snopyta.org/directhex/status/1293352458308198401

https://nitter.snopyta.org/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865

    • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Honestly, I find HN to be a mix of insufferable techbros as well as a lot of level-headed folks with nuanced takes

      just have to know which threads to avoid i guess

      • the_river_cass [she/her]
        ·
        4 years ago

        generally agreed and I also find it useful to keep tabs on which way the SV bourgeoisie are moving on things / what they're telling themselves (less so in recent years as they used to use the platform much more heavily in the past). but that also means I don't expect topics like executive pay to be trash fires and this time it wasn't.