Still nuts for a company to decide a multi-month outage and £300m hit in profits is preferable to the reputation damage from getting back online immediately and being hacked again.
I hope someone writes about how this played out internally.
"Some online sales will be restarted in a few weeks, but disruption will continue through June and July, the company told investors on 21 May."
Guess lots of legacy systems that they no longer trust / cant just restore from backups.
The cyber attack was a month ago!
Are online orders fulfilled via their local stores?
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
good morning, found out about the news by waking up, opening WhatsApp and seeing that a friend had messaged "Oh my god JD Vance has Liz Trussed the pope"
Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.
How it started // How it’s going
And there be people spending billions to reverse ageing! :-)
Oh my god
free markets babyyyy!!!!!
Feels like someone ran this page through an AI and demanded one paragraph with a hard word limit.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding.
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
That's such a poorly written description though.
the full quote here
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
n00b question.
Aren't micro-brands just a step up from drop shipping?
How do they justify the 20-30k prices? (Have these brands operated long enough to have a reputation for quality in enthusiast circles?)
Yes.
Google Doc 404s.
My passport was issued in one state, endorsed for address change in another and I was living in a third state.
Took months as they had to verify authenticity across 3 offices and they didn't use regular mail for comms and had someone hand courier docs by train once they have sufficient volume.
Switched to Linux in '98 so never got to experience IE's 6.0 heyday except in the form of broken websites on my desktop.
Mozilla on Linux was such a pain that I continued to use Netscape Navigator for most tasks as it was much more responsive on my RAM-constrained PCs.
FYI getting a damaged passport replaced is a royal PITA. Even when it's just minor water damage and everything is perfectly legible.
You need to make imposition style declarations in triplicate that you will ensure it won't happen again and if it does the govt can penalise you etc.
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Now it's both bloat + external services, so it's natural that long time users hate the change because they have seen where/what this leads to.
I guess most people aren't old enough to remember why Firefox(via Phoenix/Firebird) came to be and got so popular so fast around 20+ years ago.
People hated the bloat that was OG Mozilla(open sourced Netscape Communicator and later Seamonkey.)
It's not about PPA per se but about bundling a service as opt-out rather than opt-in. (ie, users aren't in control.)
It's been a slow boil to this policy change. The "servicification" of the browser began with them integrating/shipping Pocket(which at that point wasn't even owned by MozCorp.)
Yes.
Privacy Preserving Attribution which was default opted-in for everyone is a better example of things to expect.
With the new broad language in their privacy policy, they can bundle more services into the browser.
It's an existing FAQ that they have updated, but that's not the only change in the FAQ.
They have also dropped a whole question about browsing history. (IMO it's because of the "opt-in" part which they have been moving away from.)
bsky.app/profile/king...
"this isn't even your screenshot."
How did you come to that conclusion?
Really, you don’t collect my browsing history? Mozilla doesn’t know as much as you’d expect about how people browse the web. As a browser maker, that’s actually a big challenge for us. That is why we’ve built opt-in tools, which allow interested users to give us insight into their web browsing. If you sync your browsing history across Firefox installations, we don’t know what that history is — because it’s encrypted by your device. It seems like every company on the web is buying and selling my data. You’re probably no different. Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you, and we don’t buy data about you.
It seems like every company on the web is buying and selling my data. You’re probably no different. Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).
IMO it indicates a clear shift in policy at Mozilla around data collection and sharing as they move from browser as a product to a more service oriented offering.
They have also removed+changed this from their FAQ.
web.archive.org/web/20250206... (white)
vs
www.mozilla.org/en-US/privac... (dark)
