Keep in mind though that with Firefox Sync, all your data is encrypted, whereas a generic sync of your profile folder will have all that data on your sync server without encryption.

No worries, thanks again!

Which Mozilla projects started out as free and are now non-free, i.e. no longer under an open source (or even viral open source) licence?

It was collapsed for me at first, and buried under a lot of other comments, but a workaround is mentioned here. Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to work for me, but deleting the Flatpak and deleting all associated data, and then reinstalling it, I think did the trick.

Although it does now show this warning, which doesn’t sound great.

Edit: actually, I think that was the reason I concluded the first workaround didn’t work, but looking at that URL, this might just have been introduced in Firefox 128, which is newer than the old version of Tor was based on. So it looks like both worked.

So… How do we do we’re running an outdated version, and what is the fix that requires manual intervention?

And keep in mind that there’s also a big part that’s not in SF.

Mozilla today also has that base, but it still has about 1000 employees IIRC. It also pays more than $100k, even for EU devs, and of course also has to pay taxes and what not on top of that. And don’t forget the infrastructure, for running builds, distributing the software, running Firefox Sync, etc., which does not come cheap.

It might be possible to build Firefox for less than the IIRC ~$500M that’s currently budgeted, but $37.5M seems optimistic.

CEO salary is paid mostly from default search engine deals. But the same holds true for Firefox development, so you’re right that the money doesn’t go towards developing Firefox.

Steelmanning their point, they might not be saying that all this is orchestrated by some third party (e.g. Russia), but that they are benefiting from it.

To which I’d say: unfortunately, the same holds true for the alternative.

And brought the receipts :) Thanks! And ah yes, Reform is the current name, thanks.

Right, but I’m just trying to get a feel for how big UKIP support is at the moment - but this sounds like it’s at the level of either Labour or the Conservatives (and presumably Labour, which I think is still far larger than the Convervatives?), right?

And I assume that “far right” is UKIP? So you’re saying that UKIP is neck-and-neck with Labour and Conservatives combined?

Which UK party are you referring to when you say “liberals”?

That sounds very solvable. I’d imagine e.g. BBC, ARTE, etc. would form a joint holding organisation that buys pre-rights and uses them as distributors. Or perhaps they still individually buy the pre-rights, and while they technically will have permission to show them everywhere, since they don’t serve all the market, they don’t need exclusivity. Or perhaps they all decide to grab the opportunity and start to serve the entire EU market, making them players by themselves that are able to stand up to US counterparts.

It’s pretty hard to have a good discussion if you’re evaluating comparisons against standards that are not relevant to the point being made. My point was not to say that the climate crisis is as unimportant as needing to wear a colander; my point was that “it doesn’t work” is a bad argument, because you can also use it to justify something as ridiculous as wearing a colander.

I’m all for better climate policy, but “because peaceful protest doesn’t work” is a pretty bad justification. My peaceful protest to mandate wearing a colander in public won’t work, but that doesn’t mean that violent protest is justified.

Granted, I haven’t read the book, so it might make a more nuanced argument.

A stronger argument is that you need to have a free and democratic opportunity to provide input. This is an easy case to make e.g. for slaves, or people under an apartheid regime. It might be possible to make the argument when it comes to e.g. multi-national companies having outsized influence on legislation, or other countries in which you can’t vote instating policies that affect you.

It’s a shame they changed the name.

Let alone in the category “car that’s extra dangerous to people outside the car just to make it look uglier”.

For just the “finding GPS tracks for biking trips” part, https://cycle.travel/ is pretty neat.