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Belarus election: How Nexta channel bypassed news blackout
For days Belarusians have had little information of the unrest filling their streets, with state-run TV making little attempt to report it and other websites and social media offline.
But one source of information that has attracted increasing numbers in this country of 9.5 million people is a channel on the popular Telegram messaging app called Nexta. Pronounced NEKH-ta, it has managed to bypass many of the restrictions. By Wednesday, opposition websites were online again, but for three nights there has been silence. "We are sitting in a bunker," is how one Belarusian described the situation. Meanwhile, hundreds of messages are being posted for Nexta's 1.5 million subscribers. A riot police vehicle is seen driving into a crowd, police are filmed beating a protester on the ground, petrol bombs are thrown - this news is visible and uncensored. The Telegram messenger has only been available sporadically via wi-fi, but its founder Pavel Durov says it has enabled "anti-censorship tools". -
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?
The hell? Because of edge?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?
The hell? Because of edge?
Get off my lawn.
The whole tradition was actually started by Microsoft back in 2006. At that time, Firefox was still in its early days, but the release of version 2 was seen by the Redmond-based software giant as the right occasion to congratulate its emerging rival on the release of a new browser.
Shortly after Firefox 2 became available for download, the Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a cake with a special message: “Congratulations on shipping! Love, the IE team.”
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@nadnerB wow I never knew that, quite interesting.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
sell ads.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
sell ads.
But where? I don't see ads related to FF anywhere.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
sell ads.
But where? I don't see ads related to FF anywhere.
I mistyped - sell ad space in FF - i.e. Google was paying them millions and millions to have FF default to google for search. - I was also joking....
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?
The hell? Because of edge?
Get off my lawn.
The whole tradition was actually started by Microsoft back in 2006. At that time, Firefox was still in its early days, but the release of version 2 was seen by the Redmond-based software giant as the right occasion to congratulate its emerging rival on the release of a new browser.
Shortly after Firefox 2 became available for download, the Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a cake with a special message: “Congratulations on shipping! Love, the IE team.”
Never knew that either, that's cool
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@DustinB3403 kinda of like when ML sends SW a fruit basket.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 kinda of like when ML sends SW a fruit basket.
SW is looking for money grams at this point
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?
The hell? Because of edge?
Get off my lawn.
The whole tradition was actually started by Microsoft back in 2006. At that time, Firefox was still in its early days, but the release of version 2 was seen by the Redmond-based software giant as the right occasion to congratulate its emerging rival on the release of a new browser.
Shortly after Firefox 2 became available for download, the Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a cake with a special message: “Congratulations on shipping! Love, the IE team.”
Did the cake from IE arrive on time?
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@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected
Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?
Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?
The hell? Because of edge?
Get off my lawn.
The whole tradition was actually started by Microsoft back in 2006. At that time, Firefox was still in its early days, but the release of version 2 was seen by the Redmond-based software giant as the right occasion to congratulate its emerging rival on the release of a new browser.
Shortly after Firefox 2 became available for download, the Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a cake with a special message: “Congratulations on shipping! Love, the IE team.”
Did the cake from IE arrive on time?
Of course not, there were to many warning notices and approvals required to get the package.
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CTO at a customer in GA just told us that Azure is down for them. Everything... apps, vms, interfaces, status page, even Bing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
CTO at a customer in GA just told us that Azure is down for them. Everything... apps, vms, interfaces, status page, even Bing.
Um so they don't have internet?
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@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.
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@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.
Yup, looks like it was an hour and a half east coast total Azure outage, or nearly so.
