●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, December 08, 2023 ●● ● Dec 08 [01:23] schestowitz https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1pXHjgyg#replies [01:23] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thelayoff.com | Microsoft january layoffs? - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs [01:23] schestowitz " [01:23] schestowitz Oddly enough I remember him at Microsoft. Good advice, nothing stellar, nothing that we don't already know, typical HR narrative. And boy does he sound like the Gringh stole Christmas, and all upcoming holidays. [01:23] schestowitz Oddly enough I remember him at Microsoft. Good advice, nothing stellar, nothing that we don't already know, typical HR narrative. And boy does he sound like the Gringh stole Christmas, and all upcoming holidays. [01:23] schestowitz Oddly enough I remember him at Microsoft. Good advice, nothing stellar, nothing that we don't already know, typical HR narrative. And boy does he sound like the Gringh stole Christmas, and all upcoming holidays." ● Dec 08 [04:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Dec 08 [05:10] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 08 [09:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [09:11] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 08 [12:05] schestowitz https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/12/07/146246#1335683 [12:05] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | Firefox on the Brink? - SoylentNews [12:05] schestowitz "Retired self-proclaimed ordinary guy Bryce Wray has written an analysis of the situation with Mozilla's Firefox, the tipping point it is rapidly approaching, and the factors behind it heading towards that tipping point as it descends towards 2%. The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) guides those building US government web sites, but the influence extends much further in practice: [12:05] schestowitz With such a continuing free-fall, Firefox is inevitably nearing the point where USWDS will remove it, like Internet Explorer before it, from the list of supported browsers. [12:05] schestowitz "So what?" you may wonder. "That's just for web developers in the U.S. government. It doesn't affect any other web devs." [12:05] schestowitz Actually, it very well could. Here's how I envision the dominoes falling: [12:05] schestowitz Once Firefox slips below the 2% threshold in the government's visitor analytics, USWDS tells government web devs they don't have to support Firefox anymore. [12:05] schestowitz When that word gets out, it spreads quickly to not only the front-end dev community but also the corporate IT departments for whom some web devs work. Many corporations do a lot of business with the government and, thus, whatever the government does from an IT standpoint is going to influence what corporations do. [12:05] schestowitz Corporations see this change as an opportunity to lower dev costs and delivery times, in that it provides an excuse to remove some testing (and, in rare cases, specific coding) from their development workflow.2 [12:05] schestowitz . . . and just like that, in less time than you might think, Firefox the free/open-source browser that was supposed to save the world from the jackboots of Internet Explorer (which had killed Firefox's ancestor, Netscape Navigator) is reduced to permanent status as a shrinking part of the fractured miscellany that litters the bottom of browser market-share charts. [12:05] schestowitz It also matters a lot in another way because without push back, due to either lack of will or lack of ability, there is not a counter balance to Google's Chromium / Chrome and thus the web has started to become[sic] under full control of a single entity, and a[sic] one which is a corporation at that. [12:05] schestowitz For those that have been following the saga, the CEO of Mozilla Corporation has maneuvered the once great browser from being a major presence to being barely a statistical error in market share. During that time Mozilla has also shifted from having a diverse funding base to being more or less fully financially dependent on its most serious competitor, Google. [12:06] schestowitz "...and neither will Thunderbird. [12:06] schestowitz How will Alphabet demonstrate they do not have excess power in the web-browser marketplace? Is the existence of Apple 's Safari enough? [12:06] schestowitz How will Microsoft demonstrate they do not have excess power in the email client marketplace? Is the existence of web-based Gmail enough? [12:06] schestowitz With the next Outlook pulling email storage from being local to being 'in the cloud', it may well be that for all practical purposes. having a local email client with local email storage is dead. The work on the replacement for IMAP (JMAP [wikipedia.org]) may well be dead. [12:06] schestowitz Cui bono?' [12:50] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@u8ftxtfux23wk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 08 [15:55] schestowitz
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