I just call it Microsoft GitHub these days. Does half the job of communicating the risks of it being a hard dependency for FOSS projects in particular.

@cwebber I can highly recommend MC Frontalot's "Secrets from the future" for a near-perfect and entertaining musical performance of this argument. :)

If anyone else has the same issue, here's the only decent extension I could find for replacing the RSS button and preview: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/

WTF, Mozilla? Why would you steal an advanced feature from power users like that? Especially one that is so widely used by the very people who actually care about the open Web? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1244312

@bob @bumi Unfortunately, the core issue for OSS projects remains the network for people finding your stuff and becoming contributors without friction. Private projects are a non-issue imo. I think we need to solve federated forking and merge requests, including code comments etc., unless we all want to lose valuable contributions.

@bumi That decision was made when they took the $100M in order to grow like crazy. I'm actually glad about this, because there was a bit of a collective denial about the fact that we build entire OSS ecosystems upon a single startup's proprietary product.

People: "LOL, politicians have no idea how the Internet works at all."

The same people: "It's a great idea that the EU tries to regulate the entire Internet via unlimited chains of responsibility among companies across borders. We as citizens should be legally forbidden to make our own decisions about what servers and people we connect to, for our own good."

PGP isn't safe they said. Use Signal they said. https://ivan.barreraoro.com.ar/signal-desktop-html-tag-injection-variant-2/

Andrew Tanenbaum, on Intel running MINIX in all our CPUs: "Putting a possible spy in every computer is a terrible development." http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

If you haven't used Firefox in a couple of years, let me tell you: it has come a loooong way. It's slick, fast, full-featured, puts users and privacy first, and the dev tools are great. Short of the DRM drama (in which Google as an active supporter is much more at fault than Mozilla giving in to pressure imo), there should be no reason you couldn't use it as your default Web browser right now.