libera #seamonkey

23 Mar 2023

Surfing the net has never been so suite || Release: 2.53.20 | Beta: 2.53.21b1 seamonkey-project.org/releases || This channel is logged at logbot.thereisonlyxul.org/seamonkey || SeaMonkey Nightly 2.53 b1pre archive archive.seamonkey-project.org/nightly || c-c (OPEN ) , c-253 (APPROVAL ONLY) || R.I.P. WG9s

• 00:09
  tomman
  Suggestion for preloaded IRC networks: OFTC and Rizon
• 00:09
  tomman
  apparently the bulk of Debian support channels are on OFTC
• 00:09
  tomman
  and well, Rizon still survives in the age of Discord, but barely
• 00:10
  tomman
  (there is a official Debian channel on Libera, but you often get sent to OFTC as soon as you ask for anything not under the realm of Stable)
• 00:55
  IsambardPrince
  After firing half the Firefox programmers, Mozilla hires another marketing executive, this time from Walmart.
• 00:55
  IsambardPrince
  Because what a company that's out of money and can't develop its own products really needs is another six figure executive.
• 01:30
  tomman
  does that mean we will be able to buy prepaid Firefox with cash on Walmart? :D
• 01:36
  tomman
  blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introdu…illa-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai in other non-news...
• 01:37
  franstam
  lol
• 01:37
  franstam
  burying itself in the ground i see
• 01:37
  franstam
  we
• 01:37
  franstam
  we're doomed, we need a serious competitor to the chromisms disease
• 01:49
  tomman
  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259817 Hackernews say "no, we only need one browser engine, that lets devs focus on crapping more Javascripts"
• 01:49
  tomman
  they apparently call that "innovation"
• 01:52
  tomman
  blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/kerry-w-cooper-mozilla-board-of-directors gee Mozilla, why not just bring John Sculley on board too?
• 02:33
  GrannyGoose
  [11:52:02] <IsambardPrince> After firing half the Firefox programmers, Mozilla hires another marketing executive, this time from Walmart .. an Mozilla are gonna Fire him
• 02:34
  GrannyGoose
  assuming you get the joke there
• 02:37
  IsambardPrince
  On the SeaMonkey site there's now a NordVPN ad.
• 02:37
  IsambardPrince
  That famous Nordic country, Panama.
• 07:14
  njsg
  «0323|01:46:31 <+tomman> news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259817 Hackernews say "no, we only need one browser engine, [...]» <-- may I suggest Trident?
• 07:15
  » njsg hides and doesn't want to know how'd that be received in Ycombinator news...
• 07:15
  njsg
  the trident suggestion, not the hiding.
• 07:20
  IanN_Away
  anyone heard if anything is progressing with aioe.org news server?
• 07:29
  njsg
  I think there has been nothing on eternal-september.support recently (where there was some discussion on aioe's downtime), I haven't been checking aioe.* groups.
• 07:34
  njsg
  right now I didn't spot anything with recent news in aioe.news.helpdesk
• 08:49
  JamminUnit
  The good thing is, once Mozilla is finally dead and buried, someone hopefully will pick up the source code and make something useful with it again. And yes, I know this is _very_ optimistic thinking :D
• 17:15
  tomman
  occc.extra.bcv.org.ve/OCCC LOL
• 17:15
  tomman
  our central bank STILL requires TLS 1.0!
• 17:15
  tomman
  (and won't work with any later version!)