Firefox 90
I think Firefox news is what I comment most on here. I don&#x27;t know why. Well I guess I do. Web browsers, javascript etc is front and center here - which somewhat means the digital world. All my friends use Chrome, and think I&#x27;m weird. I think _they_ are. They care about human rights, at least I think they do. But, having Google, an ad company, dictate how our window to the digital world looks like, is now _way worse_ than what Microsoft with IE6 ever did. They had their share, but nothing compared to this. At least Microsoft was just a software company.<p>If a class of people on a forum such as this with so many brilliant minds cannot even be bothered with the values of open source and how this pertains to democracy and human values I really don&#x27;t see how any other part of our species could. &quot;Chromium scrolls 5% better on my machine so who cares about Firefox&quot;. I see these comments all the time here. Even in this thread.<p>Firefox. Linux. Postgresql. Wikipedia. Xmms! The WORLD WIDE WEB! Imaging if Google invented hypertext and not CERN (funny how Google made their initial fortunes). AMP would be the least of your worries. Imagine if Amazon &quot;invented&quot; Wikipedia. All of these open source projects are just mindblowingly awesome. They help people. Me. You.<p>But who cares right? Certainly not the lot with money in the 80&#x2F;90s that didn&#x27;t understand how or why this would be important. Which is why all these amazing things happened. Now they do of course. So none of this anymore.<p>Which is why I think humanity is doomed to succumb to our newfound overlords. The Big Four. Five? Six? Seven? Who cares really. A handful.<p>I wish people, especially like what this place definitely represents, would stand up more (including me!). Teach people, politicians, your parents, your siblings, your kids. We understand tech and it&#x27;s implications. We understand how big tech is now stifling everything. Good luck training a neural network that competes with 50 billion uploaded photos. Facebook, Amazon. Google. Microsoft.<p>But noone will - &quot;it doesn&#x27;t matter&quot;. But make no mistake. It does matter. And humanity is just sitting here. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re heading for this High Class Great Filter.<p>Good thing I&#x27;ll be dead before all this comes to full fruition.<p>(Sorry for the rant - hope it was still relevant and on point, and I really encourage discussion here!)