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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:
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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?
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.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@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.
Ouch, how does that even happen anymore, to that extent?
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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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.
Ouch, how does that even happen anymore, to that extent?
Don't know in this case, yet. But they know it was on the edge. So the most likely culprit, IMHO, is something like a router (probably actually a router) that failed and advertised some bad route or lost a route. When that happens, it takes a minimum of a few minutes for monitoring to find it, humans to understand what happened, replace or reconfigure the device, and the route to propagate back out correctly.
It's not the kind of thing that can have redundancy. I mean it can, but it's useless. It's like two houses, made of straw, directly next door. One catches fire, you know the other is going too (just ask people who live in California what that's like.)
At the end of the day, there's no good way to protect against that completely.
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Spooky action at a distance: The future magic of remote collaboration
In a world where you have to social distance, how do you scrum?
The global pandemic and the corporate office shutdowns resulting from it have wrought changes to how work works. While essential people in certain industries have continued their jobs in ways that are relatively familiar under layers upon layers of personal protective equipment, many companies have had to find ways to continue other work at a “social” distance. And in those situations, employees must find ways to continue collaborating as they did when they were packed into cubicles, open floor plans, and all the other various patterns of modern office spaces. -
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
SW is looking for money grams at this point
Don't keep up much do you?
They were bought last year by ZiffDavis.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
SW is looking for money grams at this point
Don't keep up much do you?
They were bought last year by ZiffDavis.
Does that imply they aren't still looking for money grams?
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Donald Trump joins TikTok rival Triller
Donald Trump has joined Triller, a New-York-based rival to China's TikTok.
After two days on the social-media app, the US president has 11,000 followers. TikTok was banned in India two months ago. Mr Trump wants to follow suit unless it sells the app's US version and has signed executive orders targeting both it and another Chinese social-media app, Tencent's WeChat. Both India and the US fear data collected by the TikTok could be given to the Chinese government. -
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Spotify goes down around the globe
Music-streaming service Spotify was offline for users around the world for more than an hour on Wednesday.
Users could play only songs already downloaded to their devices. And in many cases songs cut out after just a few seconds. The issues began at about 13:00 BST on Wednesday, affecting both free and paid users. The company has nearly 300 million users. Spotify has not said what caused the problem. Tweeting from its customer care account, the tech giant only said it was "aware of some issues right now". -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Spotify goes down around the globe
Ah that would explain it
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Microsoft Files Applications With Elk Grove Village For $123 Million Data Center In Tech Park
Microsoft filed applications this month for a $123 million data center in the Elk Grove Technology Park, according to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act order for public documents.
Three permits were filed by Microsoft with Elk Grove Village: one filed in June for grading and site preparation, along with another two applications both filed Aug. 3, one for a data center and one for ancillary work including parking lots related to the data center.
