To me, this feels like a move to distract the target(s). If it is so it makes sense for both the US to be responsible (knowing such an obvious reference will be interpreted as originating from someone else. e.g. Russia) and also for its enemies (well, they want to draw attention).

"But sir, everyone will notice", said the operator, hesitating. "Use one of your tricks, I don't care", replied the commander. "Just get it done!".

"Mike, do you still have that script, the one with the American flag?" the first man whispered.

Anybody who's actually investigating this will not consider that a useful clue in either direction. It's easy to take it to ridiculous dimensions from "Go USA!!1" to "Now they'll think it was the USA" to "Now they'll think someone's framing the USA."

It's just not helpful digital evidence in any way because it was clearly intended to be seen in a world where you cover your tracks as much as you can.

Attribution ain't easy.

In the end it comes down signalling. Who did it is somewhat irrelevant in this regard.

There is a silent war going on right now in a new domain, managing public perception of war is always necessary,regardless of country.

It's breaks really bad on mobile though. Seems to be a very well thought out product from the little I could see.

The UX/UI is very poor in my experience, since I'm a heavy user of Firefox Containers, know about the feature, need it, and never use it, but if you click the Containers icon and have some container tabs active, it will display a right arrow indicating there are more actions available where you can hide the tabs of a specific Container group so that you can unclutter the browser and access them later.

Reading the comments it seems nobody is concerned about this broad access leading to sexual harassment of women who are constantly exposed to glances and stronger forms of abuse and may vent in a private channel, or may have discussed intimate concerns with friends (now past conversations are also available). Nobody paints the picture of the boss reading girls logs? This is pathetic. US, land of the well paid slaves.

> ...and privacy (no idea what my device is sending).

This is where Libre/Open Source software comes in and why it plays a vital role in creating an ethical connection between people and softwares. There is literally no other way around this. Open code, secure transmission, harsh accountability on violations.

Open source is great, but using source code is an awful way to figure out what something is transmitting, compared to actually looking at what it transmits.

By definition the insistence that it should be possible to do something that's actually impossible is not pragmatism.

If you don't actually control the box, it can do whatever it pleases. It doesn't need an IETF Standards Track RFC, it can just choose to do it and you can't stop it.

I'm really proud of what the Servo team has achieved and since I'm always looking at it from a big distance, I believe you are all able to judge this much better than me.

That said, this news do not sound good to me. Again, this is from a great distance, but from here, taking a future-focused team with great respect from the community, a team with an important and invaluable mission and that has successfully delivered over years, and shifting it (or forking it) towards complete uncertainty feels like a dangerous move that reminds me of the phone OS efforts.

Good riddance and may your vision be right. We need someone with Mozilla's goals looking deeper into VR so that we don't end up in the hands of the Big Corps in the near future, that is for sure, no matter if VR ends up being niche. How important that technology will be for the masses is yet to be proven and that's why I fear for the web, the battle proven real thing that faces the greatest threats from closed silos today. I don't feel it should be taken on equal terms with what is still fictional speculation. It needs full energy to make it to the future in good health. We already failed to deliver a beautiful, open and user centered internet to the future, we can't loose the open web.

From your link:

>A new Linux kernel technology called BPF is at the foundation of Cilium. It supports dynamic insertion of BPF bytecode into the Linux kernel at various integration points such as: network IO, application sockets, and tracepoints to implement security, networking and visibility logic. BPF is highly efficient and flexible.

Can you provide more background on your blanket statement?

There are good and bad VPNs but ISPs are much larger corporations with direct ties to governments. I fail to see how a good VPN is worse than ISP + Governments.

Absolutely! And more, it may be that the users are getting more distracted and less productive, although it seems they don't recognize this possibility.

I have tried to use the new tab with everything integrated (another search bar? most visited/pin without reordering, pocket articles) and Mozilla snarks and tips (which I like and find elegant) the feeling each time I open a new tab is the same as when I open my phone with the intent of doing something and, after being bombarded with icons and notifications, completely forget what I wanted to solve in the first place.

It is horrible UX to me. At least I can disable it as I did and I love my empty new tab without any suggestions whatsoever.

Just to dig a bit deeper, I believe browsers chrome should be removed (or greatly reduced) and we should try something new. I don't want to see an endless list of open tabs or your shiny buttons, I want to absorb content. Using Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser,etc in the past without system borders opened my eyes to how websites can be beautiful when they are not in a cage and I can't unsee the bloat.

The best Mozilla product of the past couple years, to me, wasn't FF Quantum, but Firefox Focus. I want Focus for the desktop. Amnesic, secure, fast, unbloatable.