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Lunduke's personal blog at lunduke.locals.com covers programming and politics. Since 2021, 90 different Hacker News readers have linked it 130 times, most often “Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on Mozilla's finances and spending and on other tech controversies. Commenters call one an excellent post and another factual, sourced reporting.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- an excellent post on Mozilla's 2023 annual report; factual, sourced reporting; a great source of references; good examples
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Most-linked posts?
- Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla26 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2023-08-05
- Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-12-28
- /post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser-developer-attacked-by-unhinged-dishonest-activists4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-06
- MS-DOS 4.0 Source Code Fails to Compile4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-27
- The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-25
- Godot Responds to Mass Banning – No Apology, Blames Banned Users2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-01
- Gnome Foundation Hires "Professional Shaman" as New Executive Director2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-18
- Myth: Windows 3.1 was just a shell on top of DOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-22
- Is the GNOME Foundation Going to Go Bankrupt in 1 Year?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-29
- Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL Sketch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-13
What Hacker News says?
The Mozilla foundation pays millions to its CEO [1] while reducing funding to Firefox development and Firefox market share is falling year after year, but hey, please switch to Firefox. Right. Let's face the reality: Firefox is dead and Mozilla itself is putting the final nail in the coffin. [1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-...
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on “In 2024, please switch to Firefox”Submitted Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder as a story · 1077 points
HN discussionNo, https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-... If you really care, there is LibreWolf https://librewolf.net/
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on “In 2024, please switch to Firefox”Submitted The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself as a story · 475 points
HN discussionEvery now and then we talk here about Mozilla needing more money to keep Firefox alive, meanwhile they spend money with other priorities in mind. This is an old article but has some good examples: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?”Submitted Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives as a story · 379 points
HN discussionThey dont have to. They could be lean and focus on firefox only. Now they get 150m from google, spend just a part on firefox and rest on failures and hobby projects to get promoted. If they were focued on core business, 1) they would have a war chest 2) they could leave off donations https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?”Submitted With more legal action on the horizon, how long before Archive.org closes? as a story · 117 points
HN discussion> Do you mean awesomekling? Why is he considered a fascist? I hope you can see this because my posts in this thread are getting attacked and downvoted. This pretty much summarizes how it started (copied from Google): https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser... (note that while the exact word never is seen in evidence added to this post but it sure is or hinted towards elsewhere.) and evidenced by…
Comment linking /post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser-developer-attacked-by-unhinged-dishonest-activists
on “Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler”Submitted Debian is the greatest Linux distro of them all as a story · 69 points
HN discussionMozilla wastes way too much money: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest... This loss of funding will be good for them, they can focus on a browser instead of stupid things.
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on “All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding”Submitted Linux Sucks 2021 – The End of Linux Is Nigh [video] as a story · 64 points
HN discussionThe "controversy" is probably referring to this: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser...
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on “Helium Browser”Submitted Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla as a story · 58 points
HN discussion> donations amount to so little compared to its Google revenue “Interesting to note that the Mozilla CEO earned nearly as much ($5.6 M) as Mozilla received in donations ($7 M)” [1]. [1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox”Submitted 1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in Holland as a story · 50 points
HN discussionLet me get this straight, NOT A SINGLE DOLLAR of donations are used to fund development for Firefox!? How many are under the false impression of "helping Firefox" when in reality their donations are used to fund advocacy campaigns [0] and managerial bloat [1]? [0] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/help/#frequently-as... [1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “A look at Firefox forks”Submitted Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL Sketch as a story · 47 points
HN discussionMozilla has a lot of money, almost none of which is spent on Firefox/Servo. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users”Submitted 70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators as a story · 45 points
HN discussionA sane company would then give the boot to their overpaid CEO and hire back talented developers. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-...
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on “Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users”Submitted Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 as a story · 38 points
HN discussionIt's going towards a lot of controversial things unrelated to Firefox development or any open source software development by any reasonable standard. Here's one attempt at breaking down their finances: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome”Submitted Linux Foundation spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThe problem with Mozilla may be unrecoverable; that's my concern. They're currently spending Daddy Google's money like it's endless, schmoozing with SV investor types, pissing about chasing the latest trends and bunging money to their friends. Because they can. I'm not sure that anything that anyone could say to them could change their minds. My worry is that there are no organisations that campaign to keep the web…
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on “Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store”Submitted Mozilla sued for discrimination by former CEO-to-be as a story · 35 points
HN discussionContext in here: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5556650/the-internet-archive... (see also the discussion thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201053 "259 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago")
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on “The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself”Submitted NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttps://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
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on “Why I use Firefox”Submitted Mozilla Firefox blocks anti-Censorship and pro-Privacy extensions in Russia as a story · 30 points
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