Thundermail seems cool at least

Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they’re just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent due to individual donations.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/

as an encrypted email service.

You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.

I’ve got no issues with helping people in need, but even if it’s not an embezzlement scheme, this is extremely bad prioritization unless their priority is publicity.

MDN is a proven resource that’s helped a lot of people learn to code. How many African translators can you hire for a milion a year, let alone like 8? How many more people would learn to code that way?l

But nah, let’s feed money into “partners” that use some experimental teaching methods, while destroying a crucial learning resource because corona made us broke.

Edit: fact checked myself and the corp killed MDN, and they’re paying the foundation to do projects like this through royalties.

In 2020 they fired the entire MDN writing team, slashed the budget, and basically left it in maintainance mode. The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit…

IMO for personal use “drag and drop into the correct directory” is an infinitely better organisational system than tag based libraries, especially for pirated books. I’m not going to sync my books across 10 different devices since I don’t need more than 1 reader, so it doesn’t make any sense for me to waste time using tags, let alone fix them for every book I download.

Clara colour is also awesome if you’re not reading exclusively bw. It does have slightly worse low light visibility because of the filter layers though.

Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation’s budget on everything that’s not Firefox?

Edit: fact checked myself and the budget part is completely incorrect. The foundation just leeches on the corporation through yearly royalties.

As far as I’m aware, fedora is a public project and not a org that is “owned” by anyone.

Yeah, RH only owns the fedora trademark, provides the infrastructure, pays for the salaries, and is the biggest funder of the org by far. It’s totally independent…

You’ve got to do a great bit of mental gymnastics to arrive at your conclusion just to try and make me feel stupid. Why?

If you feel stupid for not knowing basic information that’s your issue.

Also don’t act like there aren’t serious implications of imposing age checks in supposedly free libre software. Libre software should be a fundamental human right. You can believe in that and also that military interventionism is also bad.

Do remind me why you made this post? You can act virtue signal all you want, the fact is that you’re morally outraged about only one of those things. And since you’re this butthurt, I’m guessing my comment making fun of it really hit the spot.

I will not use a distribution that complies with this law because I believe it is morally compromised.

RH owning Fedora and funding it by making the American army more efficient at killing civilians - perfectly fine

Fedora will probably comply with the equivalent of a teen setting their age to 130 to watch porn - morally compromised

I’d be more worried about literally upstream bug testing for the DoD…