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The leadership has been ousted.

> This includes major growth in our Boards, with 40% new Board members since we began our efforts to evolve and grow back in 2022. We’ve also been bringing in new executive talent, including a new MoFo Executive Director and a Managing Partner for Mozilla Ventures. By the end of the year, we hope to have new, permanent CEOs for both MoCo and Mozilla.ai... With these changes, Mitchell Baker ends her tenure as Chair and a member of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation boards.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...


It's good to know they have brought in new talents.

Note that Mozilla Corporations, Mozilla Ventures, and Mozilla.ai mentioned in the articles are all subsidiaries of Mozilla Foundation. If there are issues with the subsidaries' leadership, they could be easily removed by the foundation. If there are issue with Mozilla foundation's leadership then, according to the bylaws, it's not possible for the foundation's board to be removed unless they self remove.

Section 3.3 Election Of Directors, Term. All directors of the Foundation shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors and shall hold office until their respective successors are elected and have qualified, or until their death, resignation or removal.

Section 3.5 Removal. Any director may be removed from office, with or without cause, by the vote of a majority of the other directors then in office.

https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pd...


>Section 3.3 Election Of Directors, Term. All directors of the Foundation shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors and shall hold office until their respective successors are elected and have qualified, or until their death, resignation or removal.

The board of directors elects themselves? That is dumb


That doesn't sound like she and her fattened board were ousted at all.


I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more.

To help highlight where there are changes and where there is continuity at the top level, here's a table of who was the MoCo CEO, MoCo and MoFo Board Chairs, MoFO President, and MoFo ED over time for the last ten years.

https://imgur.com/a/OLD9EiI


>I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more.

Ousted doesn't equate to making some changes then walking away in my mind. It doesn't sound like she was in-amicably forced out over results or the like.

I remember her expanding the number of positions on the board (and the often discussed compensation) not too long (relatively) before they had some rounds of firings. I remember being confused why one or both of the ones that joined said board(it's been a while) seemed...completely unrelated to both Mozilla or it's field of expertise or so.


Surman same problematic "leadership" type.


Take a look at salary reports from places like https://www.levels.fyi/2024

If you think $124k a year is high compensation for someone with 17 years of experience in Portland, your compensation expectations are way off.


Wow, I read your informative link. Where are these jobs? I went through a round of interviews last year for Sr. positions, across a number of locations in the U.S., and quite frankly, the average salary for the positions interviewed for was $80k less than most of those in the list, and $230k less than the SWE manager in the list.


The page lists the locations, and the businesses, where these jobs are placed. Unless you live on the coast (or end up in Denver/Austin), you're going to have a harder time reaching these salary numbers.


> in Portland

Corvallis


By my count they mention AI seventeen times on their homepage.

https://perfectwikiforteams.com/


Plus, what will the other 18 people on the team do? Burn their cash using and inserting "AI".


From my past experience, I can say that Google Cloud services (e.g load balancers) by default blocked traffic from ITAR sanctioned countries. Not just blocking people in those countries from becoming customers of GCP, but blocking them from accessing content hosted on GCP.

I didn't know how that situation had evolved since I last used GCP.


In the US there is a reduced media mail rate for educational materials. Not sure how it would work internationally.

https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm


The US used to have "ship mail" options for sending international by boat. Not sure if there was even more discounts for media, and/or if it's still offered.

Another comment mentioned M-bags: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-M-bag-Service


> I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high

You can remove videos from your viewing history. I do this when I start watching something but the content turnes out to not be what I expected. It seems to prevent polluting my recommendations.


For many workplaces, it's not just that that don't pay for a service, it's that using it is against policy. If I tried to paste some code into ChatGPT, for example, our data loss prevention spyware would block it and I'd soon be having an uncomfortable conversation with our security team.

(We do have access to GitHub Copilot)


Good news then, your GitHub admins can enable Gemini for you without issue.


“Without issue” is an optimistic perspective on how this works in many organisations.


I've been using https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/ for this.


What makes you say it's a small part of that?


Argo Rollouts is an extra orchestration layer on top of a traffic management provider. Which one are you using? If you use the ALB controller you still have to deal with pod shutdown / target deregistration timing issues.

https://argoproj.github.io/argo-rollouts/features/traffic-ma...


We’re using the alb controller to expose our kind: Rollouts. The blue green configuration has some sort of delay before cutting over which prevents any 5xx class errors due to target groups (at least for us)


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