Taggart Tech

This is a story about how a liberal arts education prepares you for the end of society.

It's just possible that you, a sentient being with active sensory input, have cause for concern about the security of data hosted both in the United States and by Microsoft. GitHub has been ubiquitous and indispensable for technologists. But maybe it's time to reconsider that status.

Before we get going, let's restate the thesis of this two-part essay so it's fresh: Mozilla is pursuing its primary objective, which is the survival of Mozilla. Its mission statement is more than broad enough to accommodate that, and Firefox is not a real priority. The community should accept that and stop waiting for Mozilla to be the hero they deserve.

Mozilla's had quite the week. Well, quite the year. Well, quite the, uh, I dunno. It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. Or is it?

I keep running up against this argument about LLMs and generative AI: