Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

@mcc had a Mozilla rep at linux.conf.au (rip) in 2019. Did a great workshop on their local home automation gateway. Very privacy first, showed off the speech recognition with local processing, I got to play with setting it up using WebThings and speech instructions.

I remember her quote to the audience that "Mozilla will always be your friend". In an increasingly hyper capitalist web I do at least know Mozilla's core mission is to enable and empower users with technology choice and capabilities

@mcc while I absolutely don't love every path they go down, or disinvestment in projects that have imo real lasting value, they do seem to be trying to see where new things emerge and act as an incubator for guiding that emergence in ways that are better for real people.

I love my Mozilla email aliases and my Mozilla browser and Mozilla email client! I'm really happy with my Mozilla browser built in translation tools.

I'd still use Mozilla tech before I tried Meta tech or Google tech, for sure