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#irrelevant — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.

    Michael Jordan, a #basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) #sucked at it.

    After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 #album, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a #concert to watch Eddie van Halen play #keyboards.

    Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. #Mozilla had #Firefox, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web #browser used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and #users by chasing #irrelevant crap.

    Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.
    Or to become just another player in the VPN market.
    Or to build a VR browser.
    Or a reading list manager.
    Or an IoT device manager.
    Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.
    Or authentication service.
    Or geolocation service.
    #AI #junk.
    Voice recognition.
    Journalism.
    Built-in #ads.
    Search engine.

    Van Halen continued to be #successful despite Eddie's #synthesizer obsession, not because of it.

    If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their #distractions, not because of them.

    #VanHalen #Jump #why

  2. Ah, the #BBC, once again flexing its intellectual prowess by enlightening us about a #forgotten #fruit with a name so shocking it could make a #medieval bard blush. 🎭 If only they spent as much time on actual #news as they do on #irrelevant produce #trivia, maybe we'd all be a little less fruitless in the #knowledge department. 🍎🙄
    bbc.com/future/article/2021032 #Bards #HackerNews #ngated

  3. I just came across the family name Egal. In #German, #egal means whatever, #irrelevant.

    A: "What shall we put in the record as their family name?"
    B: "Ah, I dunno. Whatever".
    A writes "Whatever".

    Now, if two Egals were to compete directly in something, would that constitute #ComparativeIrrelevance ? #UmbertoEco (RIP) would have had something to say about that, I'm sure.