for a period of perhaps two whole seconds i allowed myself to believe that mozilla accidentally had a good idea that i could appropriate to be shockingly subversive https://newproducts.mozilla.org/product/tabstack/ two seconds later i realized that's also what i used to believe about the rust programming language

Tabstack is a web execution and data transformation API. It’s built for developers whose AI systems need to reliably read and take action on the web.

i thought this meant like. recognizing that there are really basic fucking architectural approaches to web scraping that nobody does right nor cares to learn or understand. i thought this could potentially be a case of "doing something FUCKING USEFUL, like an engineer who accepts the blame if THE BRIDGE THEY BUILD BREAKS AND KILLS PEOPLE because their field has achieved a degree of confidence in how to achieve reliable systems of public infrastructure after LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF RESEARCH AND SELF-CRITIQUE"

but this is the internet, so (thanks to the bipartisan us congress and the telecommunications act of 1996 under bill clinton, as well as ronald FUCKING reagan) nothing can ever be done for the public good. anything that even seems useful is merely a ruse--what kind of fucking loser would waste their time on boring shit like infrastructure?

Tabstack can automatically transform raw web content into insights, summaries, or tailored structured data (including Markdown, JSON, or custom schemas) specifically crafted for your unique requirements.

it's THEIR fucking unique requirements. why the fuck would THEY ever want YOU to have a fucking OPINION on how they generate that, let alone DEMANDING that your fucking sloperating system receive the credit it deserves as the real innovation behind your users' fucking work?????

just a terrible, terrifying company