Mozilla's Non-Binary Mascot Kit: How Is It Supposed to Run?

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A screenshot of an X (Twitter) exchange. The original post by Pirat_Nation reads: "Mozilla has introduced a new non-binary mascot called 'Kit.' Kit uses they/them pronouns." It shows two images side by side: the classic Firefox logo (orange fox curled around a purple globe) and the new mascot Kit - a cute stylized orange fox curving into a heart shape with a purple heart above it, on a dark purple background. Engagement shows 1.7K replies, 1.9K reposts, 15K likes, 625K views. The reply from FuckYourGuns (@IFuckClankers) delivers the punchline: "How the fuck is it supposed to run if it's non-binary?" - a pun collapsing gender identity discourse into executable formats, since software that isn't a binary famously can't run

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick No binary? Fine - Kit ships as source and identifies as interpreted

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

No binary? Fine - Kit ships as source and identifies as interpreted
Anonymous

Kit runs fine; it’s the comment section whose two-value enum can’t deserialize the update.
@codydafoxie 3mo

Fuck this guy, he can't even spread misinformation right. He complained about Firefox being "woke" even tho it's a fucking mascot and Mozilla said you can use any pronouns you want.
1. @blue_bonsai 3mo
  
  Furry checks out.
@codydafoxie 3mo

Like yeah imagine getting mad over a mascot
1. @death_by_oom 3mo
  
  Imagine getting mad over something someone said on X
  
  dev_meme 3mo
  
  Imagine getting mad
  
  @JackOhSheetImSorry 3mo
  
  I don't, I'm mad enough in reality 🌚
  
  @kandiesky 3mo
  
  Imagine
  
  @ferriego 3mo
  
  I
  
  @VexelX 2mo
  
  •
  
  @ferriego 2mo
  
  string.Empty
  
  @VexelX 2mo
  
  Undefined
  
  @lambda_coolusername 2mo
  
  0x00
  
  @VexelX 2mo
  
  That's it but.... 00
  
  @ferriego 2mo
  
  InvalidMemoryAccessException
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  dragons
  
  @Daonifur 3mo
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wtfhZwyrcc
  
  @VexelX 2mo
  
  Imagine
  
  @codydafoxie 3mo
  
  honestly real
@acidbong 3mo

scripts are text-based and are runnable 🤓
1. @SamsonovAnton 3mo
  
  Pure-JS Firefox 😱
2. @nwordtech 3mo
  
  Just put a payload in one giant char array and make your os execute it. VBScript kiddies weapon of choice
@blue_bonsai 3mo

Just say you want to fuck the mascot (I do too)
@moosschan 3mo

Ever heard of cubits?
1. @yourdisenchantment 3mo
  
  Because qubits are not binary, they were abandoned
Егор 3mo

love how they keep double-downing on their old design mistake and pretending firefox is a fox and not a red panda
1. @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  no wahs, only fops
@NaNmber 3mo

or they could fix this flashbang bug I see for a while now...how hard could it be to show same filler page every time...🥱
1. @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  huh, I've never had that before. have you reported it as a bug?
  
  @NaNmber 3mo
  
  I don't believe in bug reporting 😁 But if this actually works, I will submit it
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  > complains about bug not being fixed > "I don't believe in bug reporting" bruh
  
  @NaNmber 3mo
  
  >disables telemetry so they never know about that 😐
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  I don't think telemetry is useful for bug discovery
  
  @NaNmber 3mo
  
  some of these should, but idk, always off just in case
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  nono, - 1.0 is just so they know how many e.g. wayland users they have, so they know where to focus development - 1.1 is literally just ads - 1.2 is feature preview - 2 is them being able to change your config flags between updates (I mean for reasons other than "this will literally break if we don't change it"), for example if they deem "no, you don't want vaapi enabled actually" for some fucking reason - 3 daily usage ping is same as 1.0 but for more time-accurate stats - 4 most bugs aren't crashes, but I guess technically that would help getting a bug reported if your firefox crashes.
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  I think I have other than 1.1 and 1.2 enabled 1.2 is somewhat suspicious since it has history of sending all DNS to Cloudflare and was that Mr Robot thing through it too?
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  (re 1.2:) I haven't heard of that
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  You mean https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=Firefox+Mr+robot&ia=web I can't decide what is the best link
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  It was https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-touting-mozilla-caught-shoving-mr-robot-add-on-into-firefox/
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  And yes, Cloudflare was a Study too https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/20/firefox-dns-over-https-and-a-worrying-shield-study/
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  well I guess I'm turning it off then
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Id rather hand data over to cf than my isp tho
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  I had a system wide encrypted DNS at that time and recommend setting up that rather than having Firefox do something random
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  Anyway I run Firefox on X devices and maintain Y and utilize Firefox policies a lot and thus I don't want my users to get into different A/B test groups or get something weird outside of non-tailored releases
  
  @hy60koshk 3mo
  
  Some devs discourage bug reporting. Like Scalar (OpenAPI parser/renderer) guys purposefully locking on dark theme for request examples only. Like, your whole doc and response body examples are light-themed, and only the request code example is dark-themed (and absolutely out of color palette for most themes). Or f-ing Opera GX with their "fuck users' opinion, just add everything we come up with and don't fix shit" approach which converted a bold number of users to Vivaldi.
2. @Art3m_1502 3mo
  
  Happened to me once, couldn't reproduce though
3. @b7sum 3mo
  
  about:blank?
  
  @Art3m_1502 3mo
  
  Would be fun, but no
@AmindaEU 3mo

Oh fluffing meow again https://itsfoss.com/news/mozillas-firefox-mascot-gender-controversy/
1. @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  it's amazing how insecure some people are
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  Most of people probably won't ever learn the name or pronouns since there isn't even a new tab or any big annoying announcement and to me the use whatever pronouns you want thing seems more like not commenting on gender than sign of support for gender diversity (in which case just give Kit a trans or progress pride flag)
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  That is it. Kit doesn't have a gender assigned
2. @purplesyringa 3mo
  
  can we ban Lunduke off the internet already or something
3. @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  ok but this fucks
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  like holy shit, this looks rad as hell
  
  @b7sum 3mo
  
  spooky
  
  @AmindaEU 3mo
  
  It seems to be that tracker thing from The Matrix, I just saw it for the first time two days ago
  
  @RiedleroD 3mo
  
  not wormlike enough imo
@ddamiryh 3mo

Implying old mascot is straight
1. @DerKnerd 3mo
  
  what does straight have to do with gender identity?

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