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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 12 hours ago

Right wing asshole shows to the world again that they never improved and are even more of a right wing asshole.

This is why I never used Brave anything longer than a brief look. Fuck this dude, I'm glad Mozilla removed him.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 209 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

can't believe the homophobic crypto nut would also be a right wing loon

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 65 points 14 hours ago

It's always the ones you most expect

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 35 points 15 hours ago

Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won't get fooled again.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 54 points 13 hours ago

Jesus, this fucking paranoid bitch can barely string a sentence together. He must be neck deep in the techbro CEO k-hole...

Also, as an Irish leftist, he should leave my people out of his delusional and incoherent ranting.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 313 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign (and thus alienating a whole lot of developers, sponsors, and users); and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 53 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If I'm reading their financial records correctly, the year he left Mozilla was the year he was paid the most, even though he didn't stick around for most of it. So this retelling of history is, at best, incomplete...

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 72 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, is that where the name Brave came from?

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[–] EatMahPeachez@piefed.social 67 points 14 hours ago (13 children)

sudo apt remove brave-browser

k who's next?

[–] match@pawb.social 10 points 12 hours ago

try out graphene os if you haven't

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 31 points 13 hours ago

This kind of statement have way less impact when people already have 0 goodwill toward the one that says it.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 30 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply

Is this racist against the Irish? I mean that is traditional, but sounds so strange.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 hours ago

"Irish need not apply" was a common thing in job ads at one time; asshat here is doing the usual conservative thing of pretending to be unfairly persecuted

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 17 points 13 hours ago

I think this is just a CEO likening personal opinions to racial oppression. The example he chose might be a little ironic too.

[–] raptir@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

Is there a good mobile browser that...

  • Supports adblock?
  • Doesn't have as many rendering issues as Firefox on mobile sites?

I know the latter isn't Firefox's fault, but it still impacts the end user.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn't great, but the developer isn't Brave.

Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven't tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that's especially true for non-flagships

[–] silverhand@reddthat.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Cromite doesn't seem to allow opening supported links in other apps for some reason

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 32 points 14 hours ago

We knew Eich was an asshole when he tried to support that amendment in California ages ago

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 84 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

I didn't know that word.

Noun

glowie (plural glowies)

  1. (Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.
[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 42 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ohh, Thanks I did need a dictionary for the OP, but you still left out the racist 4chan verbiage around the etymology ("CIA N*s glow in the dark"). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 18 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

What's a glowy? Like, a glowstick?

[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 33 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

its from terry davis, the schizophrenic talented developer who wrote his own OS (TempleOS) from scratch as one of gods temples or something, however he was pretty racist and delusional, so would see "glowies" of CIA agents or whatever trying to get him, and now the term is used for people suspecting others of being federal agents

[–] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Let's not forget the embedded racism in the original quote from Terry: "CIA n*ggers glow in the dark."

[–] Thetimefarm@lemm.ee 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

He's a tragic case but god damn if this isn't one of the funniest clips on the internet.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

May he code holy c in heaven. Just imagine how much potential he had

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 78 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Not his first time having a public melty over woke themes. What is it about tech CEOs and advanced brain rot? Are they getting too high on their own products?

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 17 hours ago

"You should consider the effects of your words and actions on other people."

Tech CEOs:

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[–] brezel@piefed.social 57 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Extremely online echo chamber talk doesnt make sense in any language if youre ourside that echo chamber.

Him being a 4chan shitbird means most the people here on lemmy likely weren't going to be clue'd in immediately.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 27 points 16 hours ago

For a native English speaker who understands everything he wrote: you're 100% correct. It is a core dump.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 45 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh right - that's why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.

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[–] silverhand@reddthat.com 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that he invented Javascript alone makes him a villain. Everything he did after that is just complementary.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Finally somebody other than me says it!

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