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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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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

Not shocked the fake coin browser has a right-wing CEO.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Brave browser is a litmus test.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 35 points 8 hours ago

This spineless mouth breather just realised there's a buck to be made by glazing other alt-right mouth breathers. At least he can finally be himself now. Thankfully, his product is just google chrome repackaged and thereby sucks major ass.

[–] MiikCheque@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Vivaldi to replace brave if Firefox is not enough

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago

Sounds like pretty standard far right brainrot.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That's a damn shame. Any other browsers look good on a tablet?

[–] slaterbater@lemm.ee 10 points 7 hours ago

I like Vivaldi

[–] tyfin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I think Waterfox looks pretty great and works well for me. Not sure how different it is from Firefox Mobile itself since I switched from Chrome to Waterfox directly, but assume Firefox probably looks pretty similar.

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Old guy, here...

WTF is a "glowie"?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/glowie-glowposting

Glowie, also known as a Glown****, is a slang term popular on 4chan's /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users in order to bait others into sharing incriminating information.

In 2017, schizophrenic computer programmer Terry Davis, known for his TempleOS software that he claimed was dictated to him by God and meant to be God's third temple, made a video showing off various aspects of TempleOS. In the video, Terry says, "The CIA n*****s glow in the dark, you can see them if you're driving. You just run them over, that's what you do."

The term "glow in the dark" refers to the obvious nature of their camouflage, leaving them exposed when they're trying to hide in the shadows.

In fairness to Brave CEO I did not know it had racist origins and only thought it referred to the last paragraph.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's fucking weird that not 3 or 4 days ago.. I was literally reading about Davis. And the glowing CIA ranting that he was doing. Total coincidence

[–] fluf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

4chan adopted it from him iirc

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Thanks for the reply!

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

That's the problem with racist bullshit. They scrape the racism off and peddle it everywhere until it's widely accepted and not tied to it's roots anymore.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Terry A. Davis popularised the term. He was a software engineer that ended up with a very bad case of schizophrenia. While unemployed due to his illness, he streamed while working on his own operating system that he built with the intention of "communicating with God". While streaming, he used to go on these rants about how federal agents are spying on him, calling them "glowies" more often than not along the n word with a very hard r at the end. The term "glowies" has very racist associations.

In other words, you need to be somewhat fairly far down the alt-right pipeline if you actually talk about "glowies".

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

TempleOS is legit super impressive, it's a shame the dude was pretty much insane but also that's probably what it takes to code an entire OS from scratch entirely by yourself.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It comes from Terry A. Davis's description of CIA, FBI and the like: "They glow in the dark"

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That statements is actually infused with some racial epithets.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 114 points 16 hours ago

Brave has always seemed shady to me. I mean it has built in crypto spam.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 46 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

brave is just chromium, i wonder when google wants to cut them off down the line.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Chromium is open source, so Google can't cut them off.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago

Well. They can stop updating the open source code, create manifest v4 and now all chromium browsers are shit out of luck.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 89 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 15 hours ago

Most of them are.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Good thing I quit brave a few years ago when they did that Crypto shit.

[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago

Of course they did...

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I understood what he said. Strip out some rude terms and it sounds accurate. The comments here sound like someone shouted “squirrel” to a pack of rabid dogs.

I also lack common sense and am posting this comment. In my feeble defense I really don’t know the guy, and suspect he likes baiting others

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Which is accurate? It reads like an unhinged paranoid conspiracist. Do you think Geroge Soros runs mozilla? Do you think it's being controlled by federal agents?

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 67 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Someone's been munching Elon's Special K for breakfast. New marketing tagline just dropped tho:

Brave browser, because you'd have to be brave to use a browser built by a Nazi

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

How about just:

Brave: We're not!

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