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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 41 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

For those looking for alternatives, there are a number Firefox forks such as Mullvad and Librewolf and then there's Chromium and it's various forks (just avoid Edge and, now, sadly, Brave)

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 hours ago
[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago

Brave browser is a litmus test.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 49 points 11 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.

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 29 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like pretty standard far right brainrot.

[–] MiikCheque@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Vivaldi to replace brave if Firefox is not enough

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Vivaldi is a very good browser, but if you want to support open web standards it would be better to use a non-Chromium-based browser like one of the Firefox derivatives. Also Vivaldi is closed source. Still, I do like Vivaldi.

[–] wipe3257@programming.dev 6 points 7 hours ago

What a clown, nothing new sadly

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

Between this, Proton and Firefox's change of terms, most of the advice I've seen on tech that protects your privacy seems like it's going the way of the dino.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES' WILD RIDE!

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 39 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Old guy, here...

WTF is a "glowie"?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 19 points 9 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 6 points 9 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 4 points 7 hours ago

4chan adopted it from him iirc

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for the reply!

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 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 29 points 11 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 15 points 11 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 20 points 14 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 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That statements is actually infused with some racial epithets.

[–] fluf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The CIA relation is racist? Or the fact the chanoids added the n word at the end?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there's at least one quote of Davis himself using the n-word to refer to federal agents before describing how bright they glow..

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

I blame 4chan's constant harassment of the man for his speech and early death. They invaded his live streams and gaslit him into believing, among other things, that he was in a relationship with someone else. Collectively, I think they're responsible for his suicide.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] slaterbater@lemm.ee 16 points 10 hours ago

I like Vivaldi

[–] tyfin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 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.

[–] nonducor@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Does anyone know of a decent browser that syncs between Android and Windows versions that isn't Firefox based? Mobile Firefox's UX is not my cup of tea

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

try Vivaldi.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 122 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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