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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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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 29 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 98 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 18 hours ago

Most of them are.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

Of course they did...

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 70 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 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 18 points 18 hours ago

How about just:

Brave: We're not!

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 249 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 83 points 1 day ago

It's always the ones you most expect

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams. either they buy into crypto, or they are peddling it-themselves.

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 360 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 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.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 day 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.

[–] reiterationstation@lemm.ee 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

usually ketamine would have an opposite effect, other things like alcohol and stimulants will amplify those things. much like musk, he probably uses alcohol alot too.

[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic. As someone who has always struggled with depression and has done ketamine, it does seem like it would be a good fast-acting, but short half-life anti-depressant (the afterglow lasts well after the buzz). Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term. Heard it messes up your bladder.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic.

It's a dissociative. Its effects are more like PCP than like alcohol. I wouldn't use the term "psychedelic" for its effects-- the biochemical pathways are different as well.

Heard it messes up your bladder.

The metabolites burn your bladder severely enough that you can end up pissing blood. The body load seems to be high as well, frequent users look grey and washed-out, and it damages your cognition.

Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term.

I've known a few. They started fiending like junkies, lost jobs, destroyed relationships. It's a dirty drug and, unless you're getting professional treatment for PTSD, the best advice I can give is to avoid it and to avoid people who use it.

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day 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.

[–] EatMahPeachez@piefed.social 73 points 1 day ago (12 children)

sudo apt remove brave-browser

k who's next?

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe zen browser! Idk, my only hope is either Ladybird or Servo producing something usable this decade.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (8 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.
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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day 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?

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

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

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