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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

At this point you are allowed to put "George Soros" in scare quotes too. It is a good time to be alive. /S

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

fuck it, just call him "The JEW George Soros" so everyone understands where your opinions lie.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is this dude schizophrenic or something? What the fuck does he mean "Irish only apply"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Historically Irish people were hated in the US and you would often find “No Irish” on job postings

It is used as a substitute for minority in the CEO’s context as a way to say Mozilla allowed minorities to apply for jobs

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm confused what is this about?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

some idiot that poisoned the internet from the very beginning is an asshole.

This jackass wrote js in 2 weeks at netscape and now nulls aren't equal to other nulls.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What the fuck is it with the "Tech Friendly" companies going to shit?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Self hosting is increasingly the path forward for the privacy concious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You're right and it's so fucking annoying. I really want someone to jump into the niche and provide support for those of us who get to remember how to sysadmin again.

I don't want/need "plug and play" but I also don't really have time to relearn everything I knew "in a prior life."

Suggestions? At this point I'd love to have a backend for my email that isn't Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Namecheep with free-tier DNS, and Zoho for email/office that respects privacy.

$46 Australian per year for a single person for Domain DNS Email Cloud storage Lots of sub+products for business use.

Not self-hosted servers ... But better than MS/Google mail hosting while still secure.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

the only one of these that surprised me at all was firefox going to shit, and that started months ago with a smaller thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What’s proton’s change of terms? I’m not privy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

im not aware of proton changing terms, but their CEO announced he has trump's dick down his throat. well, as far as it'll reach. between his lips, at least. so they can't really be trusted to not snitch at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Proton is fine, they use encryption, but don't expect anonymity, since it's email ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Firefox changed terms. Proton is just run by a twat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Too bad. Already paid for premium :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

What a clown, nothing new sadly

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