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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] 72 points 2 months 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.

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

I've been trying to move away from Google Chrome for awhile now. Brave was the easiest move for me - it's super slick and almost exactly like Google Chorme. But they just cannot help themselves from pushing Cryto BS on the startup page like every day - it's weird. I get they offset advertisements with Crypto, and maybe before The President ran a Crypto rugpull I'd be onboard, but now that the Rich Elites have publicly shown their hand in how they want to use Crypto I just can't support Brave.

Anyway, I've moved to Opera for the time being. If anyone else has suggestions I'm open to hear em, but like, I'm too used to webkit devtools.

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

After Firefox changed its TOS a lot of people (including me) have jumped to LibreWolf. It takes FF, removes any parts that phone home, and turns on many privacy options.

It takes a little tweaking to make all websites work correctly. I have it running almost perfectly on windoze. I tried installing on Ubuntu last night but my Linux newbie status held me back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Turn it all off and it's no more in your face. The browser itself functions great when configured according to your needs.

Fuck their CEO though. Focus on the product. It works and consistently ranks as one of the highest orivacy based browser according to the EFF and multiple non profit sources.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What's a glowy? Like, a glowstick?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"Hello, fellow anons!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

4chan term for a CIA plant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What like a tulip or a pansy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I dunno, just more identity politics from the right, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago (6 children)

sudo apt remove brave-browser

k who's next?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

try out graphene os if you haven't

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is ungoogeled-chromium any less skeezy? It's not my main browser but every now and then I need a Chrome based browser or some sites just don't work right.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ungoogled Chromium does a really good job of taking Google out of Chrome, so far less skeezy. None of that cryptocurrency stuff either.

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

What cryptocurrency is integrated into Chrome?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure the cryptocurrency comment is referring to Brave, not Chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine the implication is that no cryptocurrency stuff is inserted in the spot that google once occupied.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are there any forks that aren't infested with rabid honeybadgers?

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

At least two.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Imagine my shock.

[–] [email protected] 269 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago

It's always the ones you most expect

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago

Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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