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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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[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Oh, it's almost as if brave has always sucked.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Eich should have been banned from any technical enterprise after inflicting Javascript on us all. His shitty views just reinforce that position further.

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[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

"Glowies"? As in "glow in the dark CIA n-words"? Bro turned into Tarry Davis.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

Urban dictionary says it's a term that refers to when an undercover government agent fails to blend in with whoever they're trying to blend in with.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Would that apply to James Bond? I've always wondered how everyone in those movies didn't instantly know who he was. Kinda like Archer. Archer is definitely a glowie.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

The books were clearer about this, in fairness. Bond wasn't a spy so much as an agent provocateur and a major part of his role was to cause disruption, panic and general fuss, but in a controlled way.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Agents provocateur are actually what we historically had to worry about just as much as spies. They're the guy who's just raring to go do something a bit risky or really wants to run security for your event. Doing what they say or aiding them will get you arrested.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days ago

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

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

The origin story of Brave is entirely right-wing. He was forced out of Mozilla because of his public stances on political topics. It's no secret that after being forced out for his politics, he went on to create a new browser company.

yeah brave always felt gross and i remember them doing shady crap for years.

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[-] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 58 points 2 days 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.

[-] na_th_an@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Somehow, I knew it was Eich man.

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days 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.

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 136 points 2 days ago

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

[-] cupcakezealot 30 points 2 days ago
[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days 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)

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 391 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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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[-] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Brave browser is a litmus test.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

Always has been. I considered anyone who used it slightly sus until further proof. And if they basically advertised it, I considered them too far gone to try anything else.

[-] cashew@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

99% of people don't care about the things that you care about, and use the products they enjoy using. Classifying people by the web browser they use is crazy talk.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

When it's owned and operated by a literal open bigot and the fact it only became popular after the bigot was removed from his office chair because of it? Yes, that's a valid reason.

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[-] cupcakezealot 260 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

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[-] prole 15 points 2 days ago

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

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

He's got a "white guys are persecuted" complex because people call him out for abusing gays, trans people, women and minorities. He's comparing that to the not-very-effective anti-Irish prejudice in the 19th century. Unlike the murderous attacks on Black Americans and Chinese immigrants, it was never ensrined in law and was largely ignored: Irish people could vote, marry who they wanted to, own property, run businesses and hold political office. The main sources of anti-Irish animusat the time were the Know Nothing party and its friends in the KKK. Both hated the Irish for being Catholic.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

The irony that he is mad about woke when irish people were also shit fury on.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[-] Naevermix@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

Sounds like pretty standard far right brainrot.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 110 points 2 days ago

Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

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[-] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

Old guy, here...

WTF is a "glowie"?

[-] febra@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

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".

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

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.

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