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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    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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    Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

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

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      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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    Oh right - that’s why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.

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    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.

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      It comes from Terry A. Davis’s description of CIA, FBI and the like: “They glow in the dark”

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

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            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…

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              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.

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                Didn’t a lot of the people from back in the old 4chan days move over to KiwiFarms? This feels like it would be a kiwifarms thing these days rather than 4chan

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                  Basically, KiwiFarms were formed by people who were too much for 8chan, which was formed by people too much for 4chan, which was formed by people too much for Something Awful.

                  Free speech absolutism was a mistake…

                  (If you ask: there are now people too much for KiwiFarms, usually those that also want to torture animals rather than going after animal abusers for internet cookie points)

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    Regardless of the CEO, Brave is a great product. The crypto stuff is easy to turn off. Fantastic ad blocking, rarely any problems. What is the best alternative with great ad blocking?

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      Literally every other browser with uBlock Origin? I am still able to use it even on Chrome.

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    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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      Are they getting too high on their own products?

      Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.

      “I know how to be an admin, thus I should run the fucking world.”

      When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

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      It’s a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached

      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…

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        The originator of the term is the late Terry Davis, a paranoid schizophrenic and developer of TempleOS. He used to go on angry rants about “glow in the dark CIA niggers”, or glowies for short.

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          He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part