Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LWD@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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reiterationstation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.

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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wish people would stop blaming this on ketamine, a dissociative drug that is very safe (used on children and small animals for surgery), and that typically has the exact opposite effect of how Elon is behaving.
  
  This is 100%. This is in spite of the ketamine.
  
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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  usually ketamine would have an opposite effect, other things like alcohol and stimulants will amplify those things.
  
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  - 10001110101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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arotrios@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Someone’s been munching Elon’s Special K for breakfast. New marketing tagline just dropped tho:

Brave browser, because you’d be brave to use a browser built by a Nazi

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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  and downing dom perrignon for breakfast lunc and dinner.
  
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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How about just:
  
  Brave: We’re not!
  
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Tregetour@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes’ hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.

Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector’s hiring preferences is probably accurate.

Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.

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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  this is the reason why you get banned from reddit, by posting false evidence that subs can easily detect, and you keep crying here or another site.
  
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- metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lol. The right only thinks they’re good at meming because you guys huff your own farts. Your memes are cringe and ass.
  
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- queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Except the content of his post also blames the left, which is kind of fucking stupid when the government is undergoing a billionaire coup of the PayPal boys.
  
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eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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MortUS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- mdd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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- OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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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  - spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    At that point, why give the nazi fuck any browser usage? If you don’t trust the source, don’t trust the product.
    
    Like the other person said, use Ungoogled Chromium. I use it on a couple of my devices and it works pretty well.
    
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- luckyeddy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Try this? github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
  
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cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply

Is this racist against the Irish? I mean that is traditional, but sounds so strange.

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- Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “Irish need not apply” was a common thing in job ads at one time; asshat here is doing the usual conservative thing of pretending to be unfairly persecuted
  
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maplebar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s a glowy? Like, a glowstick?

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- reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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
  
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  - yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Let’s not forget the embedded racism in the original claim, which was that “CIA n*ggers glow in the dark.”
    
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  - Thetimefarm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    He’s a tragic case but god damn if this isn’t one of the funniest clips on the internet.
    
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  - sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “Hello, fellow anons!”
    
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- erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  4chan term for a CIA plant
  
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  - SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What like a tulip or a pansy?
    
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- CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I dunno, just more identity politics from the right, apparently.
  
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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
We knew Eich was an asshole when he tried to support that amendment in California ages ago

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EatMahPeachez@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
sudo apt remove brave-browser

k who's next?

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- Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sudo apt remove hyprland, when you are on it
  
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- mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe zen browser! Idk, my only hope is either Ladybird or Servo producing something usable this decade.
  
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  - adamas@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I like Zen ! Ladybird Pre-Alpha is scheduled for 2026, so, yeah, maybe this decade.
    
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- match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  try out graphene os if you haven’t
  
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- BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Imagine my shock.

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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
can’t believe the homophones crypto nut would also be a right wing loon

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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams.
  
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- ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s always the ones you most expect
  
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- socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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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  - MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.
    
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- Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?
  
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silverhand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The fact that he invented Javascript alone makes him a villain. Everything he did after that is just complementary.

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Finally somebody other than me says it!
  
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electric_nan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Brave evangelists in shambles.

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- eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Brave evangelists are the ones who enabled him to do this, they love it.
  
  They’re crying with joy, not rage or fear.
  
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- cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  brave evangelists are cheering
  
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Oh right - that’s why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.

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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My laziness is never getting around to trying out Brave is vindicated!
  
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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s a glowie? 🤔

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brezel@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.

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- mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Extremely online echo chamber talk doesnt make sense in any language if youre ourside that echo chamber.
  
  Him being a 4chan shitbird means most the people here on lemmy likely weren’t going to be clue’d in immediately.
  
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  - Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The irony
    
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“Glowy” sounds like a perjorative for the sparkling vampires from Twilight.

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- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ita basically thaylt but instead of Vampires invading Highschoolers DM’s it’s men in black invading their discord channels.
  
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MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Another company going on the list of run by scum.

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solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I didn’t know that word.

Noun

glowie (plural glowies)

(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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
so brave.

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fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign; and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.

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