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

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3093·
    4 months 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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I remember back when that referrer thing happened and people on reddit were tripping over themselves to justify it and explain why it’s actually ok… What a joke.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      329·
      4 months ago

      I mean, he’s technically better-behaving than Mozilla itself then.

      But I think these endless splits over disagreements and inability to cooperate in the split state are systemic.

      So maybe the whole typical-left “let’s unite and make a thing and boot everyone who shows a sign of rot” is systemically harmful. See, people who show signs of rot - they are the better kind. The really bad people don’t show any signs of rot until it’s too late. Actually they may not show anything, be like Mozilla tops.

      And also one kind of rot is not rot for some people, and the other is not rot for other group of people, and so on. It would be good to build a way of cooperation where people are impeded from cooperation only with whom they themselves disagree, and not the majority.

      Same as my other idea that there should be a way of moderation, where a person’s ability to choose is strengthened with all the amazing technology we have, and not with benevolent MITM.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        these conservative actually think theres an actual boogeyman" left " in america.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          317·
          4 months ago

          A word’s meaning is how it’s used. Also yes, there are.

          I think the important separation is not between left and right, it’s between truth and lie, or between principle and momentary gain.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      28·
      4 months ago

      Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won’t get fooled again.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    723·
    4 months 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?

    • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      501·
      4 months ago

      “You should consider the effects of your words and actions on other people.”

      Tech CEOs:

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      372·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

        And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position

        • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          “Better to be king of the ash pile than have to listen to Tom in accounting talk about his goddamned shitheap of a boat again on Monday.”

    • shortrounddev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      Engineer Syndrome. You get mildly good enough at writing Javascript to sell a product and then assume that means you can fix all of society’s problems

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.

        In that regard – writing shit code that was best thrown out – him and Eich (the fucker who inflicted Javascript on the world) are quite similar.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      4 months 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.

  • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
    602·
    4 months ago

    Someone’s been munching Elon’s Special K for breakfast. New marketing tagline just dropped tho:

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

  • maplebar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    4 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.

  • brezel@piefed.socialEnglish
    51·
    4 months 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.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      29·
      4 months 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.

  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    4 months 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.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      just realised

      “Just”? No, he’s always been open about this, and that’s why his appointment as Mozilla CEO was so controversial in 2014, and why the board revolted and he ended up resigning 11 days into his tenure.

      The whole origin story of Brave is steeped in right wing politics.

    • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      4 months 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”.

      • Bassman1805@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        4 months ago

        TempleOS is legit super impressive, it’s a shame the dude was pretty much insane but also that’s probably what it takes to code an entire OS from scratch entirely by yourself.

          • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            0·
            4 months ago

            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…

              • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                0·
                4 months ago

                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

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      4 months 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.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    4 months ago

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

      • DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        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.