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.
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Good thing I quit brave a few years ago when they did that Crypto shit.
Of course they did…
Not shocked the fake coin browser has a right-wing CEO.
What is a “real coin”? Like a nickel? The little pieces of cheap metal with slavers on it?
Yes (Chad face)
The whole point of fake coins is to trade them for real coins.
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Oh, BTC.
Gross
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.
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For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.
For a native English speaker who understands everything he wrote: you’re 100% correct. It is a core dump.
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.
The irony
The fact that he invented Javascript alone makes him a villain. Everything he did after that is just complementary.
Does anyone know of a decent browser that syncs between Android and Windows versions that isn’t Firefox based? Mobile Firefox’s UX is not my cup of tea
try Vivaldi.
sudo apt remove brave-browser
k who’s next?
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.
Ungoogled Chromium does a really good job of taking Google out of Chrome, so far less skeezy. None of that cryptocurrency stuff either.
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What cryptocurrency is integrated into Chrome?
I imagine the implication is that no cryptocurrency stuff is inserted in the spot that google once occupied.
Are there any forks that aren’t infested with rabid honeybadgers?
Pretty sure the cryptocurrency comment is referring to Brave, not Chrome.
Oh.
Gross.
Sudo apt remove hyprland, when you are on it
Maybe zen browser! Idk, my only hope is either Ladybird or Servo producing something usable this decade.
I like Zen ! Ladybird Pre-Alpha is scheduled for 2026, so, yeah, maybe this decade.
try out graphene os if you haven’t
Brave evangelists in shambles.
brave evangelists are cheering
Brave evangelists are the ones who enabled him to do this, they love it.
They’re crying with joy, not rage or fear.
I understood what he said. Strip out some rude terms and it sounds accurate. The comments here sound like someone shouted “squirrel” to a pack of rabid dogs.
I also lack common sense and am posting this comment. In my feeble defense I really don’t know the guy, and suspect he likes baiting others
Which is accurate? It reads like an unhinged paranoid conspiracist. Do you think Geroge Soros runs mozilla? Do you think it’s being controlled by federal agents?
Oh dear, here I go.
Do you have reading skills?
Having fun with the… reverse sealioning?
The original op took some things out of context, Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left. He names big donors.
Then he describes how that money trickles down; and the last I checked the not so polite description is more accurate than not.
I don’t mind people bashing bad guys here; and I’m sure this fellow has spent years raiding your hackles. But some people like me, it’s just embarrassing to read
“Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left.”
The Ford Foundation is located in New York City at the Center for Social Justice
The Ford Foundation is one of the primary foundations offering grants that support and maintain diversity in higher education
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ford+foundation
cc @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
You said it “sounds accurate” then complained about people’s criticism of it. You didn’t actually give any detail about what’s accurate about it or try to explain it in terms that aren’t “rude”.
So my reading comprehension is fine, it’s just your ability to actually explain what it is you agree with (in terms that aren’t “rude”) is lacking.
Ok:
- list of donors that are not all left
- parent organizations that get money from above
- mozilla gets money from parents
Op latches onto one donor; pulls some other stuff out , and the crowd goes wild
This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs
Ok, so you say the donors are not all left, so why would a politically diverse set of donors result in Mozilla having “lefties-only” hiring practices? Reading comprehension requires some critical thinking.
It seems Brendan Eich doesn’t understand that it’s a politcal diverse group that donated to Mozilla (as you do), given the next sentence. Someone with strong reading comprehension would understand logic of, but I’ll explain it to you. His statement is saying that Mozilla became a politically biased organization because of influence from those that donated to it.
Though your strong reading comprehension may have resulted in you having a different interpretation of “lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply” to mean… well maybe explain what that means to us poor illiterate people that don’t possess your intellectual prowess, LOL.
Also do you care to comment on your interpretation on the “glowies” remark? What does that word mean to you? What is Brendan Eich saying there? Something you agree with I guess.
Okay, but what’s the bad part here? That’s just a very generic overview of how donating works.
The bad part is four things:
- the op either deliberately or legitimately did not understand what was being said
- the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
- having this many comments out of whack with this many upvotes gives ammunition to the bigots
- this is a tech forum ??
the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
What part of my post isn’t something he said
We knew Eich was an asshole when he tried to support that amendment in California ages ago
can’t believe the homophobic crypto nut would also be a right wing loon
Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won’t get fooled again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.
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.
Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?
It’s always the ones you most expect
lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply
Is this racist against the Irish? I mean that is traditional, but sounds so strange.
I think this is just a CEO likening personal opinions to racial oppression. The example he chose might be a little ironic too.
“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
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.
Self hosting is increasingly the path forward for the privacy concious.
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.
Namecheep with free-tier DNS, and Zoho for email/office that respects privacy.
$46 Australian per year for a single person for Domain DNS Email Cloud storage Lots of sub+products for business use.
Not self-hosted servers … But better than MS/Google mail hosting while still secure.
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What’s proton’s change of terms? I’m not privy.
Firefox changed terms. Proton is just run by a twat.
Proton is great though.
Proton is fine, they use encryption, but don’t expect anonymity, since it’s email ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Brave browser is a litmus test.
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.
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.
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.
It’s a bloody web browser.
How many people do you think actually sit down and do in depth research and analysis into the CEO’s personal beliefs, employment history, and associations before deciding which piece of software they’ll use to look at cat pictures?
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, I have every reason to question why someone uses a browser that promotes crypto, and steals from the content creators it said it funds.
It’s a web browser. You just blanket assume everyone who uses a web browser is aware of everything that said web browsers governance has said or done.
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.
Eich is out of touch with reality and so are you
That’s an interesting opinion to have
reply to the wrong post?
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.
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.
Lol. The right only thinks they’re good at meming because you guys huff your own farts. Your memes are cringe and ass.
