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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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.
Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?
Most of them are.
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Is there a good mobile browser that…
- Supports adblock?
- Doesn’t have as many rendering issues as Firefox on mobile sites?
I know the latter isn’t Firefox’s fault, but it still impacts the end user.
To expand on your second point in case anyone isn’t sure what you mean:
Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different “engines”. The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.
Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don’t look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It’s not Firefox’s fault that developers are doing this – of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There’s nothing wrong with Gecko, either – if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.
(Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don’t render properly in Chrome/Edge. That’s not ideal, but I don’t care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I’m not interested in chasing mass appeal.)
Set your render scale to 50%
So you can get good old desktop pages 🥰
Ever since I switched to GrapheneOS, Vanadium has been working well. Never had a problem with Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf (except with a corporate intranet webapp that specifically required users to use Chrome).
While it’s a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.
for mobile, but for desktop theres like zen,floorp, “librefox, maybe”,etc. they all still depend on mozilla to survive though.
Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn’t great, but the developer isn’t Brave.
Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven’t tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that’s especially true for non-flagships
Firefox + ublock origin + android is the best browsing experience on mobile.
Can’t say I experienced rendering issues with ff mobile
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.
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.
Eich is out of touch with reality and so are you
That’s an interesting opinion to have
reply to the wrong post?
Lol. The right only thinks they’re good at meming because you guys huff your own farts. Your memes are cringe and ass.
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.
What’s a glowy? Like, a glowstick?
I dunno, just more identity politics from the right, apparently.
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
He’s a tragic case but god damn if this isn’t one of the funniest clips on the internet.
You-bun-two
May he code holy c in heaven. Just imagine how much potential he had
“Hello, fellow anons!”
Let’s not forget the embedded racism in the original quote from Terry: “CIA n*ggers glow in the dark.”
4chan term for a CIA plant
What like a tulip or a pansy?
Oh, it’s almost as if brave has always sucked.
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.
This kind of statement have way less impact when people already have 0 goodwill toward the one that says it.
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What’s proton’s change of terms? I’m not privy.
Proton is fine, they use encryption, but don’t expect anonymity, since it’s email ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Proton is great though.
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.
I run a small thinclient (HP Mini G400, but those small Lenovos thinkcentres and others also work) in my home. Cost me ~100€ plus a few Euro for a RAM update and a bigger hard drive and now I’m running Proxmox with the help of the Community Scripts:
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
It’s quite awesome, to be honest.
I just did a similar setup with a custom built NUC and I even got PCI Passthrough working. I want to get as many years out of this as possible. Proxmox is great.
Can I introduce you to your new best friend, Yunohost? It’s a self-hosting platform based on Linux designed to run on a shitty old laptop, SBC, USFF PC or such plugged into your router. Browser-based, loads of extensions and tools, the hardest part it installing it - it’s no more or less tricky that installing Ubuntu, but that’s still involved for many people.
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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“Glowies”? As in “glow in the dark CIA n-words”? Bro turned into Tarry Davis.
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.
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.
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.
Terry*
Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.
usually ketamine would have an opposite effect, other things like alcohol and stimulants will amplify those things. much like musk, he probably uses alcohol alot too.
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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I have some ketamine using friends, it is still way better than coke. I tried it once but dis not feel it’s effect at all 😆 the one who invited me explained it’s effect as I describe my neurodivergence symptoms 🤣 we came to the conclusion that it may makes non neurodivergent people just a bit neurodivergent 🤪
But we were stoned at a music festival, so there is that
People always say things like that as if that some kind of argument in its favor.
Being stabbed is better than being shot, but I wouldn’t consider either them to be particularly good for your health.
Oh, that was not my intention, there are far better drugs than K, even some, which don’t destroy your body.
But when I compare friends who use coke vs who use K, well, there is a big difference. Coke using people tend to get on my nerves (even if they are not on coke right now) and get dumber in some ways, while with people using K, I don’t have that.
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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% him. This is in spite of the ketamine.
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.
So it’s a narc, but if you’re racist
Ohh, Thanks I did need a dictionary for the OP, but you still left out the racist 4chan verbiage around the etymology (“CIA N*s glow in the dark”). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English
Yeah… didn’t expect Google to plain text that one for me…
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…
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.
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
If that dude got proper support, he could have done wonders; he made animated icons for his 16-color assembly-coded OS, and a simple 3d racer! All by himself!
Yeah, he was definitely talented. It’s unfortunate that he was not only schizophrenic, but also had followers that made it worse.
Damn, I didn’t know he got Chris Chan’d. Ugh. So fucking tragic.
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
How about just:
Brave: We’re not!
and downing dom perrignon for breakfast lunc and dinner.
