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

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

        • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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          2 days ago

          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.

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Eich should have been banned from any technical enterprise after inflicting Javascript on us all. His shitty views just reinforce that position further.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      fuck it, just call him “The JEW George Soros” so everyone understands where your opinions lie.

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      He’s got a “white guys are persecuted” complex because people call him out for abusing gays, trans people, women and minorities. He’s comparing that to the not-very-effective anti-Irish prejudice in the 19th century. Unlike the murderous attacks on Black Americans and Chinese immigrants, it was never ensrined in law and was largely ignored: Irish people could vote, marry who they wanted to, own property, run businesses and hold political office. The main sources of anti-Irish animusat the time were the Know Nothing party and its friends in the KKK. Both hated the Irish for being Catholic.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Historically Irish people were hated in the US and you would often find “No Irish” on job postings

      It is used as a substitute for minority in the CEO’s context as a way to say Mozilla allowed minorities to apply for jobs

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      some idiot that poisoned the internet from the very beginning is an asshole.

      This jackass wrote js in 2 weeks at netscape and now nulls aren’t equal to other nulls.

      • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        We could have had Scheme in the browser instead, but the control freaks won and we got saddled with an inferior language instead, misleadingly named after Java because it was so long ago that some people still thought Java was cool.

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      They grew up getting their heads shoved into toilets, and are now eager to shove somebody else’s head into the toilet. I’m in my mid-30s, and I absolutely remember the teachers turning a blind eye to a bunch of kids ganging up on me with sticks in middle school, only to get detention for hitting them back with the book of arthurian legends I was trying to read.

      We basically got taught that bullying is a good thing the strong do to the weak, and it fucked up multiple generations.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That’s the thing. They always were shit, just with Trump’s War on Woke, they now feel like the money they’ve always spent on good will of the public, DEI programs, keeping a muzzle on the racist/misogynistic/bigoted person running the company isn’t really needed. Now all that “wasted” money can go where it belongs…into shareholder profits.

  • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

      • DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days 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.

        • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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          2 days ago

          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.

        • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
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          2 days ago

          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.

          • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            2 days ago

            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.

        • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 days ago

          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.

  • nonducor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    For those looking for alternatives, there are a number Firefox forks such as Mullvad and Librewolf and then there’s Chromium and it’s various forks (just avoid Edge and, now, sadly, Brave)

    • ycnz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Vivaldi’s UI is so irritatingly laggy. Their feature set is great, but my 5800x3d can’t make it change tabs smoothly and quickly.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I love Cromite, in that case. Lightning fast, barebones like Chromium, and has the best built in anti-fingerprinting I know of.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Vivaldi is a very good browser, but if you want to support open web standards it would be better to use a non-Chromium-based browser like one of the Firefox derivatives. Also Vivaldi is closed source. Still, I do like Vivaldi.

      • MiikCheque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Of course ff over everything. Zen browser is nice too. I say Vivaldi because of the chromium/blink rendering engines, Vivaldi has a consistent track record. They haven’t tried to push any crypto down your throat and uBo still functions. They offer a different experience and welcome their community feedback

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days 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.

        • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yeah, a lot of people say things like “a BloingCoin is worth €1000” or “1 PissBux is worth more than a barrel of oil” but, like, so what? I know how many apples I can buy with €1 (about two). How many apples can I buy with a BloingCoin or a PissBux? Or, for that matter, a barrel of oil?

            • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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              6 hours ago

              Exactly this. People who buy crypto with Real Money only do so in the expectation that they’ll later be able to sell it for more Real Money. By design, it doesn’t represent labor, materials, services, anything of actual worth, it just sucks the value out of fiat currency like a parasite.