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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

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[–] febra 9 points 45 minutes 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.

[–] Naevermix 7 points 46 minutes ago

Sounds like pretty standard far right brainrot.

[–] meliaesc 2 points 47 minutes ago

That's a damn shame. Any other browsers look good on a tablet?

[–] TheLastOfHisName 24 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Old guy, here...

WTF is a "glowie"?

[–] febra 10 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

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 3 points 39 minutes 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.

[–] LupertEverett 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It comes from Terry A. Davis's description of CIA, FBI and the like: "They glow in the dark"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That statements is actually infused with some racial epithets.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 hours ago

Brave has always seemed shady to me. I mean it has built in crypto spam.

[–] slaacaa 38 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

brave is just chromium, i wonder when google wants to cut them off down the line.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

Most of them are.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Good thing I quit brave a few years ago when they did that Crypto shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Of course they did...

[–] arotrios 66 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] ivanafterall 17 points 7 hours ago

How about just:

Brave: We're not!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic.

It's a dissociative. Its effects are more like PCP than like alcohol. I wouldn't use the term "psychedelic" for its effects-- the biochemical pathways are different as well.

Heard it messes up your bladder.

The metabolites burn your bladder severely enough that you can end up pissing blood. The body load seems to be high as well, frequent users look grey and washed-out, and it damages your cognition.

Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term.

I've known a few. They started fiending like junkies, lost jobs, destroyed relationships. It's a dirty drug and, unless you're getting professional treatment for PTSD, the best advice I can give is to avoid it and to avoid people who use it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

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

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