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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago

What the fuck is it with the "Tech Friendly" companies going to shit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

At this point you are allowed to put "George Soros" in scare quotes too. It is a good time to be alive. /S

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is this dude schizophrenic or something? What the fuck does he mean "Irish only apply"?

[–] ILikeBoobies 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Self hosting is increasingly the path forward for the privacy concious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

the only one of these that surprised me at all was firefox going to shit, and that started months ago with a smaller thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

What’s proton’s change of terms? I’m not privy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox changed terms. Proton is just run by a twat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Proton is great though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Too bad. Already paid for premium :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

im not aware of proton changing terms, but their CEO announced he has trump's dick down his throat. well, as far as it'll reach. between his lips, at least. so they can't really be trusted to not snitch at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Proton is fine, they use encryption, but don't expect anonymity, since it's email ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I'm confused what is this about?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Not shocked the fake coin browser has a right-wing CEO.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

yeah brave always felt gross and i remember them doing shady crap for years.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours 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)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

What a clown, nothing new sadly

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Brave browser is a litmus test.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES' WILD RIDE!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Vivaldi to replace brave if Firefox is not enough

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like pretty standard far right brainrot.

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