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Oh, is that where the name Brave came from?

I remember back when that referrer thing happened and people on reddit were tripping over themselves to justify it and explain why it's actually ok... What a joke.

I mean, he's technically better-behaving than Mozilla itself then.

But I think these endless splits over disagreements and inability to cooperate in the split state are systemic.

So maybe the whole typical-left "let's unite and make a thing and boot everyone who shows a sign of rot" is systemically harmful. See, people who show signs of rot - they are the better kind. The really bad people don't show any signs of rot until it's too late. Actually they may not show anything, be like Mozilla tops.

And also one kind of rot is not rot for some people, and the other is not rot for other group of people, and so on. It would be good to build a way of cooperation where people are impeded from cooperation only with whom they themselves disagree, and not the majority.

Same as my other idea that there should be a way of moderation, where a person's ability to choose is strengthened with all the amazing technology we have, and not with benevolent MITM.

It's always the ones you most expect

Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?

Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won't get fooled again.

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.

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.

What is a "real coin"? Like a nickel? The little pieces of cheap metal with slavers on it?

Most of them are.

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

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So it's a narc, but if you're racist

"You should consider the effects of your words and actions on other people."

Tech CEOs:

Are they getting too high on their own products?

Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.

"I know how to be an admin, thus I should run the fucking world."

When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

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I don't think it's complicated. People are in fairly small cliques, and social contagion is real. In the relatively happy case it turns you into a woman or something, in the worst case it turns you into a planet-destroying asshole.

try out graphene os if you haven't

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.

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.

How about just:

Brave: We're not!

and downing dom perrignon for breakfast lunc and dinner.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

In addition to what others said, leadership drinks a lot of their own Kool-Aid. They spend a lot of time on Twitter and such.

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

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

Of course they did...

My laziness is never getting around to trying out Brave is vindicated!

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".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/glowie-glowposting

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 in order to bait others into sharing incriminating information.

In 2017, schizophrenic computer programmer Terry Davis, known for his TempleOS software that he claimed was dictated to him by God and meant to be God's third temple, made a video showing off various aspects of TempleOS. In the video, Terry says, "The CIA n*****s glow in the dark, you can see them if you're driving. You just run them over, that's what you do."

The term "glow in the dark" refers to the obvious nature of their camouflage, leaving them exposed when they're trying to hide in the shadows.

In fairness to Brave CEO I did not know it had racist origins and only thought it referred to the last paragraph.

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

"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

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Finally somebody other than me says it!

Chromium is open source, so Google can't cut them off.

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.

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.

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.

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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

4chan term for a CIA plant

I dunno, just more identity politics from the right, apparently.

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.

Agreed, his garbage attempt at Self has caused long term ramifications for software development. We could have been using a real language for years now.

Ita basically that but instead of Vampires invading Highschoolers DMs it's men in black invading their discord channels.

I was thinking that a glowie was a handie performed outdoors on a full moon.

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.

Terry*

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

The irony that he is mad about woke when irish people were also shit fury on.

Yeah I parsed it the same way, shluld really say "CEO of BRAVE™"

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.

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

I like Vivaldi

Zen's been pretty nice so far.

I think Waterfox looks pretty great and works well for me. Not sure how different it is from Firefox Mobile itself since I switched from Chrome to Waterfox directly, but assume Firefox probably looks pretty similar.

After Firefox changed its TOS a lot of people (including me) have jumped to LibreWolf. It takes FF, removes any parts that phone home, and turns on many privacy options.

It takes a little tweaking to make all websites work correctly. I have it running almost perfectly on windoze. I tried installing on Ubuntu last night but my Linux newbie status held me back.

Try this? https://github.com/...

Turn it all off and it's no more in your face. The browser itself functions great when configured according to your needs.

Fuck their CEO though. Focus on the product. It works and consistently ranks as one of the highest orivacy based browser according to the EFF and multiple non profit sources.

Firefox + ublock origin + android is the best browsing experience on mobile.

Can't say I experienced rendering issues with ff mobile

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.)

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While it's a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.

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).

Set your render scale to 50%

So you can get good old desktop pages 🥰

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

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.

try Vivaldi.

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?

They stole money by adding donation links to content creators pages, then didn't give the donated money to the creators.

I used it as a secondary browser for a while. I didn't particularly care for it. It's a shame Edge is spyware corporate garbage because that's probably the best Chromium browser besides Ungoogled Chromium. I use Librewolf and the CachyOS browser now.

vivaldi

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.

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Lol. The right only thinks they're good at meming because you guys huff your own farts. Your memes are cringe and ass.

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.