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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's fair, but in that case you might just say "they likely profited handsomely off this venture" or something similar, because if you reach for dollar amounts like that, it can kind of undermine your point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Also, and I hate to defend a homophobe here, but if we're going back to the details...

It all sprang up because he gave $1000 to the Prop 8 campaign for banning same sex marriage in California.

Scummy, to be sure, but it's not like he orchestrated the whole campaign or fully financed them. $1000 is barely enough to pay for one TV ad to play exactly one time on a local California TV station. I understand, yes, that when you add that to the rest of the donations, it was a juggernaut, but it still felt a little like punishing someone for having different politics. I also understand that it would be hard to work under someone like that knowing what his politics are, and questioning if that was going to impact fellow LGBT employees. Super valid reasons to be upset that he was put in the top leadership position.

His politics are shitty, to be sure, but a single $1000 donation definitely always seemed a little overblown to me. Especially since he chose to resign after just 11 days, while Mozilla had tried to convince him to stay on in a different role. No one in leadership roles stepped down over him, he made the choice to save the organization instead of himself. That at least showed some sense of humility. So I don't know, not the greatest guy, and his current trajectory with Brave hasn't been so great either, but he at least showed decorum in that situation.

However, that situation also put Mozilla on the defensive, having to put out a FAQ about how they weren't turning into an activist organization, or how you didn't have to ascribe to and agree on every political issue to work at Mozilla.

It was just bad business all around.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users

I agree with this post completely but for some reason you finishing with this makes me chuckle.

Oh no! Thousands! They might be able to pay rent for a month or two!

I'm just being cheeky, and while its true what they did was scummy, it also feels like a really.... smallish amount of money?

If we're literally just talking thousands, and not tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands.

But yeah, fuck Brave.

Firefox gang and Hardened Firefox gang here to stay.

Mozilla's got its own problems but that's a story for another day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They’re uncomfortable laying down so I usually don’t wear them at home

Is the only thing you do at home is lay in bed? I do plenty of stuff at home that requires me to have my glasses on all day.

I put them on in the morning and take them off before bed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Asking the real questions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does lemmy.world not let you edit your comments?

[–] [email protected] 262 points 1 year ago (56 children)

Other devs, please follow suit.

This industry needs class consciousness in it yesterday.

Just because you're paid well doesn't mean you're not being mistreated.

It's valid to be thankful for what you have but to also know you deserve more.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guys you CAN'T keep sending me down these kind of Wikipedia rabbit holes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TekWar#Adult_animated_adaptation

An adult animated adaptation/reboot of TekWar was announced in September 2021. The project will be developed and written by Matt Michnovetz and produced by Pure Imagination Studios with Shatner's Shatner Universe.

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cheers, mate! I don't use Apple stuff very often, but I do strongly respect their engineering and the fact that they're certified UNIX for macOS.

There just needs to be far less gatekeeping and acting like one solution fits all in the PC community in general.

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

It's too bad box cutters were made illegal to own or possess after 9/11. /s

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wish we could cancel Executive Orders 12333, 13355, and 13470, all of which are used against US citizens.

Thanks Reagan and Bush, motherfuckers.

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