Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros
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"Glowy" sounds like a perjorative for the sparkly vampires from Twilight.
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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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Has been since he got ousted from Mozilla for funding anti-gay stuff
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For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.
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It's a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached
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...
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What’s a glowie?
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"You should consider the effects of your words and actions on other people."
Tech CEOs:
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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 -
The originator of the term is the late Terry Davis, a paranoid schizophrenic and developer of TempleOS. He used to go on angry rants about "glow in the dark CIA niggers", or glowies for short.
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It is a long story but to make short: spooks, feds etc
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Yeah I parsed it the same way, shluld really say "CEO of BRAVE
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Oh right - that's why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.
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Ita basically thaylt but instead of Vampires invading Highschoolers DM's it's men in black invading their discord channels.
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My laziness is never getting around to trying out Brave is vindicated!
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He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part
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Oh, wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that.
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Oh, is that where the name Brave came from?
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Brave evangelists in shambles.
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For a native English speaker who understands everything he wrote: you're 100% correct. It is a core dump.
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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.
