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Is this racist against the Irish? I mean that is traditional, but sounds so strange.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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I think this is just a CEO likening personal opinions to racial oppression. The example he chose might be a little ironic too.
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This kind of statement have way less impact when people already have 0 goodwill toward the one that says it.
I didn't know that word.
Noun
glowie (plural glowies)
- (Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.
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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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...
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.
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
If that dude got proper support, he could have done wonders; he made animated icons for his 16-color assembly-coded OS, and a simple 3d racer! All by himself!
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So it's a narc, but if you're racist
Not his first time having a public melty over woke themes. What is it about tech CEOs and advanced brain rot? Are they getting too high on their own products?
"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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Engineer Syndrome. You get mildly good enough at writing Javascript to sell a product and then assume that means you can fix all of society's problems
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We knew Eich was an asshole when he tried to support that amendment in California ages ago
For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.
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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For a native English speaker who understands everything he wrote: you're 100% correct. It is a core dump.
Oh right - that's why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.
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What's a glowy? Like, a glowstick?
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
He's a tragic case but god damn if this isn't one of the funniest clips on the internet.
May he code holy c in heaven. Just imagine how much potential he had
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The fact that he invented Javascript alone makes him a villain. Everything he did after that is just complementary.
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Is there a good mobile browser that...
- Supports adblock?
- Doesn't have as many rendering issues as Firefox on mobile sites?
I know the latter isn't Firefox's fault, but it still impacts the end user.
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).
While it's a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.
for mobile, but for desktop theres like zen,floorp, "librefox, maybe",,etc. they all still depend on mozilla to survive though.
Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn't great, but the developer isn't Brave.
Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven't tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that's especially true for non-flagships
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