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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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11 points

mozilla is having another wee purge on the foundation side

this shit reads exactly like corporate raider playbook

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10 points

“Our mission at Mozilla is more high-stakes than ever,” wrote Syed in an email to staff, a copy of which was shared with TechCrunch. “We find ourselves in a relentless onslaught of change in the technology (and broader) world, and the idea of putting people before profit feels increasingly radical.”

“which is why we don’t”

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5 points

Its times like these which make me happy I switched to Librewolf.

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3 points

Is it based on Chromium?

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5 points

No, it’s supposed to be “firefox with all the weird mozilla pitch decisions removed” but it seems they still struggle to catch some

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8 points

last I saw that wasn’t really well-insulated from upstream’s bullshit

one of the recent things moz pulled ended up enabled in librewolf on basically the same day/timeline

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