Brendan went on in 2015 to become the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, which is promoted as a privacy browser by hiding and confusing your JavaScript fingerprints.

Altering links to add affiliate tags, selling data.. privacy my ass.

Who says you're not allowed to? Go ahead, nobody will stop you.

He was always an idiot, he had South African mine money to waste is the difference between him and the idiots you already know.

Because it needs an extra dongle that isn't free and most headphones use an ordinary audio jack.

Charging while listening.

And above all, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

trying to hijack the company

wut

They're harassing in the sub-500K range now too.

whose code you can audit

More like whose code is audited by someone or someones you choose to trust. Let's be honest here, average Joe isn't auditing shit.

This brings a disturbing thought to mind.. if an instance domain name like foo.bar lapses and someone else snaps the domain up (or of it gets stolen) can the new controller plop Lemmy on a server and be instantly federated? If so what kind of damage could they do?

Try unblocking the ntp.org connections.

Many of those left on reddit, not all but many, are the ones who were happily shitting on the mods who were protesting. Fuck those trolls, they voted for the Leopard Party. The rest of us did a data request like it said when the shenanigans started because the writing was on the wall.

and is trying to counter it by throwing them some spare cash.

Reddit has no spare cash, Steve has pissed away better than three quarters of a billion dollars in venture capital. It'll probably be RedditBux or an NFT or something.

They're getting no end of grief from bad/paid actors though.