Well, 1st, your sources are are weak here. However, it is a fact Brave is also run by con artists and swindlers.

The issue many users have is compatibility. Firefox zealots ignore the fact IT folks must work with Chromium. I cannot get the tools I need to work reliably on Firefox (or LibreWolf, Mullvad, etc.).

So, within the Chromium limitation, , I work on 7 systems regularly, I must have bookmark replication, MacOS/Linux/Windows/Android support:

Ungoogled Chromium = rough, no bookmark replication Vivaldi = worse than Brave, because no full source code Opera = Chinese Iridium = Indian Brave = source code available, privacy focused Edge = lol Chrome = lol

Winner? Brave. I use it with Pi-hole DNS on my home network, forced to use it with work DNS on their networks. I do also use LibreWolf (aka Firefox) with the Mullvad extension. I use it along with Brave, and hopefully at some point I can switch. I've tried 3 times in recent years, but too many web interfaces have Firefox issues, since it's blatantly not being used to QA websites anymore.

Storage Engineer, Storage Consultant, Storage Architect

then mix in netapp, pure , dell emc, ecs, storage grid, cleversafe, etc.

I'm referring to BIG storage, private clouds, data lakes, etc. For example, my primary customer, In three years we've grown the object storage footprint by 100 petabytes. The rest of the global footprint across 110 sites is another 95PB. Commodity services do not scale, and global data transmission is typically custom tailored to the user requirements. Thinks like a 1st pass at the edge in 15 remote test sites, each crunching 100TB of raw data down to 10TB for transmission back to core, and that process happens on a clock. Other binary distribution uses cases, transmitting 50GB jobs from other continents back to core for analysis. It's all still custom. Then there's all the API back end work, to build out all the customer accessible storage APIs, numerous challenges there.

Everything in IT infrastructure is done "as code" now. If you know how to code, but want to do something with real hardware and solve real problems, I'd go that route. To be more specific, IT Storage has a massive shortage of people, and it is weirdly neglected as a target career by younger folks.

I know how to code in python, powershell, C, REST APIs, etc., but I cannot stand just sitting and coding for any length of time. HOWEVER I do like writing snippets of code to solve problem and automate infrastructure. Look a NetApp certifications, Pure Storage, or one of the other leading vendors. If you're already familiar with S3 protocol / Object Storage, look at those options. I had a position open that paid $120-140k starting salary that we had open for 9 months last year until it was cancelled. We interviewed a mountain of people, we just couldn't find a solid candidate, and the bar was pretty low. Storage is also becoming a more and more critical part of security, as protecting intellectual property stored on storage is critical for practically every major company.

I work in IT and had to abandon Firefox because of compatibility issues that came up on a regular basis. it appears companies are simply not using it as part of their QA anymore. Also, in general the GUI theming has issues for me with the font and distinguishing highlights with my crappy vision. I tried every theme out there and for some reason apparently people writing themes just don't care to make it so you can see what is highlighted and what is not. Even The default theme sucks in my opinion. There were a number of other nits that I just kept having issues with - getting prompted on eBay to verify my identity for no reason, repeatedly, which doesn't happen on chromium and stuff like that.

I wish Apple would adopt the Firefox rendering engine and take Safari cross platform. It would give Firefox a fighting chance at the overall market.

I wish I still had a Facebook account to post this too so the right wingers would see it.

"She fell funny"

It's really not a rumor at this point, she informed the courts to set aside an entire week just to deal with the indictments. That's a lot of time just for that.

Always before the political party would be pretending to care. The GOP ISN'T EVEN PRETENDING. They've embraced extremist fuse like banning abortion and various other wildly unbelievably unpopular things. There is massive support for gun safety legislation, for tax relief for everyday people rather than corporations, for medical care reform, younger people support science and the GOP is blatantly anti-science in every way possible, just over and over again, there is absolutely nothing at all to attract younger voters or even middle-aged voters. The pendulum will never swing back as it stands today.

We have no example anything like what we're seeing now. Those turning 18 are 87% blue. Every day boomers die, kids turn 18, and 83,000 votes change to blue - every day. The demographics are staggering. Want to know why the "red wave" was a pink trickle? That's why. At no point in US history in the last 150 years have we seen anything like this. The GOP will lose the Presidency in 24 - there will be over 5 million new blue voters, and people aren't turning red as they age anymore. The GOP will lose the House and Senate too. Attrition via death - the red side doesn't have enough voters left.

Well, fork, I hadn't looked at this team behind Brave. I use both Firefox and Brave. Bye bye Brave...

I am using Sync, and I paid for a year of it. A year from now, I'll evaluate and maybe pick something else. Do I care if it costs a tiny bit of $ for a solid app experience that performs better than the rest, because it has dedicated development resources? Nope. Having read the details on what data is collected, do I have privacy concerns? Nope. Do I think folks have gone a little over the top about certain things? Yes. Bad enough having to leave reddit without making it even more complicated.

Delusional that they think distributing that book in that country will promote tolerance. "So, tell me more about your 'Prophet' that marries 9 year old girls...".

Of The seven Trump voters in my immediate family and friends list, zero voted for him in 2020. what do you think he has done to change that since then? I have queried them and none of them support him anymore still, quite the opposite, after the insurrection they consider him a traitor, and only one of them is skeptical about the current court cases against him. The rest expect him to go to jail, legitimately.

#Yet another anti-abortion anti-clean air GOP piece of garbage. From her bio:

** New Hampshire Attorney General Clean air emissions standards Ayotte joined Attorneys General from eight other states to sue federal regulators over a rules change that made clean air emissions standards for power plants less strict and eliminated clean air reporting and monitoring requirements.[16][17]

In 2005, the court agreed with Ayotte and the others that the Environmental Protection Agency must measure changes in the emissions from power plants and could not exempt power plants from reporting their emissions.[17]

Prosecution of murder cases As assistant attorney general, Ayotte prosecuted two defendants for the 2001 Dartmouth College murders in Etna, New Hampshire.

As attorney general, Ayotte prosecuted the high-profile case surrounding the 2006 murder of Manchester police officer Michael Briggs in the line of duty. It resulted in a conviction and death penalty sentence.[18] Members of Briggs's family praised her leadership in television ads for her 2010 Senate campaign.[19][20]

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Main article: Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England In 2003, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire found the Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act, a New Hampshire law requiring parental notification of a minor's abortion, unconstitutional, and enjoined its enforcement. In 2004, New Hampshire Attorney General Peter Heed appealed the ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which affirmed the district court's ruling. In 2004, Ayotte appealed the First Circuit's ruling to the Supreme Court, over the objection of incoming Democratic Governor John Lynch. Ayotte personally argued the case before the Supreme Court.[citation needed] The Supreme Court unanimously vacated the district court's ruling and remanded the case back to the district court, holding that it was improper for the district court to invalidate the statute completely instead of just severing the problematic portions of the statute or enjoining the statute's unconstitutional applications.[21] In 2007, the law was repealed by the New Hampshire legislature, mooting the need for a rehearing by the district court.[22]

In 2008, Planned Parenthood sued to recover its attorney fees and court costs from the New Hampshire Department of Justice.[23] In 2009, Ayotte, as attorney general, authorized a payment of $300,000 to Planned Parenthood to settle the suit.[24]

I was playing off the fact that Israel is about to become a full-blown dictatorship (duh). Sucks to be these people, sure.

I don't see them all that differently than idiot anti-vaxxers dropping dead of COVID, or wacko 7th Day Adventist no blood transfusion morons dying of an infected finger going septic.

It's actually the original spelling. That is what you respond to? lol

There is an entire nation of educators that do have those credentials that are disputing Florida's nonsense. Meanwhile The state itself is hemorrhaging teachers, and the insurance rates have gone so high due to repeated hurricanes that my cousin, an extremely rich and successful real estate broker, is leaving the state because real estate is now imploding there. The anti-immigrant law that the far-right legislature there passed, has left the entire construction industry at a standstill as well as wreaking havoc in the agricultural industry. Meanwhile the insurance industry is flat-out leaving the state because there's no way to make money there. At the same time Desantis and the legislature are doing nothing to evolve Florida building codes and harden the infrastructure to keep the State livable in a world with multiple major hurricanes per season.

At any rate, Florida is just plain f#cked - the exodus has begun and Desantis is adding fuel to the fire.

I think if you spend your life believing ridiculous nonsense, prompting you to live in a country run by corrupt goons, a country with laws that allow them to do stuff like this, you shouldn't be surprised when it happens.

If you think after the epic loss Drumpf suffered last time, PR from all these criminal trials is somehow good... wow. Also, if you think pollsters didn't learn from 2016... wow.

Facepalm - trying to justify teaching that slavery was in any way good...

It will be hilarious to watch it unfold, given the polling with independents on Trump is already in the toilet.

Is deportation from Israel considered a bad thing by anyone at this point?

If by leftwing you actually mean we support science, facts, and freedom, yes, it's leftwing. If you're looking for and acceptance of book-banning, anti-science, anti-woman, anti-lgbtq, anti-vax, cook-the-planet, fascist, Russia-loving, Qanon-believing, insurrectionist support, then you want exploding-heads lemmy server. It's kind of hard to be "conservative" on the internet these days, because it implies support for that sort of stuff.

I've used "Firefox" since Mozilla 1995 0.x release. It's great software, but it has issues. I use Brave as primary these days, because the entire internet is QA'd with Chromium, and FIrefox just hits too many issues, even on the most recent versions. I use Firefox as secondary every day though too. I need multiple browsers to separate o365 AD creds.

Well, what in the world is a "moderate" these days? I don't know of a middle stance anymore. On one side in the USA we have book-banning, anti-science, christofascist, anti-woman, anti-lgbtq, isolationist, traitors with the average IQ of a potato. On the other side we've got the Democrats, who's policies align with the 1990s GOP.

So, what is a "moderate"? You agree with abortion banning, are anti-vax, and deny climate change? BUT you don't believe in Jewish space lasers, you don't support insurrections, and you're ok with birth control?

You see the issue here? The tag "moderate" doesn't work anymore. Just as there's no middle ground between Ukraine and Russia. It's why nobody here is going to take you seriously. Go use one of the de-federated echo chambers if you want support for whatever crazy bits you believe.

I am still considering taking an SGI Indy case and using it with a complete mini-PC inside. The thing I never did was look to see if the startup sound was admitted from the motherboard or if it's some external device inside the case. I would definitely want the startup sound :)

https://youtu.be/CH9saUP2460

I'm game - retro SGI hardware FTW! Indigo, Indigo2, Indy, O2, Octane, all crazy designs. l miss my Frankenstein MacBook original with 9600 baud modem and OS6. Or the Macintosh color with 9" CRT. Then there's the Amiga, the NeXTcube, DEC Alphas... and on and on.... I remember the liquid cooled Crays, thos were fun.

The Linux Kernel and operating system in general. It is simultaneously my favorite and I hate that it killed my prior favorite, the SGI Irix operating system. I was there at the beginning, from kernel 1.1 through today. I remember telling regional directors at silicon graphics that Linux was the future and them disparaging that opinion.

That, and who the h3ll wants to give the idiot Elon any money after the way he's acting? And then the quality issues... steering wheels falling off, I mean, good grief.

Any recent Tesla model.

Ah, I see, In your head banning military style weapons of mass death is equated to banning everything. Got it. It's difficult to have discussions with somebody so simple minded.

idiot. My daughter's school had four lockdowns due to active shooter alerts in the last school year alone.

You're lost cause, I'll stop responding now..

Well, 15 if you discount the 50 cal TC Omega black powder. I've an 8mm Mauser kar98 complete with WWII Nazi symbols, My bird guns include a Browning 16ga o/u and a Remington 1100 3.5", there's a 22 Marlin in there, a 44 mag Pardner single shot for sabots, etc etc etc.

Just because I own and use a good number of firearms, that doesn't mean I'm brainwashed by the corrupt, sleazy NRA.

I own 16 guns. I support banning AR-15 style assault weapons, gun owner insurance (like car insurance), and I am donating time and money to get it done. I work every day with Europeans. Their kids don't have "active shooter" drills. My daughter is scared to death of going to school, and I don't blame her. This has got to stop.

That's nice to say, but divorced from real-world reality. I think you should tell that to the rest of the GOP who support corporate welfare by failing to raise the minimum wage. Walmart wouldn't exist if they paid a "fair wage" and every time it comes up to force a fair wage? It gets blocked because it would hurt businesses. So which is it?

DeSantis just shot the citrus industry and construction industry in the head with both barrels. It's short-sighted and foolish, and they're already panicking based on their statements. An intelligent, reasoned administration would have identified that it was a bad idea to, you know, kill the citrus industry. It would proposed and passed a comprehensive multi-year plan to phase out immigrant labor and potentially worked with the federal government to create work program visas like they do out west. Did they do that? No. Why? Because they're idiots.

Meanwhile, crops rot on the vine, food prices will rise, farms will go bankrupt. real estate is nose diving, and Florida continues to fall further into the bottom third of states in every ranking that counts.

By no measure is it a 'minor jolt', and that statement reveals your complete ignorance of the magnitude of the situation. We're talking almost the ENTIRE FLORIDA CITRUS CROP - there's no one to harvest it. You think they're going to somehow raise wages and magically workers willing to do that work will appear? /facepalm

Ukraine is going to use them as responsibly as possible too - it's their home turf. Versus the Russians, that use them on civilians:/

And frankly, the future of the world is at stake, the skies are filled with smoke and the planet is burning and we are currently in the sixth mass extinction of species on the planet. having a conservative court will potentially cause problems as we attempt to deal with climate change moving forward. there is no choice but to pack the court.

Gven the demographics, the fact that 87% of new voters are registering blue, there's little chance of the Republicans holding the house and practically zero chance of them taking the Senate. Assuming That's the case, they can pack the court with a bunch more moderates, induced term limits, impeach the corrupt Clarence Thomas and Justice lido, and set a static ratio for the number of justices versus the population of the country. There there's no demographic scenario where that would be reversed, at least not any time in the foreseeable future with 83,000 votes turning blue everyday.