De-Muskifier: Firefox add-on to replace all instances of Elon Musk with raccoons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/de-muskifier/

by thunderbong • 2 years ago

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headalgorithm• 2 years ago

If only we could replace the real Elon

gunian3• 2 years ago

Kind of surprised HN bashes Elon more than Zuck idk why lol

BoredPositron2• 2 years ago

Because he gave us some llamas to play with. That aside he is just a beaten horse nobody takes meta serious. The only thing they do is acquire or copy/paste they had no internal innovation for nearly a decade.

gunian3• 2 years ago

The life lesson I am getting is if someone gives you llamas not a good sign run like Samuel Jackson in Get Out second time I've been tricked by llamas lol

robertlagrant• 2 years ago

If only they'd do something revolutionary like give away some LLMs.

Zigurd• 2 years ago

Elon offered a pony. It's no llama but, in a way, handier.

ashoeafoot• 2 years ago

they developed the meta.stasi.verse

pkphilip• 2 years ago

Right. I find that quite puzzling. Zuck hasn't produced anything apart from a platform with very questionable business practices and which serves as a surveillance tool but somehow he gets far less pushback than Musk.

rendx2• 2 years ago

Musk is a pathological liar and madman that act 100x less ethical than the unethical Zuck and doesn't even pretend any more to have some humanitarian agenda. My couple of cents.

GuB-422• 2 years ago

Musk has a particularly obnoxious fanbase[1], it contribute to the hate Musk gets from outside this fanbase. Zuck has no real fanbase to speak of.

Musk is more politically active than Zuck, especially recently. Politics cause hate.

Musk is loud and provocative, sometimes insulting for no good reason, and has an opinion on everything. Zuck is a bit of that too, but Musk is much more.

So general idea is that out of the two, Musk is seen as the bigger asshole. A productive asshole, maybe, but no matter how productive they are, people usually don't like seeing assholes.

[1] https://medium.com/@mspies28/worst-dedicated-fan-base-tourna...

dmonitor• 2 years ago

Elon has been forcing his way into the headlines more often.

serf• 2 years ago

because those of us that do not use social media can just about entirely ignore mark zuckerberg.

one cannot avoid seeing Tesla vehicles, and the sky is littered with Starlink constellations at night, and every media outlet in the world reports on just about every SpaceX launch.

Elon Musk isn't only quarantined to social media company he bought and the occasional congressional appearance.

p.s. isn't it weird how everyone is on a first name basis with Elon Musk, and gave Mark Zuckerberg the pet name 'Zuck'?

..Maybe people with mononyms or near-mononyms should just be avoided all together..

DoctorOW• 2 years ago

HN is very engineer focused. A lot of us can relate to an incompetent executive taking credit for our work.

LightBug13• 2 years ago

Excellent ... this is the internet I remember!

Add a few more aholes that we can select and that'd be just perfect.

Thanks!!!

LightBug13• 2 years ago

> Raccoons have been observed manipulating complex latches, even opening windows or pet doors. (addons.mozilla.org)

nelblu• 2 years ago

No raccoons were harmed in the making of this extension.

That cracked me up!

doright• 2 years ago

Imagine you had the superpower to cause a not-insignificant amount of people to start shouting about this or that topic at the mere mention of you-who-must-not-be-named. I would imagine you might feel pretty powerful being able to observe your legacy woven into so many corners of the Internet without having to go out and touch them yourself anymore.

LightBug13• 2 years ago

He's still a knob though. The man who has to pretend he's a top gamer to ... well, I couldn't think of a reason why he'd make himself look so stupid.

Pathetic man-child who's lucky he has people like Gwynne Shotwell who are both excellent and don't seem to mind being out of the limelight.

Maybe that's his talent. Money and cloud cover for others to let their talent shine. The devils deal there though is that he'll never credit them either!

mrguyorama2• 2 years ago

If you don't want to see musk just get the fuck off twitter already.

Every single excuse is fake. No you aren't getting breaking news, you are getting literal propaganda and explicitly rage inducing lies, precisely because the blue check and payment system enforces it.

You are an addict.

dimator• 2 years ago

Now that you mention it, it's striking how many other networks do not mention raccoon at all.

TheAceOfHearts2• 2 years ago

A lot of artists are still using Twitter as their primary platform, especially in the Japanese community. Pixiv is an alternative, but the form of engagement and exploration is completely different.

What's really needed is better social media tools that allow you to follow specific creators regardless of what platforms they use. There's some ongoing work being done for that with video creators, but I'd love a generalized version for other media.

I also follow artists on alternative sites when they make an account available, but it's clear that for many creators the primary platform where they make big announcements is on Twitter.

tim333• 2 years ago

There's quite a lot of [racoon] off twitter also. Just glancing at todays headlines we have Germany poll, rocket explodes, will make money from UK EV policy, Trump inauguration and many more.

mrguyorama2• 2 years ago

Yes, Elon inserts himself into world events all the time and that is unavoidable, but twitter is entirely avoidable.

Millions of us never used it and never missed out on anything. Stop falling for FOMO. It's insane to me how many of the people who say "but I can't get what I get on twitter anywhere else" are objectively just "always online" style people, who have no life other than posting on twitter. People like Hank Green who I consider a good person and worthy of respect but who won't get his ass off twitter because he's addicted. He mostly admits this, but it's just silly.

Getting rid of social media addiction isn't trivial. When I was 16 I had to block all of reddit from our firewall so I could self-intervene in a burgeoning reddit addiction. I'm very lucky that worked. But I didn't go around telling people "but where else will I get my techsupport horror stories?!", I just had to suck up and admit that not reading tech support horror stories for 4 hours a night wasn't going to hurt me.

Like, imagine someone claiming that they can't stop using Linkedin. There is objectively content on there that doesn't happen anywhere else, but using that as an excuse to not stop reading Linkedin posts I would hope would be seen for the nonsense that it is.

IMO "short form blogging" is a harmful medium full stop, but that just doesn't matter because twitter doesn't own a monopoly on short form blogging and never did.

No one will be hurt by missing a tweet. Especially not nowadays, when government entities all over are transitioning to bluesky. If something is so damn important that you need to see it, it WILL escape twitter. If you want to stop seeing Elon, priority number one should be to reduce the effectiveness of twitter as a platform by getting the hell off it.

De-Muskifier: Firefox add-on to replace all instances of Elon Musk with raccoons

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