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

54 points by thunderbong 2y ago

headalgorithm 2y ago
If only we could replace the real Elon
gunian 2y ago
Kind of surprised HN bashes Elon more than Zuck idk why lol
- BoredPositron 2y 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.
  - gunian 2y 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 2y ago
    If only they'd do something revolutionary like give away some LLMs.
    - BoredPositron 2y ago
      I am drowning in open weights...
  - Zigurd 2y ago
    Elon offered a pony. It's no llama but, in a way, handier.
  - ashoeafoot 2y ago
    they developed the meta.stasi.verse
- throawayonthe 2y ago
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- pkphilip 2y 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.
  - rendx 2y 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.
    - xhkkffbf 2y ago
      I get the opposite impression. People (like you) hate him because he's a pathological truth teller. He can't help but speak opinions that people don't want voiced.
      - yoyohello13 2y ago
        I really didn’t have an opinion on Elon. However, now that he is the most powerful man in the world and seemingly directing his vast wealth to act as an unelected leader in the US. I think he deserves some more scrutiny.
      - TheAceOfHearts 2y ago
        He has a history of lying and making exaggerated claims. Back in 2016 he was selling this lie that by 2018 you'd be able to summon your car from New York to Los Angeles autonomously [0]. Well, it's 2025 and he still hasn't done anything even close to that, not even as a proof of concept. If their autopilot is actually that great, prove it by having the car autonomously drive from one end of the country to the other, even if it's done under supervision. Most recently, Elon has been caught lying about something as petty as being good at a game called Path of Exile 2. He pays someone to boost his account to a really high level in hardcore, and then pilots it for a few minutes on a livestream. Something has to be wrong with him, to think that he can fool people into thinking that he somehow grinds insane hours as CEO of multiple companies while somehow also grinding the insane number of hours that it would take to reach the top of the leaderboards in PoE2. There's just not enough hours in the day... If someone is willing to lie and cheat over something as mundane as a video game ranking, do you really think he wouldn't lie about something when there are significant resources on the line? [0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
- aaron695 2y ago
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- dmonitor 2y ago
  Elon has been forcing his way into the headlines more often.
- serf 2y 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..
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- DoctorOW 2y ago
  HN is very engineer focused. A lot of us can relate to an incompetent executive taking credit for our work.
LightBug1 2y ago
Excellent ... this is the internet I remember! Add a few more aholes that we can select and that'd be just perfect. Thanks!!!
- LightBug1 2y ago
  >> Raccoons have been observed manipulating complex latches, even opening windows or pet doors. (addons.mozilla.org) 23 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
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nelblu 2y ago
> No raccoons were harmed in the making of this extension. That cracked me up!
doright 2y 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.
- LightBug1 2y 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!
mrguyorama 2y 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 2y ago
  Now that you mention it, it's striking how many other networks do not mention raccoon at all.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y 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 2y 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.
  - mrguyorama 2y 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.

54 points by thunderbong 2y ago

headalgorithm 2y ago

If only we could replace the real Elon

gunian 2y ago

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

BoredPositron 2y 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.
- gunian 2y 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 2y ago
  If only they'd do something revolutionary like give away some LLMs.
  - BoredPositron 2y ago
    I am drowning in open weights...
- Zigurd 2y ago
  Elon offered a pony. It's no llama but, in a way, handier.
- ashoeafoot 2y ago
  they developed the meta.stasi.verse
throawayonthe 2y ago
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pkphilip 2y 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.
- rendx 2y 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.
  - xhkkffbf 2y ago
    I get the opposite impression. People (like you) hate him because he's a pathological truth teller. He can't help but speak opinions that people don't want voiced.
    - yoyohello13 2y ago
      I really didn’t have an opinion on Elon. However, now that he is the most powerful man in the world and seemingly directing his vast wealth to act as an unelected leader in the US. I think he deserves some more scrutiny.
    - TheAceOfHearts 2y ago
      He has a history of lying and making exaggerated claims. Back in 2016 he was selling this lie that by 2018 you'd be able to summon your car from New York to Los Angeles autonomously [0]. Well, it's 2025 and he still hasn't done anything even close to that, not even as a proof of concept. If their autopilot is actually that great, prove it by having the car autonomously drive from one end of the country to the other, even if it's done under supervision. Most recently, Elon has been caught lying about something as petty as being good at a game called Path of Exile 2. He pays someone to boost his account to a really high level in hardcore, and then pilots it for a few minutes on a livestream. Something has to be wrong with him, to think that he can fool people into thinking that he somehow grinds insane hours as CEO of multiple companies while somehow also grinding the insane number of hours that it would take to reach the top of the leaderboards in PoE2. There's just not enough hours in the day... If someone is willing to lie and cheat over something as mundane as a video game ranking, do you really think he wouldn't lie about something when there are significant resources on the line? [0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
aaron695 2y ago
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dmonitor 2y ago
Elon has been forcing his way into the headlines more often.
serf 2y 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..
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DoctorOW 2y ago
HN is very engineer focused. A lot of us can relate to an incompetent executive taking credit for our work.

LightBug1 2y ago

Excellent ... this is the internet I remember! Add a few more aholes that we can select and that'd be just perfect. Thanks!!!

LightBug1 2y ago
>> Raccoons have been observed manipulating complex latches, even opening windows or pet doors. (addons.mozilla.org) 23 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments

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nelblu 2y ago

> No raccoons were harmed in the making of this extension. That cracked me up!

doright 2y 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.

LightBug1 2y 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!

mrguyorama 2y 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 2y ago
Now that you mention it, it's striking how many other networks do not mention raccoon at all.
TheAceOfHearts 2y 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 2y 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.
- mrguyorama 2y 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.