Well I would seriously consider paying money to a team that keeps it there, if Chromium actually removes the code. I hope others will consider it as well. We need to fight this, even if it means paying some money to a foundation to do so.

There’s the futile hope I suppose that antitrust cases going on against Alphabet might force Google to divest Chrome from its advertising arm, so that there’s no pressure to make this whole thing worse. Hah, in my dreams.

I really hope some team has been following the changes in Chrome/Chromium by Google to remove Manifest v2, and has been keeping a patchset that will undo the damage? Time to make a hard fork and get some funding to try to keep it going?

There’s a way to save your already-installed extension, in “Manage Extensions…” Enable dev mode, then Pack Extension.

However the browser will probably just refuse to run it soon.

Vivaldi, for what it’s worth, seems to still run uBlock Origin just fine. I am afraid to uninstall it now to test if it’ll re-install properly.

My version: 7.1.3570.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

Might be time to finally move to Firefox though, if Vivaldi doesn’t keep Manifest V2 support.

I have heard of it yeah! Definitely want to try it out… just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Do you find the voice recognition is decent?

The Assistan/Nest devices have gone to shit as well. When I first bought one about 5 years ago, it could:

• play many games (voice-controlled text adventures, multi-player gameshow-style trivia and party games, etc.);
• play music from my Google Music Library library with no commercials;
• play podcasts from 3rd party podcast providers;
• play almost any radio station that also had livestream feeds

Now all the games are gone, and ‘podcasts’ are just the small subset of podcasters who also upload their episodes to Youtube (whatever feed they used to use had almost every podcaster there was, even obscure ones); asking for specific episodes by episode number or date is totally broken. Playing radio stations is hit or miss, the voice recognition often picks a stream completely unrelated to the one I ask for; it is waaay worse at matching the callsign/city I ask for.

Playing music is intolerable. There’s a stupid commercial for Youtube Music Premium after nearly every track. NO, I will not upgrade to your freaking Youtube Premium.

Enshittification, thy name is Google.

Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It’s point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box “this is a mirror”.

I think AI is generating negative value … the huge power usage is akin to speculative blockchain currencies. Barring some biochemistry and other very, very specialized uses it hasn’t given anything other than, as you’ve said, plain-language search (with bonus hallucination bullshit, yay!) … snake oil, indeed.

Vivaldi on Linux and Windows is still good in my experience, and so far uBlock Origin for manifest v2 still works. I hope they keep v2 support forever, forking completely if they must.

I’ll let you know once I receive mine, fate willing :)

…and for those on Linux there is ‘DeGouru’, a tool for de-DRMing internet archive books that are lending-restricted.

A bit annoying in that it is somewhat sensitive to the Python version one has installed but there are ways to manage that which I am not qualified to advise on.

Neat, will try it out.

Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.

Well, I can see where they’re coming from excuse the pun

not a threat of violence

And neither are these playing cards that no one should definitely order. I’m pretty sure he’s in there somewhere.

:)

Guess all the oligarchs are getting envious of ol’ FelonMusk and want to get in on the action…

Wow. Really. Fair enough, that’s … disappointing. Is there no other regulation/law they could have used to force the issue?

I’m not American so I’ll plead ignorance here :/

Of course it could be abused, unless it were worded carefully. All right, what other levers could the Dems use to force the issue (which I assert still needs to be done – get access to regain control of these agencies from DOGE, or make them cross the line to force if they will not back down peacefully. Otherwise the administrative, bloodless coup will continue to its completion.)

Not wanting to normalize violence after every federal election… I kind of get. It takes a lot of evidence to justify doing that (and to be clear, it’s clear to any sane person that the right-wings had not a shred of real evidence to justify their attempted insurrection).

But, as just happened last week, Congressional reps who absolutely had the right to enter a building they oversaw were illegally barred by DHS and un-uniformed goons from DOGE. No inquiries or committees required – it was on its face an illegal act. They should have pushed physically right then and there for entry, and either gained entry peacefully, or had cameras rolling if the fascists took the first step to physical violence so the next step could be taken. As it is, their useless finger-wagging and walking home with their tail between their legs has only allowed this coup to progress even further.

They took an oath to defend their nation against all threats, foreign AND domestic. “The bare minimum” they must do is to physically go to the doors of department buildings they are supposed to have authority over, accompanied by armed police or guards willing to back them up, and demand entrace.

Make no mistake, the first punch or shot MUST be from the DOGE/GOP/MAGA fascists, if they fail to back down… but the issue must be FORCED otherwise they win by default. IFF fascists first take the step to violence, then the response must be 500% right back at them, or THEY WIN BY DEFAULT.

Your comment prompted me to search and I found this util: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc

Obviously results in a larger ASCII blob than a shortened URL, but would allow use on any terminal.

This reads like AI slop. Or, even worse, new age gibberish. Also substack which is a walled-garden blog platform. Downvoted.