C# development was spearheaded by Anders Hjelsberg, one of the brains behind Borland Delphi/Object Pascal.

It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.

Cypherpunks, arise!

There’s a dedicated tool named sshguard which works nicely.

Bedeviled NXP/ARM SDK stdlib. Hate it, we need \n\r there. Why!!! What a PITA.

… but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.

Just be sure to check support before buying any newish laptop. I really like my ASUS Duo Pro 2024, but ASUS adamantly refuses to lift a finger for proper Linux support for special features. Even the audio chipset which is standard somehow doesn’t work with default kernels due to something they’ve done. Dual screen can be made to work with some scripting-fu, but the keyboard’s multimedia keys just don’t work at all.

Vote with your wallets and be noisy to those brands who don’t support Linux well. Let them know if lack of Linux support was why you didn’t buy.

Yup, DVD players suffered from the bad caps a lot back then as well, it was always one or two specific electrolytics in the power supply.

First let’s cut the biggest energy wasters – crypto mining and ‘AI’.

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.

…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.

This reads like AI slop. Or, even worse, new age gibberish. Downvoted