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I understand that a high quality web browser in this modern age is really expensive to develop. Mozilla, which is like an ant compared to the gorillas called Apple and Google, needs to find the funds it takes to develop that browser and pay the people who work on it.
That said, it's really the bigger picture here that's totally fucked. The web browser is supposed to be a tool for the user, not for the advertiser. I don't give a shit about someone else's advertising, or their ability to reach me and to target my attention span. But in many ways the advertising model props up the entirety of the modern web as we know it. It's kind of a condemnation of the entire ecosystem, but I don't know if anyone has thought of a sustainable alternative model.
Further, I view it as a kind of condemnation of the modern WWW that web browsers must be so complex. It feels like half of the development of web browsers is just based on supporting advertising in some way or another, and making sure the 700 ad scripts that run when you load a page don't bring the browser to a screeching halt (a form of supporting advertising). Another 25% is dedicated to making sure crap web frameworks like React run well.
There is real innovation in the web browsing space. Wasm, WebGL, and so on. The fact that you can play a fully interactive 3d game in your web browser without having to download and run it locally is impressive. But is it all really worthwhile?
The worst thing is I don't have an answer to any of this. I realize most of this stuff is extremely dumb and pointless, but it feels like the Internet has been totally overwhelmed with AI spam, shitty websites that necessitate javascript to even view them for basic information, and endless ad and user tracking. This announcement is especially rich because Firefox is still both better than Chrome & basically second class compared to it. Many web devs (or their employers) treat Chrome like the standard and Firefox as an afterthought. I just imagine now Mozilla taking that beautiful little fire fox and caging it and poking it with cattle prods to see if it can find new ways to make its ember glow.
I'd love for an alternative to the WWW to spring up, and you'd think something like the Gemini protocol could be it. But if you've ever used it, you'd realize it kind of sucks to use. A website like hexbear wouldn't even be possible on Gemini. It had its heart in the right place but doesn't meet the moment, and IMO never will.
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Musk: mind-bendingly stupid. Succinct summary.
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They should hire me. I'd strongly push for what matters: introducing Goku as a character into every franchise. This fan demands it!!
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I'd watch this, at the least.
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Likely! Here is the KOReader support matrix for Kindle. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kindle-devices#err-there-are-four-kindle-packages-to-choose-from-which-do-i-pick
Here is the currently latest release downloads for KOReader. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/latest
Here are the latest available firmwares available per Kindle model https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GKMQC26VQQMM8XSW and I know there is an archive of some older versions. Possibly incomplete. I think Amazon and some other sites may have backups of older firmware versions, too.
And for the specific model you have you will have to research to learn how to jailbreak it. If it's as old as you say it's likely doable with relative ease.
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My first Kindle was a Kindle 4 I bought used. It was 167 DPI and when I switched to the PaperWhite3 at 300 DPI it was definitely noticeable.
A weakness of my PW3 is the lighting. It has 4 LEDs compared to the PW5's 17. The PW5 definitely has better evenness in the backlight, whereas on my PW3 you can tell exactly where the LEDs are shining their lights from along the bottom edge of the display. The PW5 also has "warmth" in the lighting, giving a much better paper look, sort of like the night light features in computer displays. Not to mention the PW5 display has more real estate. Undoubtedly, the PW5 looks much better than the PW3.
https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/qgz4zk/kindle_pw5_2021_vs_pw3_2015_photos_with_old/
THAT SAID, my PW3 works fine. I'm not rushing out the door to replace it. I stop noticing the flaws, which are relatively minor, as soon as I start engrossing myself in the book. A good book, fiction or not, will transport your mind elsewhere. The upgrade in PPI was more significant than anything else, which is why I have continued to enjoy my same e-reader for about seven years, now.
So, if you have the opportunity to buy a decent one as your first choice, I recommend it. But if you need to really save on the dollars, you will be happy with a "lower end" model, because the flaws will melt away when you spend less time thinking about the hardware and more time reading your book.
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My only concern with such a device is by being so capable and packed with more software, it will assuredly have a bigger surface area for exploitation. Especially once support for the device ends. By contrast, my Kindle barely even has a web browser. The KOReader software has some good web capability, but not in the form of a web browser.
I contacted Amazon customer service for the first time since I got my Kindle PW3 in 2017 with "Special Offers". Even after years of ads they want the full $20 to disable the special offers. I said thanks, but not for me! But as part of this process to get them to remove the special offers I preemptively turned on the WiFi on my Kindle for the first time in a long while. Somehow doing so deleted all of my Calibre-managed ebooks. I'm not kidding. BTW, if you have a kindle _do not_ connect it to WiFi! Especially if it's still on a blessed older firmware. You do not want to let it accidentally upgrade to a version that cannot be jailbroken, not until you are in full control and awareness of the upgrade process yourself. So with nothing to lose and all my ~~apes~~ ebooks... gone, I said to hell with it. I jailbroke my Kindle following [the instructions here](https://github.com/notmarek/LanguageBreak) (THANK GOODNESS I WAS ON A JAILBREAKABLE FW). This process involves wiping the contents of your Kindle, which effectively already happened to me. Then I followed the [instructions here](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=320564) to install MRPI + KUAL. MRPI is like a command line package installer and KUAL is a GUI one. In my jailbreak journey I also referenced this page https://blog.fabricemonasterio.dev/kindle-jailbreak/ for some tips and workflow ideas, including how to get a dictionary for the next step... Which brings me to the Knock Out punch of why this was at all worth it. I installed https://koreader.rocks/. KOReader is an alternative ebook reader interface. By analogy, the experience is like taking your old mp3 player and installing RockBox on it to make it actually good. KOReader is similar, but it isn't a fully alternative operating system. It just kills the default React Native interface process and loads its own when you choose to use it. It also supports epubs natively. It is way more featureful and customizable compared to the default Kindle reader. In fact, it's a bit overwhelming at first. After getting a bit more used to it, I really appreciate what it does, and the advanced customization it offers. I will admit that navigating its UI is a bit clunkier than Amazon's UI, but I will take a bit of clunky any day when it adds native epub and superior pdf support. So now I have a Kindle that can load an alternative, superior interface, get epubs pushed to it wirelessly with Calibre, shows me the book I'm reading on the lock screen, and doesn't display or present any advertisements anywhere. I really like my Kindle again. ::: spoiler WiFi notes I use WiFi to remotely push books to the kindle. You could choose to never use WiFi and manually manage the ebooks but you have to exit KOReader and use the native Kindle interface, because USB doesn't mount in KOReader on Kindle. I also use a KUAL extension called `renameotabin` to help ensure my kindle never downloads and installs a newer firmware while on WiFi. Currently the latest firmware for my Kindle, 5.16.2.1.1, is also the latest version there's a jailbreak for. But if Amazon ever decides to resume supporting what seems to be an unsupported device, I don't want to be hosed. ::: ::: spoiler Bonus thoughts on the 'special offers' I honestly did not mind the special offers when I first bought my Kindle in 2017. Sure, my lock screen was an ad but otherwise the main Kindle interface was generally unobstructed and fine to use. I mostly disabled WiFi so the loaded ads would expire eventually anyway and just revert to some generic art. One day after using my Kindle like this for years curiosity got the better of me. I thought, as many seemed to, that epub support was finally on the way, so I upgraded my Kindle. As we all found out, the feature was to send an epub by email, which Amazon then converted to an azw3. They never supported epubs on the Kindle. I must've gone from a substantially older Kindle firmware version, because now I had a brand new UI on my Kindle. And in some ways it actually was better, but in more ways it was worse. The home screen was almost nothing but ads and suggested books to buy from Amazon. I do not know what the interface looks like on a non-special-offer Kindle, but it was so aggressively in my face that it did actually impact my experience with the device. It was annoying but I lived with it until my books were wiped for no reason. Once that happened I did the jailbreak as I described above, which reformats the Kindle's disk drive, but I didn't enable WiFi. Good enough for me, I thought. I will just plug in my phone and use Calibre to manage the library. Except even in this way the default Kindle UI is aggressively annoying. Every time I visited my ebook "library" (list of ebooks on the device), an annoying pop-up appeared telling me that to cloud sync my books I had to log in. There is no way to disable this alert from popping up other than by logging into my account. So I did. I had mistakenly believed the jailbreak itself would take care of the ads, but that's not so. The ads were back after logging in. And that's what led me to research removing the ads and, ultimately, KOReader (which by default isn't even designed to remove ads). So the best route I guess would've been to jailbreak, never connect my Kindle to the Internet and then install KOReader and manage it all offline. But I don't feel like wiping it again, so I just keep it off of WiFi except for when I'm managing ebooks. :::
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Meanwhile the resident bedbug of the NYT is openly calling for escalation against Iran. If he wants it so badly, he should enlist and be sent to the front.
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I remember my friend had this Digimon game and kept getting Poop-mons. They kept turning into poops for some reason.
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100% backing this, especially since they recently moved away from that awful .NET MAUI app and made native apps for both iOS and Android.
I don't use it personally because I still just manage my passwords offline with Keepassxc on my computer, but I recommend BitWarden. Especially over Lastpass.
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Meanwhile sam altman is going to TSMC and telling them they need $7T worth of new factories to produce chips to support the amount of processors "Open"AI needs. Which is an insane amount of misspent resources, obviously, to solve exactly < 0.0% of the world's real problems.
And the TSMC execs scoffed at him and started calling him "Podcasting Bro"
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Even to this day I still use Foobar2000. Even with Linux through WINE.
No, it's not open source, but it's trim and does the job better than other players.
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TRIPLE SIX FIVE FORKED TONGUE
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i hope they both die horribly
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Ohhhhhhh so that's what tanooki Mario is?
I guess his left leg is conveniently covering his swaying balls
 sorry, i should have picked a lower resolution poster image whoops (e: fixed) Also holy shit this movie still kicks so much ass. I rewatched it recently and i was blown away by how excellent it still is 25 years later. Most movies do not age this well.
The beloved romhacking.net website is moving to read-only, and will not accept new submissions or updates. Announcement here. https://www.romhacking.net/ Commentary here for a peek behind the curtain as to why, esp. pushing back against the "dishonest and hate filled group" part of the announcement. https://cohost.org/gideonzhi/post/7131478-rip-rhdn
Consider https://arstechnica.com/robots.txt or https://www.nytimes.com/robots.txt and how they block all the stupid AI models from being able to scrape for free.
Trivially simple script to automatically decrease the horizontal margins on the chat and video containers on hextube. By default both left and right margins are 15px per container. I set them to 1px for a 56px gain in chat and video viewing area. It's free real estate. ``` // ==UserScript== // @name New script hexbear.net // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts // @match https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies* // @grant none // @version 1.0 // @author - // @description 3/1/2024, 10:31:12 PM // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; document.getElementById("chatwrap").style.paddingLeft="1px"; document.getElementById("chatwrap").style.paddingRight="1px"; document.getElementById("videowrap").style.paddingLeft="1px"; document.getElementById("videowrap").style.paddingRight="1px"; })(); ``` ##### What is ViolentMonkey? ViolentMonkey is an open source browser extension and small alternative to GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey. It can run custom JavaScript in your browser for you automatically to modify page behavior. If you install the extension you can create a new script and copy and paste the one I wrote above. Always beware of installing untrusted scripts that you don't understand.
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Original Japanese title. しあわせのお面屋がピアノを弾くようです。
FNAF the movie was bad. But the one thing that is annoying me is I cannot find anyone else in the world commenting about how Aunt Judy is killed by Golden Freddy in the family living room (btw, they can just leave the pizzeria now), and then at the end of the film they all go home and eat breakfast the next morning. No comment on the corpse rotting in their living room. It's just a massive oversight on the part of the filmmakers. It ties in nicely with the lack of scares and chills, the bewildering plot line, and massive under-utilization of some of the game's own tropes. IDK what they were trying to do with this movie, but that was some of the tamest "horror" I've ever seen in my life. And the only reason that is remarkable is because the game series it is based on is much scarier. So, my concluding remark is that the movie is bad whether you are familiar with FNAF or if it is your first exposure to the franchise.
Without realizing what I was getting myself into, I wrote some code using C11's `threads.h` (EDIT: every time I use the angle brackets `<` and `>` they just get eaten, even in the code snippet block.) I'm realizing after the fact that this is basically only supported on Linux (gcc/clang). This is my target platform, but I guess if I could cross compile to Windows or macOS that would be nice, too. C's threads nominally appear to be a great feature. Finally, a standardized and straightforward interface to threads that would be cross-platform compatible. The reality appears to be anything but. So is it worth just replacing that code with pthreads? Is there some near-term development on C threads that might make this worthwhile to use? I'm kind of surprised it hasn't really caught on some 12 years after the standard was introduced.
AntiFascist Linux, folks. Get your fresh AntiFascist Linux right here!  Primer for those who don't know what AntiX Linux is: It's a Debian derivative without Systemd. There are sysVinit and Runit versions available. AntiX can be used on newer computers, obviously, with the new release and up-to-date Linux kernel. But it is probably one of the best choices for extremely low spec hardware today, like if you have a computer you're running from the mid 2000s and insist on keeping it going. Its default desktop is run with IceWM. It will leave something to be desired, it's not the prettiest thing, but it is an extremely lean base system. Your CPU and RAM will all get blown up the moment you launch a modern web browser, of course. 
Hi. If you can buy the podcast and wish to listen, please send Brendan and Noah some dollars. Support indie creators. If for whatever reason you cannot, I have reencoded all of the episodes into 72kbps Opus for substantial space savings with a practically imperceptible quality difference, and cleaned up the metadata so the files look good in a good audio player. These files will work in any decent audio/podcast player (there are many crappy ones). I'll delete this post in the near future. {i deleted the link as i said i would}
IP is a joke. Fuck copyright. Fuck patents. Nintendo is out here patenting physics. > "The movement of movable dynamic objects placed in the virtual space is controlled by physics calculations, and the movement of the player’s character is controlled by user input. When the player’s character and a dynamic object come in contact in the downward direction relative to the character (in other words, when the character is on top of an object), the movement of the dynamic object is added to the movement of the player’s character.” These aren't even inventions. They are just obvious models of the real world that would occur to anyone who is trying to replicate physical interactions in a virtual world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics These are Japanese patents but I also have no fucking doubt a lot of this stuff has very obvious prior art even in gaming, to say nothing of other physics-based software packages.
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