No, no – I think the author’s project supports the gemini hypertext protocol, not google’s “AI” monstrosity.

Once again, a rich megacorp chose a name ignoring the fact it was already taken.

Big Bang Theory, and all ‘reality’ shows.

AI for pattern recognition (statistical stuff) IMHO is fine, it’s different than expecting original thought, reasoning or understanding, which the new ‘AI’ does not do, despite the constant hype.

Good god, it’s Microsoft Songsmith all over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research_Songsmith

Data analytics firm doesn’t like … data on itself being analyzed. huh.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Writing a kernel in two languages when it has for its entire history been written in one is just asking for needless complexity.

If Rust wants to have a kernel, then perhaps port or re-write Linux in Rust from scratch as a separate project. Once it’s reached a point of being self-hosting, let ‘the market’ decide in an open competition.

If the Rust version is demonstrably superior and more secure, then it’ll naturally supplant ‘legacy Linux’.

Buy physical copies. If you can’t do that, download full installers w/no cloud launchers, and back up those mofos… and find no-CD / no-Steam / offline cracks. If that doesn’t work, torrent hacked versions as a last resort. Own your games goddammit, you paid for them.