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by ronjouch 1mo ago
uBOL bug report: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/438 , from discussion https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/discussions/408#di... uBOL doesn't
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by ronjouch 3mo ago
https://docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safety-layered-approach-so...
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by ronjouch 6mo ago
Full uBlock Origin is dead in Chrome, yes, but https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home is the next best thing if you cannot leave Chrome
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by ronjouch 6mo ago
"Ad blockers" nowadays do much more. From the horse’s mouth, which describes itself as a “wide-spectrum content blocker” [1]: “uBlock Origin (uBO) is a CPU and memory-efficient wide-spectrum content blocker for Chromium and Fir
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by ronjouch 7mo ago
Similar experience here: I setup Debian stable for my 76 yo mother, and for a 79 yo friend. Works like a charm, and the 2 years release schedule is perfect for people who don’t care about bleeding edge and would rather have stability. Unatt
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
Sadly, doing the trick with a single ball yields a FactorySingleton and scores an extra Java point, but doesn’t impress as much. We can’t have nice things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
Gaaaah, words. Yes thank you ! Coz in another thread I was mentioning both. The above post -which I can no longer edit- compares The Black Parade / TBP (a mod for Thief I / The Dark Project / TDP) to The Dark Mod (TDM, a mod
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
> the Dark Parade You probably meant The Black Parade (a mod for Thief I), not to be confused with The Dark Mod (a standalone thief-inspired game based on the Doom3 engine)
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
Agreed, thx for the additions :) . While we’re here sharing Thief goodies: 1. The essentials: TFix ( https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134733 ) and T2Fix ( https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showt
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
Both are fabulous community efforts, and I agree with the sister comment by HN user klaussilveira. Now, they are very different things: - The Black Parade is a single experience: one campaign with a beginning and end, on the oldschool Thief
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
Link: https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches
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by ronjouch 8mo ago
To Thief heads who played I and II and want more of it: play The Black Parade, an enormous mod 7 years in the making that is actually an entire new game. New gigantic maps full of secrets, style faithful to the original, weird universe, new
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by ronjouch 1y ago
This specific point about maintaining his own version of python2 to not move to python3 was addressed by Calibre contributors who did the job (that author didn't want to do) of migrating to python3.
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by ronjouch 1y ago
> the Go proverb "a little copying is better than a little dependency" What a nice way to put it! Thanks for the mention and thanks for making me discover https://go-proverbs.github.io/ .
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Indeed, one point for MacOS! I use GNOME.
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Precisely. Thank you.
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Yeah, and thx for the link to the neat crx explorer. Close to what you do, I started writing my own addon to replace a couple addons whose featureset I use only partially. For example, when I use Chromium I want 1. to customize the New Tab
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by ronjouch 2y ago
No I don’t. But Wladimir Palant is where I get most of my information on the topic (and is probably where I got this link). His blog might have a post (or a comment) that links to similar lists: https://palant.info/categorie
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by ronjouch 2y ago
For an example of a scary list of such offers, see https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
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by ronjouch 2y ago
And similar recomp projects include Zelda { Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask } and Starfox. - https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright - https://github.com/HarbourMasters/2ship2harkinian -
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by ronjouch 2y ago
If you use Firefox, have my userContent.css DIY dark mode. Or you can massage it into the syntax expected by { Arc’s custom CSS, uBlock Origin, your CSS injecter of choice }: @-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) { @media (pre
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Previous discussion: Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript (2025-01-16, 92 points), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Yes, see EDIT at the bottom of my post.
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by ronjouch 2y ago
This won't help indeed, the noJS page now is only this redirect and contains no search results. It’s a blank page with one line of text: “Please click here if you are not redirected within a few seconds”.
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by ronjouch 2y ago
DDG gets a large amount of their results from Bing: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources... Kagi I don’t know much about, but quickly reading about it, seems to indeed pay Goog. > “Whil
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by ronjouch 2y ago
That's exactly what they are doing: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><title>Google Search</title>...</head> <body> <noscript> <meta conten
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by ronjouch 2y ago
> “Edit: maybe you are thinking about the AI deal which is exclusive to Google. That's not the same thing as search engine indexing.” @mastazi that’s what I’m talking about, and I think your AI vs. indexing nuance is incorrect. I
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Google is currently the only search engine allowed to crawl Reddit, which sometimes yields good original user content of actual { non-blogspam, non-SEOed-to-hell, non-AI } value.
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Generally works for me with https://www.google.com/search?gbv=1&q=test with JS blocked at domain-level by uBlock Origin. With the caveat that this used to 100% work, but since a couple months, it indeed occasionally red
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by ronjouch 2y ago
Good recommendations, including a neat tool to audit your GHAs: https://github.com/woodruffw/zizmor , “A static analysis tool for GitHub Actions”.

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