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.

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.

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’.

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

MicroEmacs http://www.jasspa.com/

No unicode support though. For that try

https://bionic.bloovis.com/cgit/microemacs/

… but for work I still use Eclipse (sigh)

On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).

As someone posted on the forums there,

FFS….the world is literally CRAWLING with billionaires made rich and richer still on the backs of these very open source products. Can not one…ONE…of these bastards much less a small group of these global leeches set up a permanent fund so these projects can go forward into the future without bullshit like this ?

Maybe they should just do nothing, and wait for the shitstorm. After a week or so, put it out there, that maybe one of the big rich companies that have leeched off the work of open source for literally decades should, you know, STEP UP and support this critical infrastructure.

A sort of ‘general strike’, if you will. Since that seems to be the Zeitgeist these days.

I admit I may misunderstand the situation; I hear there’s a compatibility layer or something named xwayland – will that allow older apps linked against x11 to run on a wayland desktop?

I’ll have to give wayland a try again soon – if it’s stable on my laptops and I can figure out the custom keyboard layout stuff (I posted on another thread recently asking about that – sounds like there are good solutions for that) then I’ll feel comfortable moving to it finally.

Things must move on eventually, I suppose. I just really hope they reach feature parity before then. It sounds like most of the annoyances that have kept people from migrating are being tackled, so I’m hopeful.

The blog post says they’re just deprecating X11 APIs at this point; GTK5 will remove them.

I’m still very worried about this. Wayland still has many rough edges and I think forcing a move to X11 is premature. One of the main benefits of the Linux ecosystem has always been that it strived to run on hardware far longer than commercial vendors, who have gotten even worse at forcing obsolescence of hardware for purely revenue-focused reasons (looking at you, Microsoft – Win11 refusing to work on chipsets it is perfectly capable of running on…)

If it doesn’t 100% look like a Heil, and isn’t repeated twice, after buying one’s way into influence over a blatantly xenophobic candidate with a record of racism, sure.

I’ll look into those, thank you!

(I currently set up my APL keymap via .Xmodmap with xmodmap, and setxkbmap for X11 terms, and with ‘loadkeys’ for console.)

As someone who hasn’t yet moved to Wayland, how good is support these days for alternate keyboard mappings? Is this something that each individual window manager needs to support, or does Wayland itself manage them?

Not just “international keyboard” support, but truly arbitrary keyboard/symbol mapping support. I muddle in programming with APL, which needs its own key mapping with Unicode symbols.

I recall KDE had its own mapping support which used some system APL layout but I’d rather not have key mappings tied to a specific window manager.

archive.is or their mirrors should also be used, as archive.org has proven vulnerable to takedown requests from corporations, wouldn’t surprise me if they could be coerced into removing their data by USA govt request as well.

Interesting fact, thanks.

As they say though, even a broken clock can be right twice a day

Use of a phrase doesn’t automatically imply agreement with its originator.

Yeah… and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.

I happen to be insane, and enjoy that stuff. And it’s not a business server (well, not anything big anyway).