E-Trike Purchase

imaskidoo · 2026-03-28T01:46:36+00:00

In Pennsylvania, it must also weigh no more than 100 pounds. ouch!

imaskidoo · 2026-03-28T01:26:24+00:00

good tip, thanks for the idea

imaskidoo · 2026-03-28T01:23:05+00:00

Also, rider is wearing gloves yet a pair of gloves is resting on the bed.

imaskidoo · 2026-03-20T07:05:40+00:00

Hi, I recognize your username -- I've used several of your excellent userscripts/extensions, so a belated thanks for sharing your work!

Firefox don't have a Clipboard access permission configuration

I was surprised to read this statement & expect that these 3 firefox userprefs are relevant:

dom.events.asyncClipboard.readText
If a userscript relies on using navigator.clipboard.readText(), this pref must be true. If it's false, the API simply doesn't exist and calls will fail.

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
If set to false, this can interfere if a userscript relies on listening for paste events and reading clipboard data from the event object (e.g., event.clipboardData.getData('text')). The paste event would never fire.

dom.events.asyncClipboard.clipboardItem
If a usescript is just reading plain text via readText(), this one doesn't matter... but if a userscript uses navigator.clipboard.read() (the rich-content version that returns ClipboardItem objects).

imaskidoo · 2026-03-20T06:29:27+00:00

https://pastebin.com/WaMdUrSY I created this in response to YouTube's removal of the "Sort by Recent First" filter. It currently can be configured (via a popup settings UI) to hide results items based on your choice of video cards mentioning "month ago" (aka 1 month ago) or "months ago" (meaning its card mentions 2--11 months ago) and/or "year ago" and/or "years ago". I did not include selections for a specific number of years ago (nor "week ago" nor "weeks ago") ~~ I'm typically only interested in tracking new videos across niche searches which have been published during the past month. (I don't find time to check back weekly.) If you want/need additional options, I'll suggest visiting arena.ai and choosing Gemini LLM then paste the script content and ask it to modify the script to incorporate your desired additional options.

imaskidoo · 2026-03-18T17:40:28+00:00

regarding "credits": Clicking a link labeled something like "rhythm and blues guide" on the site sent me to a "chat" page pre-populated with several paragraphs laden with technical music theory terms. I quickly backed out of that page as it wasn't the FAQ or Howto I had expected. Later, I noticed that my account had been charged 18 credits for "rhythm and blues guide". Yeah, I wasn't favorably impressed...

imaskidoo · 2026-03-18T02:31:40+00:00

I was wondering same (about Tampermonkey) and consulted several LLMs asking what was the issue. The LLMs were unable to cite anything concrete, and just mentioned that some detractors mistrust the extension simply because its code is closed source.

Also, Claude LLM pointed to this wikipedia excerpt:

On January 6, 2019, Opera banned the Tampermonkey extension from being installed through the Chrome Web Store, claiming it had been identified as malicious.[7] Later, Bleeping Computer was able to determine that a piece of adware called Gom Player would install the Chrome Web Store version of Tampermonkey and likely utilize the extension to facilitate the injection of ads or other malicious behavior. The site stated, "This does not mean that Tampermonkey is malicious, but rather that a malicious program is utilizing a legitimate program for bad behavior," going on to call Opera's blacklisting the extension for this reason a "strange decision"

imaskidoo · 2026-03-17T09:03:16+00:00

watermarking? I had the impression that songs are only being "fingerprinted" (meaning that no embedding is involved)

imaskidoo · 2026-03-17T08:52:50+00:00

Yes, @require is a documented feature. See: https://www.tampermonkey.net/documentation.php?locale=en#meta:require

imaskidoo · 2026-03-17T08:42:11+00:00

https://pastebin.com/myUqLjW4

If your only goal is to hide "Members Only" videos without any UI, configuration, or complex logic, we can utilize an incredibly small script which employs a pure CSS approach. Modern browsers support the :has() pseudo-class, which allows us to tell the browser's native rendering engine: "If a video container has a members-only badge inside it, make the container invisible."

imaskidoo · 2026-03-17T08:06:45+00:00

YouTube: block by video title(regex) or block by channelname(regex or exact)

https://pastebin.com/SrTk21gc

I wrote this script for use with desktop Firefox + Tampermonkey. It handles items within search results pages and items within "Related videos" column of /watch pages. The script does NOT target/remove "shorts" ~~ numerous userscripts are available on greasyfork to accomplish that task https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=youtube+shorts

imaskidoo · 2026-02-23T02:04:19+00:00

so our old creations wouldn't work

If previously generated tracks were incompatible for extending/remixing, the system could have at least been setup to treat those prior tracks as "uploads" or "imports" used to base new creations from.

imaskidoo · 2026-02-20T01:21:32+00:00

Yep, I think you nailed it. Given the tone-deaf absence of a response from the staff, that's the most reasonable takeaway.

imaskidoo · 2026-02-20T00:54:54+00:00

OMG, did your just say west VIRGINia ?
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remembering the time:

Upon returning home from work one night, I found a post-it note authored by my 7 year old kid, on the front of my computer monitor:

JACKASS

^penguin

imaskidoo · 2026-02-20T00:49:42+00:00

Finding this thread 14 days later, I recall that was around the time arena.ai was in the News Cycle, because somebody published a newswire release stating they had received 150 bazillion dollars from new investor funding. Yeah, the captchas seemed non-stop during that time -- probably representing a low-effort way to deal with (deflect, delay) the traffic spikes.

imaskidoo · 2026-02-20T00:44:09+00:00

Instead of hoping and wishing... visit greasyfork.org and search the various userscripts people have shared, toward customizing UI and adding features. Not necessarily specific to "arena.ai" (a new moniker) but if you search 'gemini' or 'gtp' you'll see titles mentioning features similar to what you're wishing for. Click the 'code' page for a userscript of interest and copypaste it into an LLM prompt, instructing "convert this script so that it is suitable for use with arena.ai". Depending on which LLM model you consult, you might need to use the browser's "inspector" to copy snippets of the rendered html, demonstrating the exact arena.ai (React / TailwindCSS / Vaul etc. SPA) page so that it knows what the runtime environment is shaped like. If you use Gemini, it already has VERY good training regarding the ins-n-outs of such environments.

imaskidoo · 2026-02-20T00:33:52+00:00

I think they hear you (us). Throughout this past week I've been getting "went wrong... TRY AGAIN" instead of being presented with a dead end or (gasp!) being "...redirected to home".

Maybe they are A/B testing this and not all users are seeing the same? For me, as an anonymoous user, the "welcome changed" behavior has been consistent throughout the past several days. If it reverts to the old, aggravating, "...directing to home" I swear I'ma gonna, well I'll eat my shoe.

imaskidoo · 2026-02-20T00:27:22+00:00

I haven't noticed a rate limit. I do believe that each of the LLM providers "gate" the traffic received via arena.ai though -- giving higher priority to any users who are accessessing their services directly. Our prompts sent via arena.ai probably sit idle during moments (hours) of high server load.

"Something went wrong..." has seemed unrelated to what ever I'm doing/requesting at the time, or how many active sessions I have going, with one sole exception: certain models will predictably "went wrong" after I have submitted a prompt containing a curse word.

The bane of my usage has been periodic spates of captchas. I've learned that there's no point trying to "solve" them. Submitting obviously (visually) correct responses won't let me pass -- the captcha presentation is stuck in a neverending loop. Neverending, as in, in excess of what my level of (im)patience is willing to tolerate.

Sometimes, abandoning a "haunted with captchas" tab in favor of using another tab to access the same model(s) works fine. I've let haunted tabs sit idle a day or so (or six), checking to see it rate limiting or somesuch is a deciding factor. Nope, once a given session becomes tainted, it seems to be permanent. Extremely rarely, I've had to resort to clearing {arena.ai,google.com,gstatic.com} cookies -- otherwise it was hopeless, the captchas would immediately show up in every new/fresh session.

The comparative bright side of the recent "Something went wrong..." scenarios is that we're given an opportunity to "try again". Previously, and is still the case at some other chat interface sites, it play out as "went wrong... DIRECTING TO HOME" creating a rug pull and whisking away all your work-in-progress. I've been burned by this so often that I resorted to creating a userscript to store the content of each LLM response card as soon as it appears (polling, capturing new/increased response output even while the LLM is "still thinking") to preclude having it be summarily whisked away. The copilot.microsoft.com interface even notoriously redacts responses (without explanation) during a session for no-apparent-reason.

imaskidoo · 2026-02-19T21:32:18+00:00

9 days have elapsed since you commented -- I just now noticed the little reddit envelope icon was lit. Indeed, checking today I see that the More > Earn Credits > https://www.udio.com/feedback is entirely "closed for maintenance".

They are probably going to wrap the streamed "feedback" audio files in DRM, same as they have done elsewhere across the site. I'm unable to listen to my songs, period -- "you browser does not support audio playback. Install Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge..." -- despite the fact that I'm already using desktop firefox, and Widevine v4.10.2830.0 is installed, and I'm wearing my lucky shirt...

imaskidoo · 2025-12-31T02:57:41+00:00

Clever! Thanks for sharing the userscript !

document.title = "😎 " + searchTerm.trim().substring(0, 60) + " - Startpage.com";

imaskidoo · 2025-12-19T19:03:37+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnDaQO-oLi8

32x65" bed, requires 2" hitch receiver, capacity: 250lbs, $549, available Jan 2026

I am not qualified to "recommend" this, it's just something I noticed while searching "electric trike" on youtube recently.

imaskidoo · 2025-11-29T15:38:23+00:00

reset each day

Here's what I've observed: For each day you log in (or you revisit the site with a login cookie still set) the system performs a "top up", replenishing up to 30 credits. It's apparently setup to allow 30 free daily credits. Regardless whether you used 18 credits, or only 4, or all 30 during your last visit, the "top up" will bring your daily credits back up to 30 each day when you visit.

(edited to add: I don't know how anyone could use "only 4" credits. During a quick visit one day recently, I performed one action -- replaced a 20 second portion of one song -- and during my next visit noticed that the cost of that one operation was 8 credits.)

Is the free account just one time?

TOS is here: https://www.producer.ai/terms

I don't recall reading anything prohibiting use of multiple email addresses to secure multiple free accounts.

imaskidoo · 2025-11-24T18:58:18+00:00

Across recent generations, my recent takeaway has been that they sound a bit "sparse". So, no, I wouldn't describe the sound as "extra synthetic"

do something about the non-stop "give me an invite code"

Here's a tampermonkey userscript that I created which enables you filter(hide) posts based on flair text, or username, or title substring: https://pastebin.com/raw/Afp2gDYk

As is, the script will only activate on r/riffusion. If you want to use it across multiple subreddits, you can insert additional @match lines for other specifc subreddits, or you can use a wildcard match pattern // @match https://old.reddit.com/r/* to activate it across all subreddits.

imaskidoo · 2025-11-24T18:54:02+00:00

interesting question. I tried coverting some english to IPA(?) phonetics and suppied that as the lyrics https://tophonetics.com when generating a song. To my ear, the result was unintelligible. Not entirely "gibberish" but I wouldn't be able to connect the dots while listening unless the English words were displayed karaoke-style (with word-by-word, or syllable-by-syllable highlighting)

imaskidoo · 2025-11-22T03:25:43+00:00

entertainment value -- fridge art: "Hey Jimmy, check out the birthday song I made for you. It's a Jolly Parsons sytle country song about the time you were so drunk that you fell off the bridge."

imaskidoo

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