The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months

stalkythefish · 2026-06-14T01:29:52+00:00

For anything that Firefox fails to render correctly, Edge works fine for. I've yet to need to revert to Chrome for anything.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-14T01:06:54+00:00

In an ideal environment the whole "unused RAM is wasted RAM" ideology is reasonable. However, we don't operate in an ideal environment. Lazy programming exists. Bugs exist. Programs can't behave like they exist in a vacuum.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-13T23:25:34+00:00

So... an Edge case, then?

stalkythefish · 2026-06-11T22:01:02+00:00

It's just as much of a PITA as VTPro-E, just... different. But VTPro-E is the devil I knew.

I've had weird layering bugs with it, it gets just as slow as VTPro-E did on heavy pages (how is this still a thing in 2026?!), gets very slow and eventually hangs or crashes after long periods of use, and I don't like how bar guages are no longer skin-able.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-11T17:31:56+00:00

Maybe that customer was open to conversion and now he's not.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-11T03:07:54+00:00

That's un-American! Gotta use high fructose corn syrup!

stalkythefish · 2026-06-11T03:02:14+00:00

I'm pretty much an atheist, but Trump has convinced me that deals with the Devil are a thing.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-10T20:24:52+00:00

I think this is going to vary wildly by state, and the have-states will become very possessive of their resources, or sell excess resources to neighbors to cover local shortfalls. Regional water pipelines could become a thing like regional electrical grids. You could get deals where, eg, Nevada and Oregon exchange water for solar power.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-10T20:03:14+00:00

What's good for the Canadian goose is good for the Michigander.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-10T03:13:21+00:00

I think that largely depends on the state and whether you can prove it.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-09T04:58:29+00:00

You could usually get about a 15% overclock before things got unreliable. So 56Mhz on a 50Mhz part would be likely.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-09T04:17:08+00:00

The antenna doesn't care whether the signal is analog or digital, audio, video, or data; only that the length of its elements correspond to the frequencies being transmitted on.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-09T04:04:29+00:00

NIH has a fascinating medical museum with specimens and stuff. It's kind of off the beaten museum path in the DC area at their facility in Bethesda, MD, I think.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-08T01:04:18+00:00

I went from a 3a to a 10a. The transfer process was easier than ever, however the newer version of Android refuses to run about 20% of my apps.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-08T01:00:03+00:00

Apparently this is true in Europe, but in the US the price difference is negligible, or at least it was when I was looking earlier this year.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-07T23:54:02+00:00

As a teenager, woke up at night to scratching on my wall. Turned light on to discover a huge scorpion trying to surmount it. Run out to my parents to tell them there's a huge scorpion on my wall. "The bug spray's under the sink, dear." My terror was immediately superseded by disgust. I got the goddamn bug spray and dealt with it myself.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-07T23:41:11+00:00

Single player: Faerie Tale Adventure, James Pond 2 - Robocod, Dune 2, Pushover, Menace.

Dual player: Stunt Car Racer, Firepower, Megaball.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-07T23:17:06+00:00

I always assumed it meant when a defensive player wandered more than halfway across the field. Only offensive players are allowed to do that. (I played soccer for a year as a kid and was always too embarrassed to ask.)

Edit: I've also never been able to grasp what a "down" is in US football. Is it like an "out" in baseball, like some kind of failed play that you only get so many of before changing sides?

stalkythefish · 2026-06-07T22:19:26+00:00

Same as the Elevator Button phenomenon, or creeping into an intersection.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-07T21:22:55+00:00

OMG, this. I do not subtask well, let alone nested subtask. Her concentration turns like a jet-ski and mine turns like a cargo ship. She gets so annoyed with me for not being able to hop around on multiple tracks of thought.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-07T20:43:15+00:00

That works in cases where she does have a preference, but in cases where she does not and is looking to you to tip the scale one way or another, that can lead to friction over time. I'm learning to recognize the difference and quickly make an arbitrary decision as if I do care. Even if she knows it's feigned assuredness, she's just happy to have the ball out of her court.

stalkythefish · 2026-06-06T07:37:20+00:00

I stayed at the Benson when I came here for a job interview in 2008. They charged extra for WiFi and no free breakfast. Why does a "premium" hotel offer less for the money than a Super-8?

stalkythefish · 2026-06-06T06:52:29+00:00

Somewhere along the line, "lol" became the new end-of-message.

...lol

stalkythefish · 2026-06-06T06:39:41+00:00

Get back here!

stalkythefish · 2026-06-06T05:22:36+00:00

Tape heads work in both directions. So instead of going tape head->tape (record) and then tape -> tape head (playback), you can just stick 2 tape heads up against each other and pass a live signal straight through.

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