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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

"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 wid…

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 car…

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)_/¯ .

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 Dar…

> 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)

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.t…

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: o…

Link: https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

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 …

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 mig…

> 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.githu…

Indeed, one point for MacOS! I use GNOME.

Precisely. Thank you.

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 exam…

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 …

For an example of a scary list of such offers, see https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

And similar recomp projects include Zelda { Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask } and Starfox. - https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright - https://github.com/HarbourMasters/2ship2h…

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…

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

Yes, see EDIT at the bottom of my post.

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 redirecte…

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, seem…