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 you think they’d lift a finger to make that new technology accessible to the rest of us? As always, we’d be lucky to get the crumbs they leave us.

We might benefit, but only if they could not keep it entirely to themselves…

Given the events of the last 4 years I’m done with offering any benefit of the doubt to billionaires. Default judgement is ‘they are evil, selfish pricks who will throw everyone else to the fire unless there is something in it for them’.

Nah, 100 years of extra life (even more if they are randomly selected more than once) would give them plenty of time to exploit us all to colonize Mars and beyond in order to flee there and become emperors of a new planet, so they’d still destroy the Earth. You underestimate their shittitude as ‘human’ beings.

Nothing a little thermite can’t fix.

If I recall correctly, Trump had his hand on no book at all during his vows this inauguration. (Too lazy tp find the pic). Isn’t that legally significant? Not that anything at all seems to matter in that respect anymore…

So… when does Congress decide it wants to you know, actually keep some of its checks and balances? I’m guessing never?

Every single GOP member who isn’t acting against this is officially a Quisling. Never forget how they handed the reigns of power to fascists on a platter.

Oh but being Texas they sure as F would’ve told her parents if she was expressing gender dysphoria right? Ye gods what a dumpster fire of a society.

“He who saves his country does not violate any law.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)

Wait, so you’re blaming NATO for the current situation? Oh boy. I’m done here.

I know how dangerous it sounds. But every time Russia moves the line,the rest of the world is supposed to fall back? Moving arms into NATO countries sends a message, but it isn’t starting a war. Putin’s the one who actually invaded another country. Merely reinforcing defences is NOT starting the war. He started it and doesn’t want to die in a nuclear war any more than we do. So he’d complain bitterly but wouldn’t DARE make a move against it. Why hasn’t he already just nuked Ukraine (even ‘just a few’ tactical nukes?) if he believed he could ever survive doing so?

OK, but regardless of who supplies them, if Ukraine had a few under their own control, for better or worse it would give them a deterrent they never should have been swindled into letting go of. Sucks, but it seems any nation that doesn’t have nukes is at an extreme disadvantage in defending its sovereignty.

In fact, I think it would be worth it to put a few nukes in every NATO nation bordering Russia or its smaller, unprotected ex-satellites. Putin will grandstand about it but is he really going to start WWIII on it? If he was willing to do so, he already would have when other nations began sending conventional military aid to Ukraine. His bluff needs to be called and he needs to be forced to back down.

Agreed. Every NATO nation in Europe (and Canada, which aint so far across the Bering Strait) should be commandeering auto and steel production etc. to build defense gear pronto. We cannot assume the US will assist at all when Russia makes its next move.

…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.

Give Ukraine back some nukes under their own control.

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.

So kick US out of NATO. They can re-apply once they’re done with fascism.

Absolutely – I hate how we’ve been raised to think of time in monetary terms; I have to remind myself on days off that “No, I do not need to do anything it’s my day off! I can sleep in… no need to be productive …”

Well of course… a) he wants the ‘good’ interference (the sort that has helped him and his fascist cohorts so far), and b) “Elections? Weren’t those something the US used to do? We don’t bother with those any more.”

First they’ll need to fight to even have a fair election in 2026 and 2028. (Hell, even to have an election).