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AdmiralAsshat··on Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
There would be nothing preventing him in the source license, but I'm saying he may be prevented as part of the contract he signed when he sold the company.
AdmiralAsshat··on Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
The original creator of Bitwarden still works there as a CTO. I am curious whether he has any failsafes/poison pills in his contract when he took VC money that allows him to fork the product and start over in the event that they decide they want to lock everything down.

Or did he sign all of those rights away when he took the $100M "fuck you" VC funding in 2022.

AdmiralAsshat··on Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
I mean, LastPass was a train wreck after their breach, but they didn't go as far as trying to stop me from exporting my vault when I switched to BW.

The idea of BW doing a rug pull and suddenly removing the ability to export your vault I think would trigger a class-action lawsuit.

AdmiralAsshat··on Building a UMatrix Replacement
I'm still using uMatrix in Firefox. I just find the UI at once both more granular and easier to grok than uB0's Advanced mode. Despite being deprecated, it still works.

Unfortunately, I'll probably have to drop it soon, because there are too many pages going behind Cloudflare's damn "Verify you are human" Challenge page, which seems irrecoverably broken by uMatrix. No amount of whitelisting or logger analysis seems to make it happy, short of full-blown add-on disablement. I've had to keep Falkon handy as a backup for a few mission-critical websites that just absolutely refuse to work under uMatrix.

AdmiralAsshat··on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
It will start with subpoenaing this information against people who modified their car to do "bad" things. But once they have the precedent, I would predict that it will very quickly be used at the behest of car manufacturers to go after people who modify their cars to, say, disable GPS tracking.
AdmiralAsshat··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
sigh

The writing on the wall seems to have been when they suddenly doubled the price of a yearly subscription without notifying anyone. That struck me as skeezy as **...looks like it may just be the beginning.

I hope people are actively mirroring their GH repos, because I expect at some point they might suddenly decide to change the license to Proprietary and move to scrub the repos from the web. At which point, the community will then fork the last-free version and start to maintain a fork.

Which I really don't want to see happen, because having to move all my shit for myself and my family again after the LastPass debacle is going to be an extraordinary headache.

AdmiralAsshat··on The Real Story of Troy
Virgil's version with Laocoön correctly guessing the plot and then being slain by Poseidon always felt to me like a later addition explicitly designed to explain "The Trojans weren't really that stupid, were they?" There's a similar undercurrent if you read Hesiod's Theogony, where Prometheus' famous "Trick at Mecone" is written as though Zeus knew it was a trick but chose the pile of bones anyway. It's as though the original story had Zeus being tricked in earnest, but later writers grew uncomfortable with the idea that their high god was so easily fooled.

With that said, it always in turn felt like the serpents' presence undermined Odysseus' claim of being clever, since from that perspective the Trojans didn't have much choice but to bring it in, or risk the ire of the gods. It's hardly a ruse if the enemy knows it's a trap but is compelled by supernatural forces to take it anyway.

AdmiralAsshat··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN?

And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o...

So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

AdmiralAsshat··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
Misread the title to mean that They Live inspired the concept of adblocking in general. Which would have been an interesting coincidence, since it did inspire one of the early Mozilla logos. [0]

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...

AdmiralAsshat··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
> A letter to our customers and our investors.

You can always tell when the title is incredibly vague or bereft of details (e.g. "An update about our product") that it's going to be some flavor of either lay-offs, shutting down, or other enshittification.

AdmiralAsshat··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
> Sometimes I wonder what he would have done if he had not gone crazy.

At what point do you consider he had "gone crazy" relative to the development of TempleOS? Only when he committed suicide? Shortly before then? Last ____ years of his life?

Without trying to sound insensitive, I'd personally argue the entire OS was the byproduct of a "crazy" individual.

AdmiralAsshat··on Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Yeah, okay, "market conditions", RAM more expensive, hardware more expensive, fine...

But then why are they also increasing the price of their online services? The games run locally!

Fuck you, Nintendo.

AdmiralAsshat··on Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website
This behavior did encourage me to switch to an app! Just not their app. I installed RedReader from F-Droid instead.
AdmiralAsshat··on Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline
That was certainly among the most vocal complaints I remember hearing about the movie at the time (other than the moronic "Too woke!" complaints), and Wikipedia supports my memory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi#Audie...

> Particularly divisive was the reveal that Rey's parents are insignificant; many fans had expected her to be Luke's daughter or to share a lineage with another character from the original trilogy.

AdmiralAsshat··on Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline
The only one of the sequels that had any balls was The Last Jedi, and Disney was so frightened by the backlash to some of its elements (like the idea that our hero could be--gasp--a person of NON-royal lineage!) that it then spent the entire last movie trying to retcon everything that made TLJ potentially interesting.
AdmiralAsshat··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
CNBC Interview with Ryan Cohen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmj2PaxX24E

AdmiralAsshat··on How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker
Strange...clicking Ctrl+. in my Firefox (which I just updated to 150.0.1) did not bring up the Emoji Picker, but instead brought up Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
AdmiralAsshat··on Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
It's understandable that they went in this direction. Higan/bsnes has already captured the market for "accuracy" on the SNES emulator front, so this is more going off and doing its own thing rather than re-treading familiar ground.

I suppose my only concern is what it will do to the hardware requirements, since ZSNES' original claim to fame was how well it was able to run on limited hardware, even if it had to do a bunch of clever hacks to get there.

AdmiralAsshat··on A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
Gambling is also (allegedly) responsible for giving us the sandwich[0] and the modern sushi roll.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sand...

There's a coffee-table book in there somewhere.

AdmiralAsshat··on Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th
Probably not the best place to ping for technical support, but, since you claim to be the author, and I don't see any "Issues" on your GH...

Any idea why your script does not seem to flag as a valid greasemonkey script when I try to use it in the Falkon (KDE) browser? Even if I attempt to add it manually, the script then disappears from my gm scripts.

AdmiralAsshat··on Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th
Combined with the announcement that they're killing the old Kindles as well...this is 100% about preventing people from liberating DRM from their books. Full stop. They are closing each and every remaining hole.
AdmiralAsshat··on Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
Back in my day, if you uncovered some priceless historical artifact, the least the newspaper could do is print your friggin' name in the article. Did some nearby archaeology professor already swindle the kid out of the coin and call dibs or something?
AdmiralAsshat··on DIY Soft Drinks
Not hard? I mean you need a dedicated bottle brush, but the bottle itself is the only thing I recall having to clean. The DrinkMate advertises itself as being able to carbonate other things (juice, flat soda, etc.), but I never carbonate anything other than water in the bottle, then add my syrups only after decanting. It prevents the bottle from getting sticky.
AdmiralAsshat··on DIY Soft Drinks
Yes, typo on my side. Thanks for catching!
AdmiralAsshat··on DIY Soft Drinks
To be clear, it made about 1.75L of syrup, not cola. I kept the cola syrup jug in a fridge for like a year, and when I wanted a glass of "cola" I'd add about an oz of the syrup concentrate to a glass of carbonated water (which I pre-carbonated with my DrinkMate), and stirred to combine.

I used like half the amount of sugar the cube-cola recipe recommended, because it seemed high. It wasn't Coke sweet but it was still plenty sweet for a soft drink, to my palette.

EDIT: Originally said 1.75 ml, meant to say Liters.

AdmiralAsshat··on DIY Soft Drinks
Last time I tried this...it was alot easier to just buy the concentrate from Cube-Cola rather than trying to source all of the essential oils separately and shear them together.

https://cube-cola.org/

I think you'd end up paying less, too. I paid about 20 bucks for the concentrate bottle plus shipping, made 1.75L of it, thought it was fine but couldn't quite replace Coke in my diet, and didn't buy again. Had I done it all from scratch, I'm pretty sure I would've paid more and had a bunch of essential oil bottles leftover, going to waste.

AdmiralAsshat··on Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May
Yes...but let's also be realistic. Very few people are still using this Kindle as their daily driver. They've already upgraded to a PaperWhite or something better.

But there's a very simple reason that Amazon is cutting support for these. Many people (myself included--I have a 4th Gen still kicking around) keep one around because, after Amazon removed the Download option for Ebooks awhile back, having one of these old Kindles is the only way to download ebooks in a format from Amazon that can have their DRM cracked.

All Kindles newer than a certain date use the KFX format, with an encryption scheme that is constantly changing (basically any time someone figures out how to break it, Amazon updates it). Killing support for these old devices is basically Amazon's last step in removing "legacy" encryption schemes that can still be broken.

It would be the equivalent of Nintendo delivering a new firmware update for their Wii and Wii-U systems, in order to patch out a recently-discovered exploit. It serves no other purpose than to demonstrate the extreme contempt for Amazon's end-users and the lengths they're willing to go to combat user-freedom^W "piracy".

AdmiralAsshat··on Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May
Man, Amazon is really going above-and-beyond to cripple the last bastion of Kindle devices that carry a DRM scheme we can crack.
AdmiralAsshat··on OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval
> 2. Even if you fork a project in complete compliance with a software license, a software license doesn't grant you an ongoing business partnership

That's fair, I'd just argue it's akin to to Red Hat's current model of "All of our code is free and open source...but if any of our business subscribers share it, we will terminate their license."

AdmiralAsshat··on OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval
If "forking without approval" is grounds for some kind of termination, then the project should probably not be considered truly "open source".
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