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Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Hard to imagine life before I knew the #bash shortcut '!$' to refer to the last argument of the previous command. It's so useful in shell sessions!

Example usage:
`$ mkdir -p some/long/path/to/foo`
`$ chmod 700 !$`
`$ cd !$`

This is a tough time of year for many because 'tis the season for much tradition and many expectations, from how our time is spent to how our money is spent, from how we look to how our plate of cookies looks, from how well we've wrapped whatever and to whether our casserole we brought to share is hit or a miss.

LET US BE PEOPLE OF GRACE.

If she shows up at the door with a red puffy face and no partner -

LET US BE PEOPLE OF GRACE

If he had to pick his kid up from the principal's office again and forgot the white elephant gift -

LET US BE PEOPLE OF GRACE

If the casserole in her hands is smoldering -

LET US BE PEOPLE OF GRACE

If anything goes off the rails for any reason -

LET US BE PEOPLE OF GRACE

Each of us will have a chance to do this at least once. So, if you've got the spoons, go to the gathering ready to serve and love and cover for and care for and run interference and encourage and lift up and slather love and say, 'Me too!' and 'I got you!' and 'Here's a beverage and hide behind me all you want.' And if you see someone scurrying for the door before the acceptable time, walk out with them, tell them you get it, tell them they are loved and cared for and brave for walking out when they needed to. High five them for their self-care win and send them toward peace and safety.

If you don't have the spoons yet feel you must go, find the safest person in the room, do the best you can, and get out of there as soon as humanly possible.

LET US BE PEOPLE OF GRACE.

trying to read git's source code to understand how `git revert` and `git cherry-pick` are implemented using merge and it's a bit confusing https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/sequencer.c#L2353-L2358

(has anyone ever seen an explanation of how "revert" is actually secretly a merge under the hood? i have some ideas but it would be nice to read about it somewhere other than git's source code)

Happy International Inuit Day.

I saw a post today that the Arctic is best experienced from the comfort of your own home. Seriously this is one of the most magical places on earth and it’s by far best experienced full on, laying on the tundra, or standing at the floe edge, or having tea in a tent with a friend. #Nunavut #Arctic #Inuit #Photography

@grammargirl I often think of the thankless task of the handful of volunteers who maintain the time zone database that the whole world relies on. https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73

Here's a blog post covering the llm-embed-jina plugin in more detail https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/llm-embed-jina/

Pretty incredible report here about what is likely lawful interception of TLS encrypted communications (used by basically every web service) targeted at an instant messaging service popular in Russia..

the TLS communications were being recertificated in the middle (similar to how enterprise firewalls do TLS decryption) for six months to snoop on communications.. it only got rumbled as somebody (drum roll) let the interception certificate expire by mistake.

https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/

With firefox on X11 (#Linux and #Unix machines), any page can pastejack you anytime https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/17/1 #security #infosec

I freaking love Bassem Youssef, he truly is the Egyptian equivalent to Jon Stewart.
He was interviewed by Pierce Morgan about Palestine, and they even put him against Ben Shapiro's friend at the end:
https://youtu.be/4idQbwsvtUo
Seriously, everything about this is brilliant, they should teach this.

"The Grammar Daily" comes out one month from today!

I'm going to ramp up my promotion, and I hope you'll bear with me.

About 11 months ago, I walked away from ~280K followers on Twitter, so I'd really appreciate your support!

https://amzn.to/48R4T69

Check this out. Thief approaches door of house with car parked out front. He is holding a wire antenna. If the car owner has left their keys near the front door, the wire antenna will boost the signal. Success! The key fob is near the door. Signal boosted. This causes the car to think the key is very near to it, and opens the car door. Thief's accomplice gets in and starts the car. They drive away! https://mastodon.social/@it4sec/111167031354970229

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

Discovering LangChain4J, the Generative AI orchestration library for Java developers https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/09/25/discovering-langchain4j/ by Guillaume Laforge — @glaforge
#Java #aiml

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. - Ron Paul

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

I never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to paste text with styles intact.