Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I recognize your right to get infected and suffer. Knock yourself out. Permanently, if you feel like doing us that favor.

But you have no right to infect others. Yet here you are, trying to poison us as you've poisoned yourselves, and you dare to wonder why we're so desperately resisting you, fighting you, and cutting you out of our lives one way or another.

Operating systems, Web browsers, and websites are giving some of my customers weather forecasts for cities or states in which they don't live by default, implying that they somehow aren't where they really are.

I had to `rm /var/db/pkg/*` and re-bootstrap pkg to stop my installed ports from being randomly uninstalled. I did that a few days ago, and it worked.

Now I have my most needed ports reinstalled (installed anew, according to #FreeBSD), and my system is back to mostly normal again.

But because I wiped out my pkg database, I have a few thousand now-untracked binaries that I need to sort through, finding out the hard way which ports installed them.

The real AI revolution will come when sloppy programming makes it dirt cheap and idiot easy for random activists to hack war drones mid-flight and redirect them to LLM datacenters.

Mozilla's instructions for installing #Firefox on ChromeOS don't mention Firefox ESR.

I forgot that this kind of ESR was an option.

`sudo apt-get install firefox-esr` works just as well as `sudo apt-get install firefox` does. Today, it installed Firefox ESR 140.8, and it seems as stable as 148 should've been.

RE: https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/116172758890535509

We used to have Web search engines, instead of SEO sales & ad engines.

After a dozen years of happily perusing the Web using browsers with decent ad blockers installed, just 15 _minutes_ of trying to find stuff with Google Chrome feels like a dystopian television nightmare. Like, any second now, Google will save me from the sea of animated overlay ads by happily letting some random malvertizer show me a full-screen error message telling me to call Windows Support at 1-800-FLEECE-ME urgently.

And it happened again, same descent, but starting with multimedia/ffmpeg4, a dependency of emulators/vice. This being the third time in as many days portmaster has burned me, #FreeBSD Handbook section 4.5.4.2 is set to permanent distrust.

I need to either find a large enough block of time to shave the poudriere yak, use a ports management tool stupider than portmaster, or babysit a sequence of long-running make commands, to get my software back to last Saturday.