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Mozilla went crap because of google and USAID funding.

I just hope firefox doesnt die to the extend of the forks becoming unusable as well

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Mar 4 2025, 18:22

I just hope firefox doesnt die to the extend of the forks becoming unusable as well

Can the forks continue without them or are they just modifying the latest version of Firefox?


I have been looking at switching to some of the forks

Damn youtube buffer is so bad. I have already checked its not my internet or hardware thats the issue. China is further away and Bilibili premium max quality works just fine. I can use 6 tabs with max quality or more without any issue. Why youtube stops buffering even at the lowest quality. I suspect it must be because of the api calls to interupt ublock extension. What else can it be. This buffering is dead. Youtube is SO SLOW. Really frustrating. I have tinkered with some about config settings to improve it a bit but its really useless. I even have premium sub on youtube as well. I asked chatgpt why they removed the full buffer mode from many years ago and it seems that its because of ads the buffer is limited now. Even with blocking the ads,actually the ads are not blocked since I have premium but still the buffer is limited and that cause a lot of streaming/buffer issues. Thanks to ad bullshit on youtube that makes it so difficult. I have to download every freaking video now to watch uninterupted... Jeez. This is hopeless.

Can the forks continue without them or are they just modifying the latest version of Firefox?
I have been looking at switching to some of the forks

some might that have convincingly forked off and are already bordering unusability for non broken modern web(palemoon and such).
ironically the most functional ones now (like librewolf) just undo some of the junk shoveled in and keep settings sane.
basically as long as mozilla doenst sink the firefox ship entirely or unfixable levels of awful (basing it on chromium or something) is the main thing I'm worried about.

I know I always hate on most modern things and would love to use a more simplistic browser but at the end of the day I use awful modern sites that just simply dont work, such as alieexpress, ebay, local government sites, bank sites etc.

i maintain my own personal firefox fork which basically just rolls back a few UI changes that pissed me off and also disables a lot of telemetry and similar at build/compile-time. And enables the ALSA audio backend.
It's always annoying to update, since my diffs almost always end up not applying cleanly to the newer codebase.
My builds also have stuff like

CODE

--with-unsigned-addon-scopes=app,system
--allow-addon-sideload
--without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries
--disable-updater

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Mar 6 2025, 00:35

It is truly fucking depressing to see how far Firefox has fallen. I curse the Mozilla Foundation with all the unbridled autism in my blood.

Damn youtube buffer is so bad. I have already checked its not my internet or hardware thats the issue. China is further away and Bilibili premium max quality works just fine. I can use 6 tabs with max quality or more without any issue. Why youtube stops buffering even at the lowest quality. I suspect it must be because of the api calls to interupt ublock extension. What else can it be. This buffering is dead. Youtube is SO SLOW. Really frustrating. I have tinkered with some about config settings to improve it a bit but its really useless. I even have premium sub on youtube as well. I asked chatgpt why they removed the full buffer mode from many years ago and it seems that its because of ads the buffer is limited now. Even with blocking the ads,actually the ads are not blocked since I have premium but still the buffer is limited and that cause a lot of streaming/buffer issues. Thanks to ad bullshit on youtube that makes it so difficult. I have to download every freaking video now to watch uninterupted... Jeez. This is hopeless.

I heard from someone that AdashimaaTube helped fix some of the recent YouTube issues with buffering and lag. Maybe it might help you out? [github.com] https://github.com/sapondanaisriwan/AdashimaaTube

Basically use Stylus and ViolentMonkey (TamperMonkey has telemetry these days, but at least you can opt out of it?) to install some scripts to revert YouTube's layout back to the old 2021-2022 layout (and even block shorts if you like)

It is truly fucking depressing to see how far Firefox has fallen. I curse the Mozilla Foundation with all the unbridled autism in my blood.

Mozilla foundation is just a mutual fund run by activists larping as a software developer now. Their board gets millions to just screw firefox up.

If they ended firefox today, they could keep extracting their pay for a decade without doing anything with all the google and USAID money.




edit:
Laptop manufacturers are freaking the fuck out as they now have to inspect all the new nvidia gaming laptops right before launch to check if they have missing ROPS.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Mar 7 2025, 16:17

Been making a few repro cartridges recently for Famicom and Mega Drive games. Also made myself an Amiga 500 workbench 3.1 kickstart ROM.
Amiga 500 expects a 27C400 chip, but you can use a 27C800 or 27C160 instead if you lift pins 1 and 42 and ground them, and plug pin 2 on the chip into pin 1 on the socket. The rest lines up correctly. You can also put the address pins 1 and 42 on switches to toggle them between 5V and ground in order to put multiple kickstart boot ROM versions on one chip (up to four of them on a 27C160, or two of them on 27C800).

I put a rom hack of Earth Bound (NES english prototype) onto a Mother famicom cartridge using two new SST39SF020 flash ROM chips, since those are new chips still in production that are the right size and voltage.

I also turned a copy of "Gun Sight" into an english translated version of Metal Slader Glory. I liked the game; it was a really fun and cool visual novel adventure thingy. Pretty short, but gorgeous to look at and an entertaining plot.
Since the english translation has a 1MB program ROM, and the largest currently-manufactured flash ROM in a through-hole DIP integrated circuit package is 512KB, I had to use a 27C080 one-time-programmable EPROM to make it (I could also have used a 27C800 or similar erasable EPROM, but those are no longer being manufactured).
I had a writing error on the second EPROM (NES games take two ROM chips; program ROM and character ROM), but the character ROM only needs to be 512KB (27C080 is 1MB), so I just wrote it again to the second half of the EPROM and tied the highest address pin to 5V, which worked. I could have used a SST39SF040 512KB flash chip instead faor character ROM, but didn't.

Finally, I turned a copy of "World Series Baseball '95" for sega mega drive/genesis into a copy of Phantasy Star IV using two 27C160 EPROM chips. a single 27C160 and a 27C800 would have also worked, but 27C160's were cheaper to find despite being larger capacity, so I just tied the highest address pin to ground to cut its size in half (to the size of a 27C800). This repro is going to be sent to a friend of mine that can't justify paying $80 or more for a genuine copy. I have a genuine cartridge already from when they were cheaper used.
I could also use another world series baseball '95 cart to make a copy of Beyond Oasis for myself; I might do that sometime.
It's much easier making sega game cartridges into repros because the mask ROM's use a normal pinout; NES and SNES games use modified ones just to be annoying. For Sega repros you do need to swap the bytes of the ROM though (16 bit little/big endian conversion, or "swab") before you program it. And to dump your existing game you'll need to do the same before an emulator will run it.

I might try to make a Fire Emblem 4 (genealogy of the holy war) english patch repro cartridge, but that looks like it might be trickier since the best patched version of the game is 8MB and there's no EPROM large enough I know of that can be read in 8-bit word size (SNES uses an 8 bit cartridge data bus), so I'll have to use two 16-bit 27C322's and some logic gate chips and probably would be best off just making a whole new PCB.

I had to repair my Heathkit EPROM eraser, the interlock switch was failed closed (so it worked but the germicidal UV-C lamp didn't shut off when the tray was opened). Thankfully I was able to find a compatible switch still in production.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Mar 10 2025, 08:48

Is there an advantage of doing it the old school way?

Have you tried any of the new release Mega Drive games? I found Astebros pretty fun.

I think there are 34 new releases for the Mega drive planned for 2025. Though half look like ports.

They have found loads of warner bros DVDs are failing prematurely en masse. Any WB dvd manufactured between 2006-2008 is defective.

Over 600 bluray bd50 disks were also authored with manufacturing defects and are starting to fail.

It seems Malaysia today has finally updated their blocklist to include E-hentai's latest URL. For years it'd gone unnoticed. Forum is unaffected at the moment. Good news the block is still through DNS level. On desktop PC, I know how to configure the DNS server. Now just need to figure it out on my Android phones.

Update:

I've finally discovered to how set custom DNS server on Android.

Here's another middle finger to Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the extremist Malaysians who supported the block policy!

This post has been edited by elda88: Mar 19 2025, 07:37

I bought a 256GB SSD to upgrade a laptop, but unfortunately those plans fell through. Any suggestions on what can I do with it? It's not a small drive in terms of storage but neither is it big enough for most things beyond basic usage (which was what I wanted to do with the laptop in the first place).

It seems Malaysia today has finally updated their blocklist to include E-hentai's latest URL. For years it'd gone unnoticed. Forum is unaffected at the moment. Good news the block is still through DNS level. On desktop PC, I know how to configure the DNS server. Now just need to figure it out on my Android phones.

Update:

I've finally discovered to how set custom DNS server on Android.

Here's another middle finger to Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the extremist Malaysians who supported the block policy!

for only at home browsing it might be easier to just set dns forwarding to some other dns server on router so it never uses the isp provided ones when you let devices use the dhcp provided one of router itself

for only at home browsing it might be easier to just set dns forwarding to some other dns server on router so it never uses the isp provided ones when you let devices use the dhcp provided one of router itself

I'm working full time out of my hometown. At the moment have to depend on my mobile data and office wifi.

office wifi.

Your IT dept must be chill. Mine has zero chill, we have to have like five factor authentication.

Your IT dept must be chill. Mine has zero chill, we have to have like five factor authentication.

My IT dept: "What's a firewall?"

I bought a 256GB SSD to upgrade a laptop, but unfortunately those plans fell through. Any suggestions on what can I do with it? It's not a small drive in terms of storage but neither is it big enough for most things beyond basic usage (which was what I wanted to do with the laptop in the first place).

You could use that as a dedicated system drive of another PC that has space for additional file storage.

Or you could just use it as a laptop drive. Really, unless you're using the computer for file storage or gaming, neither of which should you be doing on a laptop in the first place, then 256GB will take care of anyone's "regular computer using needs" nicely. I've had this 500GB laptop for about 18 months and it still has 400GB+ free. And that's taking into account that I haven't paid any attention to what I save or download nor ever deleted any files to make up space because I know there's an excess of it. I do all my torrenting and gaming on the desktop.

You could use that as a dedicated system drive of another PC that has space for additional file storage.

Or you could just use it as a laptop drive. Really, unless you're using the computer for file storage or gaming, neither of which should you be doing on a laptop in the first place, then 256GB will take care of anyone's "regular computer using needs" nicely. I've had this 500GB laptop for about 18 months and it still has 400GB+ free. And that's taking into account that I haven't paid any attention to what I save or download nor ever deleted any files to make up space because I know there's an excess of it. I do all my torrenting and gaming on the desktop.

Yeah, I did want to use it as a laptop drive at first, but like I said those plans are now shelved. I don't have any other laptops to give it to.

You could put it in an external enclosure and use it as a storage / portable drive.