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Funny thing is that when the creators of the language told H.C.'s widow about it, she said he never really was fond of his name.

What’s “Mordor Intelligence” – is that a real thing, or a parody of the surveillance/‘defense’ industry companies that are coming up with names nicked from LotR? (‘Anduril’, ‘Palantir’)

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Michael W. Lucas’s “Networking for System Administrators” is a great resource: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa

There’s a linux port for the SGI file browser featured in the movie: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ ---- haven’t run it in ages, though; I don’t know if it’s still functional.

Yes, just as GNOME stands for GNOME has NO MErcy.

chromium is based on a fork of webkit; webkit proper does remain – I don’t know how much of an influence google has on it though; all I ‘know’ is that it’s Apple’s adoption of a KDE project.

Yeah, I mean all vertebrates are A digit creatures in their front set of limbs.

Firefox is already compatible with v3, by the way, since version 109: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/

Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.

Sure if you drag it through the garden.

What I can’t quite make sense of, is how ‘James’ itself is a diminuitive of ‘Jacob’.

I believe ‘Harry’ is the Welsh version of English ‘Henry’, & German ‘Heinrich’. … At least that’s the impression I got from Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’ plays (H. IV 1-2, & H. V)

Another vote for Tesseract – just to clarify the terminology, though: PDF is a fragile format best used read-only; so you really don’t want to edit a pdf, but make a new one using the same (or cleaned-up) bitmaps and a new ocr text layer.

Now, tesseract is excellent at recognizing glyphs; but especially if the scanned image is a little fuzzy, the layout detection falters; and when it falters, you get redundant line breaks, & chunks of text in the wrong order – all of which gets incredibly annoying for searching & copying purposes. So if you can spare the time, and the text requires it, you may need to mark regions (paragraphs & titles mainly) on the bitmap image manually. There exist a few frontends to Tesseract that help with a task like that; check out, e.g., https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader - inside single paragraph blocks of text, Tesseract doesn’t get as easily confused; and the text output is in the correct reading order, & w/o redundant breaks.

Better cite Wozniak as the one who ‘made’ Apple; but anyway.

I have a little extension of my own that just sends out selections from the `` tag from a tab open on Firefox to my database; I haven’t been able to figure out how to add that to any collection — neither do I want to, because it’s of no use to anyone but me, as the ‘database’ in question is just postgrest running on my home router; so I don’t want to make this extension public. So for now I’m using HTTPShortcuts on Android for a similar purpose; though it can only send out a url from a ‘share’ option under Firefox.

Recently I became aware of ‘StarLite’ tablets – the prices are pretty steep, but the specs look really good, esp. wrt the screen.

Not sure what the question is – are you looking to port extensions over yourself, or are you just exclaiming, “it can’t be so hard, so why won’t someone do it!”.

There’s plenty of documentation over at MDN as to writing extensions, writing cross-browser extensions, porting mv2 firefox extensions over to mv3, the differences between Firefox’s mv3 implementation, and that found in Chrome, etc. etc. etc. The following are good starting points: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions & https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Build_a_cross_browser_extension

For ground-level, basic stuff (managing a popup, communicating between popup & a ‘background’ script, between content loaded on the browser & your scripts, managing a context menu, etc.) writing an extension is straightforward once you develop some degree of understanding of the sometimes convoluted paths the data needs to take, the permissions you need to have in order to pass messages through, etc. Larger extensions are full fledged applications in their own right, though, so tackling them introduces difficulties of a different order of magnitude.

The Falkon browser is extensible (in its own way) through QML; and the Nyxt browser is extensible in common lisp. These aren’t ‘webextensions’ in the precise sense of the term, though they could be just as useful. I wrote a basic bookmark manager that I use mainly on Firefox; but I ported its core functionality (just send the current page’s title, url, & selections from the <head> tag over to my database (postgresql via the postgrest http frontend, to which I just make a fetch request)) to QML, and it was pretty straightforward. Falkon is based on Qt’s QtWebEngine, which is Chromium-based; Nyxt is based on WebKit.

edit: There’s also luakit and qutebrowser . The former is extensible via lua 5.1 scripts, the latter, python; there isn’t a wealth of documentation & examples, though (at least there wasn’t last time I checked) so the API can be a bit of a mystery. Luakit as webkit as its engine, qutebrowser is built on QtWebEngine just like Falkon.

I mean, this is cringe AF.

Kotlin ‘built by communism’? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

Swift is ‘greed’ how? It’s open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple’s graphical toolkits are ‘closed down’; & obviously restrict users’ freedoms; though not sure how that implies ‘monopoly’. ‘Monopoly’ would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one’s own.

Vague word associations are cool, I guess.

007 is a pretty ideal permission scheme for a spy, though: Deny access to owner & group; let some 3rd party do whatever he likes.