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Why should I install a Firefox fork instead of changing shit in my about:config?
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>>107544309
>not doing both
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>>107544309
It depends on how much time you've got. I prefer to do it all myself. I write down every change I make so I can easily revert it. Most forks are based on custom configurations that are available on GitHub and many of them explain every change they make so you can take inspiration from them. Stuff like Betterfox, Arkenfox etc.

Like the other anon said, you can do both. In fact, depending on which changes a fork imports, you likely will have to. Mozilla won't stop slopping up their browser with all kinds of features that hinder more than they help, and I'm not just talking about the AI stuff. Still, as long as the option to disable them is in there, I won't complain too much.
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>>107544309
Because the current logo is ugly.
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>>107544309
Let me answer with a question:
Is it a fox or a red panda? Because a firefox is a red panda, but the Firefox logo is clearly a fox. Does that make any sense? Is that what we deserve after phoenix and firebird? Do you really want to use a browser that lies to you?
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>>107545005
What you mean is respond, not answer.

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Reminder to enable additional filters in your uBO settings such as:
>Built-in 6/6, Ads 3/3, Privacy 3/3, Malware Protection/Security 2/2, Multipurpose 2/2, Cookie Notices 4/4, Social Widgets 3/3 & Annoyances 9/9

Reminder to import these into your uBO filter lists:
>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/refs/heads/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list.txt

Reminder to stop using shit like -
>AdNauseam, Ghostery, Decentraleyes, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs etc
- with uBO, as uBO is simply better than any of those listed, no matter how many times people like Rossman shill for them.

Reminder to put these into 'my filters' to improve YouTube:
>youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 6 !important;)
>youtube.com##.ytp-quality-menu .ytp-menuitem:has(.ytp-premium-label)
>youtube.com##.ytp-menuitem:has(.ytp-menuitem-container-with-badge)

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>>107541140
>>107516522
It's a slippery slope
One day you're enjoying life as a normie, the next thing you know, you're an AnCap Tankie
>Piracy is theft
>Adblock is theft
>Advertising is theft
>Taxation is theft
>Property is theft
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>>107535555
This is a worse ratio than Swagbucks. Browsers and adblockers should always be kept separate because all browsers are ad platforms.
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>>107516493

which of these block the new fucking "subscribe" overlay on the lower right of every channel on youtube, even if you're already subscribed?

its like a fuckin constant watermark overlay that makes no sense
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>>107544679
If you're open to it, try Freetube. It gets rid of all the bloat that bothers people about YouTube. It even gives you the option to view the video from YouTube or invidious and/or download it directly
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>>107516493
that is a WHOLE LOT OF SHIT i'm not going to do when adguard does this for me

>/g/ makes an 18th album
Theme: Outer Space Music
Title: [Accepting suggestions]
Deadline: 7th of January [revised from late December]

>/g/ makes a 19th album
Theme: [Accepting suggestions]

>Song submission rules/guidelines
Upload the file somewhere, preferably in a lossless format, and post the link here. If you want to update your track, make a new post.
Include the song title in the post, and make it clear that your song is a submission for the album.
Optionally you may include cover art for your track, but please confirm that the image in your post is the cover art or it won't be included. You may not use your real artist name.
Songs that contain anything against YouTube's policies won't be uploaded on YT, but will still be added to the album.
By default, tracks will be normalised to -14 LUFS (integrated loudness) in the release. You may specify a lower loudness for your track.
Use of AI is banned. This includes AI generated stems, samples, and effects. "AI" includes all neural network-based models and not hard-coded automation/procedural generation. You are allowed to ask an LLM about music-related questions, but asking it to give you musical ideas (eg. generating a chord progression) is already a no-no.

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>>107538164
OK tell me what to buy then
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>>107540743
I'm worried the tracks might become too good
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liftoff
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>>107540405
>what is absolutely insane is that this was produced in 1990 (Correction: december 1989 actually), that was the time in music where tune didn't matter as much as beat and grooves. This belter was just something else, and still is.
fucking goobers, even now you have self-proclaimed experts going on about chord progressions and not saying much about melodies
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How the hell does one work on multiple tracks with a bunch of hardware synths?

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What do you think about Google Gemini?
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>>107544354
its cucked, compromised, agenda'd
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>>107544381
"I'm proud to be a right-wing!"
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>>107544370
>its cucked, compromised, agenda'd
They have been vote-rigged and supported for the democrats since 2008
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It's pretty good if you use the pro models
That picture must be from years ago cause image gen hasn't worked like that for a while

What can be done to escape from and contain the rust virus? What will it eventually do?
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>>107545174
shabbat shalom

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I got 64GB of spare ddr4 3200mhz
should I sell or should I hold?
what is your expert assessment?
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please respond
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>>107544945
>>>/biz/
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>>107544577
same, i'd love to sell but no idea where
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>>107544577
Maybe in the current market having spare RAM is a good thing if your current hardware fails.

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Samsung stops SATA SSD production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQzR4ASkW8
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I'm going to go on record and say that we should have been executing people who said "chill" and the likes back when people initially complained about the PCIE lane requirement for NVMEs.
Those people, today have been vindicated.

We should still be executing people who cover for NVMEs, in the street.
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>>107539277
People like this are the types who should have had it done on camera is basically what I'm saying.
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>>107537160
I already do bitch
>t. 6 NVME drives, 4 in RAID 0 in an expansion card
It makes zero difference having my GPU in the 8x slot
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>>107541548
your izzat is lost, bro. stop coping
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>>107545139
izzat so?

It's freetards' fault Linux doesn't have software.

Linux is a nightmare to distribute software for so developers avoid it like the plague.

MacOS has 5% market share and is similar to Linux under the hood yet runs FL Studio, AutoCAD, Office, Photoshop natively.

Freetards, you could have this too if you weren't so stubborn in your retardedness.

Before you start to seethe, Linus Torvalds has the same opinion on this matter.
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>>107542424
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>>107542424
you're right. but also, foss is dominated by autocratic trannies. that's the part you left out fren
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>runs FL Studio, AutoCAD, Office, Photoshop
I literally don't give a single fuck. GNU/Linux just works for me, it gets the job done.
The three times I tried to use Windows I had bad experience. The last one (Windows 8.1) was complete garbage, slow as fuck and bloated to the core. I imagine that Win 10 and 11 must be even worse.
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>>107542505
This.
I want none and have no need for any of those programs.
>FL Studio
Run fine in Wine, but Reaper and LMMS are just as good.
>AutoCAD
FreeCAD, Blender with Plugins, and BR-CAD
>Office
LibreOffice
>Photoshop
GIMP
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>MatLab
GNU Octave

China is about to make ram cheap again
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>>107540449
>China will continue to take the nothing that America gives them and like it.
Didn't Trump just sign a deal that undoes the last like 5 years of tech embargoes the US was trying to enforce on china?
Your president is blatantly open to bribery and China has deep pockets, they can probably take whatever they want.
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>>107534418
Imagine chips monopoly, probably worst than now.
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>>107536174
I am eternally thankful for Deus Ex redpilling me on the Reds all the way back in 2000
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>>107538940
>Tariffs are a thing of the past
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>>107534917
>Check prices on amazon to see if this anon is right
>Cheapest 32gb set of RAM that doesn't take months to arrive costs 400€

What does their tech tree look like?
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>>107542256
Russian subhuman scum.
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>>107543620
Good. She must have asked for it.
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>>107534210
it's a flat line made exclusively of things they can find on the ground.
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>>107535885
>>107536126
>>107536389
>>107543387
I WAS IN THE POOL!!!
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>>107534210
MODS!!!
I CAN SEE HIS BBC!!!

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What are the best search engines today? For what tasks?

Including niche ones and paid ones.
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>>107544980
I've been looking through /g/'s good sites archive and I'm not yet sure, I'm leaning towards building a multisearch that connects every search engine and just spamming the same search across all of them. Anyway, the reason I'm bringing up the good sites thing is because I found this and it seems close to what I want: https://www.faganfinder.com/

I can't be the only one who remembers it as faggotfinder kek

>Also, the most recent good sites pasta I found: https://rentry.org/good-sites

>The /g/ archive, on this topic:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Search_engines

>The pasta that keeps getting posted, just to get it out of the way:
>Why not just stick with Google?
Search engines are a biased window into the web. We want to filter out SEO and discover actual interesting webpages.
>SHIT tier alternatives
duckduckgo.com

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>>107544980
There are none left. They all suck. Yandex used to be good, but the Russians completely butchered it.
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>>107545122
I forgot to mention, but this wiki page helps in understanding what index/backend each search engine uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, how could this happen to one of the best browsers out there?
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>>107544058
Just use firefox at this point
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>>107544105
Because firefox is full of telemetry trackers you dumb fucking faggot. Please go back to using chrome, all of you dont know shit about online privacy.
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>>107545036
I use Brave.
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>>107545066
How's the weather in Mumbai?
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>>107545099
Dusty

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Aside from being a new browser, will this shit bring something new to the web? Because 99% of people don't use a browser based on the browser engine itself. Even people who are geeky enough to change browsers don't use a browser based on its engine itself (the only reason why I use Firefox is because of userchrome.css and customization; if I could do that on Chromium, I would dump FF in a blink of an eye).

So my point is: other than "hey, we are a new browser engine" what will this bring to the table?
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>>107544853
>>107544817
Nvm I realised you were talking about Firefox's chrome not the Chrome browser
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>>107543056
>>107543302
they dont have any plans for that yet. theyre focusing on making a working browser first. later on they will differentiate, which is fine because its not for end-users at all yet, its a big project after all
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>>107544747
and those apps are just a webview, running the website
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>>107543056
It's a noble effort by somebody to keep himself productive as a way of staying away from drugs. As far as the premises of it being actually usable, maybe one day it will be if he continues to work on it, but it's not going to see widespread adoption, not even remotely coming close to something like Firefox.
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>>107544853
answering your question, vivaldi modified the source for tabs yes. I'm guessing edge had to too for its vertical tabs. it's why I said to build on vivaldi

Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share experiences.

*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice on bare metal and run your previous OS in a Virtual Machine.
2) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
Many free software projects have active mailing lists.


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>>107544821
>For that to happen all timestamps in the .tar have to be the same.
If it wasn't clear what I meant by that: I'm saying they have to have the same set of timestamps on all the files in the tarball, same user who created them, same tar and zstd version. E.g., for "aalib-1.4rc5-18-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst". A related topic is TorrentZip / trrntzip. That topic is: deterministically creating .tar or .tar.zst from a set of files. TorrentZip creates deterministic .zip files given one or more files as input; doesn't matter what OS or version of whatever you're using.

As >>107544794 said
>mirrors get their packages from syncing from another tier 1 or 2 mirror, etc
So only like one individual/team creates the .pkg.tar.zst - not multiple different computers creating the .tar.zst which usually means different .tar.zst as everyone has different file timestamps unless trying to make it the same.

>>107544839
>Most software
Huh, didn't know that.

>>107544846
>Check the checksum or verify the packages signature, that's what you actually care about.
True. That's what I was getting at by "determinism".
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>>107544881
>For example, say there was a problem with a package. It would be completely valid to replace that package with a new problem-free version and to do it without bumping the package version (they wouldn't do that, they would of course bump the version but as long as the signature and checksums match then you know that it has come from Arch infrastructure)
I find this to be confusing. Oh, a problem package would be one which doesn't match to the checksum or .sig. No need to change the version as it's non-bit-identical one replaced with the correct bit-identical one.

>they wouldn't do that, they would of course bump the version
Also no really understanding this part.

>>107544903
>only like one individual/team creates the .pkg.tar.zst - not multiple different computers creating the .tar.zst which usually means different .tar.zst as everyone has different file timestamps
Necessarily the case, otherwise package.1.2.3.pkg.tar.zst.sig wouldn't verify in all mirrors.
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>>107544976
I mean a problem as in a bug with application that requires a re-build of the package to happen. They could in theory do that without bumping the version number so your locally downloaded version is no longer the same as what's on the mirrors.

They would never do this, but hypothetically they could. The important thing is the checksums and signature matching, not what's in the files. It's the checksum and signature that tells you that the package you have downloaded in some way, shape or form originated from Archlinux infrastructure.
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>>107544998
Now I understand.

>The important thing is the checksums and signature matching, not what's in the files.
A checksum like CRC32 or a hash (also referred to as a checksum I think) like SHA256 is based on the exact series of binary that the file is made of, so that part does matter for "what's in the files". Any change to the data at all = different hash. So if a .tar has the same files as another .tar but different timestamp(s) on the files in the .tar = different hash.

You probably already knew this.

Being honest with you, I don't currently know how to manually verify "abseil-cpp-20250512.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig" to the corresponding .pkg.tar.zst file. Does it contain a SHA2 hash and/or a GPG thing which tells me I got it from a good source?
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>>107545063
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Package_signing

Pacman uses GPG so I think you'd do something like this if you wanted to manually verify it:
gpg --verify "abseil-cpp-20250512.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig"


GPG then reads the signature file and will tell you if it matches.
For example:
$ wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/a/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp-20250512.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst{,.sig}
$ gpg --verify abseil-cpp-20250512.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
gpg: assuming signed data in 'abseil-cpp-20250512.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst'
gpg: Signature made Tue 17 Jun 2025 16:30:48 UTC
gpg: using RSA key F00B96D15228013FFC9C9D0393B11DAA4C197E3D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key


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You are NOT allowed to create Gnome extensions with AI.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Extensions-Block-AI

Due to the growing number of GNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be explicitly rejected:

"Extensions must not be AI-generated

While it is not prohibited to use AI as a learning aid or a development tool (i.e. code completions), extension developers should be able to justify and explain the code they submit, within reason.

Submissions with large amounts of unnecessary code, inconsistent code style, imaginary API usage, comments serving as LLM prompts, or other indications of AI-generated output will be rejected."
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Do people really want extensions with LLM-hallucinated code?


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