Notes

I remember well how the plight of women in Afghanistan and Iraq was a regular feature on NPR programs in the run-up to the wars on those countries. Afterwards their plight was conveniently forgotten.

Guns don’t kill people, governments do.

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Having fun on my Apple iBook G4 with a tweaked Leopard install. Web browser is Fukurou, using MacPorts, iTerm2, iTunes (Tim Bendzko is great). Bunch of software installed and i still have more than 100GB free on the SSD.

There’s some alternate timeline where DEC survived or even thrived, and you’re browsing my website on Alpha-powered machines running OpenVMS. Instead we’re stuck in this shitty one.

I tell myself white lies and black truths. I protect myself with delusions of myself. I am not that compassionate. I am not that restrained. And yet I am. I long for chaos, and yet everyday I contribute to the overall order of things. I understand myself well. I look at the person in the mirror every morning with recognition. And yet I can’t escape the crushing reality of human agency.

I’ve been working for a few days (but mostly nights) on a new project, a TenFourFox fork, based on some of the changes introduced by Aquafox. If you don’t know what TenFourFox is, it’s a fork of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC computers, supporting Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Fukurou, my fork, will support only Mac OS X 10.5 and the G4-7450 CPU. It has updated certificates from Mozilla ESR128 and it should support most modern websites.

I intend to rip out all unneeded features, like telemetry, pocket, disable video play, disable webgl, basically configure it for text/image browsing and not as a media browser since a 2004 laptop is definitely not suited for browsing React sites from 2025. Or Youtube.

Build time on my Apple iBook G4 is 13 hours (1.2GHz CPU, 1.256MB RAM), so it takes a while build the changes. It has uBlock Origin integrated and blocks successfully all ads.

Development is done on the same iBook, using TextMate, git and MacPorts. I’ll mock-up a project page one of those days with more information.

All hail PowerPC.

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And that’s why, Mozilla, you don’t add unnecessary functions to your web browser, because you introduce dependencies (like the one that trashed Tor Browser 14.0.5 on macOS, with ScreenCaptureKit framework due to the fact that Firefox HAS TO HAVE a way to take screenshots, not like there is a function for that in all the major operating system), and those dependencies will fuck you hard. Always.

Guess Mozilla needs to pay their CEOs better.

There’s a few good people scattered around, don’t throw them out with the rest. Bad people are some of the most contemptible objects in the universe and scorn for them is overwhelmingly justified. Have no doubt in your heart about slaying the unrighteous.

Consume better stuff. Be honest with yourself about what parts are necessary for living. Learn to get to the point and be pertinent. Be selective, analyse what you have consumed, write the analyses down. Let the story tell itself, listen to that little voice that tells you “this is kinda stupid”. Stop self-pitying over it, it won’t work. Knowing you’re caught is the first step to being free.