uzbl, the return, part4~ no, er 3.5

uzbl, the return, part4~ no, er 3.5

(ok, technically i started writing this on what i'd call day three... but lets not quibble over that.) [edit- (it's later than late for me)]

starting to notice that what i most want is the ability to add ads to the adblock list, on the fly, "click click done*". ...not gonna sort that out now... i'm sleep deprived like a mofo.

*gone from my sight forever, effortlessly.

... hehe, or perhaps a do-gooder script for uzbl would b rly nice.

ads n pop-ups on megavideo for example... gurrr.

a moment of clarity...

double fudge.

fumbling around, feeling like forgetting everything i was doing, so able to work with... get this... zero to about a dozen tabs. ... that's it. uzbl isn't the lightest cat around. she doesnt scale as well as firefox with bartab (and noscript, flashblock, adblock, ghostery...)... but then... i dont recall me ever managing to make do with just about a dozen or less tabs with firefox. hence why i eventually ended up getting bartab addon, to help me scale my tab useage even more. i'm not joking here... after some time with bartab addon, (and this is neither joke nor exaduration here...) it was the norm for me to have over 1000 tabs in my session)

the fudge of it... it had created for me the illusion that i was getting more done, because i was looking at more ~ er, no, sorry, that was the illusion trying to slip back in there again. ~ because i was opening more.

this isnt just me, this isnt just firefox. this is loads of people, all over, suffering from "tabs as bookmarks". it's been happening since back in the days when all we knew about was explorer and something you heard of called "netscape" but never had the slightest incling to look out side your cosy little microsoft mesh, because [as incorrectly lead to believe] "thats all there is" and/or "it's the best".

~ er, sorry, getting off the point.

suffering from tabs as bookmarks. why? because the browser is a big slow bloaty thing to launch... it's so precious with all those tabs/windows so fragile and liable to crash, so full of that important data that you're using your important time to see, and you just really really dont want to have to click all those buttons again after having to wait for it to load again after it crashed, and you lost your big precious pile of stuff.

see, it teaches you that what you have is more important than either what you can do, or what whatever it is that you have can do / what you can do with it.

capability > stuff

^ thats the correction for you. :)

that's the re-orientation!

greater-potential-ward.

^ that's the heading/direction.


...


y'know... come at it with a philosophy of what's best... n keep looking for the best best you can find, the biggest, the broadest, the smartest, the ~


sorry, wrong blog. ;)

tonight it's free software rambling, with digit.

oh, wait, but that's right, free software is at it's roots savvy to philosophy first, it's a philosophy of synergy, and reccognises you only get there with the liberty, the freedom, the libero, only get the synergy that propells us all to be better than we can be alone, that we're all scuppered and diminished a little bit any time someone takes without giving, that doesnt synergise, and not only that, attempts to stop all others from synergising too.

if you're reading this and you've been on foods laced with any glutamates, or drinks laced with aspartame, then you might fail to catch a thought of that size there.

(if you're reeeeeal savvy n on the case, you'll have seen what i did there. ;) dimensional.) *snortyscoff*

stopping the synergising? dont they see that no matter how much they take n try to build their totalitarian singularity, they'll always ultimately falter too? yay, they might be the last to survive, but they'll still fall to ultimate bottom obliteration and ultimate nothingness oblivion. syngergising... as yaz would say... the only way is up.

and i'll add... "P.S., you're not a dot."

~

er... so anyways... uzbl.

it.. uhh.. helps you connect the dots.



i wonder what would be involved in making a button row for it... a fully configurable.. ;) y'know... for the firefox kids. ;) get them in on the candy(1), n hit them with the er... candy(2).

(1) the pretty button candy
(2) the unixy goodness, the interoperability n completely wide open potential for configuring n tweaking and making your own, making wow, making new innovations...

i wonder what'd be the lightest, simplest to configure way of getting that tight n tidy pixel perfect "gui"... i know uzbl already uses gtk... but since uzbl seems so accomodating... i wonder if we could see about using something lighter n simpler... hrmmm, fltk? no... no.. something simpler and more reliable... hrmm... i wonder what those haskell toolkits are like...

no, stop, that's just my haskell lust talking.

i think i'm past where i should have stopped this blog post now anyways. :P

mare freedomware!

where do we go to get hardware not encumbered by planned obselecense?

it's surely starting to exist now right?

i mean, there is a "open-source" hardware movement, right?

so surely, it's a freedomware movement too... right?

...

i mean, i just started to notice the button on my laptop starting to get a bit wobbly... and i'm almost out of my extended warranty...

so it makes me think... i cant be fucked with my hardware being encumbered with the same problems that drove me away from proprietary software anymore. i want my next hardware, to be genuinely more future-proofed.

it doesnt seem enough anymore that "yay, i'm using free software now, so i have the freedom to take not just my data, but my software, with me, wherever i go, and do with it whatever i want.", typically, taking it from obselete or broken hardware, and onto the new machine.... that's just gonna be expensive.

i still have my first pc's case... and have plans for a nice lil hack job to put some working guts of a pc back in there again.... but i am reluctant to buy something that's likely to fail....

it's a troubling prospect, that due to the relatively, disproportionately, stageringly high rate of turn out of new advancement (relative to the magnitude of those actual advancves) and obselecense in computing hardware technology, that it may be one of the hardest areas of material tools/items to have overcome this flaw in our system, to take out of the obselecense cycle, despite it being taken out of the elevated consumption "economic" paradigm.

we dont really have emancipation technology while we are on the recieving (/milked) end of the separationist hardware manufacturers, intent on having us come back to them to buy new hardware soon.

free software, as defined by the free software foundation (fsf.org), is true freedomware, which enables us to overcome any limitations, flaws, shortcomings, imposed by the manufacturer, for whatever reason it may have been so, incompetence, neglect, or intent*, and allows us to make the apropriate amendmends, and share that with others, and share in the amendments others have made and shared too.

that's basically the fundamental principle by which i understood free software to be inevitably and inescapably the better choice over any of the offerings of proprietary software.

and why not have that same idea for all our hardware too, right?

and for all ideas... like our political modalities, and our legal systems...

no to hardware because of the energy costs of production?

but you see, that high prohibitive cost, is part of the proprietary protectionism? we can freedomware our way out of that problem. there are already the jigsaw pieces to facilitate our emancipations through technological means... we just need to put them together and apply.

no to political modalities and legal systems because of ideological siezures?

but you see, there can be many co-existing systems/projects, and they can all be forked, and undergo refining. same could even be done for economica paradigms and religions... or at least ecconomic systems and codes of living well.

but i digress...

hardware... right...

um... nope... i think i was done. ^_^

anyways, you see... the existence of this idea, now makes the old / current system untenable... just why would i ever want to subject myself to it now that i've seen the better way? it's just so completly unfeasable, without some kind of grosse coersion... and that's the kind of shit that breeds uprisings... n the elite dont want that... they've learned, covert tyranny is the way... not rocking the boat ncreating uprisings is the way... and so... "the market" damn well better start catering for this newfound unshifting preference for non-obsolete'ing 'wares. n that may indeed mean, those of us who realise this, need to take matters into our own hands....

... can u imagine it... a new computer system coming out, that's not only backwards and forwards compatable with the existing systems, but even more modularised to to be even more universally compatible, interchangeable, upgradeable... and when i say upgradeable, i mean like... adaptable, while everything being re-useable, or at least, easy-recycle-ready. so that next time you buy a piece of hardware, it's warranty is not just one year, not just three years, not just ten years, not just for life... but forever! ... so that, you can buy it thinking "my great great great great great great great great grandson will be able to enjoy this."

free software developers dont make software to be crap, because they most of the time, are making it for themselves too. same can be true of our hardware.

k, now i'm done. ^_^



*see duty of care law.