For alleged security, the Discord client disabled basic functionality. To get it back, add this dark pattern named setting to %APPDATA%/discord/settings.json (Windows) or ~/.config/discord/settings.json (Linux):
"DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING": true
The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, as well as the Unions of Atrecht and Utrecht are important markers in the history of the low countries. We should be wary of attaching too much importance to such historical facts, but it’s certainly defensible that the present-day nations of the Netherlands and Belgium sprang from these pro- and anti-Spanish alliances.
The Union of Utrecht is best characterized as a military alliance to defend freedom of religion against a governor who was not prepared to make even a single concession. By signing the Union of Utrecht, the eternal departure from Spanish king Philip had been made official. Formally this didn’t happen until two years later, when Philip decided to declare William of Orange a wanted man. This directly led to the States-General declaring the Act of Abjuration. Not only did the States-General not leave a shadow of a doubt as to their thoughts on the matter, but it made reconciliation impossible. A total victory over the Spanish was the only solution. So it goes.
Perhaps the most interesting additions this month are the Book map and Page browser (#8613). The book map shows a map of the content of a book, including the ToC, bookmarks, read pages and non-linear flows. The page browser shows thumbnails of pages. There are quite a few explanatory screenshots in this comment, or of course you can just play with it yourself.
The file browser has been expanded with a basic select mode (#8595), making it easier to apply certain actions like deleting or moving to multiple files at once. Additionally, there’s a new display for the number of files and subfolders in folders (#8598).
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Full changelog — closed milestone issues
Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS
Around this time of year back in 533, Belisarius defeated the Vandals in the Battle of Tricamarum. Incidentally, there are also some amusing legends surrounding Belisarius’ menorah. According to Procopios, after Belisarius took Carthage in 534 a menorah was part of the loot. But once the lamp arrived in Constantinople, a Jew visiting Justinian pointed out that the religious artifact had brought disaster to every city it had ever been in: Jerusalem had been conquered by the Romans, Rome had been sacked by the Vandals, and Carthage in turn had been conquered by the Byzantines. On second thought, The Menorah of Destruction would’ve been a more exciting name for this release, wouldn’t it? Maybe next year.
Hiding under the unassuming commit message speaking of group operations, the file browser now supports applying actions to multiple files (#8536). It works through the Select files action in the Plus (+) menu.
The event dispatcher can now be used to set a specific font face (#8555).
And last but not least, hanging punctuation has been made just a little more beautiful (#8528).
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
Did you know that mosquitoes are supposed to crawl up into their winter holes by late September in northern hemispheres? If you didn’t, don’t feel bad, because apparently the mosquitoes don’t know either. The weather’s too mild which is confusing them.
As always there have been many optimizations, most noteworthy this month the improved Japanese support thanks to @cyphar (#8312, #8372, #8446).
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
You can see many seagulls out and about this time of year, often even far inland.
The biggest news this month may well be @zwim‘s new Autowarmth plugin (#8129), which improves on and replaces all prior implementations. In advanced mode, it offers a smorgasbord of customization options, but luckily there’s no need to dive into the nitty gritty of all the different kinds of dusk and dawn. Who knew there were so many!
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
It’s been 18 years since Opera published their classic bork edition, to protest that MSN would have loaded properly in the browser if only it were served the same code as Internet Explorer.
“Hergee berger snooger bork,” says Mary Lambert, product line manager desktop, Opera Software. “This is a joke. However, we are trying to make an important point. The MSN site is sending Opera users what appear to be intentionally distorted pages. The Bork edition illustrates how browsers could also distort content, as the Bork edition does. The real point here is that the success of the Web depends on software and Web site developers behaving well and rising above corporate rivalry.”
Since I’m a Vivaldi user, today’s the first time I noticed that Chrome on Android artificially restricts installing webpages as apps on the homescreen. Only webpages that specify a manifest.json can receive such a hallowed treatment, instead of every single webpage ever made. For the rest of the internet, there’s only a shortcut. While the situation is not quite comparable, I found the design principle sufficiently distasteful to revive Opera’s classic bork script, in this case specifically targeting the Chrome browser.
You can put it on your website or in your TamperMonkey to remind you when you accidentally open Chrome. The classic result looks like this:
// http://web.archive.org/web/20050301075735/http://www.opera.com/js/bork/enchefizer.js
/* -*- mode: C++; mode: font-lock; tab-width: 4 -*-
* 2003-02-10
*
* The Enchefizer code is based on a script fetched from
* http://tbrowne.best.vwh.net/chef/
* written by Andriy Rozeluk , which is
* based on a Java version written by Josh Vura-Weis
* , which is based on a UNIX version
* from 1993 written by John Hagerman and
* Jeff Allen
*
* Subsequently hacked by Opera Software to work inside a page by
* traversing the DOM tree, and to improve performance.
*
* Typical usage is to add the following text to the bottom of a page:
*
*/
const classicOperaBork = () => {
/* USER CONFIGURATION BEGINS */
var victim=false; // false (apply to any page) or regex to match page URL
//var victim=/^http:\/\/(?:(?:www|msdn).microsoft.com|www.msn.com)/;
var delay=50; // ms between replacements, set to 0 to disable waiting
var units=30; // number of text nodes to translate each time
var highlight=true; // highlight the text we're working on
/* USER CONFIGURATION ENDS */
var textnodes=[]; // text nodes in the doc
var nextnode=0; // next node to process
function nextWordPos(line)
{
var p = line.search(/[ \n\t\\,<.>/?;:\'\"\[{\]}|=+\-_!@#$%^&*()~`]/);
return p == -1 ? line.length+1 : p;
}
function encheferizeLine(line)
{
var buff="", word="", t="", out="", wp;
while(line.length > 0)
{
wp = nextWordPos(line);
word = line.substring(0,wp);
t = line.charAt(wp);
line = line.substring(wp+1,line.length);
out = out + encheferizeWord(word) + t;
}
if(t == ".")
{
out = out + "\nBork Bork Bork!";
}
return out;
}
function encheferizeWord(word)
{
if(word.toLowerCase() == "bork") return word;
var letter, count, len, buff, i_seen, isLast;
count=0;
len=word.length;
buff=""
i_seen=false;
while(count0){
}
} else if(letter=='t'){
if(count==len-2 && word.charAt(count+1)=='h'){
buff = buff + "t";
count+=2;
continue;
} else if(count<=len-3 && word.charAt(count+1)=='h'
&& word.charAt(count+2)=='e'){
buff = buff + "zee";
count+=3;
continue;
}
} else if(letter=='T' && count<=len-3 && word.charAt(count+1)=='h'
&& word.charAt(count+2)=='e'){
buff = buff + "Zee";
count+=3;
continue;
} else if(letter=='v'){
buff = buff + "f";
count++;
continue;
} else if(letter=='V'){
buff = buff + "F";
count++;
continue;
} else if(letter=='w'){
buff = buff + "v";
count++;
continue;
} else if(letter=='W'){
buff = buff + "V";
count++;
continue;
}
//End of rules. Whatever is left stays itself
buff = buff + letter;
count++;
}
return(buff);
}
function bork()
{
var limit = delay == 0 ? Number.MAX_VALUE : units;
var start=nextnode;
var oldc = new Array();
var n, i, candidate;
if (highlight)
{
for ( n=start, i=0 ; i < limit && n < textnodes.length ; n++, i++ )
{
candidate = textnodes[n];
oldc[i] = candidate.parentNode.style.backgroundColor;
}
for ( n=start, i=0 ; i < limit && n < textnodes.length ; n++, i++ )
{
candidate = textnodes[n];
candidate.parentNode.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
}
}
for ( i=0 ; i < limit && nextnode < textnodes.length ; nextnode++, i++ )
{
candidate = textnodes[nextnode];
candidate.replaceData(0,candidate.length,encheferizeLine(candidate.data));
}
if (highlight)
{
for ( n=start, i=0 ; i < limit && n < textnodes.length ; n++, i++ )
{
candidate = textnodes[n];
candidate.parentNode.style.backgroundColor = oldc[i];
}
}
bork_more();
}
function bork_more()
{
if (nextnode < textnodes.length)
{
setTimeout( bork, delay );
}
}
/* In large docs traversal is a bottleneck at startup; we could
CPS it or otherwise reify the traversal state to interleave
traversal with the translation.
*/
function find_textnodes(elm, acc)
{
if (elm.nodeType == 3)
{
if (!elm.data.match(/^[\s\n\r]*$/))
{
acc.push(elm);
}
}
else
{
var c = elm.childNodes;
for ( var i=0 ; i < c.length ; i++ )
{
find_textnodes(c.item(i),acc);
}
}
return acc;
}
/* run page's onload handler, then do our thing */
var res = false;
if (typeof old_onload == "function")
{
res = old_onload();
}
if (/*window == top &&*/ (!victim || window.location.href.match(victim)) )
{
textnodes = find_textnodes(document.body, new Array());
nextnode=0;
bork_more();
}
return res;
}
if (window.navigator.userAgentData.brands.filter(e => e.brand === 'Google Chrome').length > 0) {
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', classicOperaBork);
} Permalink CommentsTags: javascript
Traditionally, September cheese is made in — you guessed it — September. This is when the grass and milk are at their best. We hope this release won’t take as long to ripen though.
This month the keyboard sports a new coat of paint (#8089), and crengine (the EPUB renderer) has received various improvements (#8165, #8197).
The Evernote plugin has been deprecated due to changes in the Evernote API. It has been replaced by the more generically named Exporter plugin, which supports Joplin, HTML, and plain text export (#7983).
Logo credit: @bubapet
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
On Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21.04, you can use the Debian wiki to get a basic setup working, but adapting that to newer version is a bit laborious. Instead a kind soul has already taken care of everything over at pipewire-debian. It’s also a more recent version.
So why use it? In my case, I’ve had PulseAudio crap out when having to deal with more over 20 or so things at once. PipeWire deals with load rather significantly better. I understand latency’s much better too, but that’s never bothered me too much for my fairly regular uses. What’s nice though, is that you can use JACK tools like catia to map stuff around. I don’t think PA had any graphical tools like that, and cryptic command-line commands are too much of a bother for quick one-offs. For the moment I mildly miss PulseAudio’s networking ability.
In short, I’ve switched over my laptops. But I might give it a try on my desktop too.
We now have a user guide thanks to @offset-torque‘s hard work. This should make it easier for new users to find their way across the program’s features.
Starting with 2021.08, the Kobo Elipsa is supported (#7986, #8004, #8057).
The zsync plugin has been unmaintained for a long time, so it’s now been deprecated (#7957).
We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/DialogsUseHeader -s false