Category: Rants

Google Chrome always fucks with me at the least opportune moments. Always when I’m in a hurry, trying to log in and do something quickly — BOOM — Chrome has updated (without my permission) and something is broken. This week, Chrome decided to disable all my extensions because of something called “Manifest v2 support” that apparently has been dropped in favor of something called “Manifest v3”. No warning, just forcibly turned off all my extensions. Isn’t that nice?

I’m not a developer of browser extensions, so I don’t give a shit what either Manifest v2 or v3 is. All I know is I’m in a hurry to do something else, and I can’t browse the web without two absolutely mandatory extensions: Dark Reader and uBlock Origin (UBO). I had to stop everything I was doing and find some way to get my extensions back.

Dark Reader already released an update for this Manifest v3 bullshit, so that was easy enough (albeit annoying). UBO, however, has not and/or can’t. Thankfully, I found this gem on r/uBlockOrigin which explains how to fix it (at least for now… until Google fully blocks it):
Continue reading How to get around Google Chrome dropping Manifest v2 support (for now)

After years of trying to improve their image, it seems Microsoft’s efforts must have paid off — not many youngsters these days are aware why so many of the previous generation (including myself) vehemently hated Microsoft.

I was searching for “microsoft is evil” just for fun, and one of the common reasons cited is their aggressive licencing practices (which is what got them in trouble with U.S. anti-trust laws).  While a valid point, I feel this is too remote an issue from the average’s person consciousness. The immediate effects of it more screwed PC manufacturers than anyone else.  (End users probably gave less thought about why Windows was the only OS you could get on any new off-the-shelf PC.)

On the other end of the spectrum there is Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation, who says Microsoft’s Software Is Malware.  While he makes a lot of valid points — Microsoft certainly is guilty of many sins — I feel the language of his arguments is often so far to the extremes as to make them less effective.  (I generally agree with his free-as-in-speech software philosophy, but seeing as I make a living selling the software I create, I also give more leeway to the ways developers monetize their software.  We gotta eat, after all…)

So here I will relate my personal journey with Microsoft over the years, to hopefully make clear why somebody like me could have so much hatred for a distant software company. Continue reading Why Microsoft is Evil

Ever deal with someone so stupid, you wonder how they even remember to breathe? On top of that, rude and obnoxious too? Recently I’ve been dealing with just such a customer… so jaw-droppingly stupid, it amazes me how she has survived into adulthood.

Continue reading The Dumbest Customer I’ve Ever Encountered

I have an email address at Yahoo Mail that I’ve had for at least 10+ years, although nowadays I use it only very occasionally (maybe once every few months) as a “throwaway” address — you know, for those times you have to give out an email address and don’t want to get spammed later.

Well, I should say “had”, because Yahoo just randomly decided to fuck me over today.  Even though I know, without any doubt, my correct username and password, they just won’t let me login.  Isn’t that nice?

Continue reading Fuck you Yahoo Mail