The Case for Libre JS

March 02, 2023

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by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

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This article is an exercise in poetic form. ↩ Reply

There is a problem which requires a problem to solve. There is a freedom to obtain by loosing some freedom. And yet while it's counter-intuitive to some people, what you loose really is not really that which is freedom. Rather it is convenience that which you have to loose. And instead you will get other forms of convenience. ↩ Reply

The trade-off is quite on the nose with the Libre-JS. From one side you have the freedom to load all websites. And quite frankly Libre-JS doesn't take that away. You can simply whitelist websites by pressing a button. From the other side Libre-JS blocks most of the sites. ↩ Reply

But even then it's not the website itself that is blocked. But rather off they are gone those non-libre J-asses. Yes, most sites will break if you block their nasty java-script. But yet the nasty java-script is nasty java-script. Libre-JS is there to teach you to stay far from those. And there to help you to find good alternatives for them. ↩ Reply

Well you will I guess ask me then: Well how does it all work? Let's demonstrate the simplicity of Libre-JS. For example you want to load the youtube dot com. You type the URL in the address bar and press go. And what you see is a bunch of those gray squares everywhere. Libre-JS had just blocked you the nasty java-script. And you were left with a bunch of those gray squares everywhere. So what you do is you close the tab and go looking for... You go looking for alternatives to youtube dot com. And you eventually find invidious like that. Which is like youtube dot com but is not nasty at all. You go to odysee dot com and find librarian. You want to go to reddit dot com and get to teddit. You go to a news website and read the text normally. Well, since most news articles are in HTML still. Libre-JS had just blocked you the nasty java-script. HTML and the article are not whats nasty. ↩ Reply

There is a problem which requires a problem to solve. There is a freedom to obtain by loosing some freedom. And yet while it's counter-intuitive to some people, what you loose really is not really that which is freedom. Rather it is convenience that which you have to loose. And instead you will get other forms of convenience. ↩ Reply

Happy Hacking! ( is what I have to tell you in the end ) ↩ Reply

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Piranha II 1982 taught James Cameron how not to make sequels

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We all know that James Cameron is a master when it comes to making sequels. His films like Terminator 2, Avatar 2 and Aliens are extremely good examples of how to make a sequel right. Unlike Steven Spielberg that avoids sequels. Steven avoided doing the second Jaws movie. James Cameron goes for it and wins. Speaking of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, not only sequels from that film were produced. Rip-offs, like the 1978 Piranha by Joe Dante also were produced. Those were parody material B-movie exploitation films. And so writer / director James Cameron decided to take the project of making a sequel to that Jaws rip-off, with his 1982 Piranha II: The Spawning.

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A Haunting In Venice

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Sir Kenneth Branagh! That's the end of the review. Just kidding. A Haunting In Venice is the new picture directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Kenneth Branagh which is a kind of a sub-genre of films of it's own. Branagh started his directorial career by directing a movie where he played the main role. And continued directing movies where he played the main roles ever since. Of course sometimes he might make a movie where he plays not the main character, like the 1992's Peter's Friends where Peter is played by Stephen Fry. And Branagh just has a very big role in it. And sometimes he plays in movies where he is not the director. Like in Dunkirk, Tenet and Oppenheimer all directed by Christopher Nolan. Of course lately he got himself directing jobs where he didn't cast himself what so ever. Like in Marvel's Thor ( where the actor was cast by Marvel ) or Disney's Cinderella where for obvious reasons a middle aged man cannot play the main character. But most of the time he plays the main character in the films he directs. It kind of became a meme at this point that if Branagh directs a film, most likely he plays the main character.

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