The web is becoming very hostile to ad blockers. I use a VPN and I've noticed more and more sites just being obnoxious with their popups and even just crashing the site completely in a loop (looking at you EuroNews)

It doesn't solve everything but the 'full' desktop version of the ublock origin plugin runs just fine in Android on Firefox. I can't even imagine using any other mobile browser now. I don't know what the situation is for iphone platform stuff these days.

and f.e. brave on ios

If a site doesn’t let me see it with my ad blocking enabled, I just go elsewhere.

This Even skimming the web could take up 1000X the hours I have in a day, and I really should spend more time exercising, and reading books, and with friends and family, and volunteering, and ...

Try firefox, as chrome puts restrictions on what adblockers can do

I suspect it's not a real crash you're seeing, but rather a deceptive anti-adblocking script that redirects to a page that fraudulently claims to be a crash.

It literally says on the mod page "Voiced by Matt Berry"

Ok, now that I rewatch the video (I lost interest pretty quick), Matt Berry is the minor role... I thought the reference was to the main voiceover.

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the voice over in the video is Swedish world strongest man winner Magnus Samuelsson.

There are two VOs by Matt berry during the video. There’s more than one voice.

Yeah lmao, I get that.

I tried their new "survival" EVE Frontier game - oh boy was that disappointing.

What a shame for Cursor. I found it a great tool - I actually liked Composer 2.5; but now being bought by SpaceX has for a while left a bad taste - and they keep pushing Grok and now GrokBot.

I took the 50% discount instead of cancelling - but with this I'll likely not renew.

So sad to watch them go from great to mediocre in such a short time.

Didn't Kamprad have some pretty strong ties to the Nazi party? Yet you have a bad taste in your mouth because Cursor gets bought by SpaceX!

Virtue signaling in glass houses...

Sorry why are you mentioning Nazis? I didn't - I think the lady sockpuppet doth protest too much...

Perhaps now they'll release a 3.0 MechaHitler version

Have to agree - if they asked much sooner that would fit the pattern but this cuts out just as the article gets going... Bit annoying

This. I'm originally from the UK, now in NL and the plan was to retire in France. Being close to a hospital is one requirement since some of these villages are over a hour away.

With that and climate change our plans might be changing

Out of curiosity, where did you plan on retiring to and what preparations would be needed? I drove down France this year over a few weeks in an old camper van during the heatwave (like being in an oven) and it is a truly vast beautiful country. I couldn't possibly decide where to retire there, if I ever had a chance (I won't).

Brittany - probably a bit west of Rennes. I like the coast but once you pass Saint-Brieuc the roads get a lot smaller.

Well until this year it seemed like the coolest and most stable part of France - also the least French part and reminds me of Scotland.

(We have friends who just sold up and moved to near Bordeaux - not sure it they are regretting it yet)

Thank you. I will try to visit that area.

I visited outside Bordeaux at Saint Émilion and found the area very beautiful, so hopefully they don't regret it. The price of wine in the country was so amazingly reasonable that even if they did regret moving, they could live in a constant wine fugue and be oblivious to their worries, partly...?

I'm very glad this now exists - fwiw almost a decade ago I worked on https://github.com/takeoff-env/takeoff as a solution for making it easier for hot reloading your stack which is thankfully redundant today, and funnily enough the list of problems you identify is also something I've been working on.

Recently I've also been working on a VM stack for an agentic platform using pre-build images with some cloud injection scripts that simplifies the deployment of a private agentic cluster - in the end I went with full VM with a 4vCpu/8gb for the main agent and 2vCPU/4Gb - only the main agent had docker-in-docker, the rest rootless docker but I agree it's still an elevated risk.

I'll definitely have to give this a spin and see if I can simplify it to one larger box with this solution.

Something I noticed in Star City was how well they managed to find the aesthetic from the time of the USSR.

A set designer can of course find pieces from the time, but I always find with shows made now it always feels retro rather than authentic, but in this show they managed to find some genuine time capsules.

Getting flashback to coffeescript

This month I've noticed that my Cursor model use has gone up faster with Composer 2.5 - I have bothered with Grok yet. Despite the advertised twice-the-usage on Cursor own models I'd say it's burning faster.