Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️my favorite thing about modern software is that it's just as easy as always to hack it to work properly, except now it'll auto-update in a week and overwrite your hacks
somehow firefox has updated to un-fix my dictionary
so it seems my "hack the firefox dictionary" fix is going to un-hack itself every time firefox updates the en-US dictionary.
ugh.
computers were a mistake, networked computers doubly so
I wonder if I can just mark the dictionary read-only and keep firefox from updating it, or if that'll fail because it does the tempfile-rename trick
I have four complaints about firefox and two of them are the fucking autoupdates
oh I can disable updating the dictionary. that may be the simple solution I'm looking for.
a better solution would be to have my XPI rebuilt every time the upstream updates, since I don't want to be stuck in a March 2026 dictionary forever. it won't even have "foob"!
okay my new dictionary is in place and working again.
I think part of the problem is that it's replacing en-US instead of supplementing it, which I wasn't sure was possible without confusing all my websites into thinking I'm speaking something besides english.
which I am, I'm just speaking Late IRC English, which doesn't have the same capitalization rules as proper english
maybe I should just define it as en-IRC and let websites choke on my weird language code
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Who could have possibly been bored with Internet access in the '90s?!
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random stranger@argv_minus_one @foone ability to connect to a server