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I've rebuilt the site using Haunt. If everything goes well, you should see (essentially) no changes.

This will also mean that, hopefully, I'll start posting more often here again.

His music draws inspiration from the work of celebrated modern composers like Dmitri Shostakovich, though he used the Super Mario series as a model of good video game composition.

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(I'll post a proper writeup about this later, but here's the quick version)

Nokia 225 4G is an (imo) pretty dissapointing featurephone by HMD Global. Unlike some other Mocor OS-based devices from them, the 225 4G supports web browsing using Opera Mini. It's alright, the usual Opera Mini caveats apply.

However, some time ago I discovered that the 225 4G actually comes with a second, hidden, web browser. Unlike Opera Mini, that one does not proxy all your requests through a server.

Both Opera Mini and the NokiaBrowser support saving pages for offline usage (though, annoyingly, the OS on the 225 4G does not let you start up Opera Mini if you are in offline mode, and NokiaBrowser can be started only from within Opera Mini). Opera Mini uses a bespoke binary format called OBML, but NokiaBrowser uses HTML with just a small header prepended to it. As such, I created some tooling to attach such a header to arbitrary HTML documents.

So, what can you use this for? For one, eBooks. The EPUB format is essentially just (X)HTML files in a ZIP archive.

After extracting the "Compatible epub" of The Count of Monte Cristo, I'm left with a collection of .xhtml files under epub/text. If I mount 225 4G's internal storage on my computer, I can then run:

python encode.py epub/text/chapter-1.xhtml /media/nortti/disk/browser/snapshot/monte-cristo-1.html

When I unmount the phone's storage and open up NokiaBrowser, I now have the first chapter of the book available under Menu → Open → Offline pages.

Looks like I forgot to run zola build after my last post. Really ought to automate this better…

I was catching up on my "social web" feeds, and read CSS is fun! by Caoimhe. One of the footnotes on there linked to Netscape, Now! by Luna, which has

So, if you’re a pervert (affectionate) like me who likes to use Netscape from time to time,

While I did not follow her, I did see a lot of her posts on Cohost – it's possible that's where I adopted the usage from.

When talking of someone who is really into a thing, especially aspects of it that are often thought to be off-putting such as jank in old video games or the hassle of maintaining a trash-picked bicycle, a term I've been using more and more recently is "pervert" or, if in company who are not familiar with the usage, "pervert (positive)".

I am not entirely sure where I picked it up. I would want to say I remember Kayin using it, but I'm not entirely sure. I did pick it up within the last couple years, so Cohost is a pretty reasonable guess for where I picked it up from.

I'm interested in hearing about others' usage of the term with same or similar meaning, so send me an e-mail (see my home page for my address) if you've encountered it.

My partner pointed out installing the oldnewthing-link-unfucker to be a bit annoyingly manual. I had not really thought about it, but that is true.

They looked into it, and it appears Greasemonkey will prompt for installation if the filename being served ends with ".user.js". I have applied that change, so if you use Greasemonkey, you should now be able to install oldnewthing-link-unfucker by navigating to the raw file on Forgejo.