tbh I've just been tanking anything that isn't blocked by default rules so, tyvm for sharing

iliana had one in a git repo called "ublock-rules", which i forked into a "cybercrud-drools" for my own usage and have been adding various upsells and distractions to it as i find them. these sorts of filters are really a godsend for accessibility - large swaths of the modern web and its various applications are legitimately unusable without them.

My favorite part of ad blockers is how they're not just for ads, even if that's their primary purpose. It's most obvious from lists like the Annoyances and Cookie Blocker lists, which seek to hide annoying elements that aren't really ads, but make the whole web browsing experience that much worse.

But those lists don't cover everything. So, since I know I and a few others have personal sets of lists, I wanted to make a thread for us to share them. So regardless of purpose, feel free to share them here! They don't have to be fully-formed lists with all the fancy metadata comments (although of course that's welcome). Even a snippet of filters made using the element picker can be useful for others, if it's useful for you.

---

Starting off: those SEO-heavy recipe sites. You know the sort: you go to search for "molasses cookie recipe" and get back ten listings that are actually twenty-paragraph blog posts about how their grandmother hand-picked molasses from the tree to make the finest baked confectionaties, followed by a bunch of Amazon affiliate links, and then, finally, the recipe. Now sites often have a "Jump to Recipe" button, but why must we have this concession?

Behold, my pettiest adblock filter list yet: Remove Recipe SEO Text

In my testing, this works across a wide range of recipe sites due to the plugins they use. Primarily, the following WordPress plugins:

• WP Recipe Maker
• WP Tasty Recipes
• Create
• Recipe Card Blocks

While there's a decent amount of customization on the theme, I've found the structure of the "recipe cards" to be consistent. The toughest part has been removing the text of sibling elements, which I'm not aware of a good CSS query selector for. (If you know, please share!)

To work around this, I just use something like so:

:has(> .block-i-want) > :not(.block-i-want)

As with most filters, it'll never apply to 100% of sites. But so far, I've had good luck with recipe sites I've visited.

i greatly appreciate the "write a gba program and then turn anything else into a gba compatibility layer" approach of achieving cross-platform support

Quote from: valtherabbit on Apr 07, 2025, 10:36 PMBeen listening to Tom Cardy the past few mornings. Helps to relax hehe.

very nice! hard to pick a favorite of his songs but i'm definitely a fan of H.S and Level Clear and Anxious and--

i should also give a shoutout to the one-off songs he makes to announce new merch, which are bangers unto themselves because the man just exudes musical talent (e.g. Vinylz, Ridiculous Stock)

Quotegod i love cassette beasts so much

yesss. i noticed yesterday that the soundtrack just got a few songs added to it, too -- since they just released the update that lets you take on Sunny as a partner, so they naturally had to add "Sunny's theme" and "Sunny's theme (heartfelt)" as well as the BGM for somewhere you go for her storyline. hope i find some time to revisit it for all that soon

Quote from: lifning on Apr 05, 2025, 07:17 AMi'm still working on multi-part uploads for large textures - TMEM on the N64 is very limited, so if you try to blit a surface where

Code Select Expand

width * height * bytesperpixel > 2048 you're in a bit of trouble. i've started attempting to split up such textures into 64x32-pixel tiles and blit each of those, but i've, er, got some correctness issues to sort out

turns out that's built-in to the rdpq_tex_blit function i already had used for RenderCopy, and i was just holding it wrong (or to be more precise, i got confused by results i was seeing in SDL_RenderGeometry, which isn't able to use that function). oops!

with a bit more fuss, i got the backend of SDL_RenderTextureRotated implemented, too. the analog-axis indicator arrows in the diagram here use that:

and everything green is rendered using SDL_SetTextureColorMod, which i've implemented with the RDP's color combiner mode.

(previous footage i'd posted elsewhere of this controller test program was done with pure software rendering - this time it's all being drawn with the RDP-accelerated renderer!)

Been listening to Tom Cardy the past few mornings. Helps to relax hehe.

Quote from: lifning on Apr 03, 2025, 07:45 PM

(https://joelbaylis.bandcamp.com/track/arrow-of-time-acoustic-version)

acoustic album from the authors of Cassette Beasts just dropped today. this song's from the end of the main story (the game has a very strong soundtrack overall as well) and the acoustic version hits very different

god i love cassette beasts so much

here's what that was actually supposed to look like!

i'm still working on multi-part uploads for large textures - TMEM on the N64 is very limited, so if you try to blit a surface where width * height * bytesperpixel > 2048 you're in a bit of trouble. i've started attempting to split up such textures into 64x32-pixel tiles and blit each of those, but i've, er, got some correctness issues to sort out

(https://joelbaylis.bandcamp.com/track/arrow-of-time-acoustic-version)

acoustic album from the authors of Cassette Beasts just dropped today. this song's from the end of the main story (the game has a very strong soundtrack overall as well) and the acoustic version hits very different

ooooh this looks incredibly useful!