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Maybe I'm being cynical, but this just seems wrong to me.
I've been using the HTML editor library CKeditor since the early days, when it was still known as FCKeditor.
I've stuck with v4 because it does everything we need it to, and it's free so long as you don't use any "premium" add-ons. As far as I can see, v5 has some nice features, but is no longer free unless your entire project is open source. And with no pricing information available, with everything hidden behind a "request a quote" button, you can bet it's not cheap!
Yesterday, every editor instance started displaying a big red warning message, obscuring the content being edited:
Quote: This CKEditor 4.x.x version is not secure.
Consider upgrading to the latest one, 4.24.0-lts.
But is 4.24.0-lts free? No - you have to buy an "extended support model" for your installation. 
Sure, there's a new config option[^] you can flip to turn off this check - for now. But that feature wasn't present when we integrated the editor; it has been retrospectively applied to all old versions, and defaulted to "yes, please obscure the editor with a sales pitch on every load".
I don't have a problem with you charging for a new version of your library. Nor with charging for "extended support" on an old version of your library. But actively sabotaging old free versions of your library to try to drive sales of your new version or the "extended support" version? No thank you. 
We'll be sticking with the last free version of v4 with the version check disabled, at least until it either stops working or they start sabotaging it even more. Once that happens, we'll be looking to the competition for its replacement.
For those with long memories, this is reminiscent of the Red Gate / .NET Reflector dΓ©bΓ’cle, where they took a freeware tool and abused its auto-update feature to try to force everyone to upgrade to their new commercial version. Their argument was that continuing to use the free version was like "wanting today's gas at yesterday's prices". They really struggled to understand that it was more like Homer's elephant rides - expecting people to pay today's prices for the gas they already bought yesterday:
Homer: Um, Milhouse saw the elephant twice and rode him once, right?
Louann: Yes, but we paid you four dollars.
Homer: Well, that was under our old price structure. Under our new price structure, your bill comes to a total of $700.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I have a PDF datasheet for a piece of equipment that I really need to understand.
The trouble is it's in Chinese.
I go to look at the HTML for this, and it's embedded in a frame in the page behind a captcha so I can't use google translate on it.
I got the PDF downloaded, tried to open it in chrome, but if there's an option to translate I'm not seeing it.
Anyone know the secret sauce to make this happen?
Thanks!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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These guesses are on fire lately.
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Lucky on the first guess - nothing at all tells you quite a bit!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Took me way, way too long to move from 3 to 4 
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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IoT widgets are cool, but it would be interesting what you could do if you could make the MCU kits completely flat. Very thin, with a completely flat LCD on top, such that you could mount it to the surface of a laptop and run something this fastened on its lid:
esp mon running on a makerfabs esp display 7" - YouTube[^]
But much much thinner than that.
It's 2024. We missed out on the Jetson's style flying briefcase car. Instead, we got the cyberpunk dystopia the sci fi authors promised us. In recompense, I want flat computers.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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(related ?) I think that was the idea when Apple added a Touch Bar instead of regular keys.
it was far from perfect as keys replacement, but it was a good idea.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Is that really a 30+ part series on all the tech of Apollo?
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Hadn't noticed, but I've watched another program in the series a while back so yeah it's possible.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I've been helping someone get a new waveshare board running only to fail last minute due to the board being crap and me running out of moves to work around it. It's a brand new board, and library/toolchain support is currently trash.
Yesterday at 3am a windows update rebooted my laptop and launched my dual boot linux mid update (lid closed so I didn't realize) - that nuked my windows. I was going to my sister's that day, and that's the only time I ever use my laptop. Frustrating. Fortunately I got it reinstalled enough that it limped along for the trip but heckin grrr. Serves me right for not turning off scheduled updates.
I've been a bit down on tech over the past few days.
Finally, my makerfabs 7" arrived. At 1024x600 it's pushing the limits of this little ESP32-S3 MCU. I have a header file used for driving displays of various kinds - kind of an all in one Big Ball of Mud that nevertheless has served me quite well for driving LCDs of all kinds from an ESP32. I plugged in the pins and things like horizontal sync, vertical back porch, etc and it fired right up and ran my code.
I needed that. Now I just need to update esp_mon2 to be able drive displays that are this large (and relatively slow updating). Currently if it receives serial data faster than the display can draw it crashes.
It shouldn't be a problem, because I'm on my game now. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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There are only two ideas in Modern UI (&/or Web) Design, see the image[^].
Do you like Modern Web Design or Classic?
Here's the difference[^].
I created these memes and they are my contributions to the ongoing UI Design discussion. 
They show you why the UX is so irritating, agitating, annoying and other synonyms.
Uh, and yes, CP Main-Page, I'm looking (scrolling) at you! 
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