Stop shoving AI shit into my face every five seconds thanks

Also I just hate hate hate how AI companies think we’re all morons that need everything spoonfed to us by an LLM and are constantly trying to get us to self-lobotomise

umm grok pls tell me what this says me no read long sentences good : (((( except its not even some dense scientific paper but just a news article

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The Gentoo maintainers finally threw in the towel on Chromium about a week ago.

    Portage output / rationale
    !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "chromium" have been masked.
    !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
    - www-client/chromium-151.0.7922.169-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
    /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask:
    # Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2026-09-24)
    # Increasingly challenging to maintain with increased release cadence,
    # upstream toolchain changes, and conflicts between trying to provide
    # a consistent experience for Gentoo users (avoiding bundled where possible)
    # vs. getting updates out in a timely manner.  Many unfixed vulnerabilities.
    #
    # Keeping it in ::gentoo isn't a matter of just supplying an updated ebuild,
    # but a commitment to keeping it up to date and finding a compromise between
    # users' expectations (like various USE flags & not forcing all bundled
    # components) and maintainability.
    #
    # Still supported packages include:
    #   www-client/google-chrome variants
    # Other chromium-based browsers:
    #   www-client/microsoft-edge
    #   www-client/opera
    #   www-client/vivaldi
    # qtwebengine-based browsers (uses chromium's engine):
    #   kde-apps/konqueror
    #   www-client/falkon
    #   www-client/qutebrowser
    # Other browsers:
    #   www-client/firefox and www-client/firefox-bin
    #   www-client/seamonkey
    #
    # Removal on 2026-10-24.  Bug #982204.
    

    Bug mentioned: https://bugs.gentoo.org/982204

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      Yeah I can hardly blame them, chromium maintainer rebuilds require high end hardware that still then take weeks and you have to do that every week. Qtwebengine and webkit-gtk still give me nightmares.

      Firefox has an established relationship with downstreams and has a consistent release cadence.