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Still very much alive! Just not as popular with the advent of $10/mo all-you-can-eat streaming services.

Every time I've used Gemini models for anything besides code or agentic work they lean so far into the RLHF induced bold lettering and bullet point list barf that everything they output reads as if the model was talking _at_ me and not _with_ me. In my Openclaw experiment(s) and in the Gemini web UI, I've specifically added instructions to avoid this type of behavior, but it only seemed to obey those rules when I reminded the model of them.

For conversational contexts, I don't think the (in some cases significantly) better benchmark results compared to a model like Sonnet 4.6 can convince me to switch to Gemini 3.1. Has anyone else had a similar experience, or is this just a me issue?

My favorite part of Zed is the problems/errors view. It's great seeing everything in one place and being able to edit multiple files with context at the same time.

That feature + native Git support has fully replaced VSCode for me.

A music library organizer, as a replacement for my current workflow with Beets (https://beets.io/).

Beets takes almost 5 minutes per incremental update of ~1000 folders of tagged flacs with my current configuration, when all I really want it to do is:

- fetch album art if not present

- create folder structure readable by Subsonic server

- symlink relevant files

Very raw and unfinished, currently only implemented adding new albums. However, 5 minutes to <1 sec is a promising improvement.

Private trackers (at least, the "good ones") take time and effort to get into and stay in... most people just want convenience.

The pirates lost

I believe this is not mainly due to big companies and/or governments cracking down on piracy, but a massive loss in knowledge and shift in perspective about piracy, especially in younger generations.

It's true that piracy numbers have been declining, but this largely comes as a result of "piracy is dangerous, don't do it! you'll get viruses!!1!"

What benefit does Open Scanner have over using the "Scan Document" iPhone shortcut? For sync/sharing I usually just AirDrop the scan to my Mac.

Some share your sentiment. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744...

...and is miles better than Apple's attempt at providing "support" for other platforms than their own.

Since macOS Catalina, zsh has been the default. bash switched to GPLv3 awhile back, and to avoid licensing issues, Apple never updated bash past 3.2, which was already well over a decade old at the time.

https://thenextweb.com/news/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-...

Potentially due to the threat of DMCAs. Pixeldrain and Mega are widely used in piracy and sometimes leaks like these, considering they are not known for complying with them most of the time, unlike GitHub.

Discord has a hidden snake game if you enter the Konami code: https://discord.com/404

See https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools

They're like an arrogant chef who, after cooking your dinner, instructs the waiter to remove all the salt and pepper shakers from the table because they don't want you changing the flavor of their dish.

[1] https://github.com/do-not-theme/do-not-theme.github.io/issue...

And on the Windows side of things, there's NanaZip https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip which gives 7-zip better integration with W11 context menus, and a better file manager UI

For me, at least when it comes to Tailscale, it was Tailscale SSH and MagicDNS. I haven't had to touch `sshd` at all, and I get automatic HTTPS certificates for machines connected to my tailnet. Also, it's free.

[1] https://tailscale.com/tailscale-ssh/ [2] https://tailscale.com/kb/1081/magicdns/

Although potentially missing the point of the original submission: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

imo better integration with Win 10/11 context menus and more compression codecs

Been using these on & off for over a year, no complaints

https://github.com/antiden/macOS-cursors-for-Windows

Feels like industrial revolution whiplash.

I hope Apple realizes that customization is a lot more important to their end users than they think, only reason I updated to iOS 16 was for the lockscreen fad