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SavioMakon Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

I used Quod Libet as my main music player for a year or two, but I found it lacking and iirc sometimes laggy (it is written in Python!). Updates also seem to be infrequent.

SavioMakon Gemini 3.5 Flash

Note that this paper is vibe-coded and overestimating due to incorrect analysis, though "the core idea behind the paper is largely sound".

https://x.com/justanotherlaw/status/2050399317782155726 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/veFMEzDDyWaer2Sms/sanity-che...

SavioMakon Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

Firefox has experimental split tab hidden inside about:config since 146.0 (December 9, 2025)

https://winaero.com/how-to-enable-split-view-in-firefox-146/

SavioMakon Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

or ublock origin `www.mlive.com##+js(rc, article__paragraph--blur)`

SavioMakon Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

Sorry for being stupid. I thought that linked PR was GitHub's.

SavioMakon Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

They fixed it 8 hours after your comment lol

SavioMakon I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

I use the AI side bar quite often, not having to manage windows/tabs to have the chat and the main content I am reading at the same time is nice.

SavioMakon How I use every Claude Code feature

I strongly disagree. It is extremely annoying when I cannot make different agents read a different prompt file when I needed to tell them different things. Cursor currently autoloads AGENTS.md without a way to disable it and it sucks.

SavioMakon Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

I would argue it is hallucinating, starting at when the model outputs "Yes".

SavioMakon Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

For physics2 (which I only skimmed the manual), it seems like most of the functionality is either in the Typst standard library, or availble in physica

https://github.com/Leedehai/typst-physics/blob/master/physic...

SavioMakon Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

nonissue for me. This is an advantage in most cases, and the way to tell typst to just render literally is quite obvious (backslash in markup mode, quoting text in math mode). The only slightly annoying thing is that in math mode "/" becomes a binary operator for rendering like \frac, and you need to use the ugly and hard to read "\/" for an actual forward slash for tighter division.

SavioMakon Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

I encountered some weirdness with wrap-it when my content is a bullet list

SavioMakon Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology

Sorry but that is not intuitive for me. You wrote one line of analogy and then went into 4.5 paragraphs of technical explanation.

SavioMakon Bloom Filters by Example

https://hur.st/bloomfilter/

There is a only bloom filter calculator that lets you just mess arpund with parameters

SavioMakon OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

Yeah, you sound around 1.25-1.5x than the average videos I watch

SavioMakon Fun with uv and PEP 723

Speed is one thing, the type system itself is another thing, you are basically guaranteed to hit like 5-10 issues with python's weird type system before you start grasping some of the oddities

SavioMakon FFmpeg School of Assembly Language

I think the first two asterisks are used like footnotes pairs

SavioMakon Consistent Jailbreaking Method in o1, o3, and 4o

at least include a MD5 of what you have redacted to prove that whatever you may publish in the future is pre-written

SavioMakon Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

Kagi didn't make it explicit, but based on what they wrote I think they API call Google and other search engines to show as part of their results.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...