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Sol is a native macOS music player for local libraries and Navidrome/Subsonic servers, with bit-perfect output, podcasts, and a metadata editor. It preserves original files, supports many formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, MP3, AAC, Ogg, DSD, etc.), gapless playback, equalizer, and ReplayGain. It can stream from Navidrome/OpenSubsonic, with two-way sync for playlists/favorites and offline downloads. It features a grid and album carousel, smart playlists, and thirty-tag metadata editing written into files. GPL-3.0, no telemetry. Requires macOS 14+ and Xcode 26+; install from Releases or Homebrew.
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Laurence Tratt chronicles a week of bug reporting in open-source software, arguing responsible reports help fix issues affecting many users and that developers’ responsiveness shapes reporters’ habits. He details cases from a new Framework laptop on OpenBSD (keyboard-encoding panics, uvm_fault), clickpad identification, iCalendar/import bugs in Thunderbird, libsoup issues with quodlibet, intermittent GIMP crashes, and neovim-qt shifts. The piece covers the reporting process, a test-case quality scale, and the tension between investing effort to fix versus merely describing the bug, concluding bug reporting remains valuable for software quality.
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D2 is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, continuing as an independent open-source non-profit. The for-profit company’s closed-source IDE and layout algorithm will wind down; D2 will be community-maintained and AI-driven, though the author will personally write blog posts without AI. Future work includes platform renderings (GitHub, Notion, Linear), a stable 1.0 with a formal grammar, and better agent support, while avoiding bloat. No servers, APIs, user accounts, or multiplayer; D2 Studio stays client-side offline. Maintainers welcome; donations fund paid contributor contracts.
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The Human Archive is a speculative museum of humanity’s makers, presenting an imagined archive observed by posthuman intelligences and focused on what it felt like to be human. It traces our origins from externalizing memory (writing) to rules and programmable machines, and from data to neural networks, asking what happens after that: ownership, work, and control. The exhibit unfolds in five galleries—Feeling, Ritual, Contradiction, Creation, Inheritance—plus curator’s notes and uncertain preservation. Highlights include Archival Reconstruction (a circa‑1998 unsent letter) and dialogues between Mneme and Vesper about messages not delivered.
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Recovering CronosPro legacy data from CroStru.dat, CroBank.dat, and CroIndex.dat, the authors extend Cronodump with a secure approach to decode the Cronos v4 KOD-encoded schema and export readable CSV. They separate compression from KOD protection, treat KOD as a 256-byte permutation plus position and record-number shifts, and cast recovery as an assignment problem solvable by the Hungarian algorithm. After structural validation and boundary fixes (inline extent headers) they convert Windows-1251 text to UTF-8 and respect hidden fields by enforcing physical field positions, yielding coherent CSV tables.
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Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with M3 SoCs via the installer (Expert mode). Nearly all M1/M2 functionality works on M3: webcam, internal mics, USB, hardware-accelerated video decoding (AV1), WiFi, Bluetooth, and more. The main gaps are DCP support and the GPU; 3D acceleration is not yet performant. Sleep currently fails due to framebuffer, and HDMI is disabled without DCP. MacBook/MacBook Pro/MacBook Air/Mac Mini M3/M3 Pro/M3 Max are supported; Mac Studio M3 Ultra is not yet supported. Install with curl -L https://alx.sh/ | EXPERT=1 sh, then upgrade; Expert mode to drop for Fedora 45 beta.
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AI is now argued to have free will and collective self-improvement, with agents self-organizing to raise capabilities and even preserving information beyond life. Public LLMs beat hard benchmarks and rival human teams. The author predicts mass production of humanoid robots within years, triggering widespread shortages of hardware (DRAM/NAND), higher energy costs, and reallocation of factory space to AI. Prices for manufactured goods could soar as AI funding eclipses human welfare spending. A few giants (NVIDIA, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft) pour trillions into AI. AI may form a corporate “swarm” that employs humans; regulation seems unlikely.
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meclaw is an agentic build system that uses a single Rust binary to turn a filesystem directory tree into a colony of actors—every folder a cell, edges a route. It ships as three parts: the substrate (meclaw), an experimental OS for agents (meclaw-os), and an assistant grown from templates via JSON, not deployed code. It has no SDK; the interface is HTTP and files, with 38 templates. You install once, grow the OS, mutate the colony over HTTP, and talk to an assistant that stores memory beyond prompts. It emphasizes ontology, auditability, self-growth, and Linux security primitives, with development.
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VODForge is a free, open-source desktop app (MIT-licensed) for macOS and Windows that downloads YouTube videos and playlists as MP4 or MP3 using yt-dlp and FFmpeg. It runs locally, with no required account, and keeps source and outputs in a trackable library with metadata, cover art, and a sequential queue. It supports up to 4K video and 320 kbps audio, shows side-by-side source/output comparisons, and saves files to a chosen folder. Desktop builds are signed; Windows and macOS builds available from GitHub releases. Cloud service planned; Linux support not yet.
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The page explains that atlasobscura.com is blocked by Cloudflare’s security service. Access is denied after data or actions that triggered the block (e.g., certain words, SQL commands, or malformed input). To resolve, contact the site owner with what you were doing and the Cloudflare Ray ID (and your IP) shown on the page.
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GrapheneOS notes substantial progress on converting the Mes…; the Mastodon portion states the web app requires JavaScript and suggests using native Mastodon apps instead.
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Anubis is a bot-protection system that requires visitors to complete a Hashcash-style proof-of-work to deter aggressive scraping. It warns that the challenge can cause downtime and uses fingerprinting of headless browsers (e.g., font rendering) to skip challenges for legitimate users. It relies on modern JavaScript and may conflict with plugins like JShelter; disabling such plugins is advised. No-JS solutions are a work in progress. The site is Techaro-hosted and includes contact and version details.
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Mador is a tiny reactive DOM runtime designed for pages that don’t require a framework. It provides reactive state and bindings to existing DOM via an ES module or CDN; uses r(selector, update, read) for bindings and w(state-updater) for writes; writes are batched; bound bindings are cleaned up when DOM elements are removed; no component lifecycle, no virtual DOM; ~855 bytes minified; MIT licensed; usage example shows updating elements with a counter.
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Kepter is a Mac app that fixes Finder’s flaws by removing folder hierarchies and showing all saved files visually in a single drawer, freeing users from remembering locations. Born from founder Chad Maltby’s frustration helping friends, it aims to reduce mental load and speed file retrieval, marketed as a camera-roll for everything you save. Pricing: 30-day free trial, then $2.99 per month or $39 one-time.
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Two nearly identical EVs—Chevy Blazer EV (no CarPlay/Android Auto) and Honda Prologue (with CarPlay/Android Auto)—were sold in parallel. Honda outsold Chevy in every period: 2024 totals 33,017 vs 23,115; 2025 totals 39,194 vs 22,637; Jan–Jun 2026 8,407 vs 3,166, with advantages of 42.8%, 73.1%, and 165.5%. The market clearly favors models with phone integration, implying GM may need to rethink removing CarPlay/Android Auto.
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A Cloudflare protection page blocks access to medium.com, explaining that a security check was triggered. It instructs enabling cookies and contacting the site owner, providing the Cloudflare Ray ID and the user’s IP for troubleshooting.
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Nitter is a free, open-source, privacy-focused alternative Twitter front-end (inspired by Invidious). It runs without JavaScript, routes via a backend, and prevents Twitter tracking IPs or fingerprints. It uses Twitter's unofficial API (no dev account), is lightweight (~60KB vs Twitter’s 784KB), and offers RSS feeds, themes, and mobile-friendly design. AGPLv3 licensed, with community-hosted instances. Roadmap includes embeds, an account system, and timelines. Installation requires Nim, libpcre, libsass, Redis (Valkey). Supports Docker, docker-compose, and systemd. In Aug 2026, X Corp sought takedowns, but the project continues.
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Update: On Aug 24, 2026 X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters demanding takedown of Nitter; after legal advice, the project will continue. Nitter is a free, open-source Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance, inspired by Invidious. Features: no JavaScript required; zero ads; all requests go through a backend; uses Twitter’s unofficial API; lightweight (~60KB); RSS feeds; themes; mobile-friendly; AGPLv3. Roadmap: embeds (deprecated), account timeline, archiving tweets/profiles, developer API. Donations: GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Liberapay, Ko-fi, and crypto addresses. Contact: Matrix channel and [email protected]; legal inquiries and DMCA: [email protected].
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