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genevraon The state of Linux music players in 2026

Weird timing, I was just lamenting today how limited Linux music players are. The best looking one I've found is still Amberol but it doesn't even save your music. Then again the music player selection on Windows isn't that much better

genevraon ICE to Buy Tool That Tracks Locations of Hundreds Millions of Phones Every Day

https://archive.ph/iZpZt

non paywall link

genevraon SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

What's the actual method that can be easily deployed at scale then?

genevraon Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional

"Police now know they cannot use this method in the future"

I wish I had as much confidence in a finger wag as you do but unfortunately I think it'll work more like Pavlov.

genevraon I bought a Mac

It's always bothered me that Apple has so little backwards compatibility. I suppose that's why Windows is used by most of the corporate world for "reliability" (more reliable than Apple), and "ease of use" (people don't want to learn command line for Linux). It's just the mid option

genevraon Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

McDonald's is probably one of the most morally bankrupt companies out there, but I see your point.

genevraon Show HN: Cigarette – a Safari extension that hides ads on X, Reddit, & LinkedIn

Does ublock origin not work On Safari? I don't own a Mac so I'm unsure

genevraon Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash

There are "some" Photoshop wannabes. I still haven't found any program on Linux that can give me anywhere close to the same ease of use and powerful tools that Photoshop has. The example you provided sounds like you want to use Illustrator for your use case anyway.

genevraon Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?

Great article. I've been noticing sites in general getting slower and slower. I've started doing things like blocking remote fonts and using Decentraleyes, but even stuff like that can't help when the site design is fundamentally broken

genevraon Show HN: I built an app to stop me from always being late

For being built by someone with ADHD, I'm disappointed I watched like 2 minutes of video and clicked around on the home screen and still have no idea what the app even does.

genevraon Bored of It

Today while staring at my strawberry plant I started wondering if the soil had enough nitrogen for it. 10 queries, some fluff learning, and an in depth discussion about the stoichiometric steps required to convert the nitrogen consumed by a single strawberry plant got me to some workable measurement of fertilizer I could add. I think anyone bored of it is using it for too much, and too often.

genevraon Firefox 137.0 released with vertical tabs

Glad they are staying competitive with other browsers and modern trends, but I will never personally use vertical tabs. It seems to waste so much space.

genevraon Runway Gen-4

I'm shortening my time-line to 10 years before we can watch fully generated in real time movies about our preferred prompt.

genevraon Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour

It actually provides MORE information in my opinion. It now states what failed.

Removing the extra fluff string that no user cared about anyway is fine.

I'll miss the frowny face though.

genevraon AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please

I agree up until the coding example. If someone doesn't know about version control I don't think that's any fault of the company trying to stretch the technology to its limits and let people experiment. Cursor is a really cool step in a direction, and it's weird to say we should clamp what it's doing because people might not be competent enough to fix its mistakes.

genevraon BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

Awesome, you can also use it with LibRedirect (https://libredirect.github.io/)

genevraon The Jailbreak Bible

For a few brief seconds as I read the post I had the delightful impression LLMs were somehow helping jailbreak iOS.

genevraon I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs

Absolutely, as someone with far less experience than you I feel quite spoiled I'll have this for help coding for the rest of time.

genevraon The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

This is awesome, been wanting to do something like this for a long time.

genevraon Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date

Awesome, the more people we can convince to switch from Twitter the better.

genevraon We were wrong about GPUs

computer go faster over time

genevraon Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

So you think individuals have control over how the industry works? The insight it gives devs is why some are so outspoken about it. This is a good thing.

genevraon FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

I assume some, like myself, don't want to spend time on that

I do glance at my statements every few months though

genevraon Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

It appears you take "on Linux" as "on Windows on Linux", which is not the same

The way you're interpreting things must mean you think all software is compatible with every operating system

Reread my messages please :)

genevraon Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

So essentially, you can't. That's the whole point.

Send me a guide for the latest versions of creative cloud working with wine please. It'd be great to be proven wrong and gain 100% usefulness in Linux land :)

genevraon BES – OSS Windows software to control per-process CPU usage

Thanks for this, this seems the proper way to accomplish it

genevraon Gimp vs. Photoshop (Is Gimp Just as Good in 2024?)

No. You probably haven't worked in Photoshop enough.

After reading the article it touches on moot points for most graphic designers. The demographic Adobe is aiming for does not care if Gimp is open source and you can modify it.The average graphic designer has 0 care for "less storage space" taken up or open source and wants a rock solid product with years of support, guides, and guaranteed straightforward methods of accomplishing multitudes of different effects.

genevraon Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

How can I install that on Ubuntu? And I don't need a replacement for "simpler stuff". I appreciate the attempt but my point is there's nothing comparable at a pro level. If I had the ability to use creative cloud (which Mac does), I would of course use that.

genevraon Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

Using Windows OS xp

genevraon Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

You realize sneaking in code to arbitrarily exfiltrate user data is much simpler if a trusted source (in this case Recall), is doing the collecting