Patrick

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611 Posts

Taking Care of Business

I like computers, games, sports, and travelling.

GitHubhttps://github.com/PatrickTCB
PronounsHe/Him
Patrick5d ago
I don't like how #DLSS5 looks, but I love what it's done to the internet. Some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a long time.
Show threadPatrick6d ago
@omgubuntu I like the new design, but I love the presentation in your article here!
PatrickMar 7
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 7
A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!
Show threadPatrickFeb 21

@b0rk I can use grep to search the man pages and often get what I want much faster than a search engine will give me the same info.

I also find myself leaning even more heavily into man pages as the web becomes AI slop answers that may or may not show real commands and arguments.

PatrickFeb 14
Anders EknertFeb 12

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Show threadPatrickFeb 8
@caseyliss I think Plex detected the Proxmox machine on you LAN and knew it’s days were numbered.
PatrickJan 29
Matt FantinelJan 29

If you’re a @phanpy fan using an iPhone or iPad, and you’re in the EU or Japan (where @altstore PAL is available), good news 👀

I’ve made a native iOS build that you can install right now through AltStore PAL! It's called... iPhanpy.

It’s still Phanpy at its core, just without the usual iOS PWA headaches. It feels smoother, stays longer in memory, and even comes with a neat Liquid Glass app icon.

If you have AltStore PAL installed, you can copy the link below and add it as a source inside AltStore:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matfantinel/iphanpy/refs/heads/main/altstore/source.json

And if you don't have access to AltStore PAL, no worries: it's gonna be available on the App Store soon!

Show threadPatrickJan 27
@viticci @macstories Every podcast will now be a musical?
Show threadPatrickJan 18

@cb @gruber I think the whole “app store” focus misses the real alternative people actually use on macOS and Windows, which is getting software from the web.

The only reason anyone even cares about the app store discussion is that Google has designed Android to make the normal web flow as scary as possible and Apple has banned it outright.

But the only real future for competition, instead of regulation, to make phone app distribution better is to just force platforms to make the webpage to app launch sequence be as smooth as people expect.

PatrickJan 13
Chunshek Jan 13

Gosh darnit macOS 26 keeps trashing an app that we developed internally for productivity because suddenly it decided that our app "contains Malware". We built it ourselves and have been using it for 5 years. I even did "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine", and overrode system security settings to allow applications from "Anywhere". Still trashed every time.

Let us run our computers that we paid money to purchase, with software that we paid our own staff to develop. Why is this a problem now?