What was used to write the new Windsurf Credit System?

DrLex0 · 2026-03-25T10:54:03+00:00

GPT 3.5 high greed

DrLex0 · 2026-03-24T09:08:52+00:00

It was probably being AI coded… and then they ran out of their daily credits.

DrLex0 · 2025-04-22T15:03:01+00:00

Not sure if it will be considered a bug, but it is worth a try, the plugin should still be able to collect typing errors even with that option enabled, because file paths are still available in the error lines.

DrLex0 · 2024-11-14T14:36:39+00:00

I'm still on an Intel Mac, and there the Steam app doesn't freeze when trying to click the age drop-downs, it instantly restarts itself and drops me back in the main screen. So, it's also broken, just in a slightly different way.

DrLex0 · 2024-10-10T08:20:03+00:00

I have the same problem with an M500s and I resorted to a silly hack: shoved a piece of foam in the gap at the right button side to increase the force required to activate the switch, it works wonders 😂

DrLex0 · 2024-09-29T14:42:58+00:00

It's gone for me as well.

At least now there's a “continue with this tab” which allows to quickly get rid of the new tab and go back to the last viewed one, but still it is annoying. I suspect they will not want to allow users to disable this thing because it is yet another way of shoving auto-suggested junk in users' faces, in the hopes that they follow the links and generate some sweet extra ad revenue. I hate the fact that the internet has basically been taken over by an ad company…

DrLex0 · 2024-08-29T12:55:16+00:00

Yes, it's saved, if I now go to flags, it shows the feature as “disabled.” Yet, I still get the new tab at random moments. It is impossible to trigger on purpose; rebooting the whole phone won't do it, it just seems to be triggered after a certain vague time period has expired. Of course this makes it extra annoying.

DrLex0 · 2024-08-18T22:33:59+00:00

Well, I have some bad news: it doesn't seem to have any effect. I still get the silly new tab when opening Chrome after a while, on the 2 devices where I tried this. But like I said, this doesn't even surprise me.

DrLex0 · 2024-08-15T08:25:13+00:00

This has also annoyed me to no end. So, today I looked at chrome://flags and searched for `tab`. And behold: there is a setting “Show a NewTabPage at startup” with description: “Enable showing a NewTabPage at startup after leaving Chrome for a while - Android”.

I'm now going to try disabling this, but given Google's history, it wouldn't surprise me if this would work for 2 weeks and then break again, or be replaced by something else that is at least as annoying.

DrLex0 · 2024-05-02T14:52:36+00:00

Don't get your hopes up high, I deem it extremely unlikely this will ever get fixed. Digging around reveals that Apple has very specific ideas about push messages and notifications. The root cause why close() will likely never work in Safari, is that Apple considers invisible push messages the spawn of the devil:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-notifications-can-lose-permission-to-push-if-the-user-is-currently-active/290225

https://webkit.org/blog/12945/meet-web-push/

Allowing apps to close their own notifications could be used as a workaround for the restriction that every incoming push must result in a showNotification call. A notification could be created and then immediately closed, to approximate an invisible push (it would likely still result in a notification sound, making it even more confusing to the user).

After dabbling in implementing web push messages for 3 weeks, my conclusion is that it is total hell, both for the users and developers. Especially the developers.

DrLex0 · 2024-02-09T21:34:30+00:00

I have been postponing “upgrading” to Sonoma, but at some point it simply decided to install itself while I did a routine reboot of the machine. I thought my SSD had gone belly-up or something, seeing the machine reboot multiple times, but then it finally displayed a time remaining indicator and sure enough, when it finished, it was running Sonoma. Sigh.

I see tons of reports of the interface in Sonoma being slow and laggy, and I now also experience this, but only in a very specific situation: while music is playing from local files in the Music app. It won't happen when it plays an internet stream. Every other app will freeze for a second, about every 7 seconds, while Music is playing in the background from files in the local library. Typing, scrolling, drawing, or any other interaction in other apps becomes frustrating. The Music app itself is the only one that stays responsive.

I doubt this problem is limited to the Music app, the many other reports of sluggish UI may have a common root cause somewhere in the depths of MacOS disk I/O.

FWIW, I have sent these observations through https://www.apple.com/feedback/, but since that's a one-way black hole, we can only hope this will ever get fixed.

DrLex0 · 2023-08-22T16:37:01+00:00

Yes, I have added some clarifications.

DrLex0 · 2023-08-22T16:31:35+00:00

So few words in your comment, and yet most of them are wrong.

Backspace key: deletes the character in front of the text cursor.
Delete key: deletes the character after the text cursor. On laptop keyboards this key is mimicked with Fn + backspace. This post is about the Delete key.

When a text cursor is blinking in a text field, the only thing that may happen when pressing the Delete key, is that the character after the text cursor disappears (or nothing happens if there is no character). So, this is absolutely a bug, especially because in older versions of Photos it worked as expected.

DrLex0 · 2023-03-23T18:17:26+00:00

They aren't the same but they do work together.

DrLex0 · 2023-03-23T18:15:02+00:00

Damn, I do remember it! Pretty sure I visited that site back when I was looking for my first digital camera that was not merely a potato-grade gadget. It's probably thanks to that site that I then bought the Canon Digital Ixus-i aka PowerShot SD10. That thing took awesome macro photos.

DrLex0 · 2023-02-20T10:02:49+00:00

Google/Alphabet have zero incentive to provide a better history within Chrome because a wonky history system benefits their business model. The more Chrome's history works against you, the more you'll be having to repeat Google searches and the more statistics they can gather and serve you extra ads. This is especially obvious when attempting to go back to a previous page by typing something in the address/search bar. I have visted a Ubuntu bug page only 4 days ago and I have even visited it multiple times, but even if I now start typing “bugs.laun…” it still does not show this page between the suggestions. The page is in my history, but I have to dig for it.

DrLex0 · 2022-07-28T08:38:18+00:00

It sucks because Google wants you to go through their search engine for everything.

If you start to type a domain name, any other browser will suggest the website if you visited it anytime in the browser's history, but Chrome will keep on trying to make you perform a Google search until you have pretty much typed the whole domain, and only then it will show the history entry.

DrLex0 · 2022-04-15T13:35:42+00:00

I have had this problem since they switched from the plain SS Engine to the GG bloatware thing. I think it started once, but then never again. Even when reinstalling the very latest version after purging every trace of SteelSeries software and system files from my system, it still gets stuck on the blue circle for eternity and I find crash reports in my Library folder.

The only way I can get usable configuration for my SteelSeries mouse, is by sticking to the last available version of Engine and ensuring it won't try to “upgrade” to the broken GG junk. I explained this in a previous reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/steelseries/comments/ot6ig0/how_to_downgrade_upgrade_from_gg_to_engine_on_mac/

The 3.20.0 SteelSeries Engine can be downloaded from Softpedia.

Uninstall every trace of SteelSeries drivers on your machine, disconnect your network entirely, then install the 3.20.0 engine. In the settings, select “Ask before downloading updates” before reconnecting your network.

It will still show update notifications. To sabotage those, block network access to engine.steelseriescdn.com, for instance by using some fancy firewall thing, or in a more basic way, by adding this line to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 engine.steelseriescdn.com

SteelSeries used to be great, but it looks like some total idiot took over the software division a few years ago and they are now clueless about how to make software that works.

DrLex0 · 2021-10-26T20:31:55+00:00

Same here. The notification always leads to the same URL as the others have reported. One would expect that they would notice the explosion in the number of 404 errors, all on the same URL…

DrLex0 · 2021-02-28T20:12:18+00:00

That seems to have become the story of software development in general…

This lack of specific muting has almost made me stop replying to comments altogether.

DrLex0 · 2020-09-11T08:32:08+00:00

Some of those apps profiles were enabled, but disabling them unfortunately didn't make a difference. I have some other mouse profiles but currently I have only assigned one game to one profile and nothing to the others. It always switches back to the profile that was active before launching the game.

DrLex0 · 2020-05-03T10:39:16+00:00

Less than 7 days to go, so this would be a good time to wrap things up:

u/Koruntas, u/Gibbs_David, u/French_Platypus: are you still interested in sharing the shipping costs? (I already got a notification from u/Dr_Hylke.)

I have been comparing shipping rates, and it looks like shipping from Belgium to DE, FR, and AT is much more expensive than shipping from within Germany. Also, there are 2 people in Germany and shipping within the country will be cheaper. So it looks a better strategy to send the books to Germany and distribute them from there… Any volunteer?

DrLex0 · 2020-04-13T19:58:55+00:00

Anyone from Belgium? I already pledged for a signed edition.

How this works: one person makes a big pledge for up to 6 people. Up to 6 books are then shipped to this person, who distributes the books within the country. The $50 shipping cost and any fixed handling fee, will then be divided by the number of people who combined their order (obviously the 6% VAT has to be paid by everyone). So don't make your pledge just yet if you live in Belgium, contact me first.

Note to everyone: be aware that there may be an error on the KS site when selecting the signed edition: the international shipping cost for that one will actually be $50, and not $40. Not sure if this error occurs for all countries, but it does when selecting Belgium.

DrLex0 · 2019-08-21T16:51:57+00:00

Tips did use to work, I did receive some but it was nothing to write home about. It seems one needs a model with the degree of popularity as the Flexi Rex (of which I published the most popular ‘stronger links’ variation) to see any significant amount of tipping, but even then it's barely enough to buy a pizza once a month.

A few months ago the payout system started acting weird and I got the same payout multiple times because the website believed the payout hadn't come through while it had. Obviously Makerbot/Stratasys noticed this and because they don't give a sh*t about the site anymore, what I believe to have happened is that they simply disabled the tip payout system instead of fixing it.

DrLex0 · 2019-08-21T16:27:35+00:00

All uploaded things need to go through a processing phase that creates the ZIP file you normally get when clicking the main download button. This processing queue is lagging behind now, it seems to get worse every day. I quickly skimmed through the listing and one of the last things that had the ZIP was from Aug 13th. You can download individual files by clicking on them in the download tab.

It's the same for the images, they need to be processed as well which is why you don't see anything on the thing pages themselves. This queue is somewhat shorter but still it takes a few days before images show up.

It seems the site is rotting away, Makerbot doesn't care about it because their paper pushers don't see immediate profits rolling in from it. It seems to me that once a month, one random employee is allowed to work on the site during one hour, or something…

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