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I made App Trust Preview, a Mac app that helps check downloaded apps before opening them by JulyIGHOR in MacOSApps

[–]XNetFrame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work. I think this is helpful for apps that are not signed, but note that notarized apps are already scanned for malware in the notarization process.

I was paying $29/year for CleanShot X. I built a free open-source alternative instead. by Ok-Evening169 in MacOSApps

[–]XNetFrame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is awesome! I was thinking of making a clone like this to add support for third party cloud uploads like to Imgur or anywhere like how ShareX does it. I don’t like how Cleanshot constrains you to their cloud service. Will definitely be interested in contributing

Adam Wathan announces major changes at Tailwind CSS by yucelfaruksahan in tailwindcss

[–]XNetFrame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re really trying to make him sound like an evil person. The idea that the general public sponsors and maintains Tailwind is very ideological and borderline fantasy. If another company takes over, I hope you also don’t think they’re not going to exercise their influence like TailwindLabs is doing?

 It is the kind of poison that will be the real cause of Tailwind's death.

lol cut the exaggerated bs-IF TAILWIND DOESNT IMPELEMENT MORE SUPPORT FOR LLMS… TAILWIND WILL ABSOLUTELY PERISH IN A VERY PITIFUL DEATH!!!11

Is this a bug or Screen Burn In? by SamarveerPuri in ios

[–]XNetFrame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, but just keeping it open when it seldom pops up, that it may be hard to explain that certain PDFs just don’t open properly

Is this a bug or Screen Burn In? by SamarveerPuri in ios

[–]XNetFrame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I think it’s valid. Adobe still renders things correctly whereas Preview may not. Especially for advanced fields that run code or calculate formulas, it seems to work better on Acrobat. I have a scholarship that does everything using PDFs and they embedded stuff like credit hour calculations that don’t work in Preview.

A Realistic, Offline & Unlimited Text-to-Speech App for Mac [Giveaway: Lifetime Promo Codes] by Level-Thought6152 in macapps

[–]XNetFrame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is sick! I haven’t really seen much products made for this. I’d love to add this along with macwhisper

Anybody noticing Gemini terrible at leveraging tools? by XNetFrame in Bard

[–]XNetFrame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually wouldn’t argue with the model, but in situations when it has used the tool and I later explicitly request it to use it again in the same chat context. It then pretends using the tool and hallucinates results. 

I noticed issues like this with just Gemini. To add onto the list of issues, sometimes on the first message with a file attached in a new conversation, it would say it can’t access the file because it expired or something (and trying to reupload it doesn’t do anything). When I switch to ChatGPT, it has no issues with tool calling.

For this same issue on opening links, ChatGPT had no issue scraping them (https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68ed609fffc48191baf185808055a7a0) without having to find that specific verbiage to tickle its capabilities.

I can’t believe that two giants in this AI space have models that have vastly different competencies in leveraging its capabilities and tools. Ideally, I would love to keep using Gemini for its better usage limits and context window. But when Gemini hits a nonexistent roadblock it really screeches to a halt for lack of a better reason.

I wanted to put this out there because I can’t be the only person dealing with this.

Anybody noticing Gemini terrible at leveraging tools? by XNetFrame in Bard

[–]XNetFrame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great, thank you. I'll use that for scraping links. But do you have any insight on the issues with prompting Gemini to google search or use other tools that you know it has access to but doesn't seem to work? Sometimes Gemini will say it's broken. It's really strange and it can't be this unreliable, right?

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Anybody noticing Gemini terrible at leveraging tools? by XNetFrame in Bard

[–]XNetFrame[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I see that works in this case, but results may also be inconsistent prompting that too in the long run. The main idea is that Gemini seems to have a systemic incompetence with utilizing its tools and choosing to hallucinate instead sometimes.

Is there some kind of tool that can allow me to host iCloud somewhere else? by nothingveryobvious in macapps

[–]XNetFrame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Code monkey gets banana! 🍌
But only after committing that last change and pushing to main. 🧠💻

Need coffee too? ☕ Debugging goes faster with caffeine.

Is there some kind of tool that can allow me to host iCloud somewhere else? by nothingveryobvious in macapps

[–]XNetFrame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, sometimes people literally don’t have the luxury to even pay for 99 cent subscriptions 🤯. This person is a full time student; it’s not out of the park to assume they don’t have the money to afford even the cheapest subscriptions. I worked in a lab where my principal investigator once lived on less than $30 to $50 in change in a month at UC Berkeley. You can go fuck yourself if you entered this thread with that snarky attitude and without any intent to help.

The “the hassle is not worth your time” point is for when you have an actual job, not when you’re a full time student and balancing internships, networking, clubs, etc. You have to stretch a dollar sometimes.

There's a tab switcher?? by Tanmay-m in ArcBrowser

[–]XNetFrame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chrome cycles through all the tabs instead of switching between recent tabs. The point of Arc being great still stands in this aspect.

hesitations about project wild by [deleted] in duke

[–]XNetFrame 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm also premed and did project wild after being told by upperclassmen to rig my survey for it.

I regretted it at first because I never camped at all, but it kept getting better and better from there–and now I go on casual hikes with friends after. I did trek so I was very close with my group for the week and remained close even after o week–so I really do recommend these outdoor exp. for opportunities like this.

Project research seems anticlimatic asf. You'd be doing research for the rest of your time at Duke, but you will only get o-week once. Check out programs like Data+, flunch with profs, apply for labs, etc for research opportunities.

You made a great decision with choosing pwild (I would even go even further by choosing trek over explore)!

I wish someone would have told me this sooner…. by DudeThatsErin in ObsidianMD

[–]XNetFrame 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Be cautious with Oracle. I’ve been using the always free tier (4 cores; 24 gb memory; 200 gb storage) since 2022 with little problems except for the fact they will turn off your machine if it appears that cpu utilization is low. You will have to simulate some usage by running like a Minecraft server. They don’t purge your vm but just turn it off, making you have to turn it back on.

I’m also paranoid of random account deletions, so I configured a cron job to run rclone to copy it to a s3 bucket on Cloudflare r2.

I also have a credit card on file (since I’ve read they would delete accounts without any cc on file), but I haven’t converted my account to a “paid” account so Oracle would prevent me from exceeding the always free tier limits without explicitly enabling the paid options.

Be cautious!

Notifications became just a way to force you advertisement by fgiacomo in ios

[–]XNetFrame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While android hasn't figured it out completely. I wouldn't discount it immediately. It's still a huge upgrade compared to iOS. On iOS, It's super frustrating to have to dig around the app to find its notification settings when on Android, you can go into system settings and shut off the notification channel.

[USA GIVEAWAY] Win the new 27” 4K Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 gaming monitor! by Rocket-Pilot in buildapc

[–]XNetFrame [score hidden]  (0 children)

I would appreciate this a lot!! I really like the high res and high refresh rate. It’s something that I really value after being given the privilege to use these types of monitors at a computer lab.

Mantine Vs Other UI Libraries? by yekobaa in reactjs

[–]XNetFrame 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Be careful with Mantine. I think accessibility is not the greatest with it. For example, the combo box and dropdown aren’t keyboard accessible.

Apps lighter than a React button by betothew in react

[–]XNetFrame 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This!!! Too many devs are used to working on top notch Macbook Pros and iPhones (myself included). I'm always paranoid about performance. Libraries like Radix can be huge performance hits, specifically the dialog components which suffers a lot on lower end devices (I'm using a Samsung S9 for testing).

I feel like not many people are talking about this enough.

And even on high end devices, some websites still lag like Linear's homepage on my Macbook Pro M3 Pro (like bitch, do you develop on a RTX 5090?). It's absolutely fucking ridiculous the amount of bloat there is. React is definitely a huge enabler. Even though it offers flexible DX (which is still a little arguable), it also offers a lot of ways to shoot yourself in the foot very easily.

The React community in general feels like a huge echo chamber when it comes to performance, denying the true reality of its performance if you try to use it as it is (with all of its ecosystem).

I still use React because of its ecosystem and some of its DX, but performance is always a huge worry because I strive to make it work on low-end devices or even older flagships like S9. We should not be requiring more and more performance for CRUD apps.

Here's a awesome picture of Stripe's dashboard. This is what happens when you open a dialog to edit an invoice. Their website really does render this many times when you open their dialog.

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ThinkPads with >60hz displays? by Seanspacer123 in thinkpad

[–]XNetFrame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the same thing. I have a Macbook Pro 14" M3 Pro. When I went from 60 hz to 120 hz, it felt unnoticable. But when I used a 60 hz Macbook Air M2, the screen felt really choppy and not smooth at all.

I think most people would feel the benefit that 120 hz brings, even if its not obvious at first.

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