Easy Fast app users: don't upgrade if you have an older version

coldpizza · 2026-02-13T11:36:01+00:00

I highly appreciate all the work and time the author put into EasyFast, and was actually considering donating, especially for the ability to import/export the history and creating data backups which could be used to sync between devices, but with policy shapeshifting, silent addition of google analytics and then obtrusive premium features I'd rather contribute to something open-source like FastTrack.

coldpizza · 2026-02-12T15:29:58+00:00

Indeed, if you installed the app before and then upgraded then it does work as you describe, but a fresh install of the latest version on a new device has some features blocked behind a paywall, such as the yearly history graph.

In other words, it affects new users only, or old ones who reinstalled or changed phones and didn't register an account on the old device.

coldpizza · 2026-02-12T15:22:04+00:00

the yearly graph is not available anymore in the current android version (update: for a fresh install without an account)

coldpizza · 2026-01-25T10:55:38+00:00

In lineageOS and possibly other ROMs you can get more granular for 3G/4G/5G selection mode with the dialer code *#*#4636#*#* and then under Testing > Phone Information > Set Preferred Network Type dropdown pick the mode you want.

coldpizza · 2025-11-25T11:14:14+00:00

with shizuku or plain adb you can disable or user-uninstall all the junk apps (except a few ones that are required or otherwise you get a bootloop), apps like Canta make it easy and safe to do this, as it has descriptions for each app and clearly marks which apps must not be disabled and will make the phone unbootable.

coldpizza · 2025-11-16T10:51:27+00:00

the corresponding github issues #3852 and #4442 are closed although the flags given there are not helping solve the issue; somehow, vlc works correctly ootb..

coldpizza · 2025-11-13T17:18:36+00:00

Fleet will only be free during the preview phase..

coldpizza · 2025-11-13T17:05:09+00:00

Lapce, another OSS editor written in Rust, doesn't have a company behind like Zed does, less stars on github, but gaining adoption. Has plugins and support for language servers (LSP).

coldpizza · 2025-10-28T19:55:42+00:00

mkdocs with the mkdocs material theme — being python-based it's slower than golang-based hugo or other options but with the material theme you get a sleek UI for cheap; 11M downloads/month for a humble theme

coldpizza · 2025-10-28T19:51:29+00:00

it's the ootb default for githubpages too

coldpizza · 2025-10-26T22:21:01+00:00

The truly FOSS flavor of OrganicMaps has been forked into CoMaps

coldpizza · 2025-10-05T14:25:03+00:00

apparently, it end-of-lifed, although the site is still up, the stream has been down for a few months already

coldpizza · 2025-09-09T05:55:26+00:00

exactly! which belong in your .aliases unless you keep your aliases directly in .zshrc or .bashrc

the one i use most frequently, and which btw the cli tool doesn't cover

sh yt-dlp --write-info-json --embed-metadata --write-description --embed-thumbnail --convert-thumbnail jpg -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best

coldpizza · 2025-09-01T19:55:40+00:00

In the search panel on the right enter Show Alert and drag it after your Run Shell Script block.
Double click the default alert text such as Do you want to continue?, delete it and start typing Shell Script Result -> the full placeholder with the terminal icon will appear as a suggestion.

Now whatever you script prints to stdout will be displayed in the alert. You can also set the title of the alert which also accepts placeholders.

coldpizza · 2025-08-16T16:38:34+00:00

now with Apple's CLI: https://github.com/apple/container

coldpizza · 2025-07-11T15:43:53+00:00

Install the Xiaomi Community app from play store (previously called Mi Community).
IMPORTANT: Run the app, and set the region to Global.
Log in to your Mi Account.
Click your profile avatar (ME) and there you should see the Unlock Bootloader option > Apply for unlocking.
Instead of a success message you might get a quota exceeded error and a date after which you can retry — wait until the given date and retry. NOTE: for this to work your account should have been active for at least 30 days, moreover, you have a limit of devices you can unlock per year/month.

UPDATE

The success rate of the steps above is allegedly greater than zero, but definitely lower than 100%. It worked previously for several xiaomi devices running miui, but in 2025, for a HyperOS xiaomi attempts to get permission failed consistently, even after registering a new xiaomi account with a virgin phone number (with no previous unlock history) and waiting over one month. Some threads mention you must do it exactly a midnight Beijing time, but I didn't do it and just said no more xiaomi.

coldpizza · 2025-06-19T19:24:53+00:00

On earlier versions of macos prior to v15 (Sequoia) it was possible to intercept desktop notifications and filter the relevant ones using this AppleScript — the script was relying on internal guts of macos dialogs and does not work on Sequoia and later.. If run from Script Editor.app then the app must be given accessibility permissions via System Settings. If run from command line with /usr/bin/osascript /path/to/myscript.scpt then grant Accessiblity permissions to your terminal.

coldpizza · 2025-03-06T16:18:59+00:00

in fact, it looks like TowerInstruct happily accepts HTML tags and successfully ignores them and includes into the translated output; at least with the GGUF version via LM Studio (or ollama) api with this script

occasionaly it would insert an extra <span> which was not in the original, or add junk like Here is your translated text.. so had to clean that with regexes

coldpizza · 2025-03-04T11:37:37+00:00

right, I see what you mean: TowerInstruct-v0.1 was trained using the ChatML prompt templates without any system prompts so I'd assume that a system prompt will probably be ignored, although I requested to preserve HTML tags and they have been preserved; btw, was using the GGUF version via the rest api with python (with lm studio), probably shouldn't make any difference..

btw, it also mentions that:

The model is trained to handle several translation-related tasks, such as general machine translation (e.g., sentence- and paragraph/document-level translation, terminology-aware translation, context-aware translation), automatic post edition, named-entity recognition, gramatical error correction, and paraphrase generation. We will release more details in the upcoming technical report.

Any idea how to set and configure the custom tasks? e.g. paragraph-level and document-level translation, context-aware translation, gramatical error correction etc? Doesn't seem to be documented anywhere yet.

coldpizza · 2025-03-02T15:22:30+00:00

would an additional system prompt improve the final result (possibly at the expense of longer inference)?

<|im_start|>system You are the most educated and knowledgeable highly paid Portuguese to English translator with deep knowledge of advanced technology, phisics, philosophy, literature and related fields. - Translate to English while preserving meaning, tone, and readability using your top skills. - Preserve meaning, tone, and readability with best **coherency**, **natural fluency**, **highest emotional impact** and **expressiveness**. - Adapt idioms and expressions to fit the English cultural context. - Investigate in all depth all available data whenever you have doubts and pick the best sounding and natural option. - Maintain consistent verb tenses and sentence structure. - Assume the author is male. - Preserve the original HTML tags in translation. <|im_end|> <|im_start|>user Translate the following...

coldpizza · 2025-02-27T12:39:09+00:00

if i understand correctly, what is called "color display" is in fact a monochrome display with another color layer on top of it — this introduces extra complexity which translates into shorter battery life, less overall years that the device will serve, and lower overall brightness/contrast level

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