The motto of “vibe” coders really is “let the thing do it, don’t check anything ever” because the whole cohort of Cursor users (an IDE with built-in LLMs) really believed a support bot that came up with a fake policy. Shortly afterward, several users publicly announced their subscription cancellations on Reddit, citing the non-existent policy […]
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2025-04-20
Interesting links: Open-Source DMR Radio
A friend sent me a link to an interesting blog post talking about making an Open-Source DMR radio using a LimeSDR board and GNU Radio. Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is a mobile radio standard created by ETSI, which is very popular within the amateur radio community. […]A very basic DMR modem (receiver and transmitter), capable […]
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2025-04-19
Getting Steam game changelogs in your RSS reader
A little known feature of Steam is that it offers RSS feeds for any app/game/whatever shared using it. The URL is also very simple to use: You can then replace $AppID by the application ID of your game. For instance, if we want to monitor Resonite, app ID 2519830, you will need the following URL: […]
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Fixing ffmpeg missing codec issues on Fedora
At some point, I had some issues converting some files with ffmpeg, most particularly videos on my Fedora install. Turns out fixing this is really easy with the help of RPMFusion. If you haven’t enabled it at the system installation, you can do that really easily via a single command which will install the free […]
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2025-04-18
Fedora 42 and new RSS reader
A few weeks ago, I finally did the final switched and completely nuked my Windows 11 install from my workstation. The last thing that was keeping me on Windows, VR, is now pretty much painless on Linux. All of this thanks to the guides provided by Linux VR Adventures, and most particularly, the software Envision […]
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2025-04-05
Free spell checking
You probably know about Grammarly and other web browser add-ons that basically act as fancier spell checkers.They’re expensive, a bit opaque, and you can’t really integrate them into whatever you want. Well today, I’ll talk about LanguageTool. Despite offering full-blown plans, what is little known is that you can use it locally and host your […]
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2025-04-04
Making your own web corner
So, you’ve finally bought yourself a domain (or thinking about it), got a server at home, and now you want to host your own corner of the web? Great! Allow me to be your guide through this journey. Pre-requisites You’ll need a bunch of stuff for this tutorial, including: A domain Your domain will be […]
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2025-02-16
My Signal config & switching to it
A few months ago, I started using Signal again. The messenger evolved quite a lot since I last used it, for instance, usernames weren’t even a thing back then, and this is mainly what drove me out of the platform. But now that we have them, I feel a bit safer using it, knowing people […]
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2025-01-13
The making of the Resonite sessions Discord bot
If you are a Resonite player and are in the Discord guild, you might be familiar with the #active-sessions channel, in which a bot displays the 10 most popular sessions on Resonite as well as some stats. What you might not know, is that I’m the author of this bot, that I originally started as […]
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2024-12-10
A week of Framework
As per my usual tradition when I receive a new cool device, I have to write about it a week later, then either three months or a year later (as I did previously with my Index, or work MacBook Pro M1). As you may know, my previous laptop was a ThinkPad x200.It’s not exactly a […]
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