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New comment by alexruf in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

alexruf — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:10:44 +0000

„Contributors: Claude“

New comment by alexruf in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:34:50 +0000

Who cares? Is it theft if a thief gets robbed of their stolen goods? Gives me more of a modern Robin Hood vibe tbh.

No, seriously: first of all, that's not the AI labs' data, it's ours. And if the AI labs think they can rake in tons of money using our data, then I'm actually glad if someone comes along and at least offers us a good product at reasonable prices.

New comment by alexruf in "Making"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:24:01 +0000

I completely agree with you, because I usually think the same way and I'm more concerned with the result than the path taken to achieve it. But you shouldn't forget that there are definitely people who work the exact opposite way. They don't care at all about having something functional in their hands at the end, because they just enjoy the process of building. And as soon as it's finished, they tear it all down anyway just to start over again with a different approach.

New comment by alexruf in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:09:36 +0000

I'm not really sure what to make of this. First of all, I think this decision should be left to the project maintainers rather than being dictated by the platform itself. Besides that, I don't think Codeberg is doing itself any favors here. It's kind of turning a blind eye to reality. AI is already an integral part of modern software development and can't just be ignored. For some open-source projects, this obviously makes Codeberg a risky platform to use.

New comment by alexruf in "Back to Kagi"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:55:24 +0000

There's little to add to that. I've been a Kagi user for years now; I've kept an eye out for alternatives time and again, but I just haven't found anything even close to Kagi. I can understand if people simply don't want to or can't shell out $5 a month, but if someone is able to, those are probably the best $5 anyone who does a lot of internet research and uses AI can possibly invest.

New comment by alexruf in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

alexruf — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:06:37 +0000

I completely agree. This isn't about physical discs vs. digital stores. It's about ownership. When I, as a customer, pay a lot of money for something and get nothing more than a temporary right of use, then something is going seriously wrong here. And no, I don't think you can compare it to movie streaming. With streaming, I pay a monthly fee for access to the platform. I don't pay for every single movie I watch. That's a completely different deal. If Sony offered a flat-rate gaming subscription for a monthly fee (and no, PlayStation Plus isn't that), then I'd be totally fine with losing access to the games included there after canceling the sub. But if I, as a customer, am expected to shell out 70-80 bucks for a single game, I want to actually own that game - physical or digital copy regardless!

I've built up a pretty large collection of physical games over the years on two shelves behind me. And every now and then, I really enjoy playing some of those older titles. It took me almost half a year just to get a disc drive for my PS5 Pro. Half a year where I couldn't play my favorite games anymore and had a useless new console just sitting there next to me. I'm actually a bit worried about the next console generation - is it going to make my entire game collection unplayable and useless?

New comment by alexruf in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:38:35 +0000

I'd almost bet that OpenAI will do the same thing with its plans as soon as Anthropic makes the first move. It's just a matter of who blinks first.

New comment by alexruf in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

alexruf — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:19:59 +0000

Sooner or later, Anthropic will probably have to take this step if they want to actually make money. Either way, they're going to lose a huge chunk of their user base because of it. I currently have a private Pro subscription for $20; I can just barely justify that amount for my personal hobby projects. Work-wise, my employer provides all of that for me, so I don't really care - this is just for my personal needs. But at $100, I'm out. The subscription isn't worth it to me just to run a few prompts in Claude Code once a week (yes, I'm still one of those people who is actually capable of, and enjoys, writing code by hand). I do use Claude Chat as well, but the free plan is more than sufficient for my needs (never ran into any limit until now). I simply have zero interest in Cowork and any products other than Claude Code.

In short: if Claude Code is removed from the Pro plan, Claude in general will no longer be interesting for people like me.

New comment by alexruf in "You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents"

alexruf — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:55:30 +0000

I absolutely disagree. Tools should always be built for humans, not for machines! Believe it or not, I'm still one of those people who is actually capable of operating their own computer and doing meaningful work without any AI assistant (and I am proud of it). If that possibility or ability is taken away from me because the applications on my computer can only be operated through an AI — then I'm out and start a carer in woodworking or something.

New comment by alexruf in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

alexruf — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:48:08 +0000

Yes, and I am glad OpenClaw built it first, so Apple doesn’t do such a terrible mistake.

New comment by alexruf in "The history of Monokai"

alexruf — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:21:03 +0000

I use Gruvbox Dark (hard) wherever I can. I found the community made themes pretty decent for this one. Can’t say the same about Monokai. I tried a few, but all of them looked different. They didn’t even use same color palette.

Nord looks very nice. But the lack of contrast in its colors makes it a bit too hard to read for me.

New comment by alexruf in "The history of Monokai"

alexruf — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:35:07 +0000

In terms of aesthetics, Monokai Pro is my favorite color scheme. However, what always stops me from using it is the fact that it is simply only available for an handfull of tools. Personally, a consistent look between the tools I use on a daily basis is extremely important to me. And that is exactly the reason for me to spend money on a color scheme or a programming font. I just don't want to spend hours or even days customizing themes for every single tool. Even though I personally don't like the color choices of the Dracula theme (https://draculatheme.com/) very much, I appreciate the fact that it comes preconfigured for almost every application. Wish there was a similar selection for Monokai Pro.

New comment by alexruf in "Playstation 5 Pro"

alexruf — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:42:37 +0000

I'm shocked. 90% of my game library is physical. So if the console is priced at 799 € without a disc drive, and the drive costs an additional 149 €, that totals 948 € if I want to continue playing my existing disc collection. No, thanks!

New comment by alexruf in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

alexruf — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:26:59 +0000

What delay are you talking about? I never encountered such issues. Apps are launching extremely fast. With an ARM Mac almost instantly.

But maybe it’s just an issue if you are using the App Store variants of those apps. I don’t have experience in that. I am using zero apps from the App Store.

New comment by alexruf in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

alexruf — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:56:10 +0000

I have to admit, I read the article and the comments and can't help but smile a little. Personally, I switched from Windows to macOS & iOS (Linux on my second computer) back in 2013. Even though I am still ridiculed by Windows users for my Apple ecosystem, I have never regretted this step myself. macOS has never felt like it was patronizing me or getting in my way - it just works. While all my colleagues who use Windows are still busy setting up their development environment for every single project, I've been able to work for a long time because I configured the whole thing once many years ago. In short, my tolerance threshold for poor user experience in software has simply dropped to 0. And I can only encourage everyone to make the switch if you're not happy - sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side.

New comment by alexruf in "Berkeley Mono Typeface"

alexruf — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:58:46 +0000

Berkeley Mono is also my favourite font. I use it in the terminal, editor and for my IDE. It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBrains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

New comment by alexruf in "Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)"

alexruf — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:08:20 +0000

Wow, this probably changes everything we thought we knew about this company, the product and its CEO.

No, seriously, does he think no one notices that the new X logo still hides the same old Twitter crap?

New comment by alexruf in "Kagi raises $670k"

alexruf — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:14:18 +0000

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...

New comment by alexruf in "Fark redesign is now live (2007)"

alexruf — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:20:58 +0000

I guess you brought it right to the point: Reddit has never grown to a company it’s „dorm room shitshow“

New comment by alexruf in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

alexruf — Sun, 21 May 2023 07:23:33 +0000

$10/mo for unlimited searches would be great. I recently subscribed to Kagi. So unlucky I don’t have the early adopters benefit. Kagi is a great product. But constantly having to think about my included amount of searches and making the the decision whether to use Kagi or a free search engine is making it kind of impractical to me. As long as there is the need to constantly switch between two search engines, I can no longer justify the high price for Kagi.