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ravachol

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  • kew 4.1 released (offline terminal music player and library browser)

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  • I went ahead and changed it to opt-in and it's now on main. I'm going to await what other people have to say, but likely this will be opt-in in the next release, which will be soon because there's a problem with FreeBsd.

    I'm also going to add a "How to make sure kew is private" section to the readme.

    EDIT: Made the release, so from 4.1.3 onward discord is opt-in.

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  • Well, I don't exactly do that, there's an asterisk that explains the situation in one sentence.

    kew itself does not have telemetry, it does not collect data, it does not access the internet. It passes now playing to discord if discord is running, and this can be turned off. Discord of course, uploads that information and broadcasts to others.

    For someone who cares about privacy for real, not running discord is all they have to do.

    But I hear what you are saying, and I had serious doubts about allowing this, and will consider it. The problem is most people want the now playing feature, and it also helps spread the word. I think only a tiny minority edits their settings at all. but I could be wrong.

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  • So it's not about facehuggers? j/k. It's not my first language, I actually know the expression but I make little mistakes like this sometimes when I'm not focused.

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  • Np. Actually thank you, it's nice to get that out of my chest too.

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  • Just as it says in Sans post right above mine, because some PR's other people authored apparently were made with Claude. I have never tried co-pilot or claude opus or codex or whatever. I have used AI tools, and asked a lot of questions, but very carefully, not vibe coded, and I don't pay them money. I just checked all those 15 commits (out of thousands) and they are made by two people who aren't me. You can check it yourself, git clone the repo, take the hash out of each of those commits, and write git log

    <hash>

    . Look at the author's name at the very top commit that is displayed, it's not me.

    Besides, you guys should be going after the big corporations not small beginner indie devs which vibe coders usually are.

    Also, I now know which feature was made with claude, and it's really an awesome feature, it's the visualizer changing color depending on how loud a certain frequency is. I'm not cutting it, I love that feature, it's very beautiful. And I've talked to the guy, I'm sure he spent a lot of time getting that right.

    I have programmed professionally since 1996.

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  • I wanted to do a music player for Linux because I think streaming is bad for MUSIC, and the GUI options didn't inspire me at all. The terminal is cool, it has been around for a very long time, and it works pretty much everywhere. It's also nice for something minimalistic like kew. I wanted something that will immerse you in the music, and not having borders and scrollbars and stuff, helps. Especially when we are talking about the alternative being ugly those things.

    There are also commands for kew. You can make kew generate playlist for you.

    kew nirvana # plays all your nirvana music shuffled

    kew nirv #same thing

    kew neverm #plays nevermind album in order

    kew song smells #force it to look for a song that contains the string smells

    kew dir nevermind # force it to find the folder not a song

    kew wu-tang:raekwon:ghost:meth # plays a bunch of wu-tang music, shuffled

    kew all # shuffles and adds all your music to the playlist

    kew albums # plays all albums on after the other, in random order

    This was the first feature. Originally it was going to be called play. Play beatles. I just thought that was very cool. Then it became cue but that was taken too, so now it's kew.

    EDIT: There's actually a script in the repo that is called play.sh that will create the play alias for kew.

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  • Thank you! I'm getting the cold shoulder everywhere now because people think it's AI slop.

    On r/commandline it had 1.7k views and 1 upvote. And then it got down voted. Hah. These people are going to accidentally guillotine John Connor.

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  • Hey man, he's a great musician and also a really nice guy. Also, i made that cover (I'm also an artist).

    He's a film scholar and watched hundreds of hours of old scifi movies to get the samples for the album.

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  • I've never vibe coded. I think that's the macoS media keys integration that someone generated.

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    ravachol @lemmy.world

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  • Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years

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  • I feel bad for thinking stuff like this is interesting.

  • kew 4.0 released (offline terminal music player and library browser)

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  • Nice!

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  • No problem, the design is a bit unorthodox but that's on purpose. Think different.

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  • Don't hesitate to let me know about your experience, perhaps through DM. I'm very interested in handling large music collections right.

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  • What is unintuitive? Enter to enqueue music, Space for pause, Left and Right arrow to change the track. Backspace to clear the list. Escape or q to quit.

    The thing that might throw you off might be alt+enter for enqueue + immediate play, which doesn't happen with enter if something is already playing. It's pretty easy to get used to though.

    I'm not the developer of Chroma, you'd have to ask them. I think it looks cool though. You don't need it to run kew.

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  • I actually haven't tried it myself.

    The visualizations wont work, but that is an external program (Chroma) that you have to install separately.

    I have tested it on tty though and made sure there is a color mode that works with it and that it renders flicker free.

    If you try it I'd love to hear impressions, in a dm.

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  • <3

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  • Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

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  • No, there isn't. Maybe there should be.

    You could make an issue for it if you want it!

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    ravachol @lemmy.world

    kew 4.0 released (offline terminal music player and library browser)

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    ravachol @lemmy.world

    kew, a terminal music player, version 3.7 has just been released