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Apple has developed an innovative technology with AirDrop that allows users to seamlessly exchange links or files offline between compatible devices. This feature is exclusive to Apple devices and ensures smooth content transfer. Although there are hacky methods1 to use AirDrop from the command line, they prove impractical. A recommended alternative is the tool LocalSend, which is available for a variety of operating systems. It also lets you share links or files between one or more devices. My personal tests on iOS, iPadOS, and Fedora have shown that LocalSend works reliably and provides an effective solution for cross-platform file sharing. ...

Developer studio Supernotes has decided to make their typeface SN Pro available under a free license. A friendly new typeface that’s open source and free for both personal and commercial use. We’ve carefully re-designed each character, improving support for Markdown and ligatures. This font family is continually being updated and improved. I find the typeface appealing and plan to use it on my blog. The source files are available at GitHub “SN Pro Font Famiy”. ...

“Pong wars” by Koen van Gilst is a successful combination of Pong and Bricks Breaker. It’s fun to watch and would make a stylish screensaver or decoration in the study. The source code is available at Github; implementations in other programming languages are linked there as well. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

The code editor Zed, which was initially only available for macOS, has now been released as open source by its developers. That means the source code is accessible to everyone, and anyone can now use, modify, and further develop the editor. Zed is a powerful editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It enables multiple users to work on a code project simultaneously. It remains to be seen whether there are Linux enthusiasts who will be interested and willing to take on the work. ...

Dylan Patel writes for Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” This recent progress has direct, immediate implications for our business strategy. Who would pay for a Google product with usage restrictions if there is a free, high-quality alternative without them? And we should not expect to be able to catch up. The modern internet runs on open source for a reason. Open source has some significant advantages that we cannot replicate. ...