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I hope this is a good change for last.fm! I love the service but it's been trickier to use since I switched from Spotify to Apple Music.

Does anyone have a setup they're happy with for scrobbling from Apple Music across different types of devices?


Sleeve on MacOS, last.fm app on iOS (have to manually check for new scrobbles every so often and it only counts songs from your library) and a web extension scrobbler for when I’m on Linux using the web version.


QuietScrob on iOS/iPadOS works pretty well - it seems any breakage is due to Apple silently changing APIs more than anything on the dev's end.

On Desktop (macOS) I use the official Last.FM app - however it's still a Rosetta 2 app which will be sunset in the fall :(


I wish Apple Music would support scrobbling to the Last.FM API like Spotify, but to get the ball rolling we'd need someone on the Apple Music team who can nudge it up the list.


NepTunes on macOS is nice - and it (optionally) adds the current track info to your menubar.

I haven't found anything reliable for iOS, however.


Marvis Pro!


On desktop devices, I'm using Cider.sh which supports scrobbling, and on Android I use Pano Scrobbler.


Aside from the article's content, I really like the inline exercise for the reader with the hidden/expandable answer section. It's fun and it successfully got me to read the proceeding section more closely than I would have otherwise.


Same; it was a very easy question once you actually read the previous section instead of just skimming over it. :D


+1 to the Voyager. I switched to it a few years ago from the Moonlander and have been really happy with it. I like the smaller footprint, and the fact that it has fewer keys. Having fewer keys has forced me to create layers that keep everything within a closer reach so I'm stretching my fingers out to the edge keys less than I did with the Moonlander.

I split my time about 50/50 between the Voyager and my macbook's keyboard and mostly have no problem with the difference in layouts, but I wish I could set up layers on the macbook keyboard the same way I can with the Voyager.


You can do some of it with Karabiner Elements and/or Kanata, but I don't think it's quite as good. I couldn't get the timing working as well with those so the layers were more trouble than they were worth.


> if that wide shelf will mean the phone doesn't wobble when placed on a table, that is a good usability improvement.

That's what I had hoped too, but from the images I've seen it looks like the cameras themselves bump out past the shelf far enough that it will still wobble.


We're talking about an Apple iPhone Pro here. It doesn't wobble, it rocks! /s


They're actually not videos! They're using asciinema: https://asciinema.org/, which is rendering actual text in the webpage - try selecting some while the recording is playing.


I was surprised by this too! I actually did a search for that character in order to check before posting this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%E2%87%84

I was a bit concerned that HN's algorithm might down-weight posts with non-ASCII characters in titles to discourage people from trying to attract attention with them, but it seems like it's fine?


That's cool! I suspected that someone must have done something like this before.


I suspect that the strategy I've described in my the post (forwarding a signed email with some modified headers) isn't actually new, and that it's just the first time I've looked closely enough to become interested in how it works.

The whole "put a misleading string in the PayPal name field" thing may be new.

> How would they even validate their new attack vector? I would like to think that there’s scam A/B testing or something similar…

I'm curious about that as well. My guess is that there's nothing as sophisticated as A/B tests with measured results going on, but I'd love to learn more.


I hadn't thought to use the internet archive for this! From a quick check on a few of the unavailable videos on my list, it seems to work well.

Thanks!


Stripe's Increment Magazine was pretty cool, but it seems like they stopped publishing new editions in 2021: https://store.increment.com/

On the slightly less technical side, I've been enjoying Asterisk Mag: https://asteriskmag.com/


Wow Asterisk looks exactly like what I'm interested in!


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