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Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:28PM (#50331946)
Apple's terminal reloads the history, that is a zsh feature. If you want the session fully reloaded, beyond tab arrangement, then use a terminal multiplexer. Apple's terminal does not have a terminal multiplexer built in.
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:24PM (#50331915)
I could say "it just is", but disconnecting (logically) the session from the terminal means that, by extension, things like different windows and programs continuing to run are a consequence of that:

> A terminal multiplexer... is useful for dealing with multiple programs from a command line interface, and for separating programs from the session of the Unix shell that started the program, particularly so a remote process continues running even when the user is disconnected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_multiplexer

> nobody I know does other than my grandparents

Nice to see the younger generation caring so much about the elderly.

> the government don't want to waste money

The government exists to waste money, and if they want to start saving some I can think of 1000 better places to start.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:16AM (#50270553)
The feature you're asking for is a terminal multiplexer. You want one built in, but to suggest terminal multiplexers are a workaround to requiring a terminal multiplexer is a stretch.
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:06PM (#50267671)
Use tmux or something like it (I now use zmx[1]).

[1] https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx

Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:54PM (#49959569)
As far as I recall, Apple does not do reproducible builds or show you the checksum of the built product, so how would one know that the software installed is the software they saw the source for?
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:32PM (#49959468)
Stop updating the OS. It gets a tad annoying that not all apps will continue to work, but that's what the web is for.
> I don't think the grand social goal is to maximize economic growth. It's a stable healthy society.

The contentious part of that statement is what constitutes "healthy" and "stable". Look at Japan, stuck in a long deflationary period that looks like it will end very badly and is already going badly. They are very stable though.

That, for me, makes growth look much more tempting as a choice for what constitutes healthy.

Re:Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:30AM (#49831157)
What kind of toxicity are females experiencing when entering Rubik’s cube competitions?

I think it’s more likely that people often don’t like being in a noticeable out group, and that females experience that more negatively than males, so they skip it.

No need to blame anyone, and it doesn’t deny the attempt to help females participate.

Re:Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:26AM (#49831100)
Easy now, I’m sure there are plenty of people on this forum that can remember the 60s.
Only if demand increases to the point where supply cannot meet demand in a short enough time frame. Capacity is a factor here.

You buying a doughnut - even half the doughnuts - from a doughnut shop does not increase the price of the remaining doughnuts unless they can't make enough to satisfy remaining demand and people are willing to outbid you rather than wait.

Does that power station have enough capacity to satisfy the remaining demand?

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:11AM (#49627899)
What would being prepared look like? A house in the woods with a store of food? Knowing how to pick door locks and set up a militia in the desert?
Re:Nitter is unarchived and will continue on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:15AM (#49594987)
I've seen several strangely dead comments today, perhaps the automated filter has been updated and has some gremlins?
Re:Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:11AM (#49594955)
The competition is between:

- needing to look in several places

- looking in one place

Easy to see why Twitter wins, even when information isn't exclusive, which it often is (I would've suggested video involved in news events, which is often impossible to find elsewhere but easily gathered on Twitter).

The reduction of competitors and no win for the investors is somehow a signal that entry to the market against an even stronger than before incumbent would be a good bet?
Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:48PM (#49530794)
jjui is the killer feature for me

https://github.com/idursun/jjui

> 2. It was occasionally faster, and more stable.

That is ahead for the majority of people.

Quantum field theory? Quiet Firefox tremors? What is this QFT you speak of?
By monopolies, yes. Know what an acquihire is? Heard of a buyout leading to a shut down?

That hinders development.

Re:Grok 4.6 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:58PM (#49293224)
If it were literal then you'd be able to quote the exact part of the text that says that, but you can't because that is literally not in the page. Even Ellison, who surely would love to make that claim, is intelligent enough not to make that claim directly.

A more balanced view[1] of the proceedings is available via mainstream news:

> In the 38-page lawsuit, xAI — whose AI model chatbot and image generator Grok is available on the social media platform known as X, formerly Twitter, and elsewhere — said it does not contest the state’s interest in banning the distribution of AI-generated nude images of real people without their consent. But it said Minnesota’s law “extends far beyond that goal,” banning many constitutionally protected images and video and subjecting the company to a penalty of $500,000 per violation.

> The lawsuit argues there is no “safe harbor” provision for companies that make good-faith efforts to prevent such images from being created by users, and that it covers images that were consented to by the depicted person, or even created by that person.

> It also says the law’s definition of “intimate part” is overly broad, covering body parts that are routinely displayed in public.

Calm down.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-artificial-intelligence...

Re:Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X on Friday August 07, 2026 @02:32AM (#49206657)
Where was the tantrum? I think a citation should be provided, else concerns about straw man arguments might not be allayed.
Re:Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:13AM (#49193089)
People are still allowed to share their experience and opinions without citations being a requirement.
No UBI, thanks, let's just make them pay for the works they're relying on (as the rest of us would have to).
The facts are:

- people are being arrested, charged, and prosecuted, for opinions

- that number is greater than 1

- the number of people being arrested under speech laws, per year, is reportedly[0] over 12,000

- some substantial number of those are for opinions, some are not but we don't know how many either way [0] (and considering the government were attempting to delete the Courtdesk archive[1], I'd say that's by design)

- "convictions and sentencings for the relevant offences had decreased dramatically" [0]

This points to overzealous policing and vague laws.

The criticisms by Americans, who are surely aghast at this state of affairs given their founding principles, cannot be dismissed until better numbers are available, but while the number we do know is > 1, the criticisms are valid if not entirely sound (but may be entirely sound).

[0] https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

[1] https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-order...

Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:47AM (#48931918)
> For perspective, I was educated in my high school in England, and in my Physics class no muslim scholars name ever mentioned in my many textbooks and in classes. The same goes to my chemistry and math classes. Guess how many times Newton was mentioned in my physics classes and textbooks? To be honest I lost my count because too many times.

Physics is the study of physics, not history, no muslim scholars are relevant to modern physics, whereas Newton is relevant to modern physics. That's either because he's closer in the chain or because his work remains relevant, but either way he gets a mention for being relevant. Not every European mathematician or physicist is mentioned either, for the same reason. Descartes never came up, nor did Brahmagupta, nor did Tesla… the list of greats would be too long to mention and just wouldn't be relevant. Complaining about people nigh on 400 years ago not writing citations properly is an insubstantial complaint, to say the least.

No one else needs to care about your religion but you.

> they do not arrest thousands of people a year for being mean on twitter, no.

It doesn't need to be thousands for it to be worrying.

From [1]:

> The Metropolitan Police has awarded Father Ted creator and Irish comedian Graham Linehan £25,000 and an unreserved apology after they arrested him last year as his plane touched down at Heathrow airport.

> Last year, Graham Linehan — who now lives in Arizona, United States of America — was arrested by five armed police officers as he landed at Heathrow airport in one of the most shocking incidents we have seen in years.

> What was Graham's supposed crime? Three gender-critical posts on X. This is despite the fact that gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010 and were reaffirmed by last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling, which settled that "sex" is defined by biology, not gender identity.

Armed police for 3 tweets on a political topic, seems like overkill in an unfortunately possible literal use of the word. It also seems that it is far more than one, too:

> General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, said: "I'm beginning to lose count of the number of cases we've fought in which the police have arrested someone for a tweet, decided to take no further action and then had to pay them substantial compensation for wrongful arrest.

[1] https://freespeechunion.org/news/met-police-apologises-and-p...

Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:56AM (#48856256)
Again, in the link you provided, in the very first paragraph, it mentions several great names who are said to have given frequent credit to muslim scholars. Are you saying that is false? If so, you have the ability to edit that Wikipedia article, and you should.

Don't forget the legacy section, where there is a long list of people and organisations giving him enormous credit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham#Legacy

Re:Grok 4.5 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:19AM (#48842105)
Is Signal morally bankrupt for resisting the UK government's onboard scanning for CSAM?
Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:11AM (#48841631)
Firstly, there is a difference between a telescope and the prior advances that led to a telescope being invented. The telescope was not invented by a muslim scholar, hence that being why no one gives credit to one of them for that.

Secondly, to this claim:

> That's why there's little to no credit given to Muslim scholars (Arabic, Persian, Moorish Spain, etc) by the western scholars, by conveniently dismissing the Muslim golden era as "Dark Ages" but at the same time stealing the knowledge (idea, equations design, tools, etc) for most of the prior inventions by the Muslim scholars, for example the telescope.

From the link you provided, in the very first paragraph:

> The works of Alhazen were frequently cited during the Scientific Revolution by Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Johannes Kepler, and Christiaan Huygens.

No credit or frequent credit - which is it?

> the capital was raised for AI requires that it produce as many reverse centaurs as possible, because the only way to recoup the farcical sums associated with AI production is to fire millions of workers and replace them

I'm not sure that this is the only way, just the way that selfish, sloppy, or impatient actors within business often work. If more wealth is created, more efficiencies found, more problems fixed, new jobs created, these would also bring the returns desired.

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