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> You built your models on the world's data

most important bit…: stealing world's data…

It's mostly to the device security... you can have encrypted storage on laptop just fine... making Signal/mobile like some holly grail is weird.

Besides - it's way more probable to lose train than a computer (even my laptop almost never leaves the house)

YMMV and it's always down to threat model... absurd ammount of information is sent via plain text email

in case of XMPP you have OMEMO which is multi device and works fine-ish (nowadays) though I would still prefer simpler OX (PGP; pefrect-forward-secrecy is an overkill IMHO for majority of people)

TBH this was my reason not to use Signal at all... same with WhatsApp super annoying linking between mobile and desktop :/

Why can't we use XMPP where you can have multiple device and accounts without required mobile phone? Oh I know - because dumb walled gardens and BigTech not liking it... it's a mirracle we got away with e-mail before they came to power :/

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:37AM (#50275454)
> I find iTerm2's constant prompts to update to be annoying.

Uhm... what prompts? ;) I do have auto-update and it does it in the background -- I haven't seen any prompt in ages.

Alternatively you can use brew/Latest.app to handle updates when it's convenient for you?

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:35AM (#50275435)
OK, that may be true (and yes, iTerm still uses weird plist xD) but... On the day to day basis I don't care about config file. I mostly use one OS, I don't do reinstalls (had MBP from 2013, then after switching to MBP M1 moved the files and configs _once_) so having nice and readable config doesn't matter at all.

Having to search for some obscure configuration names and options is simply getting in the way.

For that reason I stayed away from Zed for ages - it is a fine editor but tweaking it options without even rudementary settings GUI was just super-meh.

I do hope that Ghostty will go the same route and they will add something that would help manage the simple config options (backed by the config file) without having to deal with purely-textual form)

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:32AM (#50275382)
> I don't think anyone is trying to convince you you should use Ghostty over iTerm2.

Maybe I framed it wrongly. Though general vibe in every Ghostty posting is "why are you still not using it?!" which is weird…

> It's a technically excellent terminal built with an incredibly rigorous and well thought out guiding philosophy and a remarkable amount of passion.

I get that but... while it may be excellent on technical level at the end of the day it's a tool and if it's lacking (and for me it is) then it doesn't matter how excellent it is?

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:30AM (#50275342)
I usually use macOS + Fedora KDE and Konsole is more than enough for me :)
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:29AM (#50275329)
> performance reasons (I'm usually running up to ~100 terminal panes, split across 4-5 windows and up to 9 tabs per window)

Yeah... I could maybe see that but for me at best I have a dozens of terminal panes and I haven't seen any slowdown in my usecase :)

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:20PM (#50265981)
Why should I use Ghostty over iTerm2? I don't care about fancy fonts, iTerm2 speed (for me) is plenty (just tested against 1.4 -- don't see noticeable difference on MBP M1) and I do like to tweak some options/settings (and was just mildly annoyed when hitting `cmd+,` opened my default text editor...
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:38PM (#50170731)
Extortionist mafia is getting more extorionist...

EU should just blok meta(fb/inst)/x|twatter/tiktok and rest of usanian BigTech at this point…

Re:US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:04PM (#50156541)
Actually banning facebook/instagram/twitter|x/tiktok would make so much more sense.

On the one hand - financial loses, on the other - more social sanity in the EU…

Re:US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:27PM (#50145158)
Awww... more threats from Usania. This will definitely help... the EU move to more independence. More and more governments are dropping US made stuff as much as possible and pushing for local alternatives... way to go!
Uhm... feels a bit like closing down?
Re:/dev/null: social network for developers on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:32PM (#50123351)
Seems to be down...

What does it use? masto or hand-crafted stuff?

Can we ban Meta and the rest of Usanian BigTech already? Or at lease regulate / break them down? Dis is beyond rediculous... even Russia doesn't have such elaborate oligarchs =,=
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:12AM (#50119407)
Maybe fix underlying social problem instead of forcing more crap that tries to patch the absolute terrible state?
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:08PM (#50095299)
I loath Amazon because of its UI.

In Poland we have Allegro and 99,9% of sellers basically ships on the same day (for orders before 15:00) and it arrives next day.

This basically applies to most of the online stores in Poland…

Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:36AM (#50057050)
IMHO the biggest news is new M1E category. I do hope that with that push EU will somewhat mitigate the absolute clusterf*k caused by CAFE regulation in the US :/
Well, right now each member state already has its mobile payment scheme which they started colaboration under EMP and Spanish Bizum and Italian Bancomat already support trans-border transfers with more to come.

What's more, said Bizum is the driving force behind ENP to integrate all those payment systems: https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/european-network-for-pa....

Wero is... tiny.

Hmm... I thought as much but then I learned that handling cash does incure non-zero cost (actually it's quite expensive and annoying to boot).

All in all after this change I saw adoption of card payments skyrocket and it's possible to pay virtually everywhere (even in the weirdes most rural places)

EU forced MC/Visa to slash their intercharge fees to max 0.20%... that's why there is no "reward" program over here because we are not being ripped off constantly :)
While the revenue is up so is the cost... and looking at what they've been doing I'd argue they are just burning money on questionable investments.

"Hey! Look! We grew to power by making perfect, powerful development IDE! Let's get a bunch DeZiGnErS on board to dumb it down and piss off everyone"

Yes, I HATE their new UIs (we are on the second take where we had NewUI and now it's Islands)... ClassicUI has almost 1m downloads because it makes the UI _sane_ and while I renewed my subscription for AllPack this year I've done it griting my teath... will see next year if I'll stick…

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:36PM (#49980861)
Awesome!

All things considered I'm more inclained to pay for EU-based AI in the end (supporting local company and most likely being more aligned with EU regulations…)

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:36PM (#49980860)
Awesome!

All things considered I'm more inclained to pay for EU-based AI in the end (supporting local company and most likely being more aligned with EU regulations…)

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:19PM (#49913804)
Just mildly annoyed with almost annything comming from "THEUSA"
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:55AM (#49910624)
Other languages do have it ("estadosunidos", "estadounidense").

Just like "Usanians" like to appropriate the name the rest of the world should to the same and start using "Usania" which is way more adequate…

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:53AM (#49910596)
"Usania" and "Usanians" - seems fitting...
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:53AM (#49910590)
"america" name appropriation is getting mildly annoying...

For a while now I've been promoting "Usania" and "Usanians" - seems fitting...

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