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Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:55AM (#50270029)
Bugs are fine, but this wasn't really a bug. It was lack of foresight.

I haven't used Konsole, but I do like this "recent" focus on terminals and have used many of the newer ones. Dailydrived st,alacritty,wezterm,ghostty,kitty,foot (probably forgot some) and I live for the regex pattern matching copy shortcuts etc.

I learned about OSC8 because my terminal (whichever it was) used one of its features and I didn't know it was possible to do that. My immediate thought was, how is the security?

And it is very disappointing to see how little effort people have spent on that. That is really one part that I expect more from modern incarnations of the old terminals where I can sort of forgive them for the lack of security posture.

I like ghostty, I really do. But this is not a good look, and to be clear it isn't just ghostty. Without looking for it I've stumbled upon several OSC8 and OSC52 bugs (in other software) recently.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:40PM (#50266236)
Yeah, because more complexity where you don't expect it doesn't cost anything?

Up until 5 hours ago this fix was not present:

> The displayed target is sanitized so invisible and line-breaking characters cannot conceal the effective destination.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/G...

The sensible default is to have it turned off. And by the looks of it Ghostty versions before this you couldn't even turn it off.

Re:Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:30AM (#50242018)
I'd say that balancing those aspects are exactly what an AI excels at. And an AI can iterate in a way a human wont. Completely redesign something because an edge-case could be slightly better.

AI isn't brute-forcing, or it would have been completely unusable for code.

Sigh, painful AI slop that is wrong on so many things and just an ad for crystl.
Re:I guess I'm using WebP now? on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:00PM (#50047766)
Why? Just skip webp altogether, an annoying footnote that caused more issues than it solved.

Go straight to jpeg xl and/or avif when the they are mature.

Re:Barcodes are about to go extinct on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:51PM (#49946702)
What innovation are we talking about?
Re:Barcodes are about to go extinct on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:33AM (#49943320)
Context: Back then the user experience was terrible, cameras and phones were so slow that scanning even one code was a painful chore.
Re:Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:43AM (#49934787)
Would be cool to buzz the message itself in morse code, though todays buzzers are so weak I don't think I'd be able to make it out (if I knew morse code, that is).

But would be cool with a separate buzzer of sorts where you get the normal buzzer notification and then hold a finger somewhere specific and get details that way.

Re:Gitea 28.0 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:26PM (#49914703)
I'd argue project values, license and health are way more important.
Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:45AM (#49815266)
Nice find, though I'd rather read the prompt that was used to write this article. It is about ten times longer than it needs to and is quite painful to read.
Re:OpenJev on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:42AM (#49752471)
This one is so much better than the vast majority of sites though?

Clear and to the point. Not even a cookie popup (which ni user respectable site needs, so super low bar to clear).

If you meant the text then I agree.

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:43AM (#49708636)
There are plenty of Ubuntu forks?
Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:01AM (#49707929)
There is no reason for anyone on any distro to use snap.

It will die so just leave it alone.

Re:XCancel Taken Down Again on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:07PM (#49703164)
Because for some reason people link to it here.
Re:The case against JPEG XL on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:57PM (#49700141)
Those are messaging/communication apps,sound in those apps can be quite disruptive so that doesn't surprise me at all. It has nothing to do with the original gif, it is just that gif is now synonymous with short clip (with or without sound) and sound in that context is disruptive.

Go to google.com, search for images and select image type gif and you will get mp4s with sound.

Re:The case against JPEG XL on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:05AM (#49694906)
Gif doesn't mean "no sound" anymore. Gif is more or less "short video", which broke a lot of assumptions at first but we have pretty much passed that transition and it makes sense for what they are used for today.

That ship has sailed.

Re:216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:53PM (#49612970)
If I'm a passenger in a tesla, does the owner and/or tesla break a law when neither informs me that I'm being spied on?
Cargo culting is probably the biggest reason people use AWS.
Just wait til 2037 ;)
Re:The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026 on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:55AM (#49563921)
I did something similar with a raspberry pi 2 which also by itself is way overkill, it also had a usb-wifi dongle because when I realized that it didn't have wifi natively and running Ethernet was a bit cumbersome for a temporary project. But for these simple projects there is no point in buying the latest and greatest version.

When people remember the $35 pricepoint and lament the price increase of today they forget that they don't serve the same purpose anymore. Hell, the Zero 2 is cheaper than that and plenty powerful for a ton of projects.

Re:The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026 on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:16AM (#49563533)
8GB is a bit overkill though, of course depending on what you use it for but it is an unfair baseline.

2 GB costs a fraction (but maybe get 4 if you want/need margin) and is more than enough for most projects. And I say this as someone whose opinion is that 32 GB is the absolute bare minimum for a general purpose computer (including laptops).

Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:48PM (#49539014)
That tells you that subscription is cheaper than tokens. Which ought to be a given.

But it does not tell you what and how much either is subsidized...

Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:25AM (#49535875)
Depends on whether the costs they have are inflated ten-fold due to hardware shortages.

Ignoring current state of shortages, the interesting part (for me at least) is how much a SOTA token costs on current hardware if you exclude the costs for paying for current TSMC shortage and without factoring in the cost of new datacenters being rushed and renting hardware from your competitors (who are also supply limited).

The "actual" cost is of course also relevant and interesting but it is another thing entirely.

Re:How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:36AM (#49535337)
Why do everyone assume they are subsidized? When we seemingly have no idea what it costs? Maybe average subscription is breaking even and token spend is pretty much pure profit?

Case in point, claude code seems hell bent on increasing usage at all cost. Which makes sense in the growing phase (get people hooked) but it does not make sense given the hardware shortage. So, which is it?

Re:How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:38PM (#49528601)
Sure but you can do it easier and with more control with any other type of brake,from the basic V-style rim brakes to hydraulic disc brakes.
Re:The Harness Is the Thing on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:52AM (#49465846)
Large development team... that is exactly the problem. The more effort and code put into it the worse it gets. Peak web was one webmaster per site, doing it by hand.
Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:28AM (#49465470)
Supporting the most closed option is worth it because...?

The hardware is not even that good. Sure, the CPUs are nice but nice enough to actively support the most closed up system? Not by a longshot.

Re:XCancel also down, at least for time being on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:34AM (#49450948)
Exactly, and it also proves that it is not about limiting bot access.
Re:iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:53AM (#49431725)
In other words, no point or value in selling yourself to apple.
Re:iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:41AM (#49430726)
> You can make arbitrary email addresses at your own domain, but anybody who feels like it can trivially automatically detect that those are all you.

You assume that the domain is used by one person or what?

Also, the point of these is typically to prevent spam. Noone is going to spend a fraction of a cent or second to try and figure out who is behind the adress.

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