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Have you managed to transfer from Molly to Signal?

Molly backups stopped working (probably due to lack of updates) and I can't seem to transfer between the two apps on the same device.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:43PM (#50266267)
Oohh. I hadn't heard of tty7. I like its goal.

Unfortunately, it seems to be doing something strange - I use vi-mode with nushell and it renders every character I press - even in normal mode.

I might keep an eye on it - hopefully they improve whatever they're doing with local echo.

I should say - I currently use WezTerm for exactly the feature tty7 advertises about session support. Even remote sessions.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:07PM (#50265817)
Seems a bit of a disingenuous comment when you initially said "I still don't understand the point...".

Surely you understand Konsole is not already there for most people?

Re:How close can pure functional programming get to C? on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:41PM (#50225033)
For all its quirks (lazy IO) and ills (partial functions in base, proliferation of language extensions) - Haskell really does well on this axis.

So glad to have been writing production Haskell for almost a decade

Re:UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:53PM (#50213708)
Yeah, same.

I suppose it's a problem if the spec actually says they're monotonically incrementing because it's clear that isn't guaranteed. But that was never a property I wanted or expected out of them anyway.

All of the other issues here sound like misunderstandings or misuses of ids, IMHO

Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:12PM (#50199042)
They're pretty good. There's a shortcut settings that lets you assign shortcuts for moving between spaces. I use Tridactyl for moving between tabs, though.
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:19PM (#50045493)
Because people don't trust themselves to do proper backups as if this is some kind of black magic or something.

I've been self hosting Vaultwarden for me and my wife for years without issue. People like to tell others what they should and shouldn't do because they want to feel superior to others, I suppose.

It's especially strange since self hosting is, aside from the 'fun' aspect of it, about personal control. So this tsk tsk'ing from others about self hosting a password manager is especially ridiculous.

Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:17PM (#50045463)
Why does everyone act like this hypothetical (and however likely) future is something that needs to be acted on now?

I'll just export my vault and move to KeepPass or something else?

Is your Haskell solution open source?
Re:Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:31PM (#49492143)
Obviously they could have. Obviously it's much easier now.
I would love to hear more about how you accomplish this.

If you have the time, I'm specifically interested in:

Are you really all only using a single agent/context window? Or do you still use a coding agent individually but have other domain, planning, etc conversations with the shared context?

What tooling and model(s) are you using to do this?

How big of a team are you doing it with?

How long did it take you to transition to this process before it felt good?

Re:Scarf has moved away from Haskell on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:18PM (#48862005)
I am surprised by this take, honestly.

We're a Haskell shop (and have been for over 10 years now) and are finding agentic development with Haskell to work pretty damn well.

Cold compile times in Haskell are painful indeed. Our development practices don't really cause us to do that much - even with agents.

It's unclear to me if the development practices at Scarf that cause them to hit this pain often are worth it if it means giving up Haskell because the compile times are too bad. Maybe they are, but I don't think so.

Re:I built a GPU back end for Emacs on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:48PM (#48689637)
Oh thanks! I thought they meant this was going on in the real emacs man.
Re:I built a GPU back end for Emacs on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:58PM (#48678466)
I didn't invent this mitigation FWIW - I saw it mentioned in one or another thread about this by someone else - possibly on the big reddit thread on this topic, not sure.
Re:I built a GPU back end for Emacs on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:57PM (#48678451)
I can't find that branch here - https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

Am I looking in the wrong place?

Re:I built a GPU back end for Emacs on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:54PM (#48677721)
I have perf issues with emacs-pgtk on a 4k screen on Wayland with Niri in both Emacs as a client and not. The issues appear with typing or scolling, the delay and lag become noticeable.

For me the issue is only unbearable when running fractional scaling, for some reason.

I'm going to try the branch mentioned in the sibling comment, though.

Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:27AM (#48292568)
As someone else mentioned, that's what GHC2021 and GHC2024 are for.

If you're suggesting that _every_ GHC extension is enabled then I think you don't really understand the implications of that. Many aren't compatible with each other in varying degrees, for one. They also exist on a wide range of stability and production readiness.

On the other hand, I agree that the extensions indeed hurt Haskell. Standardizing on them is absolutely necessary to survival for a team of even a modest size. GHC2021 and GHC2024 help to do this for the community at large.

The real "deep" change that I think would be best for Haskell is probably impossible - that would be for GHC to split into two compilers - one for production use and one for research. I don't even know HOW we'd do that but I think that's ultimately what us production users want in some form or another.

Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:04AM (#48292367)
Pretty dishonest take. The most gracious read on this is that you encountered this situation ages ago and assume it's still the case today.

I've been writing Haskell in production for almost 10 years now and manual dependency resolution has never been a thing.

Because Anthropic, at least, gives you the option to opt out of training? I think Google and OpenAI do, too.
Re:Show HN: The Mog Programming Language on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:00AM (#47322690)
I'm asking this with probably half curiosity and half rhetorical intent but....why even give a warning?
Re:Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding on Sunday February 08, 2026 @10:22AM (#46935027)
Her blog has lots of quality content that's been featured on HN several times - well before AI writing became a thing. Not that you should necessarily know that but just strong evidence that your intuitions here are way off on so many levels.

Your entire take is super strange and presumptive.

Re:The RCE that AMD won't fix on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:03AM (#46912937)
Are you being willfully obtuse or do you actually believe that's true of everyone? There are so many reasons why someone might have a laptop in such a situation but not be able to use a hotspot on their phone - it's not even worth listing them.
Re:The RCE that AMD won't fix on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:57AM (#46912873)
This comes down to intentions versus results. Viewed through the lens of results the comment you're replying to is still correct: The result is incompetence. I'd argue that's the only lens that matters when you're on the receiving end of such work.
Yeah. I mean, I still hold out hope that enough of the driver support will get mainlined or just rolled into some distro I want to use that I can use it for _something_ but right now it just sits unplugged on my desk. :(

Last I checked BredOS was close to having a reasonable experience with it but I haven't had the time to poke at it again. Personally I'd prefer an Arch derivative like BredOS or FreeBSD. I don't really want to buy a GPU to put in it but it seems like that's my only option at the moment?

Re:Can I start using Wayland in 2026? on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:27AM (#46499101)
Embarrassingly, I don't really understand Hyper. I have a Moonlander and AFAICT the firmware (or at least the Oryx configurator tool they provide) says Hyper is just a combination of the basic 4 - Alt+Shift+Ctrl+Meta. I'm pretty sure that's at least not historically true... but I don't have a whole lot of use for it so I haven't tried to wrap my head around what's going on there.

I imagine there's a "real" hyper modifier but I haven't attempted to use it. For my sake, since I use GUI Emacs I find that I have enough mappings without it (I'm also a dirty evil user). A friend makes extensive use of it because he primarily uses Emacs via a terminal and Hyper avoids all other terminal keybind conflicts he might otherwise run into. But, he uses X11, too so no PGTK Emacs even if/when he does run GUI Emacs.

I'll try to dig into this some though and see if I can (a) determine a way to map a "true" hyper to my keyboard and (b) use it in PGTK Emacs and follow up with you.

Re:Can I start using Wayland in 2026? on Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:38AM (#46487830)
Glad to see a good write-up of Wayland issues. My day-to-day doesn't run into the vast majority of these problems so when I see people melt down over a single trivial seeming Wayland choice about window coordinates then I have a really hard time relating.

This post is a lot more relatable.

As an aside, regarding remote Emacs - I can attest that Waypipe does indeed work fantastically for this. Better than X11 ever worked over the network for me.

I, too, suffer from the pgtk is slow issue (only a 4k monitor though it's mitigable and manageable for me)

The Orion? God mine is so annoying. What a waste of money.
Re:Self-hosting my photos with Immich on Saturday December 06, 2025 @09:20AM (#46173557)
Not who you're replying to, but no - this isn't the same. You can't share that album with others. Or have others collaborate on it.

You can do this with a few scripts and the Immich API - but that's not something the average user will do.

Re:C100 Developer Terminal on Thursday November 27, 2025 @10:35AM (#46070183)
Agreed. The weird shilling of this nonsense is exhausting.
Re:Omittable – Solving the Ambiguity of Null on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:38PM (#45355674)
Can you not have an Optional<Optional<String>> in Java? That would allow you to represent explicit null with Optional, wouldn't it?

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