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LucasOe··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Yes.
LucasOe··on Back to Kagi
I do between 2,000 and 3,000 searches per month and have never hit a limit.
LucasOe··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Drivers should just make my stuff work. If I want to configure my hardware, I download the app from the manufacturer's website.
LucasOe··on Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
Fuck. My personal portfolio website has like three of these components, even though I don't like using AI for development.
LucasOe··on Migrating from Go to Rust
Calling unwarp is acknowledgement
LucasOe··on Warp is now open-source
I'm trying to understand what Warp is. I watched the 2.0 announcement, and it looks like it's an agentic editor that calls itself a "terminal" for some reason. I don't think the video shows a single terminal command being executed in a product called "Warp Terminal."
LucasOe··on Zed 1.0
The Zed terminal already supports ligatures.
LucasOe··on Zed 1.0
Feature-wise, Zed is still far from VS Code, but for me, the change has been worth it for the performance increase alone. I'm really happy with Zed, and I think it has a bright future ahead. Congratulations on the 1.0 release!
LucasOe··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
I wrote a Spicetify plugin to show information about a song’s genres, but unfortunately the public API endpoint it was using -- as well as many other endpoints -- was removed after their changes, even for Premium users.
LucasOe··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
And as a result Spotify has restricted their public API; which has limited the functionality of third-party-apps and Spicetify plugins.
LucasOe··on I still prefer MCP over skills
In my opinion, the biggest benefit of skills is that they encourage good CLI tooling. Even someone who doesn't use AI all that much can profit from it.
LucasOe··on Books of the Century by Le Monde
I know it's subjective, but personally I think Nausea by Sartre is the much better "The Stranger", and it always saddens me a bit to see Camus so high up on every list while missing Sartre.
LucasOe··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
There are Chromium-based apps that block ads by default, like Brave and Vanadium.

Edit: It should be mentioned however, that the blocklist for Vanadium is pretty small.

LucasOe··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
I wish the article would talk a bit more about security. Here's what the GrapheneOS project has to say about Firefox [1]:

> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage

LucasOe··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
Why?
LucasOe··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
What a coincidence! At the end of last year, I had uveitis for the second time, and my eye doctor advised me to investigate whether I have an autoimmune disorder. Two weeks ago, I underwent a blood test, but all my values came back normal. It was only after researching the HLA-B27 antigen online and discussing it with my doctor that I was able to persuade him to test me for it. Initially, he was reluctant, as he saw no reason to do so. Now, I have another blood test scheduled in three months, where I will finally find out if I have it.
LucasOe··on Maybe Bluesky has "won"
That's the reason why people are moving to Bluesky: because there you don't have a make a constant effort to ignore posts.

On Twitter, I have a make an active effort to not click on the "For you" tab because I'll be bombarded with posts about Trump or "woke" games, which I simply don't want to see. On Bluesky, I can actually discover new content without having to think about my mental health when using the "Discover" feed.

LucasOe··on The Bun Shell
If you want bash like syntax, you can always run msys2 / Cygwin / WSL on Windows. But 99% of the time I just need to run basic commands like git and maybe pipe them to ripgrep or fzf, and frankly the PowerShell is fine for that. For anything more complicated, I'll write a script in Python or maybe JavaScript anyway, so I don't really care what shell I use as long as I can customize it and it can run basic commands. And if you don't like PowerShell, there's Nushell.
LucasOe··on Immanuel Kant – What can we know?
I like Kants work, but it has always bugged me, how he defined the 12 Kantian categories of a priori knowledge that just are. It feels inelegant. I'd much rather have a generalisation of all a priori knowledge instead of a defined list.
LucasOe··on Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
I always struggle with keeping my writing clear and concise, maybe because English isn't my native tongue, so this looks like an incredibly helpful tool to me. Does Vale.sh have the ability to check the prose used in comments? Using this for doc comments would be useful for writing better documentation. The example only shows it being used for markdown files.
LucasOe··on Proof you can do hard things
I don't think this is the reason you learn calculus in school, but I do think it is a good reason to learn it.