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alberth··on Mitos editor is a fork of Helix
Seems like 90% of helix community frustration would go away if it had a fixed released schedule (eg every 6-months).

This is a lesson for any maintainer. Previously, helix was releasing approx every 6-months. It was unofficial but that was the rough cadence.

Then they stopped. But still committing updates.

Communities get accustom to convention and when even unofficial convention changes, the community will get frustrated.

alberth··on BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox
Whoops, you're right. I was confused which machine I had BeOS on.

This was my Pentium III.

My 486 was the machine immediately before my Pentium III.

I installed BeOS when I got my new Pentium III in 1999/2000.

alberth··on BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox
I recall dual booting BeOS circa 1999/2000, on my 486dx2-66.

It was shockingly performant, especially with anything graphical.

The difficulty was no apps.

Brings back fond memories, nonetheless.

alberth··on Muse Spark Open
As someone not in the loop, can you explain more of what you mean.
alberth··on We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model
As someone who knows nothing on how this works, does this mean they have to pay the audio at 200x playback speed to transcribe this fast.

Or is there another approach?

alberth··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
HN thread, 150+ comments:

The story behind macOS UNIX certification.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016

alberth··on The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview
Really wish Hetzner would bring dedicated servers to the US.

They are amazing at data center ops.

alberth··on A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
There’s already a thread with mitchellh about this on X

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2108316851537322111?__frodo=r...

Alternative version:

https://nitter.click/mitchellh/status/2108316851537322111?__...

alberth··on A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
Could this be a Pull vs Push issue?

^T is a Pull

OSC7591 is a Push

alberth··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
Is this EV or Hybrid?

The founder seems to sneak in the word "hybrid", around 1m30 mark in the video below.

https://youtu.be/nM86DBOqgPM?si=5unXLmPxk6M_kmuN&t=86

Note: not being negative, I just want to ensure I understand correctly since the title might imply something else.

Update: confirmed, it does use aviation fuel.

> "The airplane will also include a reserve-hybrid configuration, consisting of two turbo generators powered by sustainable aviation fuel. The reserve-hybrid system is installed to secure reserve energy requirements without cannibalizing battery range, and it can also be used during cruise on longer flights to complement the electrical power provided by the batteries."

https://www.heartaerospace.com/newsroom/heart-aerospace-unve...

alberth··on GPT-6 Astra
Seems like voice is a big part of this release.

I don't think it's a coincidence they launched this the week before iOS 27 launches (with new Siri).

alberth··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
Labor Day weekend might be starting early for a lot people, if this persists.
alberth··on Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Is Cloudflare the corrupt for multiple AI labs having problems?

They are experiencing increased errors themselves.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?t=1

alberth··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
DHH created a distro for what he personally needs for work, and his company uses Zoom.

It's that simple.

alberth··on Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
Maybe my memory is bad, but I recall defrag taking hours to complete.
alberth··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
You assume OpenAI doesn’t turn off access to OpenRouter too.

Strategically, OpenAI long-term will want to own the direct relationship with all their customers. As will most major AI labs.

alberth··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
> Every Suica card has a chip storing two things: a unique card ID, and your current balance. Both of those live on the card itself, rather than a central server.

When you remove the network and run locally, you’d expect it to be amazingly fast.

But it’s also effectively physical cash. And that has many downsides as well.

alberth··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
jcs has this on their blog.

https://jcs.org/

If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.

alberth··on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
> Meanwhile, donations and pledges kept slowly decreasing, and have done so since the project launched. Not enough to spell immediate doom for my dream of working on Asahi full time in the short term, but enough to make me wonder if any of this was really appreciated. The all-time peak monthly donation volume was the very first month or two. It seemed the more things we accomplished, the less support we had.

I think the issue is funding is so low the developers don’t even have access to newer Apple Siicon, let alone funding for token costs, etc.

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

alberth··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
I wonder if OpenRouter being acquired was a catalyst for this deal.
alberth··on Stripe acquires Clerky
I thought Atlas was pretty comparable to Clerky.

What does Clerky do that Atlas doesn’t to justify the acquisition?

alberth··on Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
Wasn't Windows NT based on OS/2, which ended up taking over all of Windows starting with 2000 & XP?
alberth··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
It looks like speculation that Apple would raise the base chip’s maximum RAM from 32GB to 48GB was wrong.

Apple also launched the base M6 today with a 32GB RAM limit, suggesting 512GB may remain the maximum for Ultra chips for some time. Since these Ultra chips combine 16 base chips:

32GB × 16 = 512GB

alberth··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
M6 (base) in Mac Mini too:

https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

alberth··on Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?
Shouldn’t the title actually be “Will you have spent more of your life AT WORK than with your family”.

For white-collar jobs typically translates to, computer = work.

alberth··on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
I wonder if this deal is primarily just to buy payment volume.

OpenAI just announced earlier this week that Ayden would become their payment provider (when it was previously Stripe).

And OpenRouter has a large percentage of overall AI payment volume for all the major labs.

Both OpenAI and OpenRouter represent ~$100B in payment volume, whereas Stripe in total doing ~$2T. Two customer doing ~5% of your total volume who didn’t even exist a few years ago, must be kind of scary for Stripe.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rise-ai-sho...

https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-2025-update

alberth··on Claude: System Prompts
Do these system prompts count against your token usage?
alberth··on Cloudflare's AI Psychosis
What’s missed from the post is that Cloudflare for many years now has felt that they are a “Cloud 2.0” company.

And AWS/GCP/etc are “Cloud 1.0”.

They believe that AI Agent will fundamentally change the internet, and it’s hard to fault them for seeing it that way when their own stats shows that bot/agents account for the majority of Internet traffic.

As such, going all in on AI fits into their thesis of being “Cloud 2.0”.

alberth··on Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness
$25B is less than people realize.

They have $140B AUM.

So they are up ~18%.

https://observer.com/2024/11/jane-street-quantitative-tradin...

alberth··on Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
So ~1% stack in SpaceX.

It wouldn’t surprise me if how SpaceX funded buying tons of GPUs was giving NVIDIA stock in them pre-IPO.

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