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arzig··on Ghostty 1.4
Konsole seems to keep up with modern features as well. For instance I realized yesterday that it renders the newer progress codes that clis can emit. I am content.
arzig··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
What he means to say is that because you are a farmer you are a member of the capital holding classes rather than the lumpen proletariat.

</sarcasm>

arzig··on The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)
You should think of it this ways.

In the us, political groups for coalitions before the election happens. This is in contrast to most European countries where they set up the coalitions afterwards. Groups occasionally migrate between the parties and the us is in one such realignment now.

arzig··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
Good faith PRs were also suffering under the current model. Ive opened PRs by hand on small projects to try and fix personal issues that probably affected others. Then the PRs languish for months or in one case literal years under the deluge of ai slop being spammed at the repo. I’m not going to ping the maintainers constantly when I know they are struggling so I’m left running my fork and no one else gets the benefit.
arzig··on Life During Class Wartime
Yes. And so we have the IRS whose enforcement measures fall disproportionately upon the disadvantaged and which is the only law enforcement agency permitted to open proceedings against citizens without evidence of wrong doing. I would hold this up as the archetypal bad example.
arzig··on Life During Class Wartime
For the vast majority of human history, only the ultra wealthy had any money. And then, just as now, taxing only those people would not yield sufficient resources to fund the state.

The problem is, and always will be, what happens to me is I am out of work. No one wants to force people to liquidate assets they might need to work, live, etc in order to pay an asset tax.

Then you get to the dividing line of, but what about the ultra wealthy? Well, sure, but then you write an insanely obtuse tax code to try and capture that wealth while leaving everyone else alone and the targets are highly motivated to find loopholes.

Progressives intuitively understand that it’s not worth the hassle to try and means test entitlements yet seem to miss the fact that trying to manage a confiscatory bureaucracy would have the same issues.

arzig··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
All the EV tariffs are staying place past the end of the Trump administration because protectionism is now bipartisan.
arzig··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
It’s been a month. Not long enough for a trend. Every time gas prices spike these celebratory pieces come out and then when gas prices drop at the end the consumer markets revealed preferences are made bare again. Let’s find out if this can sustain for more than a year after gas prices drop.
arzig··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
It’s not even running tests. Test extensions usually have to run something to even populate the tests panel in my first place and provide the ability to run à la carte. Thus opening a folder will cause the test collector binary to run.
arzig··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
Quite delayed, however windows phone link can show me notifications and notice incoming calls while the phone is locked so I can only assume there is some set of magical entitlements they need.
arzig··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
It’s not that bad if you configure it. Much like much of Linux…
arzig··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
You always get that last golden egg out when you kill the goose.
arzig··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
Unfortunately the integration is really quite weak with Apple. KDE Connect cannot remain active while the application is not in the foreground. It’s possibly a packaging issue but pairing from fedora is also quite flakey.

As absurd as this sounds windows -> iPhone via their phone link is actually almost as good as apples built in ecosystem to the point where I can make phone calls and send texts on my computer. It’s not quite as seamless especially the setup but that is a well done wizard and it mostly works.

arzig··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
I’ve started seeing tabs that weigh in at multiple gbs. Cloud provider consoles are particularly egregious examples here.
arzig··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
I like the gnome paradigm. The gnome implementation is bad though. I was promised that xwayland would be the bridge to a glorious future yet stuff like pointer confinement just doesn’t work and their implementation of refresh rate doesn’t play nicely with vscode. So, the reality is I still use KDE even if it’s not quite as visionary.
arzig··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
I find Fedora hits a nice sweet spot between compatibility/updates and random breakage, especially since they backport KDE versions along with kernels.
arzig··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
So you’re saying the solution since Republicans control congress they should do away with the filibuster, pass a check funding bill and then continue governing under bare majorities with no filibuster?

I don’t particularly like that outcome and I think the public understands that democrats have at least some leverage or they wouldn’t be acting in this way.

arzig··on The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain
Texas does this. They have lots of deals with data centers to consume additional base load where they basically get load shed first in the summer. Presumably these crypto miners are happy with the arrangement or they wouldn’t have entered into it.
arzig··on A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
What happens when you add 200+1 in a situation where the compiler cannot statically prove that this is 201?
arzig··on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
Honestly the only use I’ve found for AI so far is for executing refactorings that are mechanical but don’t fit nicely into the rename/move or multi-cursor mode.

I’ll do it once or twice, tell the llm to do it and reference the changes I made and it’s usually passable. It’s not fit for anything more imo.

arzig··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
There’s a non trivial chance this interacts with credit card processing. There is also app the legal liability of you tell someone meet are cancelled and continue charging them. So probably so not something you trust an intern to do.
arzig··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Is this close enough? https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
arzig··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Isn’t pop_os shipping ancient components at this point due to their hate brained idea to try and create their own de and pinning their next release to it?
arzig··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
You use distrobox (https://distrobox.it/) and move on with your life. At work I use multiple versions of Ubuntu seamlessly without messing with VMs on a host fedora box without issue. That includes building things like .deb packages.
arzig··on British naval dominance during the age of sail
I feel like there have been rumblings of an honor Harrington by David Weber movie for decades at this point. It it may just not happen.
arzig··on Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
Yep, simplified by removing all those silly extraneous ‘u’s
arzig··on Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11
The threat model is getting the decrypted data.

If someone steals the device and removes the drive the data is encrypted.

If someone steals the device and powers it on, the os that wrote the encrypted data (and is presumably secured) can enforce login authorization which the thieves presumably cannot bypass.

Both of these are big ifs, but the installed os won’t just divulge the contents of the disk so the trick is locking down the disk so that it’s easy for the installed os to access but becomes useless if the disk is removed from the computer.

All of this depends on the TPM implementation not being trash, which integrated instances help with. Ultimately this is a trade off for convenience. I don’t worry about random thieves probing the buses in my computer to get my tax info, so I don’t use luks’ other stuff.

arzig··on Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
The inner platform effect intensifies.
arzig··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
Then this would be manufacturing liability because they are not fit for purpose.
arzig··on Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
There’s no macro system in TS that could analyze the type to build the parser. So, you work the other way and build the parser and then produce the type from that.
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