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christophilus··on Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming
It’s not a good look, but: if you’re installing this, you already trust it with your password, since its UI is the lock screen and the login screen, etc. where you enter your password.
christophilus··on Devvm.dev: One VM for every project
If you learn to use neovim or helix, you can just run those in your container. That’s what I do along with agent CLIs, and it’s great.
christophilus··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
I switched from Codex to Claude Code w/ Opus 5.5, and it's been fine. I haven't hit limits in my $100/mo plan, doing full time dev work all day. But I agree. Codex sub + Astra is also great. Both are excellent options, and I don't see a reason to go with a cheaper / less capable model, frankly.
christophilus··on Binance hackers used fake job interview to breach PC before $6.3B attack
Yeah. Pretty wild. I've never done that, and wouldn't, but I know folks who would. If I ever do any interview work on my laptop, it's always sandboxed, but generally, I just nope out of such interviews, anyway. It's usually one of many red flags.
christophilus··on Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE
Yeah. The rules need to change substantially at all levels. I can't see another way out, without just banning the sport outright. In soccer, they've already done it at the kid's level. My kids' teams don't allow heading the ball at all. That's such an obvious win. It changes soccer pretty substantially, but it's still a lot of fun, and much safer with that rule in place. Football has enough money that I'm sure someone can solve this by adjusting the rules towards safety without completely changing what makes the game fun.

That said, it may not be solvable. It's not just helmet-to-helmet collisions that are the problem. You often see players make a diving grab, and their head slams into the ground when they land. That's micro-concussion territory that may be unavoidable. But, my guess is it's an 80/20 rule. If you somehow eliminate player-to-helmet hits altogether, you'd probably end up in a good enough place.

christophilus··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
Kind of makes sense, given how integrated Gemini summaries are to Google Search, last I checked, but ultimately, this might be a good thing. I'm 100% in favor of breaking Google's monopoly one way or another. Brave and DuckDuckGo and Kagi are all fine alternatives worthy of more prominence.
christophilus··on Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO
If I’m mathing right, your own numbers suggest they’re spending nearly double their quarterly revenue, every month. That sounds far from reasonable to me.
christophilus··on Show HN: Hacker News but for comments posted on HN
Yeah. That's the joke. My comment was a followup joke, but I guess I should have added a /s to make that clearer.
christophilus··on Private Jet plane crashes in Florida
Don’t just crash. Was full throttle into the ground, by the looks of it.
christophilus··on Show HN: Hacker News but for comments posted on HN
This is a really good idea. And you captured that HN aesthetic perfectly. The only thing I don’t like about it is that it doesn’t feel AI slop enough.
christophilus··on US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again
Yes. It is covered in various books. Galbraith covered it in “Money…”[0] I’m not totally sure you can draw parallels to the old world, though. The modern economy seems so different, but basically, rates seem to follow the course of a civilization. IIRC, Low when things are stable, higher at the edges as things destabilize. It’s been a few years since I read the book, though, and I may be misremembering things.

[0] https://ia800605.us.archive.org/14/items/TheWorldIsFlat/Mone...

christophilus··on Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics
In the standard library, there are some allocators with free, so it looks like you’re expected to call those. It is strange that none of the examples seem to cover this, though.
christophilus··on Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics
It doesn’t look like it cares about indentation. It’s more like Basic or Ruby.
christophilus··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Maybe. Politics is a skill, and not everyone has a knack for it. It’s dirty, requires compromise, and a willingness to work with your opponents. Or, well, at least it used to.
christophilus··on Geist Serif
> Four variants, one axis

Dunno about the font, but the copy on this page is 100% Claude.

christophilus··on Poll: How do you run your coding agents day to day?
In a podman sandbox, using Niri to manage terminal instances.
christophilus··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Yeah. I was going to say. I really dislike Google, but what they did with YouTube (whose acquisition I saw as a mistake at the time) is impressive.
christophilus··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Or, we come up with a system that actually follows the rhythms of nature, rather than forcing a standard schedule year round. Like, I get up later and go to bed earlier in the winter like pretty much every other mammal on the planet, and the 9-5 can shove it. This has nothing to do with clocks changing. Just our patterns changing.

I’d like a single, consistent way to mark time, but that shouldn’t dictate my seasonal schedule and rhythms.

christophilus··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I dislike it very much. It's never what I want, and in the cases where I have it, it generally only gets used accidentally (e.g. when one of my kids pokes the screen). It's not ergonomic for normal use.
christophilus··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
In the US, I heard lots of conspiracies about who was really behind the BLM riots, Charlottesville, Jan 6th, the Trump assassination attempts, etc.

The same thing is happening here in the comments. Everyone is looking for the puppeteer. I’m not sure one way or the other.

On the one hand, it’s true that when you look through history, you often find that there was a “someone” (e.g. the Germans funding the Bolshevik Revolution, or the CIA shenanigans in the Middle East and South America).

On the other hand, can’t these things also legitimately arise from disenfranchised groups without needing to point to a boogie man?

christophilus··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
I agree with your first statement, but I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here:

> there’s really no first principles reason for any legitimacy

Do you mean in this case, or are you making a blanket statement about the nature of morality and power?

christophilus··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
And, you’d better pin it to inflation, or in 50 years, you’re back to the same granny problem.
christophilus··on Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom
More like a temporary market fluctuation or maybe bubble.
christophilus··on Ghostty 1.4
Yeah. It's slow on Linux, for sure. I use Foot, which as far as I've tested is the fastest to launch. I use Niri and launch Foot terminals all the time as part of my workflow (it's just how my mind works), so time to launch matters to me.
christophilus··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
My former boss at Microsoft told me this sort of thing is a good way to get rid of your best, most employable employees. I guess he didn’t pass the memo up the chain.
christophilus··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
More like, I moved from Wallace and Grommit self walking pants back to regular pants.
christophilus··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
Image optimization is the only thing in that list I might care about, and every CDN I’ve ever used provides it out of the box.
christophilus··on How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
I was curious what the paste was. According to Brave search AI (whatever LLM that is): The paste used on dried bonito (known as katsuobushi) is made from the fish’s own head and scrapings (called nakaochi), which are mixed with the fish’s own flesh.
christophilus··on Why I Am a Programmer
For me, it was the creative, puzzle-solving, game-like nature of it. Then I got my first job, and I had 100% autonomy, so a friend of mine and I got to solve real problems for real people in the real world. It was a rush. Making people’s lives better through software is still the biggest motivation for me.
christophilus··on Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
I think the problem is that LLMs are verbose. They’re like business or self-help books— a lot of filler.
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