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eclipticplane··on Ghostty 1.4
Man, still does not fix the one bug I care about: being able to quickly `⌘+F, ⌘+V` - the find textbox does not respect keyboard shortcuts: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/11159
eclipticplane··on Security Disclosure
"aviate, navigate, then communicate" only matters if you are the one in control of outcomes.

Customers could have simply revoked keys and not re-launched services with rolled credentials (that from your post, may have been re-stolen), but instead you let this fester.

What a disaster for Railway. I hope you get through this stressful moment, but this should be the end of Railway.

eclipticplane··on Security Disclosure
Link?
eclipticplane··on Security Disclosure
Which secrets were they using?
eclipticplane··on Learning to live with Waymos
My only question on interactions like this: who the heck is on the other side of these calls, and are they on the phone 24-7?!
eclipticplane··on The reverts will continue until morale improves
We can thank Google for that.
eclipticplane··on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
Future output from an agent:

> The Trolley Problem has been solved. The Trolley can run on both tracks as the number of individuals tied to the tracks is less than 50. An independent agent verified that at up to 49 impacted individuals, their damages total only $695.8 million in potential damages, using the most recently available Value of a Statistical Life.

eclipticplane··on Tesla Roadster
Same; there are stylish super cars... this again looks like a 5 year old kid drawing like the Cybertruck does.
eclipticplane··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
Still paying the price, 30 years on, for my old small town dentist blasting giant silver fillings into my new (at the time) adult teeth that almost certainly did not have deep cavities. No pain, but I know when they fail (my friends' fillings have already started to fail) it'll be a world of pain as there is not enough tooth left to fill, and the silver filling is so poorly done a cosmetic crown is unlikely.

I looked him up again later in life, wondering if anyone had dug into his fraud, and only found a sad/lonely obituary which seems fitting for a scam artist defrauding a small town.

F' that dude and the industry that trained and supported him, and I see no call out of dentists against their con-artist colleagues, so they must all be complicit.

eclipticplane··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
Needs more strawberries and oranges.
eclipticplane··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
They've been limited in what changes to H1-b they can make without legislative support, so they will take any other option to make H1-b less desirable and harder.
eclipticplane··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Rather surprised MS didn't kiss the ring enough to avoid this or offer to fund the renovations to the Trump Kennedy Center.
eclipticplane··on So you think you could be an electrician?
No, I do not, but thank you for asking. This is one thing I'm happy to pay professionals for!
eclipticplane··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Did you fix any of the underlying numeric limits in the original game?

There's a hard cap to 127 instances of commercial spaces. 128 onward won't get any visitors. Too many office workers will overwhelm your limited commercial spaces and thus leave the tower for lunch, over-taxing your elevators.

And yes - elevators are hard!

eclipticplane··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I just want a Siri that doesn't trigger when my partner says "Siri set a timer for 20 minutes" on a completely different floor of the house.
eclipticplane··on Apple iPod Engraver (2019)
The article mentions the 'yellow fade' or 'yellow flash' to highlight when elements change -- I miss that!
eclipticplane··on The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle
Huh? Citizens cannot sue for damages under CAN-SPAM, only the FTC and DOJ can.
eclipticplane··on Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
I'm just glad to have my last projects off of Wordpress to get to no longer care about drama at Automattic that seems to never end.
eclipticplane··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Maybe he forgot to submit his PTO into Workday.
eclipticplane··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
My hot take on why these games get popular (including some like PowerWash Simulator that are 'press x, then x again' type games): it gives people satisfaction of completing something in a world that it is increasingly harder to accomplish what the prior generation did.
eclipticplane··on Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker
Don't pick the wrong side of the merge or your save game might be completely broken 40 hours from now!
eclipticplane··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
My secret hope is that this kills the influencer industry and gets things back to just ads. Just the ads happen to be fake people, instead of real people pretending to be ads.
eclipticplane··on Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
Now the propaganda is that the anti data center movement is a fake campaign by China.

Which, sure, maybe it's amplified by them but go visit any of these cities public council meetings. People are legit mad about them. Energy prices are already through the roof, they are massive facilities that don't provide much local employment after being built (even the construction crews are contracted in from elsewhere), they get massive tax breaks in exchange for 1 time local development fees, get exempted from noise ordinances, pollution laws, and crammed down communities in backroom deals.

Not hard for foreign adversaries to escalate what's already a terrible deal for the citizens of most cities.

eclipticplane··on WeatherNext 3
> It is built into Apple Weather after Apple purchased them.

Did Apple lobotomize the tech when they integrated it, or lose access to whatever upstream data Dark Sky had access to? Apple Weather is comically bad (though not nearly as bad as Google's weather searches).

eclipticplane··on No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds
What ordinary law requires officials to issue truthful statements? We're living in the era of unrestrained executive power.
eclipticplane··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
> This was my first attempt at obfuscated C and I feel it's pretty amateurish

I love feelings of inadequacy at 11:07pm on a Sunday.

Here's the judges' remarks and author commentary on the second edition of this from the 2006 results: https://www.ioccc.org/2006/sloane/index.html

eclipticplane··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Bonus: they might not be able to fund the anti-user behavior like sunsetting MV2, all of the "anonymous audience tracking" that prevents any other advertiser from identifying you (but Google's scale still can), aggressively pushing 'sign in with Google', retracting their stance on blocking third party cookies, continually removing settings that drive user control, and more.
eclipticplane··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
> energy companies giving up wind leases and switching to fossil fuels

If only it were them "giving up" leases -- we *paid them billions* to halt developments.

eclipticplane··on Trade (and Tariffs)
It was _great_ for the companies that collected billions in tariffs and got refunds when the obviously illegal tariffs were declared illegal while training their customers to accept higher prices... that certainly won't go back to pre-tariff levels.
eclipticplane··on U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers
Hopefully that 'somebody' that realizes is this US Administration, which to date has paid billions in fees to wind energy companies to not build wind farms. They are quite literally paying companies to not build renewable energy.
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