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radlad··on Kitty 0.50
Graphics in terminals and better modifier sequences.
radlad··on How I use AI (Oct 2026)
I dunno - it looks funny, and can definitely add to the "noise" versus the signal of the PR. But it also demonstrates to the maintainers what level of input the contributor had versus simply posting the first thing Claude came up with. (And can be helpful as a maintainer to see how the contributor is thinking about the problem.)

The maintainers clarified they'd prefer a single "all-in" commit, and OP hasn't (yet) addressed that.

Also, unless I'm misreading this PR, it's 270 lines added, 20 removed. I certainly wouldn't call that "huge."

radlad··on Kitty 0.50
Have to agree - Calibre is amazing and powerful software, and also incredibly obtuse to actually use. This has always been a massive shame.

As for kitty, it seems some of its new standards have unlocked actually useful features, especially in AI's terminal-powered era. But creating new standards and breaking compatibility ought to be avoided unless necessary.

radlad··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Isn't this a private gas station? Certainly some brands differentiate on rest room availability and cleanliness (I'm partial to Love's when traveling) but I believe parent was referring to state run rest areas.
radlad··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Interesting. From the Internet:

> 1. The original and locally preferred view is that Iceland, Finland, Faroe Islands, and Greenland are all countries considered to be part of the Nordics, but not technically part of Scandinavia (which would only be Sweden, Norway and Denmark in this case).

> 2. The international and more commonly preferred view is that the Faroe Islands, Finland and Iceland are part of both Scandinavia and the Nordics, leaving Greenland as the only non-Scandinavian country in the Nordics (along with the Norwegian territories of Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet Island).

https://nordicperspective.com/facts/nordic-vs-scandinavian#w...

radlad··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
zfsbootmenu looks very cool, thanks for sharing!

What usually happens to me is that I run a full package update, forget about it for a while, and then reboot. And then the server doesn't come back online - and I'm not in front of it to fix it.

LTS kernel pretty much solved this issue for me when I switched.

radlad··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
You're claiming it's illegal to exchange (for goods or other currency) in most countries? I still believe this is untrue. DJ you have a source?
radlad··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Unfortunately, as a ZFS on Linux user, LTS is the best way to get continual updates without breaking my system.
radlad··on Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
Nothing wrong with paying for serious news, but when most viewers can't read the article it probably won't get much useful discussion.
radlad··on Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
https://wallhop.io/https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-...
radlad··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
I'm sorry but if you don't think SSO and audit logging are important to companies, I'm inclined to believe you haven't been working long. These are typically table stakes for compliance reasons. Auditability and security of your code is incredibly important (this is your supply chain!) Yes, Roku would care. And yes, GitHub (and Gitlab!) offers these things.
radlad··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
That's precisely my point when I say the field has changed even for "true code writing."
radlad··on I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work
I live in Michigan, and I have always struggled through the winters.

I recently learned that in the winter, in the North, the angle of the sun is such that UVB rays cannot penetrate the atmosphere and your body therefore cannot produce Vitamin D. Surprisingly few people who live here are aware of this.

I take Vitamin D supplements every winter now and I think it makes a difference.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2839537/

radlad··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Let's not rush to such judgment - our desires change as we age, the field has changed (including what nose-to-the-grindstone coding looks like) and burnout affects many.

Plus, some people enjoy the rigors of solving in-the-weeds code problems and others enjoy building systems-level designs. This was always true.

radlad··on AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them
I think that's one reason - another reason is that people are time-constrained, backlogged and expected to do more than ever.
radlad··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Monero is legal in most countries.
radlad··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
> I'd really like it if Linux was as rock solid as Mac or Windows. But it clearly isn't and it doesn't help anyone that so many Linux fans pretend it is (look at the replies!).

It is perhaps also possible that others have different experiences with both Windows/Mac and Linux than you do. It's common for people to not notice what's broken, or what they have to workaround, with the software they use every day. People also have different workflows and priorities that determine whether their use of a tool is "rock solid" or not. (Something I certainly wouldn't say about Windows—or Mac!)

radlad··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
PEBKAC
radlad··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Gitlab Enterprise is not free (it costs more than Gitlab Premium, cloud, which is $29/user/month), and companies that would want to self-host something like Github Enterprise are not hosting the free version of Gitlab - so these are not comparable. For example, SAML SSO and audit streaming (SIEM support) requires paying.

As best as I can tell, your argument is "Github costs money which is bad" and I don't find it particularly convincing. Companies need to make money in order to continue producing products. That's why Gitlab sells their product too.

radlad··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
I'm sorry, I think you're trying to make a point and I'm not quite following it. Yes, Github Enterprise requires a license.

Github Enterprise is $21/user/month: https://github.com/pricing

radlad··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Than Gitlab?

I'm not sure, you'd have to check their pricing pages.

radlad··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
It is important for some companies. https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.22/admin/inst...
radlad··on Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited
Your comment was dead, and many of your other comments are dead (some flagged.) I vouched for this one, but you may be shadow banned, or users may be picking up on LLM tendencies in your text and flagging them.
radlad··on Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
It's to pump up .si domains.
radlad··on Docker is weird
I'm a huge fan of Incus. VMs, LXC, and OCI containers all under the same Docker-like CLI interface. I run it on a local server and on a dedicated server in a local DC, and connect to both remotely using Nebula.

It includes project-level resource separation, advanced networking, clustering, snapshots, and more. Plus, Stéphane Graber is super responsive on the forums and issue tracker. I bounced off of Proxmox, and can't recommend Incus more for hypervisor-type scenarios.

radlad··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
I'm working on a custom app for a camera that has a terrible Android app, and I'm working on a similar harness: AI is building both the 3D model and the parts list (basically, a Raspberry Pi, a webcam, and a few servos).
radlad··on PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)
Yes, PHP release was scheduled for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC: https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
radlad··on We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model
I understand that grandparents' suggestion that the audio is actually "played back" during the process appears to be a misunderstanding, hence "Yes, but..."

My point was that the "natural speed" of video (i.e. the frame rate - clear slow motion requires more frames, while fast blurred motion will generally have fewer) does actually impact how much data must be processed. It's true of audio too (sample rate) and downsampling is a common optimization technique.

radlad··on Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
DownThemAll! was my choice in the mid-2000s. :-)
radlad··on We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model
Yes but... Frame rate matters with video, which is arguably the video's speed.
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