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sick_of_slopon Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

The argument against Tauri is that it uses system web view so you get platform incompatibilities.

sick_of_slopon Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

You can’t unslop A.I. prose. Once it’s written, the content is poisoned.

“Sure there was a turd in the punch bowl but I did my best to remove it, so you should be able to drink it.”

Nope.

And the technical parts are what matter, saying you did that with A.I. tells me “I don’t care about this part” so what the heck are we even doing here?

sick_of_slopon Libghostty 1.0

I think Ghostty is great for the most part but I keep going back to iTerm2, personally.

iTerm just feel less buggy. For example I was running Claude in a container the other day and the slash command complete wasn’t rendering properly with Ghostty but worked perfectly fine with iTerm.

I want to switch to Ghostty because I prefer how simple Ghostty is overall and I think the project itself is very cool and an important piece of software (libghostty) but it doesn’t quite get there for _for my use cases_.

sick_of_slopon AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

I’m so burnt out by being swapped with so much work from AI at my day job that I don’t even want to look at anything with a screen when I’m off anymore.

I despise AI but the thought of doing something the “old way” just makes me wince at how long it would take me to do anything that would take minutes with agents that I despise.

I touch grass whenever I can now.

sick_of_slopon Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation

Anthropic keeps nerfing their models to appease entrenched corporate overlords and it takes 5 seconds to switch to Deepseek or GLM. Can’t even use Claude to protect yourself against a cyber attack from a Chinese model based attacker for “safety”. What a joke.

Nerfed, proprietary models have have no future and these trillion dollar valuations are laughable.

sick_of_slopon WTF Ubuntu?

The whole point of paying for Ubuntu enterprise services is you don't have to worry about all this nonsense. It's one thing if you're using Ubuntu for free, it's another thing when you're paying them for a specific service.

sick_of_slopon It's the memory latency, stupid

Before AI, nobody has been responsible for more psychic damage against software developers than Bob Martin.

sick_of_slopon Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

You’re telling on yourself.

sick_of_slopon Nietzschian Debugger

It's a joke.

> The anti-AI. Every other tool gives you answers. Nietzschian Debugger confronts you with questions.

sick_of_slopon OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/CONTRIB...

> All text and content submitted to our project, which includes code, descriptions, issues, and comments, must be human written.

> The use of GitHub Copilot and other assistive AI technologies is heavily discouraged.

> Low-effort or incorrect submissions that are determined to have been generated by, or created with aid of such systems may lead to a ban from contributing to the repository or project as a whole.

sick_of_slopon There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository

Or they could not. It’s their project they can do what they want you are not entitled to their labour.

sick_of_slopon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

Used this font for years, even made my own custom build for it because the many many many provided ones were not just quite right for my preference.

These days I'm using Maple Mono though.

sick_of_slopon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Your first statement doesn’t justify the trillions of dollars of compute commitments.

It needs to be the second one or there is going to be a lot of angry people out a lot of money.

sick_of_slopon Sites in ChatGPT

Well that's still better than an AI site that basically is never polished.

sick_of_slopon AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

Of course they do. As soon as ads entered the equation this was always going to happen. Nobody should be suprised.

sick_of_slopon Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

Shopify - where the CEO said just the other day that “slop grenades” are making way more work for everyone?

Same guys?

Just chugging the clown juice.

sick_of_slopon Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day

“They trust me, dumb fucks”.

sick_of_slopon Tin: full-text search for Postgres

What are the advantages of Tin over using ts_vector with gin and gist indexes?

sick_of_slopon Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

That wasn't the question.

sick_of_slopon Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

Frontier labs trained their models on the entirety of human knowledge and didn't ask permission. It's a "want" or "should" it's a moral imperative to distill their models.

sick_of_slopon Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

The atomic bombings of Japan killed hundreds of thousands of people but most likely "saved" millions.

What should the AI do when asked if it should nuke a country?

sick_of_slopon Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

You can't surpress it because that's what reinforcement learning is.

sick_of_slopon A few good ideas in programming languages

The marketing pitch for these things was that they were supposed to induce "cambrian explosion of creations". That there was zero barrier to building anything anymore. This is surely true in programming languages especially, considering how fast LLMs took over software development? Surely this would mean we would get new ideas faster if that was the case? There is literally nothing stopping language designers from getting new concepts out there now even if nobody is using them in production yet.

> LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts,

So where are these prototypes?

sick_of_slopon A few good ideas in programming languages

Have there been any new good ideas in programming languages since LLMs came around? Or are we over that now..

sick_of_slopon We must pace the frontier

Dario is only interested in regulatory capture.