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movq··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
To the provider you select in the UI, I agree. But OpenCode automatically sends prompts to their free "Zen" proxy, even without choosing it in the UI.

Imagine someone using it at work, where they are only allowed to use a GitHub Copilot Business subscription (which is supported in OpenCode). Now they have sent proprietary code to a third party, and don't even know they're doing it.

movq··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
The (relative) simplicity is what sells aider for me (it also helps that I use neovim in tmux).

It was easy to figure out exactly what it's sending to the LLM, and I like that it does one thing at a time. I want to babysit my LLMs and those "agentic" tools that go off and do dozens of things in a loop make me feel out of control.

movq··on Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
I don't know if it works on Artix, but there is seatd [1], which works with wlroots compositors in place of (e)logind.

seatd is ~6k lines of code compared to elogind's ~200k.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/

movq··on Zig is now self–hosted by default
Yeah, it's a binary blob, but it's small enough to be easily auditable. Anyone with some knowledge of x86 assembly can read the annotated version [1] and verify that it does what it claims (which is to convert ASCII hex with comments into binary).

You're right, it also requires a Linux kernel, and of course, you also have to trust the hardware you're running it on. Still, it reduces the amount of stuff we have to take for granted as trusted, which I think is a good thing. (I'm not involved in the project, just an admirer).

[1]: https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/b09a8b8cbcb6...

movq··on Zig is now self–hosted by default
It's possible to bootstrap GCC starting from only a 357-byte binary seed: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap