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I was looking forward to good UX accessing HBO through Netflix. Too bad, but looking forward to good UX accessing HBO, and paramount (?) some day down the line through Netflix when this converges.

There is no bad guy in geopolitics, just the other guy.

Don't need to use China even, Microsoft, or Palantir, etc will continue to support the US military, likely using Google technology in the process (Guava, gRPC maybe?, k8s assuredly? etc).

Sorry but if you truly believe in technology not using in bad context, the only way to avoid it is to change careers. The issue with news like this is it's hard to actually trust the protesters, they probably are happy to clear their conscience personally while continuing to reap the benefits of living in the tech industry. Have your cake and eat it too.

Sometimes people do quit - they're probably the ones you want to hire if you care about ethics. Most don't though.

Password managers generally send a hash but for almost all services I would say plain text password is standard, I would definitely go with something like firebase or auth0 vs rolling your own auth in most normal situations. The poster is explicit about not knowing anything about security though so all good.

I think the main issue people have with this comment is the word "recent" and to a lesser degree "U.S.". All countries have done anything to further their goals regardless of any common point of agreement, some times framing within that framework, sometimes not. This is not a recent or US-only phenomenon, it's the definition of geopolitics.

I'm all for an alien invasion uniting us but not sure when that will happen.

One issue I found is that for new projects, it is much harder to market now. shownew is flooded and subreddits have turned up their spam filters high so quality projects will have trouble getting eyes without significant social activity before wanting to share. So the bar for introverts writing (not vibing) good OSS feels like it has gone up in an unfortunate way.

Ah good reminder to see if I should repatch with revanced. Not that I actually use YouTube on my phone much, I mostly catch up on SmartTube on weekends. But great to be in control.

Interesting - I was surprised to see a note on Wefunder, though the opposite direction that Canada residents aren't allowed to use the platform to invest. For context, no problem from Japan.

It sounds like Canada has some unique regulations here, wouldn't have expected that.

Agree completely, just curious to understand better this

> "you do you, but the supply runs out next week".

What's the supply referring to here? Not able to follow what this is saying.

One big reason I tend to build on GCP instead of AWS is it's much easier to use with Terraform. GCP's APIs are generally defined as a semantic unit while AWS has ad-hoc resources that get strung together by the console or CLIs, not the APIs. An example is a k8s cluster in AWS takes a dozen resources while in GCP it's just one.

While there are then third party (I think) Terraform modules to try to abstract the AWS world into an easier to use interface, they can't really solve the problem that in the end Terraform manages resources and orchestrating changes including deletion across a dozen of resources is much harder than a single one.

GCP is huge so I wouldn't be surprised if there are also problematic units there with less good definition. But I would still argue that there are cloud providers that provide a reasonable view into their infra fo IAC.

Ok ok, it is indeed keys to AI APIs. I know it's not kosher to admit to that on HN anymore but it's the reality for me at least. Unfortunately local models just can't support development of products using them.

Not to say it is the quip but I have had buggy builds with bun that requires sticking to esbuild, I think it was bundling prettier with many plugins into a single JS file.

I always do that sort of thing in Docker so never considered it could be a Linux-specific thing, maybe so.

I think it's common to have dev not production secrets there, and am reading the blurb about production secrets as non-local secrets. Even dev keys are a pain if they get leaked.

The idea seems nice with a simple yet effective implementation. While I think I currently have a shell script syntax highlight plugin reading env files, it's definitely overkill. Now if only this could protect from random npm packages reading your env files...

Haven't used Nova for a while and at first was curious if this was good for bringing it back from unmaintenance. The heavy focus on sustainability and marketing in this blog makes it seem unlikely though.

Switched to Pear when Nova got unstable after a Pixel upgrade and I noticed it hadn't been updated in years. Been working well though will keep any eye on any other recommendations that show up in this thread.

I don't upvote often and you got it. This is a great explanation of what seems to be going on.

I was happy to see them give this clear headline

> Linux isn’t especially complicated on a daily basis, but you have to be willing to solve your own problems

That being said, given the huge uptick in Linux articles lately, I can only believe Canonical is funding something here. It's just too sudden of a surge.

I'll probably still game on Linux, but who knows if that will last after a few more "freeze on resume" situations. These just don't happen on Windows and most Linux sentiment seems to be coming from anti-Onedrive feelings, which is fair, but the popups are easy to click through. Random Linux instability, not so.

Anyone suggesting "you should too" switch to Linux is signing up to a whole lot of troubleshooting work for their friends that listened to them. Anyone somewhat technical, sure, but not anyone.

As a kid 25+ years ago, it was fun tweaking use flags, compiling with Intel cc, diving into every menu in that blue kernel configuration screen. System recompiles I think took 4 hours back then. Learned so much back then and it can even be useful to this day, I don't think I'd even know what a glibc is without tweaking out it's use flags just for kicks.

Now I am happily gaming on arch Linux and while generally developing on a Mac, need to jump into debian in docker and such. But I do hope kids these days end up trying Gentoo, the hacker skillset it builds is priceless. No offense to adults still using it! I just hope there aren't as many "my system doesn't build anymore" situations as I remember.

I'm with you - the most disappointing was when asking Gemini, technically nano banana, for a PNG with transparent background it just approximated what a transparent PNG would look like in a image viewer, as an opaque background. ChatGPT has no problem. I also appreciate when it can use content like Disney characters. And as far as actual LLMs go, the text is just formatted more readably in GPT to me, with fairly useful application of emojis. I also had an experience asking for tax reporting type of advice, same prompt to both. GPT was the correct response, Gemini suggested cutting corners in a grey way and eventually agreed that GPT's response is safer and better to go with.

It just feels like OpenAI puts a lot of effort into creating an actually useful product while Gemini just targets benchmarks. Targeting benchmarks to me is meaningless since every model, gpt, Gemini, Claude, constantly hallucinate in real workloads anyways.

A representative thrown out of her own party lays out some meme bills. Why so serious batman?

There's capitalism and then there's communism. Both have proven to not work which leaves us with...

Countries are bad but even the sci-fi authors know the only way to change this is literally an alien invasion. Until then, instead of expecting good from our governments (wherever we live) shouldn't we just assume the worst and go from there? Since switching to that mentality life has been much more pleasant personally.

To be a little fair to Microsoft, they have made it much harder to enable macros over the years. So when stuck with a bank's spreadsheet that requires a win32 macro to convert for upload, I blame the bank.

Luckily grey market keys for both windows and office are so cheap I can just relegate these to a VM for those times it's needed.

The above is probably enough to keep the typical user on Windows forever though.

As it's flagged hoping the damage is done but in case anyone finds this

- The original article starts with all-caps EDITORIAL:. It's rare to see such strong labeling but personally I couldn't find any facts in the piece and suspect it's to make that clear

- The article is from Asahi, which along with Mainichi are the anti-government newspapers in Japan. Not an issue for normal news but this is an EDITORIAL (emphasis from the original article, not mine)

Quietly take away from the article what you want but please don't make any claims based on this.

> For the use cases in this article, the best option is wasmtime-py.

They seem to have gone with a WASI runtime. Though to me, the caveats after it, and throughout the article, make it seem like Wasm is more difficult to deal with than PyO3's excellent ecosystem rather than the opposite.

Email is one of the last open protocols around. git uses it in commit messages presumably because of that fact. Rob's co-worker at Google Vint always opines on the greatness of this openness.

A well meaning message on an open protocol resulting in a rant - it really feels to me that AI isn't the issue here.

> npm’s package.json is declarative

lol

I had the same reading, it sounded like Windows is worse now than Windows 95, which would be a hot take indeed. But it seems the intent was purely on these nagging aspects which have definitely gotten worse.

It might be easier to swallow the message focusing on Windows 8+ when it really jumped the shark. Windows 7 was a pretty good OS holistically I think even if there are aspects lost compared to the pure simplicity of those really old ones.

Had been running a coffee lake refresh 4 core for several years and as interested as I was in new platforms, especially AM5, the work of replacing motherboard never felt worth it. Now with the ram wars heating up, I just committed to that by picking up a used top-end 8 core coffee lake for $50 to cut a few seconds off my vulkan shader compiles with minimal replacement effort.

I'm more interested in the % of rust code that is marked unsafe. If you can write a kernel with 1% safe, that sounds pretty great. If the nature of dealing with hardware (AFAIK most of a kernel is device drivers) means something higher, maybe 10%, then maybe safety becomes difficult, especially because unsafety propagates in an unclear way since safe code becomes unsafe to some degree when it calls into it.

I'm also curious about the percentage of implicit unsafe code in C, given there are still compilers and linters checking something, just not at the level of lifetimes etc in Rust. But I guess this isn't easy to calculate.

I like rust for low level projects and see no need to pick C over it personally - but I think it's fair to question the real impact of language safety in a realm that largely has to be unsafe. There's no world where Rust is more unsafe than C though so it's all academic. I just wonder if there's been any analysis on this, in close to metal applications like a kernel.

Before clicking through I read the url as bloomber-glaw and thought it might be a phishing / fake news type of thing.

Not a particularly useful comment but curious of others also have trouble reading that domain.