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Merges and anchors are some of the least maintaineable and most error-prone config i've seen.

Doesn't help every yaml parser has their own opinion on what a merge or an anchor should do, exactly.

rattyJ2on Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context

Tokens are already compressed. That's what tokenisation is.

rattyJ2on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps

What is this Brexit talking point? The EU president is elected by the EU parliament/comission, whose members are directly elected by the people.

rattyJ2on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

Define "direct political action"? Like, murder yes. But belgium has (too many) popular local initiatives that get picked up by The Government in some form.

rattyJ2on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

I could be one of the people running an ungoogled phone, but my bank refuses to have an app that runs on an ungoogled OS for "security"

rattyJ2on Levels of configuration languages

This is basically how pulumi and tfsdk work. You write go/ts/python/... that generates a bunch of config files to a temp folder, and then reconciles those.