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throwaway613746··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Never bought anything that used Shopify and never will. As a Canadian, Lutke is just a pathetic individual and I simply refuse to use anything he touches if I can avoid it.
throwaway613746··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
Another open source project being consumed by capitalist vultures. It's not enough to just fund them as charity is it?
throwaway613746··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
> programmers are suddenly expected to be perfect reviewers of code they didn't write

What? The reviewer (me) caught the injection in the code I didn't write.

Running /code-review and /security-review on your own code before submission is bare minimum, not perfection.

throwaway613746··on It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Anthropic hopes you just eventually give up and become completely dependent on Claude. Toss in 10 (or more) other developers with way less discipline and you will become dissillusioned with Claude's overengineered, incomprehensible, technosalad and your demise is pretty much guaranteed.
throwaway613746··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Does this have stacked PRs? Cursor acquired Graphite a while back and stacked PRs were a killer feature.
throwaway613746··on Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
What are you learning if you just let the AI do everything for you?
throwaway613746··on Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
You're on HN, the SV site for SV brained SV people.
throwaway613746··on Codex Security
create the problem and sell the cure, tale as old as time
throwaway613746··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
Copyright should be abolished.
throwaway613746··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
> Does bun actually do anything insane like that in its unsafe blocks?

How would anyone even know, it's vibe coded.

throwaway613746··on India's surprise baby bust
Terrible thigns like....cheaper housing and....higher wages.

The horror.

throwaway613746··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
People will more often than not, take the path of least resistance. Even if you tell them it's dangerous they will not care. People run this stuff on their primary workstation, unconfined, with permissions disabled because they don't want be bothered with accepting permission requests. This is all well and good until it decides to drop your production database or delete your home directory. Most of them don't even learn their lesson after that even.
throwaway613746··on Cloudflare Flagship
Feature flags are so ridiculously simple I have never needed to outsource this to someone else.
throwaway613746··on Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
So did Nazi eugenics.
throwaway613746··on Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
The best way to fight back is to not play the game at all. AI slop has completely ruined the internet, it's not going to get better. It was already on a massive downard trend pre-AI and generative AI has only accelerated the decline by 100x. It's only going to get worse from here.

uBlock Origin: Settings -> Filter Lists -> EasyList –> Annoyances -> EasyList –> AI Widgets

It's not perfect but the internet feels slightly better when AI garbage is not constantly being shoved in my face 24/7.

I want to go one step further -> I want to hide widgets, but I also want to intercept the request it would have made and replace the payload with garbled nonsense. Similar to how Ad Nauseam will hide ads but it also clicks every single one to poison the data collection.

And for this reason alone you will pry Firefox from my cold, dead hands.

throwaway613746··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
So you're just constantly committing untested versions of you work?
throwaway613746··on WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
macos itself is sluggish af

I booted up an OLD imac stuck on 10.something, with an - I can't remember which gen - i5 and only 8gb of ram and I was blown away by how much it FLIES on that ancient hardware - even compared to my M1 Max Mac Studio

Apple Silicon is great. Everything else sucks.

throwaway613746··on ReactOS
ReactOS came first though.
throwaway613746··on OpenWarp
Why do you need to have a whole fork to remove them when there is a single AI killswitch option already?
throwaway613746··on AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
It's been a few years and I have yet to see a single novel thing come out of it. Even chatbots weren't novel when ChatGPT came out.
throwaway613746··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
I've been jumping between Maple Mono and a custom Iosevka build that I've been tweaking here and there for the better part of 3 years. Jetbrains Mono is also really nice if you want something a bit more neutral.
throwaway613746··on Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
As someone that switches between MacOS (dayjob) and Linux (my own PCs) workstations daily - I wish I could do the opposite for Linux. MacOS keyboard shortcuts are just way more intuitive to me, and they are way more consistent across applications.
throwaway613746··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
A cheap mini-pc in your closet.
throwaway613746··on AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
AI isn't an excuse for war crimes. Remember this at, and after, election time.
throwaway613746··on ARC-AGI-3
Or more appropriately - The Talos Principle.
throwaway613746··on Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules
My company has been massively affected by this over the past month.

It sucks having to tell customers "this is on Microsoft's end, we're trying to work through it with them but we don't have an ETA and can't say more than that" because Microsoft support is absolutely useless. The other day we changed some DMARC/SPF records around and that seemed to do the trick but now it appears to just be a coincidence.

throwaway613746··on Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
Never saw the point of these desktop apps. Docker (and podman) works just fine from the CLI only.
throwaway613746··on What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
I don't care that the non-gnu coreutils are using rust. I care that they aren't GPL licensed.

This means Canonical can offer proprietary patches on top of these packages and sell them as part of their "enterprise" offerings and this gives me the ick.

throwaway613746··on IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
> "if you're so much more productive with AI, what have you built with it"

If my boss asked me a question like this my reply would be "exactly what you told me to build, check jira".

If you want to know if I'm more productive - look at the metrics. Isn't that what you pay Atlassian for? Maybe you could ask their AI...

throwaway613746··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
Ironic, because AI Agent integration is their business model.
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