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xtat··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
These projects tend to go a certain direction...

After a few months with lazyvim I'm missing barebones nvim. Batteries included is nice but requires maniacal restraint.

xtat··on Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server
Really nice- I want a distro package. Managing updates manually gets out of control fast if you run many services.
xtat··on Ghostty 1.0
My takeaway is that it's mostly useful for apple stuff-- why would "platform native" matter on Linux?
xtat··on Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
Canada got scary pretty fast
xtat··on The EPA wants total removal of lead pipes
First thought was how is this not already a thing.
xtat··on Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education
I find the word unregulated a bit loaded in this context- analogous to "unfreedom"
xtat··on Twitch will now let streamers simultaneously stream on any service they want
The grip that Twitch has on it's creators is unreal.
xtat··on Apple exec Eddy Cue set to testify in Google trial about $19B search deal
SV will protect SV - bigtechs are frenemies
xtat··on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates
IMO it's all downhill since nexus one, and Apple has just always been terrible.
xtat··on Mozilla.ai
no concrete product or code "We created a company" has such a grifty smell
xtat··on Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
These posts always feel like content marketing when the title promises a tutorial on running the latest model and you click and it's someone's frontend.
xtat··on What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
From the top comments it seems like we're skipping the fact that the guy has automatic updates turned off and it's pulling down and execing arbitrary code anyway.
xtat··on Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
Yep - dream device is a phone that runs android+ios under strict supervision
xtat··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
Have a feeling this is going to change real fast with FB becoming an extension of usgov
xtat··on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
These kind of stories make me feel like the western world has failed and we should start over
xtat··on Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
idk not a great look for signal
xtat··on Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
this... this is content marketing
xtat··on San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet
Appreciate it the response- for me it's a bit personal because I spent a decade of my life trying in vain to love SFBA, and I wish that I could have information on the true experience from the hacker community.
xtat··on San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet
curious @dang - why did this get moved when it has almost 10x the votes here? feels like this will bury the story
xtat··on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
Also how many employees does meta actually need? 1% of what they have currently? (70,000!)
xtat··on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
The thought that meeting attendance is the measure of work is so beautifully corpo cringe tech. Honestly FAANG is looking more b-list every day.
xtat··on Fran Blanche: This Is Not Legal
Please not apple, netflix - cant trust bay area tech with important things anymore
xtat··on Apple previews Lockdown Mode
TBH even 2m bounty on lockdown mode bypass seems really low
xtat··on WeatherKit
What qualifies as new and innovative in apple land is always entertaining to me
xtat··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Feels a little disingenuous to use the first 3/4 of the report to advertise.
xtat··on Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets
Oof those are some brutal fees
xtat··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Cool but this product naming sounds like some scummy antivirus from 2001
xtat··on Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
TBH reading the reply it looks like Brian needs a vacation.
xtat··on Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings
Read this as "our initial offer"
xtat··on Apple Passkey
How does apple get your data that way?
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