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by tpoacher | 2026-01-28 18:34:11+00:00
I don't know if the author is already aware of this or not, but there's actually already a readline / bash two-keystroke shortcut, ^X^E, for doing just that: drop into a terminal editor, with the current state of your command becoming the first line in the buffer, which then executes the command upon exit from the editor. (obviously, while you're in the editor, you can save to a file first instead of just exiting directly, if you think the current command has re-use value)
by jterrys | 2026-01-28 18:34:41+00:00
I think at a certain point you need to just call it quits with that sort of bullshit. I have my dignity. I'm a fucking grown adult. I'm not going to spend my spare time haplessly looking online to unfuck the new current set of fuckery. Just take the fucking bullet. Learn linux. Congrats you're playing whack-a-mole with a trillion dollar corporation and prolonging your misery. This is stupid.
by echelon | 2026-01-28 18:35:02+00:00
Companies want to cut costs. They will.

If you don't bring more fungible labor into the US, the jobs will be offshored.

Look at what just happened to film labor in 2022-2023. The industry was burgeoning off the heels of the streaming wars and ZIRP. Then the stikes happened.

Amazon and Netflix took trained crews in the Eastern Europe bloc and leveraged tax deals and existing infra in Ireland and the UK. Film production in LA and Atlanta are now down over 75%. Even with insane local tax subsidies - unlimited subsidies in the case or Georgia.

Software development will escape to other cheaper countries. They're talented and hard working. AI will accelerate this.

Then what? America lost manufacturing. I think we've decided that was a very bad idea.

We need to move the cheaper labor here. More workforce means more economic opportunities for startups and innovation. Labor will find a way as long as the infrastructure is here.

De-growth is cost cutting and collapse. Immigration is rapid growth, diversification, innovation, and market dominance.

All those people start buying from businesses here. They start paying taxes here. It supercharges the local economy. Your house might go up in price, but way more money is moving around - more jobs, more growth, second order effects.

America doesn't have the land limits Canada has. And we can set tax policy and regulations to encourage building.

I'd rather be in an America forecasted to hit 500 million citizens - birth or immigration. And I want to spend on their education. I want capital to fund their startup ideas. I want the FTC/DOJ to break up market monopolies to create opportunity for new risk takers and labor capital.

That was the world the Boomers had. Exciting, full of opportunity. That was the world of a rapidly industrializing America.

Right now, the world we have ahead looks bleak. People aren't having kids and we aren't bringing in immigrants. We'll have less consumerism, less labor, and everything will shrink and shrivel and be less than it was.
by eertami | 2026-01-28 18:35:03+00:00
I know what you mean, though I have a device running SteamOS though and it runs extremely smoothly, the latency is no different than my windows PC (on titles where it can achieve the same framerate).

I'm sure that it must be possible to replicate whatever optimisations SteamOS has on other distros, but unfortunately I am not sure what those are exactly.
by anon291 | 2026-01-28 18:35:08+00:00
> Yes, there are many UI implementations in Windows but they are almost totally transparent to the user (no pun intended), and they can all run on the same system at once.

I mean this is a solved problem on linux using modern distributions like NixOS or even 'normal' distros with flatpak, appimage, etc. I haven't had to deal with anything like this in years.

The windows UIs are way more different than linux was. There was a time in the 90s where UIs were expected to follow platform specifics. These days, most UIs don't and they're almost kind of like the branding. Thus, this is not as big a deal as you're making it out to be. If anything, things like the gnome apps and gtk4 are more consistent than any windows app.
by jrowen | 2026-01-28 18:35:32+00:00
There is always some set of people predicting all sorts of dooms though. The saying about the broken clock comes to mind.

With the right cherry picking, it can always be said that [some set of] the doomsayers were right, or that they were wrong.

As you say, someone predicting doom has no bearing on whether it happens, so why engage in it? It's just spreading FUD and dwelling on doom. There's no expected value to the individual or to others.

Personally, I don't think "TikTok will shorten people's attention spans" qualifies as doom in and of itself.
by adi_kurian | 2026-01-28 18:35:48+00:00
Fair enough, I don't have any formal credentials in this field. Could you clarify a few things:

My understanding is gambling disorder was promoted in the DSM-5 in 2013. When was it grandfathered?

The WHO recognized gaming disorder in 2019. Are they captured as well?

Where should I look for a non-lay interpretation?
by theYipster | 2026-01-28 18:36:13+00:00
Btw, this feature is now available in v0.2.x! vm-curator supports single-gpu passthrough (tested locally,) and multi-gpu pass-through via looking-glass (experimental: needs testing.)

single-gpu-passthrough relies on a script (run outside the app) to disconnect the GPU from the current X.org or Wayland session and then to attach it to the running VM. When the VM is shut down, the script runs this process in reverse. This means you can only run one VM at a time with your main display and peripherals, and while you're running that VM, you can't access your host with your display and peripherals (you can always SSH into it while the VM is running.)

This is the common process for getting single-GPU-passthrough to work. vm-curator helps prepare the system and generates the scripts automatically.

multi-gpu-passthrough is designed to run with looking-glass, but it can also support physical KVM switching if the user prefers.
by jofla_net | 2026-01-28 18:36:29+00:00
How dare you think for yourself in 2026!

Remote Attestation of Immutable Operating Systems built on systemd

Its the "remote" thing that has no place in personal computing, or rather, computing that is to extend one's own autonomy, or agency.
Its no one's damn business whether my system is attested or not! I mean, sure theres certainly benefits for me knowing if its attested, but the other road is one of ruin, and will basically be the chains of the future.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-28 18:36:55+00:00
Okay, but AMD isn't accelerated. It's godawful slow for anything to do with video, and really you just need an NVidia card if you're doing anything to do with video editing or motion graphics.

The built-in amdgpu drivers are awful, constantly crashy and with very poor hardware support of anything more than a couple of years old.
by TkTech | 2026-01-28 18:37:14+00:00
The Oban folks have done amazing, well-engineered work for years now - it's really the only option for Elixir. That said, I'm very confused at locking the process pool behind a pro subscription - this is basic functionality given CPython's architecture, not a nice-to-have.

For $135/month on Oban Pro, they advertise:

All Open Source Features

Multi-Process Execution

Workflows

Global and Rate Limiting

Unique Jobs

Bulk Operations

Encrypted Source (30/90-day refresh)

1 Application

Dedicated Support

I'm going to toot my own horn here, because it's what I know, but take my 100% free Chancy for example - https://github.com/tktech/chancy. Out of the box the same workers can mix-and-match asyncio, processes, threads, and sub-interpreters. It supports workflows, rate limiting, unique jobs, bulk operations, transactional enqueuing, etc. Why not move these things to the OSS version to be competitive with existing options, and focus on dedicated support and more traditional "enterprise" features, which absolutely are worth $135/month (the Oban devs provide world-class support for issues). There are many more options available in the Python ecosystem than Elixir, so you're competing against Temporal, Trigger, Prefect, Dagster, Airflow, etc etc.
by mghackerlady | 2026-01-28 18:37:38+00:00
Has it ever occurred to you that all those fields have one thing in common? it's empathy. The people in those positions tend to not be the kind to murder you when you say no. Not saying that's true for blue collar men, but the odds are significantly higher. Also doctors and lawyers naturally tend to be around doctors and lawyers, that's hardly the crazy observation you seem to think it is
by colechristensen | 2026-01-28 18:37:45+00:00
Two ratios dominate aircraft design. Lift/Drag, Thrust/Weight

To get off the ground Lift > Weight, Thrust > Drag, or to simplify to stay aloft Lift = Weight, Thrust = Drag

Bigger engines weigh more.

To get off the ground you need an engine powerful enough to overcome the drag necessary to generate enough lift.

That is what enabled powered flight especially at the beginning. Wing design with a good enough lift to drag ratio and engine+propeller design that had a good enough thrust to drag ratio to come together for more lift than the aircraft weighed.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-28 18:37:48+00:00
GPT 5.2 in a simple while loop runs circles around most things right now. It was released barely a month ago and many developers have been on vacation/hibernating/etc. during this time.

I give it 3-4 more weeks before we start to hear about the death of agentic frameworks. Pointing GPT5+ at a powershell or C#/Python REPL is looking way more capable than wiring up a bunch of domain-specific tools. A code-based REPL is the ultimate tool. You only need one and you can force the model to always call it (100% chance of picking the right tool). The amount of integration work around Process.Start is approximately 10-15 minutes, even if you don't use AI assistance.
by KerrAvon | 2026-01-28 18:37:56+00:00
macOS and Windows have a much smaller set of variants, and tend to ship a single UI with everything included with OS. Even the best single desktop Linux distros will ship divergent KDE and Gnome apps.

If you want essentially perfect high-DPI support out of the box and can afford higher end displays, use macOS. It just works. I see the comments above about scaling, and to that, I say: most people will never notice. However, a Win32 app being the wrong scale? They'll notice that.

But the real display weak point of Linux right now vs Windows is HDR for gaming. That's a real shitshow and it tends to just work on Windows.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-28 18:38:03+00:00
> Yet Apple did not make a mistake. This strategy was entirely correct. Apple tried to innovate by developing a product it hoped at least some consumers would appreciate, and then attempted to price it at a level they’d accept while allowing the company to make a decent profit. If Apple only played it safe and developed boring products which it already knew consumers wanted, then it might as well just produce Marvel movies.

I strongly disagree with this. Apple did make a mistake. It was badly priced and both too close and too far in capabilities from the other phones in the lineup. Being marginally thinner to get a worse battery, worse CPU/GPU than the Pro, worse camera than either, made no sense at all.

I wrote a comment about this one before. The Air never made sense. It is priced between the regular 17 and the Pro. Going with rough size equivalents (so no maxes) the Air has a 0.2" bigger display than the 17 or 17 Pro with an appropriate amount of extra pixels. It has worse battery than both. Worse camera than both (or fewer camera capabilities than both). Its CPU/GPU is closer to the Pro so that is somewhat compelling versus the regular 17.

But it is on net a worse phone, or insufficiently compelling except to someone who wants to save $100 for a size equivalent 17 Pro. The Pro is "only" $100 more but overall much better (in quotes because that can be a lot to many people, but if that's a lot, don't buy a $999 phone). And the $200 doesn't buy enough to warrant the upsell from the regular 17 considering what's lost (camera, battery life).

The right product was either no product or going back to the mini (or something closer to it). The mini at least fits a niche that isn't filled by the 17 and 17 Pro, and the camera and battery tradeoffs are things that would be acceptable in that size of a device. Retain the single lens on the back, maintain the same battery volume (to retain about the same battery life, maybe improved with the smaller screen) which means thickening the device but not substantially (should be about on par with the 17 and 17 Pro).

The best thing about the Air is getting the SOC down to such a small size, which means that future phones could become basically a battery + screen + tiny SOC whose size is determined more by the camera lenses attached than by the actual chip and storage needs. That's not nothing, and if the cost of developing that was one lousy phone for this generation that isn't too bad. Hopefully they figure out how to use that development in a phone people want next time.
by WD-42 | 2026-01-28 18:38:11+00:00
> without warning, replace your config files and update software to versions incompatible with the previous.

This is just nonsense, pacman doesn't do this. If you'd modified a config file, it will create a .pacnew version instead of replacing it. Otherwise you'll get the default config synced with the version of the software you've installed, which is desirable.

It's pretty rare to modify any config files outside of ~/.config these days anyway. What few modifications I have at the system level are for things like mkinitcpio, locale, etc and they never change.
by anon291 | 2026-01-28 18:38:21+00:00
> if the DE itself not outright crashes (KDE, master in Plasma/Widget crashes!). And so many other desktop feel like they have been made in the 90s (probably are) and never gotten updated.

All modern Linux desktops feel more advanced than the corresponding windows version, IMO. I just installed standard Raspbian on a bunch of Raspi5s, and it feels snappier and more advanced than Windows already.
by nextlevelwizard | 2026-01-28 18:38:25+00:00
I don’t know why you are lying. I want to give you benefit of the doubt, like maybe you are just uninformed Fox news watcher, but frankly if you are posting here you should know better. So either you are a braindead MAGA clown, a fed, or ruzzian orc. All I can say is I hope you can live with yourself.
by LordDragonfang | 2026-01-28 18:38:45+00:00
Probably gonna get buried at the bottom of this thread, but:

There's a good chance they just asked GPT5.2 for a name. I know for a fact that when some of the OpenAI models get stuck in the "weird" state associated with LLM psychosis, three of the things they really like talking about are spirals, fractals, and prisms. Presumably, there's some general bias toward those concepts in the weights.
by vunderba | 2026-01-28 18:38:45+00:00
Cool - GenAI image generation is a deep rabbit hole that you're about to fall into!

Super happy that you pit LLMs against relatively recent IF to mitigate cheating through pre-existing training data as well.

FYI I've been running a SOTA model comparison site for about a year now that looks at prompt adherence across local (Qwen-Image, Flux) vs proprietary (NB Pro, Seedream) that might help give an idea where the capabilities are today.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-28 18:39:20+00:00
The idea behind blind signatures is that the server will give you a signed token which is blinded and you can un-blind it on your end and then use it. The consumer of the token will not be able to collude with the issuer of the token to figure out who it was given to. There is more info here: <https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-pass-the-math/>

I don't know if that's what Apple actually does. If it is, once it gets popular enough as an anti-bot measure there may be farms of Apple devices selling these tokens. It's a separate system from remote attestation anyhow.
by tavavex | 2026-01-28 18:39:24+00:00
> I'm a little confused by this, aren't AirTag basically circular discs pretty much just big enough to house a CRT2032 battery?

Kind of. It's definitely the intention, but an AirTag is still considerably larger than the CR2032 within it [1], so they're not at a shortage of space in the shell.

As for "teardrop shape", I didn't mean to imply it had an elongated shape, but that it's rounded off on all sides, like a drop of liquid. The absence of any defined edges makes clip design harder and forces any AirTag enclosure to just act as a mini-pocket that contains the whole thing instead of having a simpler and less wasteful attachment method.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/airtag-b...
by freedomben | 2026-01-28 18:40:05+00:00
> my concern is convergence computing will reduce the importance of desktop interfaces and the freedom we have to install whatever applications we want

Yep, it absolutely will I expect. All the pieces are being or have been laid to build the new world where only a "trusted" device will be able to use the internet. Us nerds can still have our Linux, but it won't work with much of the internet because we won't be able to pass attestation.

Building to that future is exactly what I would expect from Apple, but Google doing so has surprised me. Google doing so is also the thing that will bring it to pass, so there's a special seed of hatred for them germinating in my heart right now. Hopefully I'm just being alarmist and paranoid, but I really don't think I am.

Some Refs:

Web Environment Integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

Private Access Token: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k
by bartekbal | 2026-01-28 18:40:30+00:00
Netflix's Graph Search platform addresses the challenges of searching across federated data sets within Netflix's enterprise ecosystem. Although highly scalable and easy to configure, it still relies on a structured query language for input. Natural language based search has been possible for some time, but the level of effort required was high. The emergence of readily-available AI, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs), has created new opportunities to integrate AI search features, with a smaller investment and improved accuracy.
by andai | 2026-01-28 18:40:33+00:00
>No more waiting for the Start menu to decide it wants to open. No more File Explorer hanging when you need it the most.

I ran XP in a VM on Windows 10.

The start menu opens instantly. After one video frame.

Windows explorer opens instantly. One video frame.

If they had literally done nothing for 20 years, it would be like 50x faster now.
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 18:40:40+00:00
Your version seems to be that they randomly opened fire. Another version is that a gun went off, not all of the officers knew where the victims gun was, they had also heard someone yell "gun", so after the first shot they opened fire.

It's not that you can be shot at by law enforcement when you are carrying a gun, but that you can be shot at when there is an apparent reason that you are firing at them with it. I'm sure ICE isn't happy about how the events turned out either. But for the protesters: just don't bring a gun!
by JBorrow | 2026-01-28 18:40:48+00:00
I don't really understand how me saying that this tool isn't good for science as gatekeeping. The vibe-written papers that I am talking about have little-to-no valuable scientific content, and as such would always be rejected. It's just that it's way easier to produce something that _looks_ reasonable from a five-second glance than before, and that causes additional load on an already strained system.

I also don't understand your second paragraph at all.
by mcswell | 2026-01-28 18:40:51+00:00
I switched from Windows (11) to Linux (Xubuntu) back in November, mostly because of all the AI stuff I didn't trust. While Linux is working ok for me, I can see why people complain about its not being user-friendly, particularly if you're not a Real Programmer. I've had to go to forums too many times to figure out why this or that doesn't work. The latest is the fact that 'apt update' has stopped working today for Vivaldi--it worked ok yesterday, but I have not been able to get it working after spending an hour or more. (If you're interested, there's a thread here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/115133/public-key-is-not-ava....)

Also the fact that some apps update via 'apt', some by 'snap', and if you don't watch out some might update by 'flatpack'. While I think snap is updating automatically, it's hard to tell; some mornings I wake my PC up and only hours later do I discover that there's an update pop-up hidden behind other windows.

Oh, and every day I get a 'system problem' popup that asks if I want to submit a report, but won't tell me what the alleged problem was. I thought only Microsoft did that sort of thing?

I'm also not happy about the malware protection. Apparently the only anti-virus still available is ClamAV (and Kapersky, but for reasons I won't go into I don't trust that). But the gui for ClamAV has not been supported for several years, and running it from the command line is not so straightforward, never mind keeping it updated. (And don't tell me that Linux doesn't need antivirus protection. That's just whistling past the graveyard, particularly if you sometimes log in on public WiFi networks.)

I guess there are distros that are better about some of these things, but life is too short to try all of them, and hope that some bug (like the Vivaldi update thing) doesn't show up months later.

So yes, I'm using Linux, and I'm not planning to go back to Windows. But Linux sure could work better.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-28 18:40:59+00:00
>A 2-3 generation old pixel on the second hand marker is not expensive at all though.

Sure but at around 300 bucks is still way over 50 bucks.

And even if you get a used Pixel 8, having separate phone and computer adds a priceless layer of redundancy and flexibility.

If someone steals my phone, I don't want to also loose my work PC with it.
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-28 18:41:20+00:00
> TBH the "ZIRP overhiring" seems like the most likely real reason. I could never understand how all these companies could hire so many people for so much money, only to have them work on later-to-be-canned open source projects.

I agree this is the root cause, also a big reason for inflation are all these do-nothing white collar management/tech jobs subsidized by the post-pandemic money printer with fat paychecks burning holes in their pockets. Of course these companies tried to use the free money to grow when they could, now they want to fix the balance sheets. And AI is a great excuse, especially if you're in the business of selling AI products!

It's why Trump wants to turn the money printer back on, inflation be damned, because mass unemployment due to belt tightening would be politically even worse than inflation.
by anon291 | 2026-01-28 18:41:29+00:00
Correct. Windows is not a serious operating system. It really never has been. I've been on desktop linux for decades now. Linux is a serious operating system. Nothing happens without you asking it too. My linux computers are never turned off, since they day I turn them on, except for the occasional kernel upgrade. Otherwise, all upgrades are live. Even most kernel upgrades can be avoided if you use one of the modern patch frameworks
by dzonga | 2026-01-28 18:41:33+00:00
Insightful Comment from X - https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016500347053773198?s=2...

I was an L7, I led global AI enablement. I built systems executives depended on, moved wherever the company needed me and fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them.

And I was still cut.

Here’s the part we’re all supposed to politely ignore: in the U.S. right now, experience isn’t an asset, it’s a liability. And if you’re expensive because you’re good at what you do, the system eventually “optimizes” you out.

We're now in the realm of hold onto your nuts -- sink or swim -- ownership of your own company is the only way out