Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@sstephenson chudware

@sstephenson this is a perfect encapsulation of the whole endeavor

@cR0w one of the reasons I keep quiet about these things is, one day I might be on a jury for a case like this

A friend gave me a demo of niri, a “scrolling tileable window manager” for Wayland, which sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole last night in seeing how people are trying to clone this in macOS; they’re all either janky AF on multiple monitors, vibecoded, or require Tahoe so I can’t evaluate them (yet)

Folks, never before in my 40 years of being a Mac user have I felt even a twinge of envy at a baseline GUI feature available on another OS. Regular tiling window managers don’t work for me, I’ve been doing window management the classic Mac way, everything everywhere all at once - not even with (work)Spaces; because I tend to have 40+ windows open at any given time and keep track of them spatially

Niri is the first thing I’ve seen that attempts to take my mental model and give it guidelines

This is the sort of thing that I think old Apple would have come up with before they got obsessed with making everything more like iOS. It would not surprise me if we start to see a shift of always-has-a-terminal-open types back towards Linux on the basis of Niri alone

@technomancy I was once told by someone that I was holding up the approval train by asking that people not reformat the same fucking file every goddamn time

apparently I was ahead of the times

the "don't reformat a file on save, thus creating an extra few hundred lines of meaningless diffs" code editor challenge

@technomancy do it!

/me sighs
me: i hate things
me: why is everything garbage?
my partner: i dunno
my partner: ronald reagan?

@cR0w holy shit

@pathunstrom yeah, this same principle is how i’ve ended up writing a rust-based GUI widget toolkit

RE: https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/117150843331546793

what they took from u

one of the ways I bond with my kid is making custom video game races for them in games where you can do that; we both love the Forza: Horizon series and I’ve restarted a series of unhinged race courses called “For My Kid Please Don’t Play”, except, I kinda do want you to play them

Anyway if you enjoy F:H6, I’d be delighted if you tried this out

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mattly/117134964900196035

come to think about it, this has also been my experience of being a lifelong advocate for better multi-modal transportation and safety for vulnerable road users, and the ten years or so i was a vegetarian

the year is 2036. every email is now just a notice that you have a “secure” message in another system somewhere, and click this link to go read it. You get thousands of these a day, and only maybe two or three of those are legitimate.

talking to people about work in tech anymore is a process of constantly justifying why you're not cool with using something that is simultaneously meth, asbestos, and radon, and being told you're unreasonable

“zap your PRAM to make this program work”

bruh i’ve been a Mac user since 1987, you ain’t fooling me

The AI companies are basically bragging -- "Oops, whoops!" -- about their LLMs hacking and damaging other companies' IT infrastructure. These are federal felonies when committed by humans. LLMs are created and programmed by humans. Why no prosecutions? Because the AI guys own Trump?

Once again I lament the lack of reply controls here

"residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of his life

@gsuberland I am HOWLING with laughter over here