Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@alisynthesis others you might want to check out:
Lapce: modeled after VSCode but with I think a more solid foundation
Helix: kakoune-inspired terminal-only modal editor, no extensions yet but they’re coming
Flow Control: an attempt at creating a powerful & friendly terminal editor
Lite XL: lua-driven & extensible, feels more “off” to me than does Sublime
TextAdept: actually probably the best OSS sublime-like & alternative to Kate

@alisynthesis yeah, if there were a solid fork by people not beholden to VC and with a good plan for community-driven extensibility I’d be into that, because otherwise it just _feels_ good

but the extension system has a number of problems, central gatekeeping being the primary one. I actually broke their system by deleting a repo I had for a language extension I created

@alisynthesis I ragequit Zed after they forced their AI autocomplete on us; they walked that back shortly after but as someone following them for over a year it feels like they’re prepping for a rug pull

@jplebreton also station wagons — even Subaru doesn’t sell those anymore, just crossovers

@nasser javascript is whatever you want it to be, obvs

@forestine

@forestine this is the “three monopolies in a trenchcoat” thing?

@bascule @Schneems John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in action

@janl some people who play with tech are just *begging* for the problems they bring upon themselves

@janl Observable’s Framework is nice; I’ve used it for a few projects. It is declarative-focused, which sometimes makes certain visualization types harder, but it makes a lot of them easier

@janl I’m curious if there’s a product opportunity here for a UI product that talks to for example timescaledb

since a popular Apple pundit recently expressed the opinion that Apple seems to be ignoring “personal preference” on this:

I have contracts with my consulting work that require me to actively guard client information against accidental ingestion into *any* kind of LLM/ML model, even locally-hosted

and since they haven’t been very informative about what on my hard drive is exposed to their LLM, I need to keep Apple Intelligence off on my Mac in order to honor the contract

This isn’t just “personal preference”, Apple is making it difficult for me to use their operating system for my professional work

The AI's "plan" to simplify the FAR was generic and unusable, of course. But it is a subject that Ehikian and DOGE keep returning to: Contracting. Acquisition. The money.

They want to file the corners off of the process that regulates government spending. They want to consolidate all government contracts in one place. And put AI in charge.

(yes I am finally watching Severance)

I can type my address before your autocomplete finishes its first round-trip to the address database, fuck off with this

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@puppygirlhornypost2 is dopamine considered a sex horomone?

WHAT GOOD IS IT HAVING YOUR CAR CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET IF IT DOESN’T AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE IT’S CLOCK?

@jepyang

I want to underscore this:

It’s a lot easier to be bigoted against an abstract, imaginary person. When a real human being stands up and shows their real humanity with passion and eloquence, it can peel off the hangers-on from the hard-core bigots. It can change people. Sometimes enough to change a vote.

The way to protect trans people — or any marginalized group — is therefore to •elevate• them, get them into positions of •visibility• and •power•, and let them speak their truth.

Not to hide them. Not to hide from them. Raise them up and have their back. That’s my message to my congressfolk on today’s call. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:esrrgaktqbyod6pcd7fvh66x/post/3ljq6toaoss27