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New comment by atlintots in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

atlintots — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:20:51 +0000

That race already started, but China is the only one participating at the moment. The US has been running backwards, though.

New comment by atlintots in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

atlintots — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:07:48 +0000

You can't afford an apartment because the ownership class is working very hard to keep housing prices high while paying you as little as possible for the two decades you have been working. Not because some disabled person elsewhere is struggling to get by on government loans and welfare.

New comment by atlintots in "Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language"

atlintots — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:20:14 +0000

I'm assuming OP is not aware of APL, J, or similar array programming languages.

New comment by atlintots in "Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering"

atlintots — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:27:12 +0000

Yes; it's also not open source.

New comment by atlintots in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

atlintots — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:51:37 +0000

Aren't spider webs kind of like glue traps

New comment by atlintots in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

atlintots — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:30:34 +0000

I recently learned of Flow, and I don't understand why people group it together with Ladybird and Servo, which are both developing the browser engine from scratch mostly, while Flow seems to be based on Chromium. Is Flow doing anything different compared to the numerous other Chromium-based browsers? Genuinely curious.

New comment by atlintots in "Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign"

atlintots — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:11:54 +0000

I might be crazy, but this just feels like a marketing tactic from Anthropic to try and show that their AI can be used in the cybersecurity domain.

My question is, how on earth does does Claude Code even "infiltrate" databases or code from one account, based on prompts from a different account? What's more, it's doing this to what are likely enterprise customers ("large tech companies, financial institutions, ... and government agencies"). I'm sorry but I don't see this as some fancy AI cyberattack, this is a security failure on Anthropic's part and that too at a very basic level that should never have happened at a company of their caliber.

New comment by atlintots in "Time to start de-Appling"

atlintots — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:19:30 +0000

Neither are legitimate competitors to iCloud

New comment by atlintots in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

atlintots — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:44:00 +0000

> I asked if I could schedule the interview after my final exams

Ha, my interview for an Amazon internship was an hour after a 3-hour final exam :-)

But the job market right now is quite bad, and after hundreds upon hundreds of internship applications I would've been stupid to give up this chance. I would work for Amazon in a heart beat.

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:44:20 +0000

Those are provided by desktop shells rather than niri. For example Noctalia [0], or DankMaterialShell [1] which is build for niri specifically.

[0] https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell [1] https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:24:09 +0000

In my case I've found niri's workflow quite nice for these scratch windows, since every new window opens to the immediate left of the currently focused window, and doesn't affect the size or tiling of any other windows, they're just shifted to the right.

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:59:45 +0000

I'm not sure, but I doubt it. You could try PaperWM [0] inside Gnome to get a feel for the scrolling WM workflow, and see if it's worth switching to niri proper for you.

[0] https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:57:36 +0000

You can't go in "any" direction, the infinite strip has a fixed height and extends infinitely to the right, so you scroll left-right. Then you have workspaces which are up/down but they are like separate strips entirely.

Maybe the video of the overview on this page will help: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Overview

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:32:52 +0000

Re: app cycling, you might also be interested in https://github.com/isaksamsten/niriswitcher.

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:25:24 +0000

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. The infinite strip extends to the right, so you scroll left-right. Workspaces are up-down. If that's what you meant?

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:22:19 +0000

Very often it's not a choice, a lot of companies only let developers choose between Windows or MacOS laptops for work.

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:38:07 +0000

Yes, this feature had been in the works for quite a bit since it required non-trivial changes to do it "the right way". Very excited to see these changes merged finally!

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:33:58 +0000

Yes, please see this page: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Configuration:-Window-Ru...

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:04:52 +0000

That's true, you do end up with some windows hidden or partially visible. Niri is still tiling, though, so with proper management you can avoid making too much use of the infinite strip (though that would defeat the purpose of niri).

New comment by atlintots in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

atlintots — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:42:56 +0000

I don't use vicinae, but I just tried it out on niri and it seems to work! I might check it out, it looks interesting.