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New comment by b5n in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

b5n — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:51:36 +0000

  strict_ignore() {
    [[ -n "$1" ]] || exit 1
    local repo="${1%/}/"
    local ignore
    ignore=$(find "$repo" -path "$repo".git -prune -o -print \
               | sed "s|$repo||g; /^$/d" \
               | awk '{print "!"$0}' \
               | sort)
    printf "*\n%s\n" "$ignore"
  }

New comment by b5n in "Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents"

b5n — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:41:21 +0000

> no one actually does read these scripts

I do.

New comment by b5n in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

b5n — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:13:16 +0000

Until the incoming administration declares that safely storing nuclear waste is woke and allows their close friends or maybe even their own companies to just dump it in a desert at a premium because the bible never mentions the associated hazards.

Or it says facility inspections cause autism and transgenderism so they have to deregulate for their pals.

Or that nuclear safety itself is a symptom of low testosterone and turns the frogs gay.

...

New comment by b5n in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

b5n — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:05:47 +0000

Most of these links weaken your claim rather than support it. The lkml links are patch submissions in a _development_ discussion, not ordinary users running a stable distro. The f2fs bugzilla links are the same issue we already discussed, a regression in the brand-new 6.9 kernel released only days earlier, with the fix landing in 6.9.3. The suse bug is an upstream e2fsprogs issue. This is precisely the kind of issue distro package maintainers can catch, patch, or avoid before it reaches ordinary users on a stable release. The launchpad link is another development discussion, not an example of ordinary users experiencing a bug in a stable release.

Linux does experience regressions, but your argument conflates upstream development, bleeding edge releases, and stable distro releases. Those distinctions are fundamental to how linux distributions work, and these links don't support the claim you're making.

New comment by b5n in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

b5n — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:02:41 +0000

This supports my initial reply. This was an f2fs bug in a bleeding edge kernel released only seven days earlier. The thread suggests perfectly reasonable mitigations, especially for an arch user: use the lts kernel or downgrade to 6.8.9.

If you're not familiar with linux and/or don't want to deal with trivial issues periodically, don't hang out at the bleeding edge. There are plenty of boring and/or beginner friendly choices out there.

I'm not saying linux is perfect, but your conclusions in this instance appear to be uninformed rather than supported by the facts.

New comment by b5n in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

b5n — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:35:57 +0000

Why have you linked a bug report for a niche userland application that may be causing disk corruption as evidence against linux reliability? That seems like a pretty uninformed conclusion.

New comment by b5n in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

b5n — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:24:09 +0000

*100k per month

New comment by b5n in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

b5n — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:11:26 +0000

While I don't disagree with some of the pain you describe, you conveniently gloss over the fact that gnu developed a system that worked, and then made it free to everyone to consult and use.

New comment by b5n in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

b5n — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:50:28 +0000

The most pleasant is the one you're most familiar with. I still use gas with at&t syntax.

New comment by b5n in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

b5n — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:05 +0000

How dare those nasty, dirty, unemployed live their lives under likely desperate circumstance. They are so much worse than corrupt oligarchs pumping and dumping their way into the greed hall of fame.

New comment by b5n in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

b5n — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:16:09 +0000

Why even use `emacs` if you're not willing to learn the basics? There are plenty of alternatives that cater to that preference.

New comment by b5n in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

b5n — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:08:56 +0000

These are all trivial to implement?

`treesitter` grammars _are_ easy to install.

`eglot` is available OOTB, `lsp-mode` is easy to install and configure if you prefer.

`gptel` is easy to install and configure.

New comment by b5n in "Put the zip code first"

b5n — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:09:34 +0000

All the extra steps serve as some type of verification + data collection.

The devs know how to make the experience better, but they get paid to implement some mbas mining scheme.

The future is ok but mostly sucks.

New comment by b5n in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

b5n — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:19:14 +0000

New comment by b5n in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

b5n — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:16:36 +0000

`use-package` has pretty much simplified everything:

  ;; c
  (use-package c-mode
    :ensure nil
    :defer t
    :mode "\\.cu?\\'"
    :config (setq c-default-style "gnu"
                  c-basic-offset 2)
    :hook ((c-mode . lsp)
           (c-mode . bmacs-ide)))

New comment by b5n in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

b5n — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:37:20 +0000

There's a bit more nuance here than 'basic errors', and modern c compilers offer a lot of options _if you need to use them_.

I appreciate that there are guardrails in a tool like rust, I also appreciate that sharp tools like c exist, they both have advantages.

New comment by b5n in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

b5n — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:04:38 +0000

> -Wconversion ... assumes converting 1000.0 to 1000 is ok due to no loss in precision.

Additionally, `clang-tidy` catches this via `bugprone-narrowing-conversions` and your linter will alert if properly configured.

New comment by b5n in "Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs"

b5n — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:39:16 +0000

`gptel` supports perplexity, among many others.

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

New comment by b5n in "How to add a directory to your PATH"

b5n — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:32:30 +0000

    (use-package exec-path-from-shell
      :demand t
      :config
      (exec-path-from-shell-initialize)
      (exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "PATH"))

New comment by b5n in "Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion"

b5n — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:29:53 +0000

Emacs has had multiple llm integration packages available for quite awhile (relative to the rise of llms). `gptel` supports multiple providers including anthropic, openai, ollama, etc.

https://github.com/karthink/gptel