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New comment by isityettime in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

isityettime — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:42:49 +0000

It already has a table of contents. The heading titled "why rootless containers stopped the escalation" is your tl;dr.

New comment by isityettime in "Why TUIs Are Back"

isityettime — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:07:31 +0000

Hey, thanks for the tip! I'll also give those a try.

Even if I end up liking virt-free like nono stuff for agents, I am trying to explore and learn about microVM options lately for other development purposes as well. This is a serendipitous recommendation for me. :D

New comment by isityettime in "Why TUIs are back"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:18:47 +0000

Try an external sandboxing tool. When you need to adjust the sandbox, close the agent, launch it with the new params, and resume the session. It doesn't take long to arrive at a stable configuration; for me it's mostly about rw access to the CWD, read access to other local repos, and access to Nix. Other than that I can just use YOLO modes and not sweat it.

I briefly evaluated a bunch (had an LLM make a list of those that satisfied some basic criteria, then visited READMEs and websites) and chose nono. No regrets: https://nono.sh/

New comment by isityettime in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:11:35 +0000

We should always care about our own subjectivity. If anything, subjectivity is too easy to discount in this day and age.

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:53:04 +0000

I use Claude at work. I've never instructed it to make a commit, and it's never attempted to make one. It would fail anyway because my commits are signed by Yubikey and it requires presence detection, so I have to tap it.

But I don't want it to make commits, and I don't want to review its code in the Claude Code TUI, either. I want to read its changes in my text editor, decide what to drop or revise or revert, and then stage individual hunks or regions into logical commits.

If anyone asks I'll tell them I used an LLM, idc. I often mention it in commit messages or PRs. But I don't want LLM agents to write commits at all.

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:48:12 +0000

> It takes a principled, die-hard attitude to use vscodium over vscode, or something else altogether, especially if you're a multi-talented dev.

Maybe in some areas this is true. But there are and long have been a lot of really good text editors in the world. All it takes is a pretty mild preference for free software in this case.

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:39:39 +0000

Maybe the engineer's LLM agent's summary of the GitHub LLM bot's review omitted that warning.

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:35:08 +0000

Why is it archaic? It's part of the same metaphor as "engine", which is still widely used.

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:32:39 +0000

Making good products was never Microsoft's MO. Even during the peak of the Nadella era, the good bits were side shows. Microsoft Office and Windows have always been things that succeed primarily via network effects/lock-in.

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:30:49 +0000

Most likely more a difference of venue. I saw lots of that on Slashdot. Less of it on Digg or Reddit. Virtually none of it here, but it seems to be making a resurgence in the form of "Macroslop" and related epithets

New comment by isityettime in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:27:16 +0000

A lot of people who think of themselves as able-bodied never think to poke around in the Accessibility sections of their settings menus. But it turns out that accessibility options are for everyone; people should really think of and evaluate them as first class tools more often

New comment by isityettime in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:16:59 +0000

Why do I remember learning about Minecraft way earlier than learning about Roblox?

New comment by isityettime in "The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious"

isityettime — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:10:26 +0000

I'd never read this passage but I've often had a similar thought, that maybe the benefit religion provides people is as a placeholder that saves you from subordinating your life to the wrong things. When devout people say "I really had to pray on it" about a big decision, it means at least that they spent some time asking about their real priorities and their duties, that kind of thing. If "nothing is more important than God", maybe that helps prevent people from making any one thing too important in their life— something that likely benefits them whether their god exists or not.

New comment by isityettime in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

isityettime — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:57:00 +0000

Yeah, it's like WSL. It starts just one VM and then your individual "machines" are LXC containers underneath. If you peek at the vendor-supplied file your NixOS OrbStack Machine includes you can see some of it.

They're constantly doing other optimizations in other ways, too. But that's the one you were pointing at, I think.

New comment by isityettime in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

isityettime — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:47:05 +0000

OrbStack is pretty good. I don't find it inefficient, really.