Left publication also has a scoop on the negotiations with Freedom caucus too that proceeded this; rather interesting: https://prospect.org/2026/04/17/mike-johnson-fisa-fiasco-sec...

America's greatest digital senator (by country miles) has also ongoingly been posting up a storm about how the current usage of FISA has more Bush era secret interpretations they won't tell us, that is authorizing them to spy broadly on Americans. One of many examples: https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3mjkquz34uc2a

And because of timings, my admittedly so-aonunderstanding that you can only get about 7m before you absolutely have to have a hub/repeater (unless you can speed up the speed of light considerably). This limit to how long a single length can be can't really be cheated without violating usb specs.

It's awesome if folks have packetized USB2. A pity it's not in the flipping spec though!!

That Corning made it 50m is wild. You need a virtual hub at the start that can pretend to be hubs 1-5 (so it's close enough to time well). Then a hub on the other side of the cable at (skinny) tree depth 6. Allowing for 4 devices under it (the number of ports on a usb2 hub in the spec. But you could work around by faking being not a skinny tree but a fat tree, maybe?).

Worth noting too that well respected vendors have been selling optical thunderbolt cables for a while now. I wonder if they are length limited for latency reasons (& hello hollow core fiber)? I wonder if they are usb3/multiprotocol, or if they are usb4 only. I also wonder how they handle the incredibly jank usb4 requirement to also have a separate legacy usb2. As a usb-c enjoyer, I can still admit: sure seems like USB is a lot of work to support! I can't help but wonder how blissfully simple a future CXL over cable stack might look by compare. https://www.owc.com/solutions/usb4-cables

Such a huge upgrade from the heavy thick 35 ft HDMI<->dvi cable I've used for so long.

Literally the only downside is figuring out how to roll it up, which I still haven't figured out how to do well with the 150ft cable I have.

It was astoundingly cheap too. I think the first one I got was under $60?! No one really knew the segment existed, they just needed to get some sales, I assume. I heard usb3 has been available but they've been bulky & expensive. Where-as the whole fiber optic cable seamlessly integrates the transceiver on mine. I like Cable Matters, they make some fine ones.

There's already 800Gb transceivers readily available, 1.6 is probably getting preview deploys to some hyperscalers & other early adopters as we speak.

The Folk Computer people have some incredible work they've been doing too, that's definitely worth looking at for anyone interested. Their intergation of a novel display technology is really sweet too, allowing for good visibility in a variety of conditions, which I love. https://folkcomputer.substack.com/ https://folk.computer/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241472 (165 points, 2 years ago, 53 comments)

The Folk Computer people have some incredible work they've been doing too, that's definitely worth looking at for anyone interested. Their intergation of a novel display technology is really sweet too, allowing for good visibility in a variety of conditions, which I love. https://folkcomputer.substack.com/ https://folk.computer/

Sure we can read the characters in the screen. But accessibility information is structured usually. TUI apps are going to be far less interesting & capable without accessibility built-in.

The zig wasm sounds so so good. I've enjoyed git on rust via gitoxide ( https://github.com/gitoxidelabs/gitoxide ) but haven't tried wasm yet. I rather expect gitoxide/rust would be bigger. The ability to really control memory like they talk of here seems like it could be a huge advantage for wasm inter-op across a SharedArrayBuffer (or like) holding the code too. Rust seems unlikely to be able to offer that.

The ArtifactFS fuse driver sounds wonderful. My LLM session to build an csi storage driver is already begun!

On another note, this gives me all kinds of feels:

> Inside Cloudflare, we’re using Artifacts for our internal agents: automatically persisting the current state of the filesystem and the session history in a per-session Artifacts repo.

On a personal level I find this amazing & incredible & I love it.

But reciprocally this feels like an incredibly difficult social change. To collect all the work, to collectivize the thought processes / thought making.

I am so enamoured with LLM programming. And I have so wanted engineering to better be able to externalize the tale of what happened, what did we do. But this also feels like there is no privacy, that this raw data is deeply deeply deeply personal.

I feel so so so good about this & so scared too. I want very much to work more in public, but I also want some refuse, some space of my own. We lost offices for cubicles, and now we lose the sanctity of our own screens too? I both want to share, so much, to have shared means of thinking, but via more consensual deliberate means, please.

Skydio for the ground, before they decided: who gives a fig about civilians, let's go make truckloads of .mil money.

Would love if anyone has thoughts or suggestions. It was quick and dirty, and works fine for my use, but I'm not sure where else I could take this, how else I might splice apart the problem, what else would suit it. https://tangled.org/jauntywk.bsky.social/picker-power

This judgement feels premature.

We really don't have any idea what is possible. The wheels within wheels, epicycles within epicycles model of agentic loops hasn't really been deeply explored and we just don't know where they might go.

I too share your instinct that human steering helps, helps a lot. But I've found I can keep using less of it, as I setup better parameters, as I improve conducing the LLM into good paths. The idea that an LLM could sit up top and help try not one idea at a time but try many things, then pick and cobble together next goes: that is madly madly madly exciting to me.

I don't want to keep being the bandwidth limiter in this system: I want to scale out. I haven't been following close or trying but I tend to think while total hands off is not the way, having LLMs that can cover a lot of terrain, explore a lot of solution spaces and directions, then assess how to put it together & what to take forward, and other practices of agents watching agents, has enormous potential.

Deliberate care relies on pre-obtained wisdom, and often, the human biases kind of suck and aren't they good. We aren't great at burning down our systems enough, at Chad Fowler Phoenix Architectures. I think the AI's lack of over deliberation and it's ability to try vastly more could be a huge advantage, could show diversity triumphing over specific crafted intent.

It's certainly been quite the turn recently. But being between the people and the governments that seemingly inevitably will turn into arch fascist pricks & go to war against the citizens is not an enviable position. Hopefully many jurisdictions start enacting laws that insist companies build unbreakable backdoorless crypto. Hopefully we see legislation that is the exact opposite of chat control mandatory backdoors. It's clear the legal firewalls are ephemeral, can crumble, given circumstances and time. We need a more resolute force to protect the people: we need the mathematicians/cryptographers!

And, does GitHub support it? (Follow up: alas not! Sadness. Please add!)

I feel like there's another component: that the consumer base has become so detached from making things in general. We are surrounded in ever more stuff, ever more material, but collectively are out of touch with making things, with material, and assemblage there-of.

Our culture's perspective is as critic, as shopper, as buyer. Sure few of us were expect shoemakers or backpack makers, but people around us were industrious, did provide labor to make goods that people around them bought. The cycle of production had been directly apparent.

This is low key one of the things I really had hope for for a while with 3d printers: that they opened up & exposed what is. That they would be a force to spread insight & to regard the little mechanisms and means of the world all around us. I think that's a little bit true, but it's pretty niche, and I expect most prints are for static parts; no movement or dynamic behavior. And it's somewhat the anti-process: crafter in a box. It's still amazing but barring major changes, I have over indexed.

It's also worth noting the role of DMCA anti-cirumvention laws in casting mankind out of ever coming to grasp with what makes up the world. The combined legal and technological destruction of any right to repair is really not just about repair: it's an obstruction to humans understanding the world around them. We cannot become savvy in the world when the government tells us that business's right to keep us from knowing the world outstrips any mankind-the-toolmaker / natural scientist role/title/god-bourne nature, that cutting us off from the universe & living in ignorance is a hard cast legal binding fact. I find this to be as fallen as it comes. How do we stay alive as the race we were when our laws unwind the fantastic graces of inquiry the gods saw fit to give us?

Let the LLM work in code mode. Don't make it have to be the execution engine too. It can do it but it's slow and giving it tools script what it wants will go far better.

I do think there's an interesting possibility where we turn MCP into something composable. Capnproto has promise pipelining where you can issue new instructions with results you don't have yet. If MCP could copy those tricks, & express promises... and those promises worked across MCP servers ("third party handoff", https://github.com/capnproto/go-capnp/issues/597)... you'd start to have something as compellingly composable as the shell.

And the spectrum has a chunk of bandwidth, just for DECT! That's used less and less. That this new modern protocol can use! Neat.

I haven't bought it but I do keep thinking I might try getting an nRF9161 devkit or whatnot that has support for for dect-nr+. I want to build a wireless mouse with it.

I'm here because I just don't see what the problem is, and I think people should be allowed to make choices that work for and help them, and I feel like if we are going to start trying to controls people's lives or make character judgements against them there better be real harms real dangers, real reason.

> can merely do the same things off the drug if they decided to put forth the effort

Except their body is responding totally different, sending them totally different messages. Very unpleasant awful messages, for some people! Some people feel hunger very differently, and their challenge is very different than maybe you or I's.

> Taking these drugs, to me, amounts to a sort of tacit acceptance that one lacks any free will entirely.

I see it as taking control and making a decision. That is freedom to me.

(I see what you are doing as shattering free will and respect, as needlessly forming and broadcasting harmful dangerous rude control over other people.)

> And where does that line in the sand stop? Do we accept this, lean into hedonism to satisfy dopamine cravings, or do we try and have some agency over some of our actions in our waking life?

I'm all for control. But I think this is a ridiculous viewpoint to hold against people, to begrudge them this as the sliding scale, as some core thing which must hold, which you must do by yourself without help or aid. It doesn't add up to me. There's a lot of dangers with lack of agency, we are in strong agreement on that! But to let your fears and uncertainties grip you into making arbitrary lines that have to apply to everyone, making this broad judgement calls, that demonize and that deny people their will? Yeah, count me out.

FUD must always be wielded with caution, most of all with what judgements we let form within ourselves.

We are a couple years into a brand new capability opening up, to our options before us being bigger and wider than they were. To having more control and options than ever. It's just so wild to me how people can look at this, and go, oh no! Bad! Options! Yes, there will be some downsides! That usually seems inevitable. But my opinion is that conservatism usually makes things far worse with their aversions and judgementalisms, with the politics of fear, that takes root and propogates fear, makes it arise out of endless nothingburgers.

This is so so young a possibility, and we should at least have a couple decades of maybe, possibly, let's see, before we descend into harshly judging what is still at this point such a strong unknown. Especially for an unknown that has helped so many take back control over their lives.