It's extremely concerning that the US military basically lost most of it's Middle East presence, had most of it effectively destroyed. We lost massive incredibly complex installations like our AN/FPS-132 radar complexes, huge powerful gigantic phased array systems, and various state of the art AN/TPY-2 and other radar. That basically seem to have been undefended. The TPY-2 could easily have been moved or hidden! Invaluable defense systems that we have absolutely no plans to protect. This is just the tip of the very expensive iceberg. We've basically lost various bases, entire THAAD systems: all similarly targeted and virtually undefended, destroyed. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us-mis...

And the "Department of War" (scoff, but I guess accurate if they are so utterly rankly incompetently unable at all to defend) lied and lied about the extent of the damage and the cost of human lives and casualties. There didn't seem to be any plan at all to protect these people. They were unequipped and not on alert, not warned at all, even as drones and missiles came and destroyed a dozen sites. Even the most milquetoast commentariat, Iraq war defender David French is still somewhat pissed about the endless bullshit and lies from the deny-it-all useless DoW. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/opinion/hegseth-iran-war-...

Department of War indeed. These incompetent losers seem to have not the smallest iota of understanding, not the least cares for what was coming at us. They had no defenses, no preparation. We faced incredible ruin. There's no plans, no idea what we do about any of this. We are in full retreat. It's unclear that we will have any presence left within thousands of miles. We can't even keep our planes in the UK, it's still not safe for us: the US military has essentially nowhere left on the continent it feels like it can leave it's equipment. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0929/iran-war-mi... https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2026/10/iran-b1-bombe... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/suspected-plot-at-u-s-run... https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-port-shuaiba-attack-sold...

This administration has been utterly unmoored from reality in every way. They've injured America at home and abroad, again and again, and lied and lied and lied all the time. The rank incompetence really is just the tip of it. The malicious disdain for basic rules of civilization and decency (SecDef No-Tab ordering war crime bombings of civilian vessels, perfidy, on and on). I hope there's a half-competent civilization left to mourn unhinged stupidity and malice these perpetrators against the world have done to us all so dirty. It's all such ultra-compressed stupidity. Absolutely psychotic delusional detached madness.

"Your anti-feature is not a feature" is a line I hold dear, but in this case I think it's pretty clearly demonstrated that this particular feature denies people use of their devices, denies people access, that it winnows and narrows what is possible. It's a clear and gross violation of RFC 8890 The Internet Is For End Users. It let's the far off big powers in the world set terms that we may or may not want to give them, that may or may not serve us. There's no win here to remote attestation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312

I'm less convinced than I had been (it felt like absolute ruin at the time), but EME allowing encrypted to play on the web, but turning the web browser into a cop that polices the user and what they can do was a huge turning point, is the one other clear precedent here for the web. TBL stepped in and just said: it is so, we are doing this, after much protest. I sort of am ok with it now but it felt terrible.

It feels much different when merely having an account might be tied to having a vendor approved browser running on a vendor approved computer. That sure seems like the stakes. Google Play Integratity is that prenicious threat against humanity, the anti-personal against the personal computer, and it's largely won against humanity, seized the power away from humanity. It sure feels like the stakes are severe as they come, for what relationships society is allowed to maintain with computing, whether we're allowed any access.

There is a fundamental psychotic disrespect for reality at stake here, an absolute demented hellish warped perverted disdain for truth and justice.

Strangely the anime Frieren seems to have the bullseye on what we see here, speaking of demons: "words to them are means to decieve humans". Heartless forsaken monsters, of absolutely zero integrity, against the entire enterprise of society, the lot of this all.

It's just not interesting, it doesn't seem to matter, they are are separate projects and both doing great. The inside baseball about old history doesn't feel like it goes anywhere, adds anything. It didn't the last 5 times opencode got submitted!

Mentioned this just the other day, the want for a term for this:

> mercy it's not even a fork. we don't even have a word for this! i'm juggling a bunch of patches atop opencode. sort of a fork. a running fork? https://bsky.app/profile/jauntywunderkind.bsky.social/post/3...

Another effort I couldn't have done without Astra. Even more so. All I did, the only reason I got cited, was because I'd asked Astra.

I tend to have ~20+ tabs open and each one has it's own tmux session inside of it, with multiple windows. I do think that making a terminal that can script and control multiple tmux sessions via control mode is, sort of, the longer destination ahead for me! That'll be exciting.

I chatted with Astra about this ask here: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ac42567-c404-83e8-b8fe-d29040f451...

I flip on and off using my own term-preserver toolkit, which let's me autoreconnect to servers (via ssh) and or tmux sessions automatically. https://tangled.org/jauntywunderkind.bsky.social/term-preser... . There's a variety of others like this, zmx, zmosh, https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx https://github.com/mmonad/zmosh

They said it out loud. It's not even remotely veiled. This sounds so glonzo, so whackadoodle. But these people are engaged in the active sabotage and destruction of the state, are afraid above all of things like "socialism" which just means "government". Doing things.

40 years since Reagan said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

It's designed for container running, but ArtifactFS has some similarity in principle to me. The on-demand materialization. Quote: ArtifactFS is a Git-backed filesystem daemon (FUSE driver) in Go that mounts repositories as normal working trees while avoiding eager blob downloads. https://github.com/cloudflare/artifact-fs

I threw together my own jujutsu powered FUSE subtree project just the other night. This was basically one-shotted, just to see how it does it, to learn more, not really intended for use. But obvious overlap. https://github.com/rektide/jj-workfuse

The client server architecture has been scaling better for me than v1, which is nice. The clients are often 400MB resident, with some mem pressure to keep them from just taking up extra space, but the server running lots and lots and lots of sessions under a GB or two is really nice.

I'm so sorry China. Best of luck to us all.

If we see at all. It's wild how under-reported these systems are. I keep hoping for some reports on say DSoftBus, the distributed iot / cross device bus in Harmony. But there's so little coverage. And getting access as a dve requires sending significant personal information to China.

I do hope this has a price point that makes it somewhat competitive with a Mac! Consumers have had nearly no choices available for mem capacity, and 20 channels of lpddr5 is one way to get that capacity! Go Intel!