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Rust 1.97.0

milliams — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:26:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/09/Rust-1.97.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845458

Points: 24

# Comments: 0

New comment by milliams in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

milliams — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:58:55 +0000

The main blocker I have for moving is the poor session management. On X11 for decades I've been able to log out of my KDE session and when I log in again, all my Konsole windows re-open with the tabs open in the same folders, Dolphin opens with all the tabs open to the same locations etc.

I think they recently added support at the KWin level for reopening windows to the right desktops etc but as far as each individual apps, it seems to be up to them individually to get this working again. I would have thought that at least for the KDE apps, they could just have a compatibility layer from the X11 session management to make it work but it doesn't seem there yet.

New comment by milliams in "London's Smallest Public Sculptures"

milliams — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:11:31 +0000

I just had to stop reading for this reason.

New comment by milliams in "(Social) media manipulation in one image"

milliams — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:40:24 +0000

The problem is that everyone dies some day so there's never going to be equality between causes of death and reporting rates. You might expect some correlation between preventable causes and reporting, and in-part that's what's being seen here.

New comment by milliams in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""

milliams — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:40:27 +0000

It bothers me that it's not even a "AI web browser", but an "AI browser". I don't want to browse "AI", I want access to the web.

New comment by milliams in "Using Python for Scripting"

milliams — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:49:02 +0000

https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/, e.g.:

  # /// script
  # requires-python = ">=3.11"
  # dependencies = [
  #   "requests<3",
  #   "rich",
  # ]
  # ///
  
  import requests
  from rich.pretty import pprint
  
  resp = requests.get("https://peps.python.org/api/peps.json")
  data = resp.json()
  pprint([(k, v["title"]) for k, v in data.items()][:10])

New comment by milliams in "UniFi 5G"

milliams — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:42:34 +0000

Small aside, AVM have now formally rebranded as "FRITZ!"

New comment by milliams in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

milliams — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:33:04 +0000

  [lints.clippy]
  dbg_macro = "deny"
  unwrap_used = "deny"
  expect_used = "deny"

New comment by milliams in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

milliams — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:56:02 +0000

https://www.theverge.com/tech/814928/ikea-matter-thread-diri... has some quotes from IKEA saying that they're using Thread. It's strange they didn't say in this release though.

New comment by milliams in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

milliams — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:11:12 +0000

Likewise I noticed that Konsole was version 23.08. I've just submitted a PR (https://github.com/jquast/ucs-detect/pull/14) to update it to 25.08.

New comment by milliams in "I built my own CityMapper"

milliams — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:43:23 +0000

Why are the table and the description of the RAPTOR algorithm in the article images rather than text?

Closure Captures

milliams — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://andwass.github.io/rust/2025/10/23/closure-captures.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772619

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by milliams in "From VS Code to Helix"

milliams — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:00:40 +0000

I'd also argue that VS Code is not open source - at least not the version that 98% of people run. If you download VS Code from almost anywhere (and are not using Codium) then you are subject to the licence terms at https://code.visualstudio.com/license which says you may not:

- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software except and solely to the extent required by third party licensing terms governing use of certain open source components that may be included in the software;

- remove, minimize, block or modify any notices of Microsoft or its suppliers in the software;

- use the software in any way that is against the law;

- share, publish, rent or lease the software, or provide the software as a stand-alone offering for others to use.

New comment by milliams in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)"

milliams — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:54:55 +0000

KDevelop's semantic highlighting where each variable was given its own colour was always the one I found most useful. It made tracking the meaning of some code much easier than just highlighting by token category.

Photographic Revision vs. Reality

milliams — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:10:26 +0000

Article URL: https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1079-Photographic-Revision-vs-Reality.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492261

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by milliams in "Gem.coop"

milliams — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:09:18 +0000

Based on the comments getting downvoted, it feels like some brigading going on.

Winning a bet about "six", the Python 2 compatibility shim

milliams — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:47:22 +0000

Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-bet-about-six-the-python-2-compatibility-shim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439943

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by milliams in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"

milliams — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:31:13 +0000

  >- Immediately restore access to all maintainers removed during this incident. […]

  Markdown bullet points in a place with no markdown support.

Markdown quote markers in a place with no markdown support.

New comment by milliams in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"

milliams — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:04:00 +0000

Based on the OP, the initial changes were made 10 days ago - more than enough time to communicate something publicly.

New comment by milliams in "Substack just killed the creator economy"

milliams — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:10:52 +0000

"their creator economy", not "the creator economy".