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New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:40:28 +0000

A lot of what else Stephen Diehl has published lately is more overtly slop, so it's a pretty safe bet.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Iroh 1.0"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:29:14 +0000

The paid component in question here is not necessary to use Iroh, though. You can have elaborate Iroh-based projects entirely based on the OSS components without losing features and without paying anything. There are public relays and self-hosted relays, anything else is the concern of your application(s).

As for anything being a "goal"? They do have dev salaries to pay and they offer managed control planes with SLAs or consultations with the core devs to accomplish that.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Iroh 1.0"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:57:16 +0000

Not affiliated, just a happy dev.

Nothing about Iroh usage as operator or end-user entails billable metering of keys, clients, QUIC endpoints, bytes transferred etc and to be honest you could deploy pretty extensive Iroh-based software without ever having a financial relationship with number0.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Iroh 1.0"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:41:28 +0000

Iroh is free-to-use, permissively licensed, relays are self-hostable, and it's all fully open source for all necessary components. The only proprietary thing n0 visibly has is a managed platform for private relays with SLAs and observability. Which is IMO a bog-standard business model, it's not open-core nonsense. T There's no billable metering of users, bytes, QUIC endpoints, etc.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Iroh 1.0"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:32:49 +0000

Relays can't observe the contents of traffic per the design, but if censorship was possible and meaningful based on the tuples of the paired connection endpoints, I guess? The public number0 relays are (honor-system) running the open source relay code that can be inspected for such behavior.

With the relay daemon being self-hostable and OSS any use-case that needs to be more censorship-resistant than that has the option to run their own relays as needed.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Iroh 1.0"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:26:43 +0000

Presumably this has significant literal costs (because Cisco) and maybe a hardware or virtual-appliance requirement?

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Iroh 1.0"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:21:57 +0000

That is a pluggable/possible, but non-default, configuration.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "We're Not Building AI Features for the Money"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:31:36 +0000

I'm a heavily skeptical reader on the topic but I didn't really see anything more than "here's a couple ways that we find the tech useful". It didn't feel like much of an actual refutation of the commentary that the post was ostensibly written in response to.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:36:40 +0000

"The gangsters do it and get away with it so any random person should get to as well"? Not a particularly defensible position if that's an accurate paraphrase.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware"

mtndew4brkfst — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:27:54 +0000

What is the specific concrete purpose of downloading millions of URLs per hour across different domains if it's "not doing anything wrong"?

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:35:45 +0000

If Slint's licensing terms don't bother you, that's cool. They are more restrictive than most of the Rust ecosystem being dual Apache/MIT, though.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:54:50 +0000

Was there some new developments with this project that renewed interest recently? I started learning Rust in 2018 or 2019 and I think "good Rust GUI" research is probably at least that old.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

mtndew4brkfst — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:41:35 +0000

Why would it be more spooky if Apple in particular did this vs all the other hardware vendors that ship a pre-installed OS?

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "How to periodically sync a Git repository with its remote"

mtndew4brkfst — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:10:49 +0000

Doesn't serve the same purpose as OP, but for the opposite direction, `git maintenance register` is a built in if all you need is periodic fetching and GC:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance#Documentation/git-m...

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:03:19 +0000

It's feeding it to a remote endpoint:

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/blob/5f279584f4f6532871a74d...

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:58:59 +0000

Small nit, but PR description bodies might wind up as part of a commit message verbatim, depending on repo settings and the merger's personal behavior. It's an easy outcome, the merger doesn't need to copy and paste or anything, and I think it might be a default or popular setting for squash-merges.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

mtndew4brkfst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:06:53 +0000

It has once even force pushed to github, which doesn't allow branch protection for private personal projects.

This is only restricted for *fully free* accounts, but this feature only requires a minimum of a paid Pro account. That starts around $4 USD/month, which sounds worth it to prevent lost work from a runaway tool.

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "A Message from the Ruby Central Board"

mtndew4brkfst — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:19:21 +0000

Colorful is an odd way to spell "vocally bigoted".

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:29:49 +0000

The amount of questions I fielded about web3, coins, ledgers, etc as an IC speaking with customers or internal leadership was around an order of magnitude lower, and well-known brands weren't trying to sell me any of them. It was much rarer for it to get shoved into a product it wasn't helpful for, too.

Never thought I'd feel nostalgic about that era...

New comment by mtndew4brkfst in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mtndew4brkfst — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:24:51 +0000

Not limited to here, of course. Net-new publications to ArXiv for some (most?) CS subcategories are >=90% about models, transformers, training, quantization, or some other directly related field, or how to apply these towards a different specialty.