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New comment by rererereferred in "Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt"

rererereferred — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:32:48 +0000

So the Emacs OS has a terminal? This means I can finally run vim in it.

New comment by rererereferred in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

rererereferred — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:25:06 +0000

I've gotten phishing domains taken down by going to their registrar and filling a support ticket.

New comment by rererereferred in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

rererereferred — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:52 +0000

Companies shouldn't be allowed to grow so big that they can manipulate laws as they want.

New comment by rererereferred in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

rererereferred — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:04:50 +0000

>40M$ button

You just reminded me of this old internet horror story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h-cAbOyRXc

New comment by rererereferred in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

rererereferred — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:48:11 +0000

The actual JS code is in the same ballpark as nodejs. They get fast by specializing to each platform's fastest APIs instead of using generic ones, reimplementing JS libraries in Zig (for example npm or jest) and using faster libraries (for example they use the oniguruma regex engine). Also you don't need an extra transpiling step when using TypeScript.

New comment by rererereferred in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

rererereferred — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:07:23 +0000

I was a Windows modding enthusiast until I tried Linux and the modding there was superior (and then compiz appeared).

These days whenever I use Windows I install bash and use a terminal so I don't really care about the window management, other than maximizing windows.

New comment by rererereferred in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

rererereferred — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:42:55 +0000

There is so many xkcd things, I didn't know which it would be.

New comment by rererereferred in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

rererereferred — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:24:38 +0000

Because of the vowel following consonants, my mind splits that word into these syllables: Ea-cho-ther, so not as natural as those other words. Then again, it's English, the only rule is there's no rules.

New comment by rererereferred in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

rererereferred — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:52:03 +0000

I mean, the reason we use grammarly is because we recognize we have a skill issue.

New comment by rererereferred in "Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed"

rererereferred — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:29:37 +0000

No shame in waiting for 1.0. Specially if you want to read docs rather than the code itself.

New comment by rererereferred in "My Experience Using OpenClaw: A Security Professional's Journey"

rererereferred — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:52:37 +0000

How do I know this article isn't AI astroturfing AI?

New comment by rererereferred in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

rererereferred — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:50:03 +0000

I think projects should start adding an llms.txt file stating how they can/can't contribute to the project.

New comment by rererereferred in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

rererereferred — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:35:43 +0000

MSPaint already added AI. I had to switch to Paint.net for doing small edits.

New comment by rererereferred in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

rererereferred — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:27:12 +0000

I feel his actual subtext underneath is "We need to do something useful with AI... because I invested in it". And he also goes on saying that calling it slop is bad for society. No, it's bad for the billionaires that invested in it.

New comment by rererereferred in "“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders"

rererereferred — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:41:24 +0000

The extreme version of this is the game Nier where they completely replaced the protagonist. The Japanese version had a kid trying to save his sister while the western version had a old man trying to save his daughter.

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

rererereferred — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:59:12 +0000

Can we make it good-enough? And not by adding features to it but by making websites that don't need them? I'd rather browse the kind of web that browsers like Dillo and Ladybird can browse.

New comment by rererereferred in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

rererereferred — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:52:56 +0000

There are games I play were one of the players' machines becomes the server. In some it's transparent to them, you just join their world or lobby, in others it's explicit and you even have to input the host's IP to enter.

Standalone servers you need to run separately and care for are much more rare.

New comment by rererereferred in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

rererereferred — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:30:44 +0000

It will be less controlversial than the standard library changes that are coming in the future.

New comment by rererereferred in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

rererereferred — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:11:55 +0000

Codeberg will use the forgejo fork that keeps being free, I guess.

New comment by rererereferred in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

rererereferred — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:59:24 +0000

I thought the same but from another perspective, it's better to explain things in a language you dominate and let others translate it to theirs, which might be a good or bad translation; than translate it yourself to a language you don't dominate and the others always get a bad translation. At least in the first case new people can come with better translations.

This is all assuming translation tools always translate things wrong, which they do when it comes to programming terms.