They’re not awesome when your workflow revolves around the command line and you’re stuck choosing between wasting days trying to layer your configuration on top of the project devcontainer or giving up and using the unconfigured bash shell included.

The Darwin kernel is based on BSD… sort of. It’s a monstrosity hybridization of an ancient version of BSD and the Mach kernel.

You should do dev work in devcontainers anyway.

Devcontainers work for Visual Studio Code when developers are more than happy to click their way through running builds and debugging problems. But, as someone whose workflow is optimized for the command-line, they can fuck off.

It’s the same for me.

I don’t care if somebody uses Claude or Copilot if they take ownership and responsibility over the code it generates. If they ask AI to add a feature and it creates code that doesn’t fit within the project guidelines, that’s fine as long as they actually clean it up.

I’m more concerned with the admitted OpenClaw usage. That’s a hydrogen bomb heading straight for a fireworks factory.

This is the problem I have with it too. Using something that vulnerable to prompt injection to not only write code but commit it as well shows a complete lack of care for bare minimum security practices.

Me too. I thought I was safe as a Ottoman Empire expatriate living in Arrakis! I don’t want LLMs to connect this account to my pseudonymous mommy blog where I write about my three children who might exist but could be delusions of my untreated schizophrenia.

I did say before the memory crisis. It’s not a bad deal now comparatively with everything else being overpriced, but that doesn’t change the fact that Apple hardware is itself overpriced.

isn’t expensive

Bullshit. Upgrading from 1 TB of internal storage to 2 TB on a laptop is not a $250 expense. Before the memory crisis, I could have bought a brand new M.2 SSD with the full 2 TB for less than that.

If people don’t push back on this, you might not even be able to do it the way you choose even with a laptop. Unless you choose Windows… or Ubuntu maybe.

No, it is bad.

Suppose it’s used to verify your age when visiting Pornhub. How is Pornhub going to trust the user’s computer didn’t lie about the user’s age? A “just trust me bro” sent by the browser isn’t going to suffice; teenagers would find a way around that.

Thr attestation will have to be cryptographically signed by some trusted party—and that’s either going to be the government, or the operating system vendor.

If it’s the government holding the signing keys: the website can now verify that you’re a resident of $state in $country and use that for fingerprinting and targeted advertising. And what if your country doesn’t participate, or if Pornhub doesn’t trust the signing keys used by the government of Estonia? Tough shit, no porn for you! It would be impractical to manage all those keys, though, so why not instead leave it up to the operating system vendor?

If it is left the operating system vendor, it’s going to end up being exactly the same as Google Play Service’s SafetyNet “feature”. If you’re not using an approved operating system (a.k.a. Windows, MacOS, stock Android, iOS) you’re not visiting Pornhub. Or a banking app. Or applying for jobs. Etc.

This bill is a poison pill for device ownership and FOSS operating systems being handed to corporations on a silver platter.

I disagree. This is a first step towards something far worse.

It sets up the infrastructure for getting user ages and allowing services and websites to get an attestation from the operating system. Once that system is widely used and becomes ingrained, they can create a follow-up bill that demands the attestation be cryptographically verifiable by a trusted party.

In that scenario, the only way the operating system’s promise that you’re not a minor would be trusted is if it was signed by whoever holds the private keys—and that’s definitely not going to be you, the device owner.

It would either be the government, or more likely, the operating system vendor. In the former case, now services can cryptographically prove that you’re a resident of $state in $country, which is amazing for fingerprinting and terrible for anonymity. In the latter case, you can guarantee that only the corporations will be holding the key (like with Microsoft and secure boot), and you can kiss goodbye to your ability to access services on FOSS operating systems like Linux or custom Android ROMs.

This proposal is just a way to get their foot in the door with something palatable. If you’ve ever come across banking apps on Android using Google Play Services’ SafetyNet feature to restrict access to only “secure” devices, you’ll know exactly how this turns out: either you use the phone you own the “approved” way with a stock ROM where Google has more permissions than you do, or you’re not doing your banking on your phone.

It’s like Secure Boot but actually, 100% useless.

And the client, too.

Apparently they don’t store contact info.

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-as-the-world-moves-forward/

“Conservatism has exactly one proposition, to wit: there is an in-group group in which the law protects but does not bind, and there is an out-group in which the law binds but does not protect.”

I’m sure I didn’t quote that properly, but you get the point.

When viewing reality through the lens of life being zero-sum, if one is not policing others, they are being policed. Add xenophobia and fear of others who are noncomforming and you end up with someone who feels the need to judge everyone around them.

Because they think they’re hot shit and have an ego the size of Jupiter. In their mind, they’re the catch and someone would have to be a (insert slur) to turn down such a gracious offer from the world’s most attractive “alpha male”.

Why days worth of farming? To help give the player a sense of “pride and accomplishment” of course.

No need to swap lol

A flake-based configuration: [am I a joke to you]

htop, ytop, and ranger (or something similar).

And just based on the info those show, the computer is a ThinkPad with some 4-core, non-SMT Intel CPU and 8 GB of memory with 512 MB of that reserved for the integrated GPU.

It wouldn’t even work on paper. All it would take to twist this into something dystopian is requiring cryptogtaphic attestation for the age range, and knowing lawmakers, they would justify it as a countermeasure for kids lying about their age. Expand the feature as a web API so websites can use the “easier” and “more secure” system-level age verification process and—oh look, now we can’t use important websites without a commercial operating system.

It would be like Secure Boot but worse. At least with that you can turn it off or enroll your own keys.

The blogger in question doxxed the owner/maintainer of Archive.today who in return doxxed the blogger.

Did you actually read the two articles posted by the blogger? The archive.today owner wasn’t doxxed. No personally identifying information was provided; it only aggregates already-known info including a couple of fake aliases. The most it concludes is that the guy is Russian or operating out of Russia.

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/