On top of using scriptio continua, you can write your emails in ancient Greek for that truly authentic feeling.

George: To cover my nervousness I started eating an apple, because I think if they hear you chewing on the other end of the phone, it makes you sound casual.

Jerry: Yeah, like a farm boy.

I'm reminded of an episode of Yes Minister with an empty hospital. The hospital has a full complement of administrative staff but no physicians or patients.

Here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyf97LAjjcY

More or less, delegation and peer review.

This is a really pragmatic approach.

Your errors-over-time chart feels pretty accurate to me. The yellow warnings line really sneaks up on you over time.

iSH is great as an ssh client. It has a good font out of the box, so it displays tmux and neovim properly.

a-Shell should be faster than iSH for local stuff since the tools are compiled natively, but nothing on iOS, as far as I know, compares to Termux on Android.

a-Shell looks amazing, thanks for mentioning it

I used to use “stare” or “stale” as the starting guess when I played Wordle, thinking you’d want to start off with the most common letters, like R-S-T-L-N-E from Wheel of Fortune.

"stale" was used a while back - since then I've been starting with "slate"

But now you can use it again!

Skirt too short, in other words?

I'm going to place the blame on the party committing the crimes, not the person exercising free expression.

IMO the ethical response should be positive disengagement with entities with which you disagree, instead of negative engagement.

See something in the release notes of an app you don’t like? Go use a different app, give your money to a different entity. Don’t spend your time and resources messing with the producer or user of the thing you don’t like.

This of course runs the risk of maximal polarization once everyone has filtered themselves into their neat and tidy little bubbles. What happens then, everybody leaves each other alone? Or do the echo chambers slide into further radicalized detachment from each other?

I mean it depends what it is. If someone is talking about master races in patch notes I think that can be met with negative engagement. Splitting along an ideology binary can definitely lead to further entrenchment and possible radicalization. I think the danger there though is the binary choice itself. You of course have edge cases where it is a binary, but I think having people with more complex attitudes and opinions can only be a boon to cooperation and progress.

To get back on topic though, I think conflating using Y app with holding X position on a topic like politics is a dangerous road. Which is where I think having a dedicated space for those politics makes more sense. Whether that's a blog, twitter, etc. It allows those most dedicated to you to know you better without making the product or program a political stance. But the developer is ultimately free to do what they want. So it's not like anyone here can tell the developer to change in any way.

What a bad take. Not every political statement is morally equivalent nor worthy of the same respect. Supporting self-determination of people is not the same as supporting oppression of people - for example.

So the free expression is considered by everyone according to their own ethical and moral values.

I'm not sure you realize but you're agreeing with my statement. So it's a bit odd that you call it a bad take.

Then the 2 of you probably just disagree on what constitutes socially acceptable free expression.

> My opinion is that open source documentation is like polite dinner conversation: It’s not the proper place to discuss politics.

I know this is a common turn of phrase, but I can not help thinking that if the political conversation is impolite it is because some in the conversation is being impolite not due to the topic itself.

Other take is … which is cool feature of OSS … you don’t have to use projects that do political statements.

That’s true. My point was intended to be from the author perspective, rather than from the user perspective. Namely that an author using an open source project as a political platform can potentially put the project at risk. Rightly or wrongly, that’s the world we live in. So it’s a trade-off the author has to decide, one way or the other. I’d personally prioritise the project over the political. But the Notepad++ author is free to use their project how they like. It’s theirs, after all.

That is a position of privilege.

You can ignore politics, but at certain point, politics cease to ignore you.

This is a very head in the sand approach to life that only those who are entitled may partake in. Reality is that most cannot live in ignorance of what is happening around them because it is also happening to them. Obviously not everything needs to remind you of stressful reality, but we also shouldn't avoid reality just because we are privileged enough to do so.

His code, his rules.

I'm a big fan of SuperDuper [1]. I use it for daily differential backups to a secondary SSD. I don't get the hourly backups that TimeMachine has, but my SuperDuper backups are directly bootable in the event that my system disk dies.

I'm sure you could do the same with cron and rsync, but I can't be bothered.

[1] https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.ht...

This has been on my to-buy list for a while. Something I should probably do, because while recovery from the built-in recovery interface is fine, having an offline bootable backup is also great. It also doesn't interfere with having Time Machine be the "standard" backup.

I could probably setup a calendar appointment to dump a bootable image once a month to an external disk.

You can just use the UI to make whatever schedule you want (monthly, daily, every Monday, etc.). I think it edits your crontab behind the scenes. I set it to daily, but you could set whatever you want. You can even have multiple schedule entries, similar to cron.

Edit: Yeah, the bootable backups have saved me more than once. It's great to just be able to keep working even when the system disk is kaput.

> I don't get the hourly backups that TimeMachine has, but my SuperDuper backups are directly bootable in the event that my system disk dies.

Well as long as Apple hasn’t broken that with an update: https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/youre_...

Could you use an approach like this much like a traditional network proxy, to block or sanitise some requests?

E.g. if a request contains confidential information (whatever you define that to be), then block it?

I do kinda the opposite where I run my AI in a sandbox. it sends dummy tokens to APIs. the proxy then injects the real creds. so, the AI never has access to creds.

https://clauderon.com/ -- not really ready for others to use it though

Forgot to mention: It’s a neat tool. Well done.

Thank you, what I was thinking was more along the lines of optimizing how you use your context window. So that the LLM can actually access what it needs to, like a incredibly powerful compact that runs in the background with your file system working as a long term memory... Still thinking how to make it work, so I am super open to ideas.