darthwalsh (u/darthwalsh)

darthwalsh commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus

keyringlight · 12 days ago

What stands out to me is that winget has the appearance and is often perceived as a package manager, yet it's more of a CLI front end to an index, and that index seems to either point to the windows store or a URL to download a regular setup file which it'll run silently (adobe acrobat is the example that springs to mind).

darthwalsh · 12 days ago

Is that any different than chocolatey, scoop, or homebrew casks?

darthwalsh commented on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project · Posted by u/marcjschmidt

marcjschmidt · 19 days ago

Right, but I think this case is interesting for the developer community as it targets specifically open-source use-cases, where you usually have neither extensive user per-country data, nor would you usually care about tracking, or have commercial offerings. This essentially means that you either cannot protect your open-source project name or have always to keep in mind to collect user per-country data, otherwise you risk getting deleted.

darthwalsh · 19 days ago

Is there no privacy-preserving per-country analytics library? No need to store IP Addresses!

darthwalsh commented on Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard github.com/lunchbox-compu... · Posted by u/MichaelThatsIt

sxp · 2 months ago

> Primarily out of frustration. The dominant players in XR keep promoting their hardware as “computers”, when really they’re an iPad for your face. The most you can do is browse the web, play games, and consume content. They’re overweight and over constrained.

I'm a fan of HMD programming in general so I love this project. But it should be noted that AOSP-based XR headsets can run pseudo Linux environments via termux + X: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/fc5sfr/oculus_qu...

Also if anyone is looking for a full-sized portable keyboard, I suggest https://www.protoarc.com/products/xk01-tri-fold-bluetooth-ke... which is my primary keyboard when I'm working remotely on my tablet. It is "pocket-sized" for certain definitions of "pocket".

darthwalsh · 2 months ago

> termux

I was excited about termux until about 3 years ago, when I saw that the app needed to be compiled against an ancient Android API version. Google seems indifferent to bricking this project... Today it's still breaking Fdroid updates:

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/4120#issuecommen...

darthwalsh commented on Working on databases from prison turso.tech/blog/working-o... · Posted by u/dvektor

lo_zamoyski · 3 months ago

Absolutely. But this is a separate question.

darthwalsh · 3 months ago

No, it's related. In programming, the only employment options are working for a government, for some corporation, or trying to sell directly to individuals?

Somebody who had worked for a recognizable tech company is far more hireable than somebody who is Self Employed or who has worked for the government.

darthwalsh commented on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine cnn.com/2025/05/30/busine... · Posted by u/lwo32k

coffeefirst · 3 months ago

You know what I want? A LM that navigates customer support phone trees for me.

If you want to waste my time with an automated nonsense we should at least even the playing field.

This is feasible with today’s technology.

darthwalsh · 3 months ago

Sounds like Google Duplex, but I guess they never expanded the tech beyond restaurant reservations.

But on my Pixel now, on some phone trees it shows a UI with numbers and choices, and even predicts ahead for the other choices so you aren't forced to wait. Very handy!

darthwalsh commented on Leaving Google airs.com/blog/archives/67... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

xiphias2 · 4 months ago

Sure, as they say in Google, for technologies you always have two options: the new which is experimental and not yet supported and the old that is depreciated because there will be a new coming anyways.

darthwalsh · 4 months ago

When I was there the saying was that "V2 isn't ready yet and V1 n't as deprecated"

It's impressive the go team managed to buck the trend and only got to V2 after so many years.

darthwalsh commented on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me vincents.dev/blog/rust-de... · Posted by u/chaosprint

ak_111 · 4 months ago

can you elaborate what is the simpelist alternative?

darthwalsh · 4 months ago

Simple, you don't set any env vars after starting new threads

darthwalsh commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone

flotzam · 4 months ago

Adafruit's Cloudflare settings must be dialed up to an extreme level, they're blocking web.archive.org, archive.today, Tor, Startpage's Anonymous View, ...

Like cmon you're running a shop and a blog, not a missile launch facility

darthwalsh · 4 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they have been DDOS'ed in the past, and they're probably running on a tight budget

darthwalsh commented on GCC 15.1 gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/... · Posted by u/jrepinc

krackers · 4 months ago

I don't understand why newer revisions of C don't work on fixing these small issues. Things that were previously "undefined/implementation-defined behavior" can easily be made to behave sensibly without breaking anything. Type punning, 2s complement overflow, 0-initializtion of unions, all of those should "just behave" sensibly how the programmer expects. And you can already get there with the right compiler flags, so why not just codify it. It's also not going to break anything since it was undefined behavior in the first place.

darthwalsh · 4 months ago

C still supports a huge variety of embedded processors, which I imagine influences the overflow UB. But clearing up the type semantics would be nice.

darthwalsh commented on Python’s new t-strings davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

yk · 4 months ago

That's entirely implementation dependent. For existing libraries I would expect something like

    def get(self, query):
        if isinstance(query, template):
            self.get_template(query)
        else:
            self.get_old(query) #Don't break old code!

darthwalsh · 4 months ago

And they could add deprecation warnings gradually