landtuna (u/landtuna)

landtuna commented on GPT-5.4 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/mudkipdev

Ahh, good question. I misunderstood you, apologies.

There's no mention of pricing, quotas and so on. Perhaps Codex will still be preferable for coding tasks as it is tailored for it? Maybe it is faster to respond?

Just speculation on my part. If it becomes redundant to 5.4, I presume it will be sunset. Or maybe they eventually release a Codex 5.4?

landtuna · 8 days ago

5.3 Codex is $1.75/$14, and 5.4 is $2.50/$15.

landtuna commented on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator ghostty.org/docs... · Posted by u/oli5679

Myzel394 · 12 days ago

I love Ghostty, especially the UI is so much nicer than Kitty. However, for some reason ghostty sometimes has severe issues with dealing with SSH connections. The terminal is like broken and wrongly displayed and you can't properly type something. Therefore, I still use Kitty, especially for SSH connections. I don't know what `kitten ssh` does, but it makes my terminal work with SSH.

landtuna · 12 days ago

Same. On the tip of main, at least, I can open the command palette and choose reset to bring it back to life. I set a keybinding for reset to skip the command palette.

landtuna commented on I switched from VSCode to Zed tenthousandmeters.com/blo... · Posted by u/r4victor

veidr · 2 months ago

This is interesting to me, because I see this kind of comment on almost every Zed post.

I haven't used a low-DPI monitor for like... not sure, but more than a decade, I'm pretty sure, so for me the weird blocker I have with Zed is the "OMG YOU HAVE NO GPU!!!! THIS WILL NOT END WELL!" warning (I run a lot of Incus containers via RDP, and they mostly have no GPU available).

But what kind of monitors are you low-DPI people using? Some kind of classic Sony Trinitron CRTs, or what? I'm actually curious. Or is it not the display itself, but some kind of OS thing?

landtuna · 2 months ago

I actually don't understand what I'm missing. I'm using two old monitors, a 27" at 2560x1440 and a 23.5" at 1920x1080 (in addition to my high DPI Framework 13 screen). How else can I get at least 4480 across (after scaling to a font size I can read - I'm 49) and still cover that many inches? My DPI right now is about 100, so to double that, wouldn't I need 8960 across 44 inches? I don't really want to pay $1500 for resolution my eyes are probably too old to notice.

landtuna commented on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign anthropic.com/news/disrup... · Posted by u/koakuma-chan

mschwaig · 4 months ago

I think as AI gets smarter, defenders should start assembling systems how NixOS does it.

Defenders should not have to engage in an costly and error-prone search of truth about what's actually deployed.

Systems should be composed from building blocks, the security of which can be audited largely independently, verifiably linking all of the source code, patches etc to some form of hardware attestation of the running system.

I think having an accurate, auditable and updatable description of systems in the field like that would be a significant and necessary improvement for defenders.

I'm working on automating software packaging with Nix as one missing piece of the puzzle to make that approach more accessible: https://github.com/mschwaig/vibenix

(I'm also looking for ways to get paid for working on that puzzle.)

landtuna · 4 months ago

This could be worse, too. With more machines being identical, the same security hole reliably shows up everywhere (albeit not necessarily at the same time). Sometimes the heterogeny impedes attackers.

landtuna commented on How I'm using Helix editor rushter.com/blog/helix-ed... · Posted by u/f311a

k_bx · 5 months ago

I'm very interested in reports of 10+ year users of Emacs, how do Helix/Vim compare? I understand reports from zero-to-Helix/Vim users that they're good, but I don't believe they truly understand how great Emacs is unless they really use it for a long time.

But because Vim-like keys and modes seem to be so much better integrated in all other editors these days (no good Emacs mode in VSCode for example), seems like it won, and it'll soon be time to accept that.

But every time I tried – I never had enough patience to use it until my fingers have the memory, and didn't see the point enough to keep smashing the editor.

So, very interested in reports of actual hardcore Emacs users about the switch.

landtuna · 5 months ago

I switched to Helix 2 years ago after 28 years of emacs and didn't look back. My emacs config was huge, and I didn't enjoy all the tweaking I was doing to get LSPs to work the way I wanted. I had tried evil mode (and vile before that) without really getting comfortable. I think the Kakoune-style order clicked much better for me than vi descendants. Also, the multiple cursors in Helix work so much better than the equivalent emacs plug-ins. The only thing I really miss is tramp. I liked magit a lot, but jujutsu obsoleted that for me.

landtuna commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab

Workaccount2 · 7 months ago

The defence budget is America's job program. Very little of the money that is defense spending ends up in defense shareholder pockets. The overwhemling vast majority goes to propping up America's (now) anemic industrial base. Remember that virtually all defense dollars are constrained to only be spent on American made things and services. And most of money sent to the big contractors goes to the gazillion sub-contractors they use.

This is why the defense budget is never cut. By anyone red or blue. It's a funnel of money that can be pointed at any location in the US and give a bunch of decent full benefits jobs.

landtuna · 7 months ago

The US defense budget, as a percentage of GDP, has been cut a huge amount! https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ms.mil.xpnd.gd.zs?locat...

If you don't think it makes sense to scale it by GDP (though I do), then in real terms it has gone through cycles since 1965, with definite periods of decrease, even though the overall trend is upward: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/edgraph.html

landtuna commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

HocusLocus · 9 months ago

Suggested hard sci-fi light reading: "Cosm" by Gregory Benford, 1999. A universe the size of a bowling ball created in a laboratory. The scientist responsible for it, keeping it safe and on the run from gvt spooks. They want to protect it for as long as it lasts, and since its time is as relative as its size, they won't have long to wait.

landtuna · 9 months ago

This sounds similar to Horton Hears a Who.

landtuna commented on Bitwarden Authenticator bitwarden.com/products/au... · Posted by u/pil0u

Beaving · a year ago

Yes, but then you have to click the little "Fill" button. And if you enable "Click items to enable autofill on Vault view", you have to Rightclick -> View to edit stuff.

landtuna · a year ago

I think you can fix this with the setting "Click items to autofill on Vault view".

landtuna commented on Bitwarden Authenticator bitwarden.com/products/au... · Posted by u/pil0u

jurenbert · a year ago

I would just love if it appeared more than 60% of the time it's supposed to on Android.

I'm sick of the dance of switching apps a few times to try to 'wake up' Bitwarden when I'm staring at a login page in my browser with no Bitwarden prompt anywhere, closing and reopening the browser, manually opening Bitwarden, switching apps a few times, then giving up and manually copying and pasting my password.

landtuna · a year ago

I think it's because Android very aggressively swaps out third-party background apps. https://dontkillmyapp.com/

landtuna commented on People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

everdrive · a year ago

A lot of people seem to have a purely emotional relationship with resources which logic doesn't seem to be able to penetrate. Food and finances seem similar here. For years I tried to get my wife to stick to a grocery budget. That is, we have $n per week for all groceries. She'd blow badly over the limit every time. "But we needed [food]" or "These were toiletries, so they don't _count_ as groceries." Ultimately we never had an real success sticking to a grocery budget, and ultimately the solution was me working towards better paying jobs.

This feels a LOT like weight loss. Calories in --> calories out is conceptually very simple, but in practice more people struggle with it than not. It certainly cannot be the case that they struggle with the concept; they struggle with actually putting it into action. Lying to themselves, twisting themselves into philosophical knots, and probably most often, conceding to their cravings. Food acquisition is one of out more basic drives, so it should probably be no surprise that people struggle to intellectualize it.

(as and aside, there are also people who wrongly believe that calories in --> calories out is a flawed concept because not all people have the same metabolism, or not all calories are equal. Both of these are true, but none of them actually negate the premise. For whatever your metabolism, and whatever your category of calories, fewer calories will still produce weight loss. It may feel unfair that someone doesn't have to work as hard as you to produce the same result, but this is actually true in all areas of life. Now that said, improving the quality of your calories is very important, and should not be ignored -- but it also does not negate the premise.)

landtuna · a year ago

I never understood why calories in == calories out was relevant when we can't know how many unprocessed calories are remaining undigested. Here's what the bots had to say: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/weight-loss-gurus-often-say...

(FYI - I stay thin by limiting calories, so I don't disagree that fewer calories causes weight loss)