Is fact checker an actual job?
Yes, there are many situations where it would be illegal or detrimental to publish falsehoods, so people are implied to check facts.
Readit Newslexicality commented on State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/seattle_spring
lexicality commented on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network blog.tymscar.com/posts/im... · Posted by u/tymscar
Why would they do that? (Not a rhetorical question, just curious). It would suffice to block UK IPs for compliance, if visitors use a VPN to circumvent that Imgur would get more traffic and more ad revenue. No reason to put extra work into blocking those users.
vindictiveness
lexicality commented on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma github.com/penpot/penpot... · Posted by u/selvan
I dunno if I can move to a design platform that doesn't have a silly name. It'd ruin the joy I get every day when I open it.
lol I'm smart apparently. It's not the "galaxy" shader, it's the "starfield" shader! I should double check before commenting I guess.
https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/blob/main/starfiel...
I'm not sure what "galaxy" looks like but it might not have worked or shown nothing.
Oh, that one's really pretty! I actually went to check if wezterm supported shaders after seeing the preview on your site, but tragically it doesn't.
I have ghostty set up with this “starfield” shader: https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/blob/main/starfiel...
I also have it set up to do adaptive theme, so in light mode the galaxy is mostly just a little noise on the black text but in dark mode it’s like I’m piloting a space ship. Highly recommend.
I also documented a few other shaders on my blog here: https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html
Edit: I use the "starfield" shader, not the "galaxy" shader. Doh!
Bit disappointed that Galaxy is the only one without a preview, what does it look like?
lexicality commented on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected helixguard.ai/blog/malici... · Posted by u/mrdosija
why don't web devs just learn html and css properly, and maybe xslt for the really complex transformations then use vanilla js only when it's truly necessary?
instead we've got this absolute mess of bloated, over-engineered junk code and ridiculously complicated module systems.
Good luck with the XSLT going forward what with Google trying to remove it from the internet.
> why you would object to having more metadata attached to your commits
It gets in the way because it takes pride position at the start of the commit message. If you want to put it at the end that might be less annoying but I've never seen anyone do that.
I think the main point is that I almost never arrive at a commit by exhaustively reading through a list of commit messages. It's almost always through some other kind of link like git blame or a GitHub issue/PR.
It's also just really low value information. Imagine if every commit message started with how many lines of code it changed. That would be pretty annoying right?
It's pretty handy when tools like lazy.nvim display changes as a list of commit summaries and you have to make a fast value judgment on if you should allow the upgrade.
Outside of that, I agree that it's silly to put it in the summary and seems to be a symptom of people writing crap commit messages.
If all you ever write or look at is the summary then obviously it needs to go in there or it'll never be seen.
That’s why you put the comment in the code
comments rot as the code changes around them
lexicality commented on Ancient Roman Glass Reveals a Hidden "Language" nautil.us/ancient-roman-g... · Posted by u/DrierCycle
> “Because I am trained as a maker, I kept wanting to flip things over,” Meredith said in a statement. “When that happens, patterns appear that everyone else has literally photographed out of the frame.”
Beautifully ironic that the photo in the article shows the vessel the correct way up
It's amazing how seemingly trivial things turn out to be really hard to be in practice. Like:
- sharing files between two phones
- printing a page on that printer over there
- getting the projector to display my screen (correctly, or at all)
- getting my wife not to click on a link in a random email
- sharing files between two phones when Apple's monopolistic tendencies are involved
I've been using Quick Share to send files between different makes of Android phone for ages. This is entirely on Apple.