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ha, I could not sign in and I already have an Atmosphere account!

eh, I was watching a Space Marine 2 stream when this popped up in my sidebar. just one word - "Heresy" - as a title of the tab, screaming to be clicked.

even though it's from 2022, it still resonates with how I got fired just recently. something that Warhammer's Imperium calls out and does with no shame, publicly, is being built out silently or with euphemisms in our world.

ever more reasons to appreciate Warhammer as an unfortunate parody of our own little rock ball. and here I am, jobless, for calling Claude Code "a decent search engine"

whoever/whatever decided to put it onto front page has a great sense of humor

Linux is indeed getting better, but all the commercial software (and open source projects that happen to have AGENTS.md (cough Vicinae cough)) keep surprising me with random bugs

I keep joking the same joke every time Space Marine 2 crashes my entire Linux desktop.

with current state of the software, I imagine that "tech priest" is imminently going to become a real job

no really praising the Omnissiah sometimes helps me keep both SM2 and the browser open

well, I've been working on the Zig compiler lately, there you have to swear off using AI in any capacity. even your tab-complete, yes. I find that yes, I'm a little slower with regexes instead of GPT mini/Luna models as a find/replace engine, but I am quickly getting grasp of it, and I see the future where I'm faster with Neovim and ripgrep than Codex. the structure of the standard library is super-logical and the code is eye-wateringly readable. I don't even feel the need in, or will to, use Codex in any capacity when working on such a great project. DVUI is also great to work with.

that said, I also used to work in environments where even Claude Opus tripped over itself when trying to untangle its own slop. that made me looking forward to AI going bust and folding back into tab-complete. that bubble revealed a lot of projects that always were slop, even before AI. the LLM policy became a great proxy of the quality standard the codebase and the community upholds itself to

obligatory correction: the semiconductor layer is still owned by TSMC and Samsung. Google sketches chip designs for them to implement - that's the lowest layer they control. I am not denying that this is impressive.

he is correct on most counts and for the rest I lack the competence to vouch for or denounce his research. a rare sight!

dark theme went to shits. white sidebar with white text, occasionally white-on-white spots in the docs.

yuppers

Seatbelt on macOS and Landlock over WSL2 on Windows 11. Landlock is also built-in, and WSL2 is a first-party downloadable component

that Pi extension, by contrast, gives you a popup whenever an agent tries to access something outside the current working directory and send a network request. that depends on configuration. also if agent tries to ssh into something that will also send a request for access, so child processes are covered

you can also simply use Landlock and bwrap on Linux. Pi even has a plugin for that https://pi.dev/packages/pi-landstrip

and Landlock! Pi even has a sandbox plugin for Landlock

same, Zen Browser (Firefox fork) on Linux

excuse me? I didn't say that anyone restricts anything, I only said that I take effort to curate what I see

you really have to catch the moment to do this, and there must be someone else who is supportive of this idea.

my mother recently got served a quite... disturbing video on Facebook. I won't get into details of the vid. what I can tell is that she was so dazed that she didn't even immediately understand me when I asked her, "delete Facebook and Instagram immediately or else they will think you like it and will serve you more." she kept replaying this video in her head. in a moment, I thought I wouldn't make her snap out.

for context, she is a damned Reels addict with war-induced traumas. (Ukrainian here.) she agreed to delete Facebook but decided to keep Instagram. we frequently pick bones about her sending stupid Reels and me hating them with passion. and every time I said "delete Instagram and your life will go up," she brought up scandals until she talked to a therapist.

EDIT: to quote a sibling comment, this is, indeed, like dealing with a drug addict.

depends. I, for one, take control of what I consume on social media. Bluesky's design allows this. YouTube also, if you turn off recommendations, lose watch history, and vet your subscriptions

I can imagine the world where this post gets more visibility through a funny regex error than actual equations :)

well, for me personally, "the" Zig project is not Bun but Ghostty, and it always has been.

yeah, Mitchell is very pro-AI, but he is thoughtful, and he sometimes highlights the difference between Zig's and Ghostty's approaches to LLMs (outright ban vs taming)

I guess it's fair to request a star in exchange: https://tangled.org/bpavuk.neocities.org/warhammer.pi

may Omnissiah bless you and your Machine Spirit

moreso, it's the only harness that maps close to Neovim philosophy of "everything is a plugin." heck, I took a bite at it and it seems fun to build plugins! especially if it's something as silly as warhammer.pi :) (shameless plug, npm: @bpavuk/warhammer.pi)

that thing makes Pi talk like Adeptus Mechanicus. what's more fitting to a machine than voice that's associated with machines?

well I'm using mini models and GPT-5.4-mini is better than Gemini 3.1 Pro (considerably faster in exchange for less broad world knowledge) and 3.5 Flash (that one's trash by itself)

1. I recently got hired, then fired and paid $100 for two weeks. I'm tired of people telling me that I'm now useless thanks to AI. I think about switching to offensive cyber - at least no one is going to give access to Mythos to anyone in Ukraine, so I'm safe from the death wheel of hype :)) I have some achievements on that front, such as annotating the entire VMProtect VM (it's the bedrock of very early Denuvo implementations), but man, I also "have some achievements" in the Kotlin and JVM ecosystem. those automated filters just won't get me anywhere because I don't have 10+ years of experience with Claude Code.

2. lots of stuff. there are games, there is Warhammer lore, also family business. I'll likely stay in tech as a hobby, but shit, feeling burnt out at 17 is one of the worst feelings imaginable. I'm feeling like I'm 40 actually, and I'm tired of staring into the abyss. I'd rather stare into some assembly. who knows? maybe, I'll drop that Chromium CVE and watch the world burn.

yeah but you also have commercial licensing with Qt specifically :))

or we are going to see an explosion of vibe-coded GPL apps.

anyhow, the likes of Linear and Notion ain't gonna abandon web and go Qt. or!! if we are very lucky, we can see a native app framework that ticks all the boxes of a modern UI framework and is permissively licensed, but we need this crunch to stay there for years.

turns out things are not that bad! we just rolled back to 2010.

oh, wait, now every app is a browser instance. shit.

EDIT: so, how did I arrive at 2010, you ask? I looked at DDR5 pricing and found the closest pricing per GB in the past. this turned out to be DDR3 memory. I think it's totally fair since it was the latest and greatest thing back then, much like DDR5 is now. although, if we compare DDR3 to DDR3, we still roll back pretty far - a very close to current price was spotted in 2018, '17, 15, '13, and '11.

I'd enjoy having something like this but for x86/64 :)

believe it or not, but pirated copies can be better a thousandfold than what paying customers get.

whenever I want to play Deathloop, I download it from torrents despite "owning" it on Steam, all because Denuvo really likes my SSD, and whenever I want to go online, then, well, yeah, I have to suffer. still, not regretting the purchase, cuz this money went to Arkane.

the casino has no clocks, as one HN user put it some time ago.

I second ccusage, it's nice

but Maelle didn't wouldn't be Maelle without Jennifer English