all things aside, is current ghostty any good, or still an audiophile consolephile-ware?
i'm generally reluctant to try something which reeks of intensive self-promotion, but few months ago i decided to finally see what's the hype about, and, well, it's a terminal emulator.
wezterm does much more, and with a much cleaner ui, and it's programmable, and the author doesn't remind me that hashicorp is a thing that exists.
(as the ~fuken-mupet said to me in a conversation about ~absolt-toole's reimplementation of poon in the self-hosted thun, the unlimited poop is an exciting feature of the new pooke64 release.)
i hereby propose a new metric for a popular publication, the epstein number (Ē), denoting the number of authors who took flights to epstein's rape island. generally, credible publications should have Ē=0. this one, after a very quick look, has Ē=2, and also hosts sabine hossenfelder.
github produced their annual insights into the state of open source and public software projectsbarrel of marketing slop, and it's as self-congratulatory as unreadable and completely opaque.
these people don't understand that you don't need to be invested in a community to dig deep into the lore; adhd, hyperfocus and sleeplessness are reasons enough.
nostr neatly covers all obsessions of dorsey. it's literally fash-tech (original dev, fiatjaf, is a right-wing nutjob; and current development is driven by alex gleason of the truth dot social fame), deliberately designed to be impossible to moderate (“censorship-resilient”); the place is full of fascists, promptfondlers and crypto dudes.
unfortunately. hard to say if this is caused by them being primarily contrarians or because alice is too much into warsaw pact nostalgia, or because it's edgy; edgelordism and reflexive contrarianism cause so many people to lose the contact with reality.
enter hashimoto. cringe intensifies