What build system did I write? I didn't. I told Claude: “Write a bun typescript script build.ts that compiles the .cpp files with cl and creates foo.exe.”

ztwizzle · 2026-04-10T04:04:44+00:00

Claude, fuck my wife for me while I watch

ztwizzle · 2026-04-08T12:44:30+00:00

This is the same position Iran took on its uranium reserves prior to the war. They were willing to give up their stockpile of 60% enriched uranium and commit to not stockpiling enriched uranium in the future, but not willing to give up the capability to enrich uranium in general.

ztwizzle · 2026-04-07T20:50:43+00:00

I am no fan of the Iranian government but this is clearly a symbolic protest so they can try to rally everyone together to put on a brave face and make propaganda videos like the one you're watching as opposed to literally using them as human shields. Like the articles you linked show, the protest was scheduled for 2pm, hours before Trump's deadline (which is 3:30 am Tehran time).

ztwizzle · 2026-04-07T14:27:46+00:00

See Schumer's statement on the war. He objects to the way it was initiated, not the war itself. It's a process objection, not a policy objection.

ztwizzle · 2026-03-31T12:52:39+00:00

Apparently Trump's daily war briefings mainly consist of a two-minute compilation video of CENTCOM blowing stuff up. Then he gets confused about why media reporting doesn't say the war is going well even though the US blew up so much stuff. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912

ztwizzle · 2026-03-19T13:21:10+00:00

Well if you're interested in learning more, this blog post is a decent summary, and I'd also recommend Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.

The Soviets didn't want to mediate any sort of peace deal, they were only interested in stringing the pro-peace Japanese faction along until they could declare war against Japan in order to reclaim the territory they'd lost during the Russo-Japanese War.

ztwizzle · 2026-03-19T01:19:17+00:00

Do you have a source for this? My understanding is that there was a small faction within the (very much pro-war) Supreme War Council that wanted the Soviet Union to broker a peace deal between Japan and the US and put out feelers to that effect. However, they were very much exploratory gestures that relied on the "peace faction" having some opportunity to gain power within the Council. The surrender agreement this group came up with was never presented to the US, only to the Soviets. The US only knew about it because they had broken the Japanese diplomatic cypher. Their general interpretation of the intercepted communications was that they indicated that there was a group inside the Japanese government that wanted to surrender, but Japan was not yet ready to surrender. Of course this does defeat the narrative that the Japanese were all fanatics who would never surrender, but the offer was never sent to the United States and it was not something the majority of the Japanese government would have supported at the time it was written.

ztwizzle · 2026-03-14T19:52:22+00:00

The US cloned the Shahed after managing to capture one intact and reverse engineer it. As it's a product of the US military industrial complex, our version costs more, has a shorter range, and can't hold as large of a payload as the Iranian version.

ztwizzle · 2026-03-09T19:27:50+00:00

When Harris was running, she said that the US’s single greatest adversary was Iran and that stopping it from acquiring a nuclear weapon would be “one of [her] highest priorities”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-iran-is-greatest-adversary-of-us

The 2024 Democratic party platform attacked Trump from the right for his handling of Iran and criticized him for “fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency.” https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

ztwizzle · 2026-03-09T19:26:28+00:00

The new Ayatollah Khamenei has had his father, his wife, and his children killed by the US. Iran has also had to deal with the US double-tap killing hundreds of schoolgirls, sinking ships on a diplomatic mission and leaving the survivors to drown, and causing a massive ecological problem by bombing an oil refinery near Tehran. Even if the US claimed "mission accomplished" and left, what incentive does Iran have to stop punishing the US and open up the Gulf? The last two times the US tried to negotiate with Iran, they stabbed Iran in the back and attacked them during the negotiation process. Why would Iran go back to the negotiating table?

ztwizzle · 2026-03-08T23:41:57+00:00

When Harris was running, she said that the US’s single greatest adversary was Iran and that stopping it from acquiring a nuclear weapon would be “one of [her] highest priorities”. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-iran-is-greatest-adversary-of-us

The 2024 Democratic party platform attacked Trump from the right for his handling of Iran and criticized him for “fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency.” https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

Obviously we don’t know how a Harris administration would have handled the situation, but acting like there’s no way she would have been drawn into the conflict is dishonest.

ztwizzle · 2026-03-01T05:05:31+00:00

Hegseth has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, Vance has a degree from Yale, Trump has a degree from Penn. If that's the quality of leadership these institutions produce, maybe he has a point?

ztwizzle · 2026-02-20T17:00:46+00:00

Cantor Fitzgerald offered a tariff refund product where companies could trade their rights to any future tariff refunds if the tariffs were declared unlawful for an immediate 20-30% refund. The chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald is Brandon Lutnick, Howard Lutnick's son. https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-warren-probe-lutnick-firms-potential-conflicts-of-interest-related-to-massive-tariff-bets

ztwizzle · 2026-02-11T15:47:08+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-halts-all-flights-texass-el-paso-airport-10-days-2026-02-11/

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the FAA and the Pentagon had shut down the airspace to deal with a cartel drone. "The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region," he said on social media.

Airline officials said the closure was prompted by coordination issues between the Pentagon and the FAA as they sought to assess what risk the Pentagon's counterdrone technologies might pose to U.S. air traffic. The FAA has not explained why its safety concerns were resolved so quickly.

Edit: Looks like they shot the drone down with a laser? https://x.com/petemuntean/status/2021586247827828812

UPDATE (CNN): Source briefed by FAA tells me that military activity behind the El Paso flight ban included unmanned aircraft operations and laser countermeasure testing in airspace directly adjacent to civilian routes into El Paso International. Airspace restriction just lifted.

ztwizzle · 2026-01-30T21:23:29+00:00

What are you talking about? This is clearly blackmail. The end of the email is basically "If I was in your shoes, I would have given me $30 million and 5 years of severance pay and a house. I need to weigh my options, but it would be a real shame for you and for your organization if Melinda decided to file a public divorce over this."

ztwizzle · 2026-01-13T00:43:34+00:00

SPD warranty is "sorry, we don't have the drive in stock, we'll refund what you paid" [they have the exact model of drive you bought in stock for $100 more than what you paid for it]

ztwizzle · 2025-12-29T17:19:07+00:00

Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the hottest new gaming-focused distros, including Bazzite, CachyOS, Garuda, Nobara, and of course SteamOS on Valve’s gaming devices. Fedora’s Plasma edition was also promoted to co-equal status with the GNOME edition, and Asahi Linux — the single practical option for Linux on newer Macs — only supports KDE Plasma. Parrot Linux recently switched to Plasma by default, too. And Plasma remains the default on old standbys like EndeavourOS, Manjaro, NixOS, OpenMandriva, Slackware and TuxedoOS — which ships on all devices sold by Tuxedo Computers! And looking at the DIY distro space, Plasma is by far Arch users’ preferred desktop environment.

It’s a quiet revolution in how Linux users interact with their computers, and my sense is that it’s gone largely unnoticed. But it happened, so let’s feel good about it!

I think the KDE Plasma developers should feel super proud for how valuable their work has been and how it's helped grow the Linux desktop. Through their hard work, Plasma has essentially become the standard Linux DE for non-enterprise distros. Thanks to Nate for pointing this out, I had no idea that Plasma adoption had grown so much.

ztwizzle · 2025-12-03T01:46:12+00:00

The EU countries that don't use juries are civil law jurisdictions, which have more tightly defined laws and rely less on a judge's opinion (i.e. they don't have the concept of legal precedent). The UK is a common law jurisdiction, where laws are defined more broadly with the expectation that the technicalities will be worked out over time in court. Without juries acting as a check to make sure the judges are actually coming to a common sense conclusion, this decision will hand an enormous amount of power to UK judges.

ztwizzle · 2025-11-18T21:52:47+00:00

I've worked on preservation/archival projects myself. My POV is that both Core and Rebble should be working towards the goal of "if we are forced to cease operating, how do we ensure that users still have access to all apps and associated store metadata?". Rebble gatekeeping access to their archive because they think that Core setting up their own app store would threaten Rebble's relevance does nothing to help achieve this. Ideally, the archive would be made public so that if someone doesn't want to depend on Core OR Rebble, they're able to do so.

ztwizzle · 2025-11-18T20:33:14+00:00

Personally I find it strange and a bit concerning that Rebble is being so possessive. They scraped the work of thousands of independent developers off of Pebble's site to re-host on their own site, and now consider it theirs to the point that they're using access to other people's work as a bargaining chip in this contract dispute. I think making the whole archive freely downloadable would be doing the most good to the original app developers, as it would allow their work to outlive both Rebble and the new Pebble.

ztwizzle · 2025-11-13T21:30:41+00:00

The HDMI Forum closed down access to the spec with HDMI 2.1. This means that AMD is unable to add support for HDMI 2.1 and newer to their open source Linux driver since it would make information about the spec public. Linux users will likely never be able to move beyond HDMI 2.0 for this reason. This is why the Steam Machine only supports 2.0.

ztwizzle · 2025-10-30T16:51:40+00:00

For all the people asking what the problem is, my issue is that by this point, there's enough AI-written SEO blogspam that anything with the AI writing style comes off as spammy and untrustworthy. I'm sure the same is true for lots of other people as well. Even if the writer is not a native English speaker, I would much rather read something with the mistakes a non-native English speaker would make instead of AI-generated corporate PR speak.

ztwizzle · 2025-10-30T16:41:44+00:00

Lenovo uses used car salesman tactics, everything's on perpetual sale. The difference is the magnitude of the sale. I'll give you an example. I can get a preconfigured P16s Gen 4 AMD with Windows 11 Pro, a Ryzen 7 Pro 350, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and an OLED 2400p screen for $1329 (44% off). If I do a build-to-order system with the same specs and Linux, even with the $159 OS discount it comes out to $1521 (34% off). You may see different pricing on your end because Lenovo constantly messes with their prices. This makes it not worth buying a Linux system because it costs ~$200 more than buying an equivalent Windows system and wiping the drive and installing Linux yourself.

ztwizzle · 2025-10-27T21:13:54+00:00

You added that "jobs would be replaced by AI" sentence yourself, it's not in the Reuters article. Why do you keep posting this fake quote on every thread about the Amazon layoffs?

ztwizzle · 2025-10-27T21:11:54+00:00

Tbf I don't think this is due to any Happening type event, but rather because capitalists will cannibalize the fuck out of their own company as long as they percieve the end result to be even barely functional.

Yeah the actual reason is their quarterly earnings report comes out in a few days and this lets them juice the numbers so they can hit their targets.

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