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I’ll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I’m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).
For the people, like me, who were wondering where they were going next.
I’ve never heard of this.
Did you bother to look?
It’s gotten bad enough that Github added a feature to allow maintainers to disable pull requests entirely.
Full shutdowns are rarer (only Cal.com and Jazzband spring to mind), because maintainers are trying to stay open and fight the avalanche of slop with AI contribution policies.
Looking at all of the above, why do you think people shouldn’t be skeptical when the number of PRs suddenly spikes?
because we just don’t have the need
The market isn’t perfect at matching needs and abilities. We famously have a shortage of COBOL programmers, which is crazy given how much of our infrastructure still depends on it. A Nobel prize winner predicted that radiogists would be obsolete eight years ago, and we’ve been suffering a shortage ever since because people believed him and stopped studying it.
The most interesting argument I’ve heard is that vibe coding is to coding, what baby formula was to breastfeeding. When formula was introduced, it took only one generation for us to lose a lot of the generational wisdom and cultural infrastructure surrounding nursing.
We haven’t completely forgotten COBOL, or radiology, or breastfeeding, and technically speaking, we won’t completely forget coding, either. But we might forget enough that it becomes a huge problem when we need to remember.
I’ve heard of many projects disabling contributions, shutting down, or pivoting to closed source and naming slop code as a major reason.
If the contributions are quality, that’s great, but I don’t think skepticism is an inappropriate reaction to a sudden surge in contributions in this year of all years.
MinIO’s official stance is to redirect people towards their proprietary AIStor solution, but that’s a hard pass for anyone who prefers to stay open source. You don’t need to go down that path.
Here are the three open source alternatives
You love to see it.
Is it good news, or is it vibe coding?
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I’m curious about what this’ll look like in practice.
Because it sounds like the US federal government is about to make total surveillance a prerequisite for subsidies.
I guess technofeudalism didn’t catch on, so he’s attempting a rebrand.
Is this that CNN article about the people posting #eyecheck videos on motherless?
I use FreshRSS as the backbend for my clients, but I hate its interface for actually reading.
If I were reading on the web, I’d switch back to Miniflux
The careful reader may note that my title is not quite accurate. It’s not every dependency you add that’s a problem; it’s every dependency you update.
Why not put that in the title, Mr. Hoyt?
In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.
Microsoft seems to have stripped away mentions of the “Copilot” brand in the Windows Insider version of the Notepad app. The Copilot button in the toolbar is gone, and instead, you’ll find a writing icon which will present you AI-powered writing assistance, such as rewrite, summarize, tone modification, format configuration, and more. Additionally, “AI features” in Notepad settings has been renamed to “Advanced features” and it allows users to toggle off AI capabilities within the app.
*and also burning everyone else’s money at the same time.
Bending Spoons identifies a popular product it thinks it can improve inside and out
Is there anyone in the open source office suite space that has their shit together?
I was looking for alternatives now that I’m committed to migrating away from Microsoft, and it feels like moving from one room where everything’s on fire to… another room where everything’s also on fire.
No worries. They’ll use military-grade encryption.