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I'm confused, the incident is that he wrote a document detailing repeated bad behaviour from a well known community figure? And this is a bad thing?

And that second link is really grasping at straws lol


He apparently pretended to not have written it despite its DNS pointing to his servers, and Certificate Transparency logs and Internet Archive all attributing the page to his domain. Compare the top comment thread in the first link above to his reply there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124

I generally like Sourcehut and Drew's writing but I just learned about this and I find it disappointing.


Which part of the second link? Some of it is very accurately sourced, he 100% operates a loli bot which targetted subreddits banned by reddit for illegal content. Theres no walking around that. Near the end they also point out that Drew changes his TOS for SourceHut to align with banning projects he disagrees with, which makes GitHub look like paradise.


> the incident is that he wrote a document detailing repeated bad behaviour from a well known community figure? And this is a bad thing?

He collected all Stallman statements about Epstein and related subjects (this is perfectly ok) and then wrote his own summaries which completely misrepresent the things which were actually said. So what happened was that a lot of people just skimmed the summaries and concluded that Stallman molests children, or says that it's ok to do so etc etc.

If fact I have taken to link the Stallman report and add "don't read the summaries, read only the things that Stallman actually said". This only works if I believe the person is in good faith, of course. I would suggest the same to you.


Should have made some popcorn before clicking the link.

The drama in the open source community is no less fun than YouTubers or celebrities.

Great way to begin Thanksgiving.


> dmpwn

Kinda horrible to see that the 4chan bigots use the same strategy to try to discredit drew devault, and implying things of ownership through their own created fake accounts and smearing campaigns. Pretty much all allegations on that page are circumstantial evidence, especially the bot ownership parts that sircmpwn even took down while citing those bigots using it to scrape child porn.

And then the dude of dmpwn posting things on image boards with the tag dmpwn, and forgetting to remove that from screenshots? lol, really?

Having experienced the same kind of doxxing attempts by 4chan bigots, /pol/ and kiwifarms, I think I am qualified to comment on how they operate.

Maybe someone needs to summon the Antichrist a second time to thin out the herd, huh?


> Kinda horrible to see that the 4chan bigots use the same strategy to try to discredit drew devault

No need, Drew does a good job himself.


Do you have evidence the accounts are fake? That all those accounts are fake?


> Do you have evidence the accounts are fake? That all those accounts are fake?

As if you could cryptographically verify any ownership, let alone any source that was being posted on chan boards.

You act as if nobody ever lies on the internet. The solution to your emotional distress is to start to not give a fvck.


Sneed


Holy shit this escalates completely. I had no idea any of this was going.

Is sr.ht tainted now or still a decent place to host code? I can't quite tell.


He's a bit unhinged, but for what it's worth every interaction I've had with him has been positive.


It's a defamation campaign done by 4chan bigots. See my sibling comment.


Thanks for mentioning it! Makes me glad to live a life out of the spotlight and to be generally ignorant of stuff like this going on. Would not want to be targeted like that :/


> Is sr.ht tainted now

I hate that this is now a thing you can ask unsarcastically.

Just use the tool you like the best man, screw what other people think. Yes, there's people who will go "you're bad because your use a tool that's made by a guy who said something wrong about Stallman" (or whatever he did exactly again). These people are not worth your attention.


My bad, I shouldn't have said tainted. Trustworthy is what I had in mind.

I moved my private repos to sr.ht ages ago because it was the open source, free software, ethical, longevitable approach. And stepping away from the mega corporations and everything going on with those.

I was wondering whether this was still the case.


I wonder if they're mobile. Here the URL is truncated and over on openssf.org/blog they don't show the date unless you switch over to desktop view.


If you're a Linux user you might like Firejail for this.

  firejail --appimage --net=none --private=~/path/to/jail ~/path/to/Obsidian.AppImage
--private=~/path/to/jail limits access to your home directory to ~/path/to/jail and when you don't want Obsidian to have internet access you can take it away with --net=none.


Note that if you already have an Obsidian vault, suddenly jailing it might break things. Obsidian stores a bunch of state in ~/.config/obsidian which will no longer be valid. And amusingly/frustratingly, the GTK file picker doesn't take the jail into account and seems to produce invalid paths.

And because --private mounts some bits as temporary filesystems, you might end up losing state. Try before you buy.


And all of these issues such as sandboxing and portals are solved by using the Flatpak version instead.


I don't know much about flatpak. How does it solve these issues?


It provides a sandbox, an API to access stuff outside of it (portals), and standard tools to customize what your software has access to (Flatseal, KDE app settings). It's based on the same technology as Docker containers, but for user-space GUI apps.

AppImage is a binary distribution format that does none of that stuff, so you need external tools, like firejail, to limit what the application has access to.



Did you run this on a clean VSCode install?

I know as a matter of fact that bad extensions slow down VSCode significantly.


Thanks. Could you please do Zed also? I tried, but it was struggling to type.


I was just hoping for this a couple hours ago. :)

Any idea how far out the Linux version is?


Next day or two is my best understanding, we're just getting it onto Flathub to handle app updates.


Coincidentally I did that yesterday. Mermaid pulls in 137 dependencies. I love Obsidian and the Obsidian folks seem like good people but I did end up sandboxing it.


Some Typometer measurements on i3 here:

  # Title                   Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 xterm 397               3.1     4.0     3.5     0.2
  2 Alacritty 0.15.1        3.6     4.8     4.2     0.2
  3 xfce4-terminal 1.1.4    2.9     6.8     4.4     0.3
  4 Ghostty 1.2.0           11.3    15.5    13.0    0.7
  5 kitty 0.42.2            11.7    21.3    15.8    3.3
https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWY


lower is better

https://github.com/frarees/typometer

Typometer

Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.

Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.

Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.


> While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three. In all categories, I am not trying to claim that Ghostty is the best (i.e. the fastest, most feature-rich, or most native). But Ghostty is competitive in all three categories and Ghostty doesn't make you choose between them.

Ghostty doesn’t claim to be the fastest.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty


> But Ghostty is competitive in all three categories

Being at the bottom is not what I call competitive.


It’s above kitty? From the numbers posted earlier


Bonus VS Code:

  # Title      Min     Max     Avg     SD
  1 VS Code    10.8    19.7    13.0    1.2


I really want to like Bun and Deno. I've tried using both several times and so far I've never made it more than a few thousand lines of code before hitting a deal breaker.

Last big issue I had with Bun was streams closing early:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/16037

Last big issue I had with Deno was a memory leak:

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/24674

At this point I feel like the Node ecosystem will probably adopt the good parts of Bun/Deno before Bun/Deno really take off.


uh... looks like an AI user saw this comment and fixed your bun issue? Or maybe it just deleted code in a random manner idk.

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/b474e3a1f63972979845a6...


The bun team uses Discord to kick off the Claude bot, so someone probably saw the comment and told it to do it. that edit doesn't look particularly good though


Something to be aware of if you're considering mailbox.org:

https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...


Another thing is that they appear to have some spam scanning on outbound emails and when they detect something suspicious they simply drop the email silently, and nobody will ever know about it.


You can turn this off in the settings and the spam will go in a Junk folder.

https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/e-mail-article/customizing...


I'm referring to outbound email being silently dropped, not inbound email being rejected or put into Junk.


Oh, thank you. I recently considered moving from posteo.de to mailbox.org, but I think I won't anymore regarding such an issue took so long to even be considered as a problem and as I understand is still not solved.


Oh, thank you. I didn't know that. Anyway, I'm not using a custom domain on mailbox, I use my custom mail domain with another service.


Unfortunately this is common in many smtp servers and is configuration dependent: After you authenticate as usera@example.com you can send emails as userb@example.com.


It sounds like they're still testing but there's this from https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-July/346938.h...:

  ### July 22nd, 2025, Modernization of contributions
  
  The project is modernizing its contribution methods and switching to a software
  forge.
  
  We have setup a platform on [code.ffmpeg.org](https://code.ffmpeg.org/). The new
  process features continuous integration on all commits and merge requests,
  labelling for categorization, conflict resolution, and logging in via OpenID or
  Github.
  
  The main repository will become
  [code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg](https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg), with all
  others being mirrored to it. Users are encouraged to begin using it, effective
  now.
  
  Mailing lists have supported our development for nearly 25 years, but as more
  and more contributors started to become involved, the ratio of merged patches to
  total mails begun falling. Mailing lists became a source of friction, with
  discussions frequently stalling and uncategorized noise drowning out patches by
  bumping them down in inboxes.
  
  Although [patchwork.ffmpeg.org](https://patch.ffmpeg.org/) was set up to track
  submissions, it was less than reliable, with many patches and mails slipping
  though. Since its activation exactly 9 years ago, it recorded 54,476 patches,
  with 53,650 patches having the state of not archived. In comparison, the mailing
  list has had a total of 150,736 emails during the same time period.
  
  Additionally, new users have frequently encountered difficulties with mailing
  list development. From finding out the correct SMTP login details, configuring
  git send-email, new email security mechanisms interfering with mailing list
  operations, and finally not having a comfortable workflow to review patches.
  
  After years of discussions, and a vote, we officially announce the new platform,
  [code.ffmpeg.org](https://code.ffmpeg.org/), running
  [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/). Documentation will be updated to reflect the
  change.
  
  Mailing lists will continue to be monitored, and used for project discussions
  and other topics better discussed elsewhere, but traffic and noise should become
  significantly reduced over time.
  
  Bugs/issues will be accepted on [code.ffmpeg.org](https://code.ffmpeg.org/),
  alongside with [trac.ffmpeg.org](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/) for the time being.
  
  We are also hoping that this will significantly reduce the amount of unmerged
  patches. If you submitted a patch which received no replies or conclusion, we
  apologize, and you are encouraged to resubmit it on the new platform.


Main link should point to this ...


I wish a certain open source project would take notice of the reasoning here...


The friction and overhead of mailing list development is seen as a feature, not a bug, for certain devs who prefer an exclusive environment.

Moving to a modern platform with real collaborative development features is a mature move.


For those with a power-user email setup geared towards mailing lists and patch handling, modern web-based platforms are a substantial usability regression.


I have seen people arguing "mailing patches is better than github" more than once here on HN.

I am like, whatever.


Some times HN comments are a time machine that reveal people stuck in the past who hate anything modern.

A couple weeks back someone was arguing that websites these days are too slow. So slow that it took them minutes of waiting time to order something online. Then they revealed that they were using a computer that was nearly two decades old and didn’t even have enough RAM to meet the requirements of a modern OS and browser. “But it should work!” was their refrain.


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