Oct 14, 2026, 12:15 PMoh cool and the LWN link about the invite only maintainers summit where Torvalds went full mask off is itself subscriber-only!
we’re fucking cooked aren’t we
- Oct 14, 2026, 12:15 PM
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- Oct 14, 2026, 12:16 PM
come back on the 22nd for exclusive content about how fucked over we got I guess?
Oct 14, 2026, 12:19 PM@zzt merry shitscram https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/be20382b54a9b4cd/
- Oct 14, 2026, 12:21 PM
@techokami thank you so much! I edited that into the original link post
Christopher Gibiliscocjgibilisco@mastodon.gamedev.placeOct 14, 2026, 12:23 PM@techokami @zzt thank you!
Avraclayote@peoplemaking.gamesOct 14, 2026, 12:30 PMWhy bother, he asked, to search for all of the call sites of a function he has just modified, when the tool can fix them all automatically?
this has been a common feature of IDEs for well over a decade
Colman ReillyColman@mastodon.ieOct 14, 2026, 1:52 PM@clayote @techokami @zzt couldn’t ctags do that decades ago?
d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 1:57 PM@Colman @clayote @techokami @zzt THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
LunaphiedLunaphied@provably.onlineOct 14, 2026, 6:40 PM@zzt @clayote @hipsterelectron @Colman @techokami me when I learn about LSPs for the first time (seriously it's so useful I spent way too long doing stuff like this manually but it's invaluable in languages like Python especially
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 7:02 PM
@Lunaphied @zzt @clayote @Colman @techokami my emacs package makes ripgrep matches editable and it is strictly more powerful and useful in every possible way along with not tying me to a specific compiler or build system and even working for projects i don't have to build in advance as a result
- Oct 14, 2026, 7:04 PM
@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami damn, fuck, that sounds excellent. I really like editable matching as an interface but the only emacs package I knew that did it was really barebones and a bit slow
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 7:13 PM
@zzt @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami 100 stars on github somehow although the byte compiler is weird about my macro bullshit sometimes lmk if you want any features or shit breaks https://codeberg.org/cosmicexplorer/helm-rg i used to recommend deadgrep by wilfred hughes which was a really thoughtful bit of UI i was too lazy to do better than but he's a slopper now. if you can convince me to work on this again i would feel better about actually defeating him in the marketplace of ideas though
- Oct 14, 2026, 7:32 PM
@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami that’s so cool! is this available to me if I’m using vertico instead of helm?
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 8:19 PM
@zzt @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami if you mean vertico for general completion then yes, it will pull in helm as a library and use it for the UI but that won't infect anything else. tbh i'm incredibly pissed off at helm after they tried to tell MELPA to delist my package since they made one themselves. thierry volpiatto can fite me irl
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 8:20 PM
@zzt @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami helm also tends to just break shit every so often for fun i just need to get my act together and move to something else. never heard of vertico before tbh i'll have to check it out
Oct 14, 2026, 8:42 PM@hipsterelectron @zzt @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami
vertico + orderless is a great combo
- Oct 14, 2026, 8:23 PM
@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami what in the fuck, now I’m actively glad I don’t use helm
but anyway yes I’m gonna pull your package in next time I regenerate my session!
(some inside baseball on how my distro currently works, I build emacs and all its packages in one step but the old one gets orphaned so I have to restart my session right after I do it. what I need to do is make sessions user packages and hold a symlink to the currently running session somewhere but I have not done this yet)
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 8:29 PM
@zzt this is why i stopped being polite and just started flaming people outright
Damudunderhead@vivaldi.netOct 14, 2026, 8:22 PM@zzt @hipsterelectron tangentially related but I am always confused by the minad suite. I have never been able to figure out/remember what is needed for what and I end up installing all of them and getting further confused.
algernon.stzardoz@ioc.exchangeOct 14, 2026, 9:33 PM@hipsterelectron whats the deal with Helm? I have heard of it but I dont know if its meant to be a specific package that cannot be installed with others or something. Like I have heard ido and ivy do similar things
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 9:37 PM
@zardoz so all of these plug into completing-read and shit. the reason this is confusing is because if you M-x helm-mode it takes over all your completions everywhere and it has some incredibly half-assed defaults (i personally find it unusable for C-x C-f, which i use ido for, which also has fantastic LRU ranking for this while otherwise going by lex sort)
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 9:38 PM
@zardoz helm's problem is that thierry volpiatto is a prick https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/117441114505968470
The Orange Themetheorangetheme@en.osm.townOct 14, 2026, 7:09 PM@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @zzt @clayote @Colman @techokami Whaaaat that sounds so cool!
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 7:24 PM
@theorangetheme @Lunaphied @zzt @clayote @Colman @techokami emacs 2024 talk on regex and text as an interface featuring copious citation of @jamiejennings if you're interested https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/regex dr. jennings does https://rosie-lang.org
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 7:24 PM
- The Orange Themetheorangetheme@en.osm.townOct 14, 2026, 7:28 PM
@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @zzt @clayote @Colman @techokami @jamiejennings Supremely interested, thank you! (I've been a faithful emacs user since like... 2015.)
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 14, 2026, 1:58 PM
@clayote @techokami @zzt my emacs package does this
dimenziodimenzio@social.linux.pizzaOct 14, 2026, 2:04 PM@clayote @techokami @zzt I love using GPU clusters to do basic IDE features that work in a Thinkpad
Karpourkarpour@mstdn.socialOct 14, 2026, 3:42 PM@clayote @techokami @zzt the cognitive decline hits hard D:
Sharp Cheddar Goblinsharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blogOct 14, 2026, 1:51 PM@techokami @zzt Great. Every single one of these folks can fuck off. They are actively destroying a critical part of modern technology.
Gabriele Sveltogabrielesvelto@mas.toOct 14, 2026, 2:57 PM@techokami @zzt "LLMs are not the problem, it's the users' fault" is basically the same argument used by pro-gun lobbyists in the US. Tells you just how much they care about fixing the problem.
Krampus 🌰castanea_jo@ni.hil.istOct 14, 2026, 4:19 PM@techokami @zzt That picture sure is melanin-challenged.
USB Type-Steve :verified:USBTypeSteve@infosec.exchangeOct 14, 2026, 12:26 PM@zzt Seeing Torvalds go full AI brain has been immensely disappointing.
David Culleydavidculley@hachyderm.ioOct 14, 2026, 7:59 PM@USBTypeSteve @zzt A million-dollar salary paid by the corporations behind the Linux Foundation incentivized Linus.