I’ve known Zed for almost a year now, but it still lacks a lot of what VS Code offers. Especially when it comes to customization.

Last time I did, it was thanks to canonical pushing snaps and other things no one asked for.

sir, this is a wendy’s

on second though: “ugh, light mode”

some alternatives I use:

• FOSS GUI - psst
• FOSS TUI - ncspot

rustic

I want to convert all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them

so it’s not exactly a mirror, right?

here’s an idea:

• A - the source containing lossless files
• B - the local storage of lossy files
• C - a remote mirror of B

With that, you can do:

• A -> B: a systemd service that makes this conversion.
• B -> C: git or syncthing to mirror and/or version control.

This uses more storage than you probably intended to (lossy files are also stored locally), but it’s a mirror.

the best thing is when not even the author knows the correct order of running the cells; because of course it isn’t top-to-bottom.

The if block is still in the global scope, so writing the code in it is a great way to find yourself scratching your head with a weird bug 30 minutes later.

I work in an academic / research environment. Depending who wrote it, even seeing a __name__ == "__main__" is a bit of a rare thing…

everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps

yeah, that’s… one of the points in the article

If your banking app has a biometrics lock, it doesn’t mean the bank has your biometric data. That’s not how this works.

yeah, it’s stored locally. This is just FUD cause “big corpo bad”.

Python is great, but it’s so forgiving that it’s easy to write garbage code if you’re not very proficient and don’t use the right tools with it.

The only objectively bad (major) thing against it is speed. Not that it matters much for most applications though, especially considering that most number crunching tasks will use libraries that have critical path written in a systems language:

numpy, pandas, polars, scikit-learn, pytorch, tf, spacy; all of them use another language to do the cpu intensive tasks, so it really doesn’t matter much that you’re using python at the surface.

Python-wrapped C, for the most part.

Just pasting more info for those that were concerned, like me:

Issue. This was rolled back and only seemed to affect Windows.

(I don’t use Brave as a daily driver, but it’s my Chromium browser of choice when I need assess if a website is really broken, or if it’s just misbehaving on Firefox.)

popular

if you’re using any of those you can’t complain about having to run a few command lines

it’s 2025, what popular distro makes it not easy?

what are you on about, it’s literally a chatbot.

yeah, I use Thunderbird, but it bothers me how slow it feels and the frequent little UI bugs with unread flags not updating and the delay of messages to show up in the unified inbox.

It’s nice that Betterbird has a system tray (I can’t believe how a standalone desktop app for emails neglects this, like TB does), but it still inherits a lot of the problems TB has.