Alex RussellThe mobile app stores demand we believe that they *must* be trusted exclusively to protect us, to the exclusion of a powerful open web:
The only thing they're protecting is profits:
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Mitchell HashimotoGhostty is getting an updated AI policy. AI assisted PRs are now only allowed for accepted issues. Drive-by AI-written PRs will be closed without question. Bad AI drivers will be banned from all future contributions. If you're going to use AI, you better be good. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10412
Updated AI usage policy for contributions by mitchellh · Pull Request #10412 · ghostty-org/ghostty
Follow up to #8289 The rise of agentic programming has eliminated the natural effort-based backpressure that previously limited low-effort contributions. It is now too easy to create large amounts ...
Jan SchaumannHere #curl is again showing the way in Open Source, this time with vulnerability management. Per their well-known/security.txt:
Stéphane BortzmeyerIn a discussion at #IETF, about trust: "Ideally, you would use 3 servers run by 3 different organizations using 3 different software implementations running on 3 different operating systems in 3 different well guarded buildings in 3 different countries..."
It was intended to be fun but is is actually quite true. Those days, you need to be paranoid like this.
Peter Brown
Well, it has happened. Ghostty on macOS now has search. This is now in tip releases, I'm certain there's a bunch of polish and bugs to work through over the next months, but more than enough time for it to be rock solid for 1.3 next year. GTK to follow soon. Gobble, gobble. 🦃🦃
Zig's focus on compilation speed is paying off. Ghostty just finished upgrading to Zig 0.15, and here are some results.
Build Script Compilation: 7s to 1s
Full Uncached Build: 41s to 32s
Libghostty Incremental Build: 3s to 950ms
Full blog post:
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster
Stephan OkhuijsenDear people in Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, France and Sweden:
your government is about to squander your #privacy by creating a law forcing scanning of all your app conversations.
https://www.privacyguides.org/newsletters/2025/09/23/the-battle-to-stop-chat-control-continues-act-now/
Fight back!
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
kepanoToday in ransomware, Slack increases pricing by $195k with a week's notice for a non-profit that teaches teenagers how to code.
Randahl FinkNorway, with a population of just 5,594,340, has pledged $ 8.5 billion to Ukraine for 2026.
At the same time, the Trump regime has demanded that US weapons given to Ukraine are paid for by other countries, so Trump can spend $ 0.
The US is a country of 340,100,000 people, or 61 times the population of Norway.