I do most small edits in nano these days. Trying to switch to micro, nano’s syntax highlighting is far from perfect, and micro’s impressed me.

But if it’s something even slightly more complex I go for a GUI code editor.

Strangely, I much prefer writing Markdown with the GUI variant, too.

kwrite

Huh, yet another KDE app. It seems they all build on the same base, with increasing feature richness:

Kwrite => Kate => Kdevelop

?

kdevelop

Huh, yet another KDE app. Installed now. Seems to be just as suitable for my needs as Kate even though it says to be centered around C/C++. Unlike Kate it has something called LSP which might help with automatically adding closing tags; but I have yet to figure out how to activate this. — Huh, Kate has this too. Reading up on it in the Archwiki now.

VS Code/Codium seems to be omnipresent when diving into the topic, but I just don’t like that it’s controlled by MS, even if these are opensource.

What’s an LSP here?

edit: OK this has come up a lot in this post. reading up on it, installing packages. Hopefully it’s not too hard to get it to work.

And I hope it stays that way until the matter is resolved. Much better deterrent than fines.

We need to teach big multinationals that they can’t just ignore local law.

Right now I wonder if construction is/remains stopped until the matter is resolved. That would really show them to stop messing with local law.

edit: it looks like this is the case ✊ - for how long though.

Adding insult to injury:

The US-based company operates an AI training platform named Outlier, which employs more than 900,000 “freelance” workers.

Or rather more injury to injury.

Thanks noyb, we really need to stay vigilant. It’s clear that US companies have almost no oversight at home, and expect the same to be the case everywhere.

40 million and rising

As of the fourth quarter of 2025, there were approximately 201.82 million people employed in the European Union.

So a fifth of the EU workforce already. Damn.

Ctrl-Shift-t restores a recently closed tab in my browser, and does nothing on my desktop.
Don’t really see the symbolic here.

Ctrl-Alt-t however opens a terminal.

All of F(L)OSS has a slop problem right now.

Everything has a slop problem right now.

I can’t even take part in any pro/contra AI-assisted coding (see, I’m trying to be polite) discussions because whenever I admit that the other person has a point, I remember AI’s political, social and environmental impact, and i’m back to nope. And I can’t separate local models from all that, not completely. Maybe in 10 years when US corporate fascism is quenched for good.

I know next to nothing about iPhones but I assume they’ve been notoriously hard to jailbreak?

Oh, it’s Picture-in-Picture, not Python’s Pip.

And still people are going to say “I have nothing to hide”. (edit: or any variation of This is Fine)

Maybe a few less now.

Their own phrasing:

Google does not scan G Suite emails for the purposes of ad targeting

Sounds a lot like weasel wording to me. Could be they’re still scanning - for other pruposes. The article obviously does not clarify.

I’d rather they tell us all the data mining they do do.

There’s a reason they scrapped that slogan again.

They say they lay people off because AI does the job better (59% of 97). Doesn’t mean very much.

Article is a set of videos. For those unfamiliar with what iPhones cannot do ootb, this one’s probably most impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GJVKVNMczM

Our devices are shoving convenience in our faces every opportunity they get.

“Give us all your data and depend on our products for the rest of your life but boy will it be convenient!”

In face of that pretty much everything else is inconvenient, esp. interacting with humans.

LLM-assisted coding puts that on overdrive. Countless times have I heard in the past year or so “well who has the time to code by hand?”. Sure, people have always been complaining, esp. unpaid FOSS coders, but never as an argument against doing the thing itself.

It’s like giving people the choice between a bun + cucumber + beef patty, or an already packaged McDonalds hamburger. “Well who still has the time to make their own sandwiches”.

I hope hand-coded will become a selling point at some point but considering most people don’t care about what is going on under the surface of their devices at all…

You’re actually pretty close to what the top comment says. Phrasing matters I guess.

And it runs Doom.