Appears to be further along than anybody's ever gotten with a multi-threaded emacs port. If that's what vibe coding gets us, three cheers for vibe coding!
Emacs, meanwhile, has a 50,000 line file that contains its display and redisplay logic: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/xdisp..... (It's actually a pretty readable well-commented file all things considered, but famously difficult to hack on.)
That's descended from its terminal escape-sequence optimizer, the bit of code that transforms one screen state into another screen state in the least number of terminal commands possible. (That display code was later updated to support graphical output like X11 by treating it as sort of a special case of a terminal.)
I think I'd rather have that than the state of the art in "modern" TUIs, which is to do the opposite and treat the terminal as a special case of React canvas, redrawing the whole damn thing every time there is a keystroke or other action by you or the program. You can see Claude Code redraw itself all the time; it's maddening. And the program would absolutely be unusable on, say, a 9600bps connection, whereas Emacs could still get by on that. This is from the company that retains the best and brightest programmers, and will have self-improving runaway genius AI by Christmas, for realsies this time.
Especially when chances are that this camera installation was the result of local government asking and paying Flock to put it up. I'm not sure why the anger is directed at the company instead of local elected officials, and I understand the plight of the installer who's worried about being labeled as a bad guy for executing public works contracts.
> I understand the plight of the installer who's worried about being labeled as a bad guy for executing public works contracts.
You do unpopular things, you gotta expect to be an unpopular person.
Sophisticated, educated types might understand that parking wardens are just doing their jobs, and they didn't make the policy they're enforcing. But to 70% of the population, the person putting a ticket on their car is an asshole.
The company could have rejected the government deal if they cared about the moral aspect of spying on citizens instead of money; by accepting the deal and executing the contract they are complicit.
This is the disconnect. You say that politicians are allowing them - that's not right. They're directing them to be set up, they're spending citizen tax money on buying them.
The blame lies entirely with government officials who sought out and purchased surveillance tech, and we should not blame the technologists who responded rationally to the incentive that local governments provided for them.
If government supplied clean water hasn't been considered a right, and there's no change in that now, wouldn't you expect the number of dead in the future from this to be proportionally equal to the number of dead in the past?
“Sovereignty is the ability to resist power being exerted over you” is a pretty compelling definition. Thinking forward about what form that power takes with LLMs developing custom exploits faster than our existing processes can patch them - it seems to me that our current security best practices might turn out to be pretty useless or even an active risk in and of themselves.
Our responsible disclosure and CVE info cycle and patch cadences and defense in depth, etc, etc ecosystem are tuned around a world where there's a relatively small number of bad 0days and the cost of said 0days is reasonably high. We can evolve how we address threats, but our models have read all of the best literature about how it's been done previously. Think there's a gap for people too small to gain access to "the good security models" - the nerfed closed models and the open models seem likely to fail to adapt, unless that gap is addressed.
You say completely locked out, but be fair, that's a choice you're making. I don't particularly like Facebook but there are a few things I can only keep up with there, so I have a minimal account for that purpose.
In what world should a citizen be required to provide their details to a foreign, for-profit company in order to view the updates provided by their government?
That sufficient supply is maybe on the distant horizon. In the meantime everyone is being fleeced because the scalpers have the only supply available. Even if there's a supply glut tomorrow the scalpers have the infrastructure in place to buy out retail channels keeping prices high.
That's an extreme risk to them buying at inflated retail prices when supply is improving and prices are about to come down. Scalpers arent a large enough group to act as a cartel.
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