Court documents revealing that President Donald Trump was de-banked after a money laundering probe have been linked to a reinvigorated effort to protect him from prosecution by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday accused the Democratic base of becoming “increasingly anti-American” amid calls against U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, Iran and Cuba.

Working on a new agentic editor and looking for collaborators, specially around want we want this to do.

Why a new agentic editor? My initial list of gripes with existing ones that I am familiar with or have looked into below.

Although this will, eventually, do what I want I am hoping to actually make it useful for others too; getting feedback from others on what they need which existing editors don't do will greatly increase the chances of this been useful.

Last note before sharing list of gripes with existing editors.. This will NOT be quick. I am working slowly, and methodically, on this. I am thinking on doing very small pieces at a time so I can truly understand the code that comes back from whatever I use to help me write this (likely Claude Code and OpenCode). This will be a side project with zero prospects of any sort of profit so I am spending whatever little time I can every day on this, but the emphasis is on getting it right not shipping something quickly.

Gripes with existing editors..

General notes

• Using an editor locked to a single company, and family of models, means your work stops when the provider has a problem, or the provider arbitrarily decides to lock you out [1].
• Most, perhaps all, agentic editors have git as first class citizen and anything else you have to nudge it; I want to be able to work with any version control software(VCS) of my choice.
• Editors allow to approve some tools, but then do operations like command1 && command2 which appears as not authorized even if you had approved command1 and command2.

Specific editor notes

These are issues I have either experienced or expect would have if I was to use the editor. My experience is primarily Claude Code and OpenCode; have used others (Warp, Windsurf,etc), but my daily drivers are Claude Code and OpenCode.

Claude Code

• Anthropic has moved to close subscriptions in all third party tools. This is an indication on their, strong, desire to lock people into their ecosystem so because of this I try to avoid, or minimize Claude Code only workflows.
• Editor keeps executing non approved commands even though commands with same functionality which have been approved already exists.Their Automode (approve anything they deem is not dangerous) is less secure than their old "accept edits" mode
• Single family of models - Claude

Codex CLI - have not used

• Single family of models - GPT

Github copilot

• Approvals only last current session.
• Approvals do not seem to be tied to a given folder so when we "approve all file operations during this session" it seems we may be authorizing work outside current folder too.
• It doesn't show plans; it shows "plan saved to ~/.copilot/session-state/id/plan.md. One has to, manually go look at the plan

OpenCode

https://opencode.ai/

• Approvals only last current session.

PI - have not used so going on what I have read

https://pi.dev/ You Only Live Once(YOLO) default mode is too permissive. Would require a separate, isolated, development location. Having to setup and maintain an entire environment because some software lack of security, was not something I wanted to consider.

Notes

[1] Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/64720674

David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for PostgreSQL, has archived the project and announced that it is no longer being maintained.

After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship for much of this time, but there were also many late nights and weekends as I worked to make pgBackRest the project it is today, aided by numerous contributors. Every open-source developer knows exactly what I mean and how much of your life gets devoted to a special project.

Since Crunchy Data was sold, I have been maintaining pgBackRest and looking for a position that would allow me to continue the work, but so far I have not been successful. Likewise, my efforts to secure sponsorship have also fallen far short of what I need to make the project viable.

Some weeks back I found a list of backups created by the restic project - Restic others. Does not seem like it is active so I am picking it up to maintain it in a different location and with some additional functionality.

One thing that would like input is whether we should mark Inactive software through a tag, have it's own category or outright just delete. I am leaning towards having it's own category, but would like feedback.

The former Fox News host and his brother lamented their support for the president over the past decade.

Looking for advice on best way to keep temperature of water when preparing tea.

What I tried so far

Electric kettle without infuser

Issue: Because I want to measure amount of water I go from Kettle to measuring cup which brings down temperature (measured 6 to 12 degrees drop) from just pouring the water in the measuring cup

Microwave

Issue: Have figured out duration + amount of water to get temperatures I want, but temperature drops the second I put the tea bag and can't use loose leaves with this method

Kettle with tea infuser

Issue was more of a specific kettle than the method. The Kettle I first tried was somewhat wide so would have to put about 4 cups of water (32oz of water) for the water to go high enough on the container to get to the level of tea leaves. I think this will likely be the best method, just have to find a better kettle for smaller amounts since it is the only method that can keep the temperature closer to recommended temperature during the steep time. I figure one could probably also use a pot, but probably would be more of a challenge to keep temperature around a fixed level.

Brewing time question: All the temperature recommendations for different teas is that recommended time at start of steep or recommended temperature for the duration?

Reading a few articles online mostly confirmed that an electric Kettle with infuser is probably the best way to go. Any good articles with practical advice, or books, you would recommend? Lots of the articles online are somewhat generic and pretty much most have similar info.

I subscribe to some, low volume, Lemmy communities (i.e. FreeBSD, Postgersql) and sometimes the posts won't show on the first, or even second, page if I sort by day.

Is there a way to see just something like

subscribed community | posts (today|week)

So I can keep an eye on those low traffic groups

I have some ansible roles to manage my FreeBSD machines and was wondering if anyone may have any interest on them to clean them up and make them public. Would also love to see what others have or if you have tried some galaxy modules that have worked well for you.

So far, that are general enough to potentially share, I have

• freebsd_base -- basic setup
• freebsd_pf -- pf setup
• freebsd_bastille - bastille setup

These two I think have the potential, with a little more work, to be good candidates to put on Galaxy for general use

• freebsd_pf
• freebsd_bastille

The freebsd_base probably is best as a sample, but will explore generalizing if there is any interest