Uh, maybe it's not so rare.

https://x.com/Polityka_wSieci/status/1965701477990543537

Don't know how credible this is.

@viq I understand this is a joke but it's a bittersweet one.

You see, so far Europe has acted as if Ukraine is that tall building. To a degree it's fair. putin has’t said anything about invading any other European country, only hinted. It's a solid strategy to keep the building propped up just enough so it wouldn't collapse on you. More so if it keeps the big bad busy on the other side of that building. It's also absolutely rational to not get directly involved to not attract any direct punches.

@viq I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you won't need them.

I guess, your only option then is to stay informed and find the safest spot in your building. 2 walls. Better if at least one of them if reinforced concrete or thick brickwork. If you have a metal bath tub, get some blankets, water in plastic/metal bottles (no glass) and get cozy.

Whatever happens stay calm. Your chancer of survival is quite OK. Unless you get directly hit you’ll probably walk away from it.

@viq I'm almost certain they are. Until the war broke out I didn't know we had those either.

The thing is every country has their own protocols. Almost no one builds dedicated bomb shelters but almost everyone has a protocol to turn common infrastructure into bomb shelters. Metro stations, basements, underground pedestrian passes, underground parkings, etc. All these can be very quickly, often with no investment, turned into a make-shift bomb shelter.

@solnic I wouldn't go that far. It is frustrating. It is understandable though. It's easy to blame Ukrainian Air Defence for not dawning the drones that go good 800 km over Ukraine. There's plenty of opportunities. How hard can it be? It's not an entirely unreasonable position for an uninformed individual. We can't all know everything all at once.

And I'm not sure how common it is. I just saw a few instances. Still wanted to address it.

We're extremely grateful to Poland for all the help you provided and facilitated, and for taking our refugees.

I want to separately address a sentiment relatively common on social media: #Ukraine wants to drag #Poland into the #war.

No, we don't. We'd like Poland, the rest of Europe, USA, and the rest of the world, uh… to take more active stance in defeating #russia. We'd love you all stopped buying anything from russia. We'd love you spent more of your political capital convincing others to do the same. We'd love more sanctions. We'd love you gave us more weapon and air defence. We'd love you let us strike deep into russia with your weapons, sooner.

We'd also love you never knew what it's like to hear a #drone overhead. But we also see that 4 years into the war you still don't really understand that putin will keep pushing and breaking stuff until he gets a proper pushback. You still seem to believe that him leaving Kyiv alone was an act of good will on his part and not a defeat. You seem to still keep buying his propaganda that his victory in Ukraine is inevitable despite him not moving the frontline in any meaningful way for the last three years.

Today's response from Poland and #NATO is turning the another cheek for putin, while he can only understand the Old Testament ways.

So yeah, we don't want to drag anyone into the war. We just hope that maybe, just maybe, this would tip the scale and get you all doing more to defeat russia sooner.

Last night russia attacked #Poland with #drones.

Prime Minister of Poland #Tusk says that it was not an attack but a massive provocation, there’s no need for panic and life should continue as normal.

My Polish friends, he’s not wrong on the count of panic but otherwise he’s a little off base. Though, you should give him no crap as it’s literally his job to keep you all calm.

Let me expand a bit on his statement.

It was not an #attack. Technically, he’s right. There was no specific targets on Polish soil russia intended to hit. It was not an invasion like it was in #Ukraine.

It was a #provocation. It certainly was a premeditated act, it wasn’t a mistake. Polish SIM cards were found in dawned drones in Ukraine since at least July. So russians planned this for some time and implemented it in hardware a while ago.

It was a massive provocation. Drones and missiles went into Polish airspace on multiple occasions before but they were singular and could easily be dismissed as mistakes or quirks of decision making algorithms in a jammed drone. This time it was at least 19 drones (according to the Prime Minster of Poland, some Polish sources claim as many as 23). They were on a rather straight course and went as far as 70 km deep into Poland.

This provocation is meant to test #NATO's resolve. Specifically Article 5. And we have an answer already. This was not an attack. There's nothing to worry about.

Unfortunately, this means the next even bigger provocation is definitely coming. Putin was allowed to get away with this so he'll escalate further. Maybe he'll try hitting something in Poland. Say, a military base or a transportation hub involved in military aid to Ukraine. Maybe it'll be in Baltics. Finland got some unpleasant remarks from russian officials recently. Whatever it is, it's coming and probably sooner than later. Unfortunately, russia's about to run out of money so it can't really afford to wait long. It'll probably be on the order of weeks rather than months.

There's no need for panic. Now, this is very true. Panic doesn't help at all. What you should do is prepare. It is very unlikely you'll get invaded so I wouldn't plan to leave your home. But it's likely you'll get more drones or even missiles.

Learn where bomb shelters are around you. There are probably dedicated ones but they might've been mothballed and are not publicly accessible. Maybe contact your local authorities to fix that. Meanwhile see if there are any accessible basements nearby. Maybe even in your building. Find underground parkings, they work as shelters fine.

Remember the 2 Walls Rule: there must be at least 2 walls between you and the explosion. Why: explosion will shatter the first wall and things around it and all that sharp debris will fly your way. The first wall will absorb most of the explosion shock though. The second wall will protect you from the debris.

Learn the structure of your building. Find out where the load bearing structures are. Those are more structurally solid and will provide more protection.

Old brick building usually have outer walls for their load bearing structure. In those any second wall should be fine.

New monolith apartment blocks have the load bearing structure on the inside and outside walls are only barriers from the elements. In these building its better to go as deep as possible into the building: internal hallways are usually a safe bet.

Concrete panel apartment blocks (the soviet type, wielka płyta, you probably still have a few of them around) are the worst. They tend to fold like a house of cards. Try avoiding basements in such a buildings too. You probably will survive in the basement but will be blocked for a while by all the rubble on top. Go somewhere else.

Small houses. All above applies but also you should take into account that things might fall from the above. Most houses don't have much of load bearing structure in the ceiling and roof.

Find out how to stay informed about threats. In government sounds air strike alarms in regions where there's a threat. There's also an official app that give air strike alerts in the form of push notifications to your phone. It also provide more specific information on the kind of a threat. Fid out of Poland has anything like that.

Despite all the issues with Telegram, it's a vital source of information. There's a number of channels that provide near real-time information about whereabouts of drones and missiles. Including an official channel of Air Forces of Ukraine. Admins of some of the channels have direct access to realtime radar data and are accurate, others repost information from credible sources. Find out which are which. A number of channels posted updates in Polish last night when it was relevant. Other messengers probably have similar channels. I know for certain that Viber has.

Moderate your fear. For a while this might be new to you. While it is you will be frightened of it as of anything dangerous and unknown. This is normal. But do not panic. A direct hit might be lethal but also there's only a very small chance of that. Ukraine regularly gets attacked by hundreds of drones directly targeting civilians and even then casualties are few. You'll have to learn to distinguish a really dangerous situation from a merely uncomfortable. Most of the time you're not in actual danger. This doesn't mean you should neglect your safety. Be proactive in sheltering when needed. Know when it is. When you don't know err on the side of caution.

Turns out Web can reproduce Liquid Glass effect: https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/

The feature that powers the effect is backdrop-filter. According to MDN it's entered baseline in 2024 and is supported by all major browsers. Though, there seem to be some issue with SVG filters in backdrop in Firefox.

Electron, however, runs on Chrome so it, apparently, can blend in with new OS style.

#LiquidGlass #web #Electron

@ingemar Hm… It shouldn't be different keys. It's a global setting. It probably can be configure on a per-project/directory basis. Maybe that's what gives you different shortcuts? See if that's your case. If not, probably a bug.

@ingemar Edit suggestions runs on their own model, not Claude. You can’t change the model. The model you chose is for the Assistant/Agent panel.

There's nothing one can do to improve latency. It's ran remotely as far as I can tell. Bad internet might be an issue. Might be sluggish in peak hours.

There's not much one can do to improve quality right away either. I don't think they use your code/edits to train the model.

I run it in subtle mode. It doesn’t suggest any edits until I press Opt (on mac). I’ve learned to not use it when I write completely new code. But when I’m doing similar edits it’s quite handy.

@ingemar what do you have in mind?

I have edit suggestion enabled in subtle mode. I find it the most useful for me.

The assistant panel is in the classic mode. It’s less verbose that way. I use it mostly as summarized internet search engine. The new agent mode is way too verbose for that.

@denis scale windows by x0.2

@denis macOS developer: *slaps top of macbook* this bad boy can fit so many windows

@harpaa01 @veganstraightedge

Vim, technically, can do that too but there’s no built in way to do that, you need a plugin.

Zed supports multiple syntaxes. It even has it built in. For example a <<SQL heretic in Ruby would automatically get SQL syntax (both highlighting and navigation/text objects/selection). And you can specify desired syntax for any supported language.

Similarly, you get both HTML and Ruby in ERB.

Apple released Beta 9 of #iOS / #iPadOS / #macOS 26 which is supposed to be the last one before release (at least for iOS/iPadOS). I've seen quite a few reports that its new liquid glass is broken in more ways than is comfortable.

I understand that it's an ambitious redesign but I wonder if there was an ulterior motive to start in the first place.

#LiquidGlass introduces a rather complex rendering pipeline. It’s dynamic and uses a lot of complex shading and blending modes. It makes it practically impossible to recreate it in third-party UI toolkits.

Since (even before) #Aqua it was not too difficult to make a decent recreation of the OS UI in third-party toolkits if you could stitch together a bunch of bitmaps. In many cases it wasn't an exact recreation but it often was enough to blend in with the rest of the OS to a passable degree. Animations were probably slightly off and more subtle effects might’ve been missing but we had an acceptable level of replication so that at least in screenshots it looked fine to an average user.

#Java, #Qt, and even #web platforms (e.g. #Electron) had recreated OS UI and at least in principle had facilities to recreate it fully with enough effort.

This is not the case with Liquid Glass. As far as I can tell only Qt #QML might be capable to recreate it as it supports shaders for widget rendering. No other third-party UI toolkits (not Java, nor web, nor anything else really) provide facilities for such a complex rendering. In principle all of them can implement the effects but not within the widgets. In order to achieve even screenshot-passable fidelity you'd have to resort to rendering to a canvas.

If before apps using third-party UI toolkits lagged behind Apple now they might completely forego adopting the new visual language.

But this is an issue not only for third-party UI toolkits. It’s also an issue to many native apps. Specifically the ones that use custom widgets. Previous rendering models were relatively simple. So adapting widgets to blend in with OS was not too hard. It seems to me this time it might be much harder. You can't get away with swapping a few images/gradients any more. I wonder how long will it take for some apps to properly adopt Liquid Glass. Are we going to see a lot of apps partially in Liquid Glass (for the built-in widgets like regular buttons) and partially old-style custom widgets?

So far it looks like it’s going to be the worst design update for Apple. Liquid Glass is pretty broken on its own. That on the backdrop of the usual UI quality degradation in Apple products. And on top of that is third-party adoption of the new design language.