Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
iterm2
-
iTerm2 v3.5.1 moves AI features into external plugin
The correct response to false allegations followed by insults and threats is anything but to admit it. The software in question is a popular free and open source software that has more than a decade of trust. It's maintained by a single developer in his spare time. It's a feature that fundamentally requires the user to actively engage with in order to use it [1], with no nagging or coercion whatsoever. In fact, the only people reminding us of its existence are the Mastodon mobs, not iTerm.
The feature wasn't added out of pure hype either. It was likely inspired by user feedback [2], and the dev ultimately added it because it was useful for him personally [3].
Despite all of this, people are raging about unprovable nefarious motives and making claims about spyware, as if it's Windows. Some are even openly fantasizing about physical violence.
This kind of behavior should be condemned, not praised.
[1]: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/a3122c0100d8900a15cb...
[2]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/6955
[3]: https://techhub.social/@gnachman/109542492387391561
-
iTerm 3.5.1 lets you opt out of OpenAI integration
> iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
This is an editorialized title. It was opt-in from the very beginning. Here's all the steps that was originally required:
1. Open settings, go to the General tab, click on the AI button.
2. Enter a paid API key
3. Close the settings
4. Click "Toolbelt" on the menu bar, and click on "Codecierge"
5. Click "Toolbelt" on the menu bar again, and click "Show toolbelt"
6. In the toolbelt, there's a textbox that you can type questions into. The textbox won't be shown if you didn't enter an API key. Only after submitting the question will the OpenAI integration be activated.
https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/a3122c0100d8900a15cb...
The initial implementation already took many many clicks to run. I literally had to do nothing to not use the feature and not once was I reminded about the feature after I chose to ignore it.
Despite that, people were spreading rumors that entering an invalid API key would instantly cause iTerm to send all data to OpenAI. It's a straight up lie started by people who actually tested the feature and posted their findings the GitLab thread about this feature.
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11475
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470
People in the GitLab thread were calling for dogpiles and fantasizing about inflicting violence on Mastodon. Towards the sole maintainer of a popular free and open source software developed in his spare time.
https://archive.is/https://tau-ceti.space/@ics/*
Some of the things you see online... I have no words.
-
iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin
I'd suggest everyone go read the issue thread (https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470) before commenting.
It seems abundantly clear that people are being overly negative about a feature that realistically has no security concerns (even as originally developed). Many commenters did not even know how the feature worked (assumed all keystrokes were being sent by default, etc...)
One outright said that the feature should be removed because the developer must "stand against OpenAI and the whole "AI" industry."
To me this just seems like a lot of people whining and trying to inject politics and unfounded safety concerns into a good implementation of something that many people like. This is an opt-in feature. It has a separate panel to even interact with it. And you need to provide a valid openai API key to use it.
-
iTerm2 and the Gap Between Developers and Users
Hello! I have not been blogging for a while, but I have been watching this issue blow up for a few days, and I wanted to put down some thoughts.
-
Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution
[0] https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/10994 the discussion in there makes it seem like it's okay because many schemes that aren't http[s] cause the browser to open a dialog box
Features of iTerm2 I use:
- fullscreen without using MacOS's spaces implementation of fullscreen
- iTerm2 feature request: disable all AI-related features
-
iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
No, that's not how the plugin works. It sends context to ChatGPT telling it to return a single command that is copy/pasteable. The plugin does no filtering of the results. You can literally read the code for yourself:
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/blob/master/sources/iTe...
- "Provide a build without ChatGPT integration"
-
iTerm2 3.5.0
Totally.
There are clear explanations in the release notes and the wiki entry linked from the relevant place in the preference pane [1]. The full release note is displayed before updating. There are numerous comments explaining how it's impossible to accidentally enable the feature. It's opt-in, you have to input an paid API key, you can even use a offline modal instead, and the data it sends are totally customizable and by default limited to the output of "uname" and the prompt you explicitly enter.
Yet people ignore all of that
iTerm2 is featureful yet solid, constantly improved, doesn't work against the user, and is free. I've submitted patches before and the author was nice and responsive. The AI feature is minimal, non-intrusive, and doesn't advertise its existence once you decided not to opt in. It's thankless work even without HN piling on and the author deserves much better.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/AI-Prompt
-
icons in neotree
What terminal emulator are you using? I have noticed that the latest release of iterm2 has problems rendering glyphs (see this discussion and links therein). I too am having problems displaying any nerd font icon due to the aforementioned.
tmuxp
-
Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included (tmux alternative)
Using tmux + tmuxp[1] you can load a pre-configured session and execute arbitrary shell commands for the session, window and pane. I use this to set up shells and editors in the correct dirs (and/or hosts), load lang environments, set env vars and source some zsh aliases and functions that I only want per project. The end result is that I can set up my dev environment (shells with different environments, neovim windows, test runner, various linters I don't wannt integrate into nvim) with a single "tmuxp load ".
[1]: https://github.com/tmux-python/tmuxp
- tmuxp: tmux session manager. built on libtmux
-
916 days of Emacs
As for apps: - I also use Zathura for PDFs, which is fine for me because it also has vim bindings, and I like the recolor feature. - I mostly use Alacritty + tmux for terminals, because I also use tmuxp. Although I run some quick commands in vterm. - I'm pretty happy with Firefox + Tridactyl as my main browser (by the way, I think Tridactyl is more powerful than Vimium). - My passwords are also stored in pass, which I access with pass.el and my password-store-ivy. The latter replicates some rofi script I used earlier. - I'm fine with dired for files and archives, but I run dired-do-compress or just enter tar / zip / ... commands in dired-do-async-shell-command. I don't work with that many archives anyway. - Honestly, I very rarely have to search for something across my entire machine (or home directory), and in such cases, I just run find :-) But I often use counsel-rg and deadgrep to fuzzy search across a given project.
- Tmuxifier is awesome!
-
Hello 👋 First Post here! Any alternatives to VSCode's workspace in Neovim?
Looks very simple I think I can do something based on ThePrimeagen's script that works for me, someone else also commented to tmuxp. It's probably better to look for solutions without having to do everything within neovim. Thanks
- Getting started with tmux
-
Getting Started with Tmux
https://tmuxp.git-pull.com/ does the same thing, but I think it's smoother to work with. It does support freezing current panes. yaml config
-
Could use some advice for managing projects in a way that fits my mental model and codebase. Monolithic codebase with project files spread around different working directories. Or just help me change my mental model.
Everything is configured with tmuxp and I can set the whole thing up with a single command.
-
Software development veteran who's always used vim -- should I be using tmux?
https://github.com/tmux-python/tmuxp provides essential startup utility and scriptability.
-
tmuxp 1.12.0 and libtmux 0.12.0 released - Revamped documentation
tmuxp v1.12.0, GitHub, Release notes, Docs
What are some alternatives?
sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics
Tmuxinator - Manage complex tmux sessions easily
vim-tmux-navigator - Seamless navigation between tmux panes and vim splits
sonokai - High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro
tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
awesome-tmux - A list of awesome resources for tmux
tmux - tmux source code
i3-resurrect - Simple solution to saving and restoring i3 workspaces
mprocs - Run multiple commands in parallel