Scott Chacon

CEO of @gitbutler, cofounder of @SCNE_io, previously cofounder of @github.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

Team is cooking up some truly mind-blowing diff speed in the new gpui-based @gitbutler desktop beta right now.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

About 2 months ago, after about 3 months of several of us struggling to get internet of any kind in our new office space, I wrote a frustrated tweet with a joke bounty for anyone to get this done.

Max stepped up and through mighty struggle, got us internet in about 6 weeks. If you want to know how difficult it is to do any sort of business in Germany, read this harrowing tale of 40+ support calls, corporate apathy via a largely state-held telco, lack of competition and a country largely indifferent to startups.

Big thanks to our awesome bounty hunter Max!

[Max Hager @yachty66]

https://t.co/xHH8wHw1PA

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@zeeg Also, are agents even good at buying shit yet? Amazon blocks them and few other storefronts have like mcp or apis. Also agents hate using credit cards because security.

Have you ever had an agent buy you something?

[Orhun Parmaksız 👾 @orhundev]

No more scrolling endless logs during Linux boot!

Visualize systemd services come to life in real time.

Powered by @ratatui_rs 🐀

https://t.co/Tw2mv65yTg

#rustlang #ratatui #linux

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

It’s such an interesting argument that is so important now. The craft or the result?

Omarchy is really good. I’ve used Linux desktop shit for (embarrassingly) like 30 years now and this is just honestly really fucking good.

Its solid and delightful and used by millions. I find that pretty compelling.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

man, who should i trust? a bunch of nerds who made linux run on apple silicon, reverse engineering that pesky gpu isa among a gazillion other things, all pre-ai.

or the guy who thinks having your agent rewrite shitty rust he never looked at in x86_64 is excellence?

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

I've had a few conversations lately with people concerned about copyright protections and it's always pretty funny to me.

I have a book, Pro Git, which is protected by copyright. Agents have read it and learned from it, as have probably many thousands of othere people, as it's on https://t.co/nYtPCowsDJ

LLMs use it's information to help teach other people about Git, just like people use it's information to teach other people about Git.

I love it.

So many people want to bury their head in the sand and try to keep the copyright walls up, but it's a lost fight.

Whatever you write is now available in ways that were never possible before LLMs. People can learn Git so much better than my book, because of what they learned from my book and I think that's awesome.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

idea: AI conference where you have to apply to attend, but the gating factor is that you used AI to search for a discount code before registering.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@leocardz Legal teams in big companies do many dumb things.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@Dieter_be Actually, you’re right. I phrased it incorrectly. Novel creative expressions aren’t protected by copyright and that is what is no longer difficult.

But I disagree that LLM-produced expressions aren’t novel, any more than humans who learned from lots of sources.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

I find it hilarious that anyone thinks that GPL is relevant or enforceable in this new world.

Copyright is predicated on the concept that copying the creative expression of an idea is hard, which it no longer is.

Software licenses are dead.

[sysxplore @sysxplore]

Asahi Linux is moving everything from the MIT licence to GPLv2-or-later.

Asahi is the volunteer project that reverse-engineers Apple Silicon Macs so they can run Linux. In today's Linux 7.3 progress report, developer James Calligeros explains why: people have been using the permissive licence to take the team's work. "In some extreme cases, in-development feature code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin."

The report points to WINE, which switched from MIT to LGPL in 2002 for the same reason: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

The same report brings real wins too. M3 Macs now install without the EXPERT flag, Thunderbolt support (USB3 and networking for now) is shipping to users, and the team got GTA IV and Fallout: New Vegas running outside the muvm VM using Google's per-process page size patches.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@yawaramin Not to be glib, but thats ridiculous. I have copyright on technical books, there is no needed maintenance effort.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

Its even fucking funnier that this is for a project that is _reverse engineering_ a proprietary chipset.

[sysxplore @sysxplore]

Asahi Linux is moving everything from the MIT licence to GPLv2-or-later.

Asahi is the volunteer project that reverse-engineers Apple Silicon Macs so they can run Linux. In today's Linux 7.3 progress report, developer James Calligeros explains why: people have been using the permissive licence to take the team's work. "In some extreme cases, in-development feature code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin."

The report points to WINE, which switched from MIT to LGPL in 2002 for the same reason: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

The same report brings real wins too. M3 Macs now install without the EXPERT flag, Thunderbolt support (USB3 and networking for now) is shipping to users, and the team got GTA IV and Fallout: New Vegas running outside the muvm VM using Google's per-process page size patches.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

So, technically it works:

https://t.co/0tOYhSTYod

The object/ref backends needs to be sqlite currently, which is one row per object loose, so it's incredibly inefficient for anything other than small repos.

Working on a way to do partial packfile storage in R2, see what we can do here.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

I have been having so much fun with grit (Rust rewrite of Git) lately. Get to make everything fast and pretty. :0

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@andrewgazelka Claude says it's pretty close. The main issue is the backend, since DO has no disk. Grit has pluggable object backends, including a SQLite example, so that actually technically could work. I'll spike something out to see what it looks like.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@andrewgazelka It's a good question. I haven't tried compiling to wasm in a while. Let's see.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@Apenas_James Updated grit to break out the connect stage. Here's a longer example cloning grit itself.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@Apenas_James "Connect" covers everything from when the command starts until the first byte of the pack arrives. in this case:

- ssh handshake/auth (~1s)
- ref negotiation (~0.5s)
- server pack prep (~0.5s)

I benchmarked this clone 3x with each, the total wall time is essentially identical

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@yachty66 lol, now we're trying to log into our billing portal and @vodafone_de makes you do a Captcha that is not possible to get past. Literally impossible. Even the audio version. Our COO has been working on this for 20 minutes now.

These companies need to be burnt to the ground.

[Scott Chacon @chacon]

@yachty66 Max, maybe you should write a blog post on this insanity. :)