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DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

415 points · 223 comments · Kuyawa

  1. wren6991 · · focus · HN ↗
    The desktop build seems to enable telemetry by default. Regular `dsh web` only has telemetry for explicit user feedback. Hmm :/

    If like me you're mildly bothered by this, add these lines to $DSH_HOME/cordis.patch.yml before first startup ($DSH_HOME is ~/.dsh by default):

        - id: desktop-product-telemetry
          disabled: true
        - id: product-analytics
          disabled: true
        - id: session-log-deepseek
          config:
            enabled: false
    
    On-topic: I like DeepSeek Harness quite a bit, but the problem with "Everything Is A Plugin" is that when this includes core functionality, you still have to maintain downstream patches for those core plugins if you want to tweak existing behaviour. I currently have ~25 downstream commits and 0 new plugins.
    1. wpm · · focus · HN ↗
      Why does every one of these apps pollute the home directory by default? You'd think AI would be able to write the code to make the app fucking behave properly and store its settings in the platform appropriate way.
      1. wren6991 · · focus · HN ↗
        Combination of main character syndrome, and wanting consistency across platforms like MacOS, which doesn't define $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or $XDG_CACHE_HOME.
        1. trollbridge · · focus · HN ↗
          It’s not hard to default to ~/.config
          1. wpm · · focus · HN ↗
            It's even easier to not spray file diarrhea all over my home directory on macOS and put things where the belong in ~/Library/Preferences
            1. trollbridge · · focus · HN ↗
              I get frustrated everytime I have to tab out ~/Library/Application\ S… no, not that one, I want Support… com.foobar.flibbity/file.cfg

              It’s completely fine to use ~/.config

              1. wpm · · focus · HN ↗
                I get frustrated every time I have to do Command+Shift+. to navigate to some fucking stupid dot folder and get frustrated every single time I have to look past dozens of polluting folders spewed into MY HOME folder without my permission or consent with no ability to move it somewhere sensible and normal.

                I'm sure that the space in Application Support (which I agree is annoying) is so hard to get past. I have to hit tab twice! Ugh! But that's so much easier than having to stretch my hand to the lower right to add a fucking . to a folder ostensibly called "config" or "name_of_app_that_shits_in_my_home" instead of just hitting c-tab and so on.

                You absolutely cannot fucking convince me that dot-files/dot-folders are good. You might as well be telling me that eating feces is good because you don't have to walk to the fridge. They are one of the absolute stupidest, most lazy and brain-dead things this industry has accepted as normal. And even if they aren't, the XDG_BLANK environment variables (one of the stupidiest ways to set configurations) have absolutely zero place on macOS because macOS is not part of the Free Desktop Group, and if they were there's no shot Apple would've said "yeah shit all over the home directory with some dot-file trash lol".

                1. trollbridge · · focus · HN ↗
                  I don’t see how having everything inside .config and .local is a problem. If it really bothers you, set the XDG vars.

                  There’s two things that start with “Application S” in Library. The first alphabetic one is one you almost never use.

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