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Valord··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
The Android version is clearly displayed in the article.
Valord··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Sticking mostly with 4.6 here too.
Valord··on Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader
got an X4 and put crosspoint on it. It's not too small, great for carrying in pocket, I've been reading articles on it. I could definitely read an entire book.
Valord··on Fox to buy Roku
go on...
Valord··on Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code
this.
Valord··on The next two years of software engineering
This is how I use it for work-production code.
Valord··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
See also: "Task Manager might continue running in the background after the app is closed"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/october-28-2025-kb...

Valord··on Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Use tailscale or another private VPN to not suffer from changing networks.
Valord··on Tailscale has raised $160M
I share your concerns.
Valord··on Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
I have one for categorizing subscriptions/channels. I've been running it for 3y maybe more. SQLite too. No history integration. I have not opened sourced it because the code is thrown together and there are some subscriptions that the YouTube API doesn't return. I'm not certain what the commonality between them is, either. Possibly country of origin.
Valord··on Pico CSS: Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML
I actively use this frame for small projects. Classless is great.
Valord··on Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says
My impression is that costs will continue to go down. Large investments are unlikely to be profitable for these businesses. Whoever is dumping billions into this is unlikely to get their money back. The new tooling, models, discoveries seem to be commoditized within months. There are no moats. If things keep going this way there will never be a point where employers (or anybody for that matter) have to pay the real cost.
Valord··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
The simplest setup is to run jellyfin and tailscale in docker with docker compose utilizing tailscale serve. You will get automatic https and a simple reverse proxy with tailscale serve.

The Kuma example here is decent. Replace kuma image and ports with jellyfin. https://www.elliotblackburn.com/how-to-use-tailscale-serve-w...

Valord··on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
Programmers don't fully control what they work on when employed by an entity seeking profits.

Programmers _do_ have control in the world of open source. Unfortunately efforts are spread out thinly[0] enough to prevent many ideas from reaching the tipping point to being better than a profit driven entity's solution.

Imagine what would be possible in OSS if all work in a similar domain was concentrated.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42821332

Valord··on Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim
I have seen this happening at work. What should have been a single file one-off script to do something was instead a full blown application "just in case".
Valord··on F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
sigh. diffusion of effort in open source is commonly pointed to as a reason for poor adoption
Valord··on System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC
I agree with you on the sleep-hibernate thing. Unfortunate that Linux sleep is noticeably worse. Switched from Mac to AMD Framework 16 with Fedora and I discovered it quickly.
Valord··on Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
Had the itch. Did it. No regrets
Valord··on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
5x throughput/output not 5x work
Valord··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
Seems like it
Valord··on Please stop the coding challenges
This
Valord··on The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
I agree that Go is not an improvement over C#. In my experience the language ergonomics of C# are better than Go. I've done both in industry and am much more productive with C#. It is too bad that C# and .NET are often perceived as bad because of Microsoft & Windows. .NET core has a lot of really things going on.

Not that Go is a bad language. It has its place. I recommend it for embedded systems and as an option for systems programming.

Valord··on MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone
Look at the bottom of the page and you will see

> This project is funded through NGI0 Entrust, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet program. Learn more at the NLnet project page.

with links and everything.

Valord··on What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
+1 since 2013 according to my invoice search!
Valord··on A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
F40 works fine enough on my SP2. Only complaint is no deep sleep. I just shut down instead. Same with my framework 16.
Valord··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
About 3 years ago I wrote a web app to make browsing and categorizing my YouTube subscriptions easier. I can, for example, select the music category and see all videos posted by channels I have marked as music. Really simple stuff backed by a sqlite db.

I spent a total of probably 20 hours on it and use it 5/7 days a week.

Valord··on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
Same!
Valord··on The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem
Very real problem
Valord··on Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking
What tools would you run provided hw was not an issue?

What specs do you think would be needed?

Valord··on Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking
Is this possible with tooling available today?
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