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Engineer with passions for privacy and entrepreneurship, as well as a soft spot for things with wheels. American based in Kazakhstan.

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bjord··on Half-Life 2 in a Browser
they're not saying it's fair to consumers, they're saying "it's not just apple, microsoft does it too", i.e. that judgement on apple should be made in the context of how its competitors behaved
bjord··on Steam Machine launches today
valve themselves also personally employ multiple major contributors to the amd linux drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Marek-Joins-Valve

bjord··on Steam Machine launches today
drivers for what else, exactly? valve is already regularly upstreaming work in major open source linux drivers (and has been for a long time)

for example: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Old-AMD-Linux-Love-Song

bjord··on W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
this is sarcasm, right?
bjord··on Claude Fable 5
I'm aware that it was marketing. I was trying to make the point that if it were really so dangerous, they wouldn't have released it at all, (prompt injectable) "safeguards" or otherwise.
bjord··on Claude Fable 5
I thought they said mythos was too dangerous to make generally available?
bjord··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
believe it or not, I was genuinely trying to be
bjord··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
well, sure, and I support that...I was purely trying to address the realisticness(?) of the request that it not happen anymore. possibly the wrong forum, my bad.
bjord··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
that was precisely my point: I care, we care, but sadly the spammers won't. disappointed to see it came off otherwise, I apologize.

to be clear: OP, I am rooting for you!

bjord··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
my sincere(!) sympathies, but realistically this won't reach anyone relevant. best of luck in the job search.
bjord··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
are you? you are going to have zero searchability
bjord··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
and what is the harness for harness called?
bjord··on Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
it's missing google buzz
bjord··on WebUSB Extension for Firefox
sorry, what are you talking about?
bjord··on Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
get this twitter-style LLM reply guy spam off of HN
bjord··on WebUSB Extension for Firefox
...in your opinion. the firefox team disagrees.
bjord··on Cloudflare Email Service
finally, more spam!
bjord··on Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
who, benjamin franklin?
bjord··on Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
you don't understand why pre-rolled critical backup solutions might be appealing to (especially non-technical) people?

also, you pay per-GB. the author is on backblaze's unlimited plan.

bjord··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
I can see why that would be incredibly frustrating. Have you reported it to them, either via github or email?
bjord··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
I primarily use a nearly-bottom end android phone that's a few years old and just recently switched to an even older, even lower end android phone that is six years old. Neither has that issue.

Obviously, I'm not really claiming that it's not possible people are experiencing this issue, but it can't possibly be widespread.

I feel like most likely people are using android skins that aggressively kill apps in the background.

bjord··on FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
possibly. the problem, though, is that 85% of signal's users would A. hate it and B. not know how to shut it off (even if you told them). that's part of the problem with trying to deliver security to the masses (and similar to the backup problem that they used to have).

fwiw, as far as I can remember, the signal foundation's position has always been "once someone has physical access to your device, all bets are off."

bjord··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
I don't personally use it, but regardless, it'd be a shame to see it go
bjord··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
seems like it was $300k (the total was split between simpleX and session), but still—fair question
bjord··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
does it? have you been trying to use signal while disconnected from the internet?
bjord··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
it's not purely gov work—lots of legacy software (especially outside of the US) is java-based

and if you hire an offshore outsourcing company, odds are that they will insist on something java (spring) based, as that's where their experience is

bjord··on Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
are you certain that it wasn't included in the training data?

I saw someone do this awhile ago with a low resource language (I think it might've been Abkhaz?) with seemingly-incredible results, and eventually everyone came to understood that, even though it wasn't officially supported, Abkhaz materials had been in the training data

bjord··on Kagi Small Web
doesn't solve the root problem, but maybe try searching for the topic in kagi with the small web lens?
bjord··on The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer
I highly respect the implicit decision to forgo repeat purchases by merging into the original game, considering how much work was clearly involved. I haven't played it, but I hope for sustainability's sake, there are sufficient (purely cosmetic) microtransactions to cover their development costs.
bjord··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
Kudos to the Kagi team for their relentless pursuit of innovation! Further, the public beta release of Orion for Linux represents a pivotal milestone in cross-platform synergy , and I am thrilled to rigorously evaluate its performance and long-term trajectory . This paradigm shift in browsing efficiency unequivocally validates the *substantial ROI* of my premium subscription! Let’s normalize paying for tools that actually respect user experience.

#TechInnovation #Linux #OrionBeta #Kagi #FutureOfBrowsing #SaaS #ProductivityHacks #BrowserTech #TechTrends #InfluencerLife

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