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Valodim··on Immich 3.0
Their business model is basically donations, it's not a for-profit operation. Maybe if you consider yourself less of a customer and more the beneficiary of a community effort, it'll be easier to "get"
Valodim··on A native graphical shell for SSH
> Unfortunately, X did not win out. We did not get the promised future where one can ssh -X into a remote machine, run gnome-control-center, and a settings window pops up and I can configure my remote computer.

Personally I'm glad that's the case. Configuring servers via gui is an abomination, and I hope it stays in the windows world.

Valodim··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
We slaughter animals millions by the day in an industrialized fashion. I'm sure they'll feel much better that even singular instances of sexual harassment are officially not ok on paper.
Valodim··on The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends
In my experience, networking also helps sidestep a lot of that stuff.
Valodim··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
I'll happily pay the new prices, if they actually have the servers available. Cheap pricing is nice, but not that useful when in practice you can't actually buy most of the time.
Valodim··on How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.
It's kind of amazing how many comments even here seem to implicitly or explicitly agree that the "optimal" number is more than zero.

Personally, I rather enjoy not having my kids shot at school.

Valodim··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Try kagi :)
Valodim··on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
Counter point: If it had been onsite, there would be a full layer of social sensibilities and grace from the colleagues you work with every day, helping you out.

Conversely, it is much easier, on several levels, to support and guide someone you spend your whole day and go to lunch with.

Valodim··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
"Microsoft won't get very far as a business if [they do what they've been doing for decades]"

Story doesn't check out.

Valodim··on Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
Sounds like you're just not the target audience, then. Not every product has to have an ads-based or freemium business model.
Valodim··on Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm
Valodim··on pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron
This sounds promising, but the examples don't show what a report actually looks like? What information does this actually show?
Valodim··on The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
Because "put in all knowledge of chemistry that we have, except this specific recipe" isn't how knowledge works
Valodim··on GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
Short version: Werner Koch personally hates some people involved with the RFC9580 standardization, and cannot emotionally bear working with anything even loosely associated. He also struggled accepting anyone's opinion but his own while editor of the draft back then.

Search for "asking the editor to step down" to find the moment when the working group decided he was more trouble than it's worth (and GnuPG's support was obviously worth a lot in the openpgp community).

Valodim··on GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
Rfc9580 is not a proposal anymore, it's a published RFC.

(I suppose strictly speaking it's still a "proposed standard" vs "internet standard", but so is basically everything else)

Valodim··on Brave Origin
People keep mentioning ladybird like it'll be a serious contender as a daily driver in the next 10 years. While I do think they're doing impressive work for a tech demo, they are a couple hundred person years behind on an incredibly big piece of software. how could they possibly catch up?
Valodim··on Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust
You don't think golang's http library is a good idea? I would have thought everyone is happy we have it
Valodim··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
I also did that with git, but it's no comparison in ergonomics. For instance, "move this hunk two commits up" is a task that makes many git users sweat. With jj it's barely something that registers as a task.
Valodim··on Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived
This was probably near the breaking point before, it just needed an idiot to catalyze.
Valodim··on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was
If you read that as "we'll break the law for you", it's a you problem.
Valodim··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
That's a lot of words reiterating how intensely important the matter is. I agree, it is. But your suggestions are either doing nothing out of caution, vast fragmentation, or too small numbers to really see the effects at scale.

Mostly it's a question of middle ground for an acceptable scale of decision, but "only change something if we know for a fact it's purely beneficial" is not a realistic plan no matter how intensely important the matter is. At some point decisions have to be made.

This is one of the things that becomes harder and more entrenched the worse those decisions are democratically legitimated. I think it's not unlikely that the difference in expectations between us boils down to a general different level of trust in authority.

Valodim··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
You make it sound like there is an obvious solution to this. So what is it? No changes ever? Make 20 year experiments before rolling out any change at scale? Hold decision makers personally accountable for billions of GDP loss? Compensate the cohort monetarily for the generational inconvenience?

For some things there just is no easy way.

Valodim··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
The mv3 problem was never about "does it work now". It was about "can it keep up". Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game, and the mouse is kneecapped now. You're being slow boiled.
Valodim··on Addfox: A new open-source browser extension framework
There is a faq entry about that on tfa. The main differences are use of rsbuild (not a big diff down the line I expect, since vite uses rolldown now), and design to accommodate llm agentic development.
Valodim··on Why I love NixOS
Yes. But disk space isn't exactly the most valuable resource you have as a developer/power user
Valodim··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Depends on whether those businesses want to do business with the EU
Valodim··on Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
Kagi is unfortunately in a tough spot, imo.

I'm a happy subscriber, and it's certainly a big improvement over Google search. But the internet just isn't the same place it was five years ago. And as search results (for non-navigational queries) are becoming less useful by the day, I find myself asking AI to do it for me more.

There's a lot to like about Kagi, but they'll probably have to reinvent themselves if they want to grow beyond the niche that high level internet search will probably become.

Valodim··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
In other companies they don't make this explicit during the interview, so something is different
Valodim··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
The argument of your mother does seem to disregard moral aspects of breaking the law.
Valodim··on Show HN: Effective Git
Eh. If you're interested in sharpening your vcs toolchain, just learn jj already
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