Hacker News: jordand

New comment by jordand in "Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3"

jordand — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:51:10 +0000

I was looking through 'Dark Mode' browser plugins for viewing websites last week, and the options aren't great. The 'Dark Reader' plugin that's everywhere sends a lot of silent web requests in the background that seems strange given its mostly just CSS tweaks.

New comment by jordand in "It's the memory latency, stupid"

jordand — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:51:40 +0000

I work in the games industry with exceptionally skilled system programmers that can do that too. They're getting on in age, and there's fewer programmers in the younger generations that are interested in any of it. Technology is sadly increasingly homogenising around Unreal Engine 5

New comment by jordand in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jordand — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:15:03 +0000

Apple is extensively and heavily using GenAI internally, and I've not got confidence in their product quality going forward (macOS is still declining in overall quality, from my experience)

New comment by jordand in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jordand — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:28:33 +0000

There's now an EU option in Fastmail for hosting your data

New comment by jordand in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

jordand — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:58:04 +0000

I'm looking at alternative email provider options, and I'm struggling to find options that have banned GenAI, and have the features and reliability I need. I will gladly pay a premium for a provider that's not going to let AI creep in gradually, and take a bigger role over data and security

New comment by jordand in "Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning"

jordand — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:04:31 +0000

...and that's a dealbreaker for me

New comment by jordand in "Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning"

jordand — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:54:58 +0000

Mullvad. Best option on the market, and what I'm moving to

New comment by jordand in "Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet"

jordand — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:23:50 +0000

The article linked at the bottom of this is a much more interesting read: https://starlabs.sg/blog/2025/11-breaking-into-a-brother-mfc...

New comment by jordand in "Tesla Roadster"

jordand — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:10:59 +0000

Read the article. My point is Musk has been doing backflips to keep things afloat with Tesla, while competitors like BYD (and really Waymo too given the self-driving) are continuing to succeed, grow, and innovate.

New comment by jordand in "Tesla Roadster"

jordand — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:07 +0000

SpaceX is the largest buyer of Cybertrucks. They've spent more than $100 million on them. Link: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-buying-own-cyber...

New comment by jordand in "Tesla Roadster"

jordand — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:20:15 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono... - Worth a read if you haven't already

New comment by jordand in "Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]"

jordand — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:58:41 +0000

There's been concerns for a while with the PS5 and the use of liquid metal in that. Especially given it stands vertically, and that liquid metal can "shift" downwards

New comment by jordand in "What I Self-Host"

jordand — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:40:43 +0000

I recently bought a Lenovo Mini PC (01Q8X10) for under £300 that has a Snapdragon X1 CPU (and 32GB LPDDR5 RAM!) and it's turning out to be perfect for self-hosting running the newly released WSL Containers on Windows 11 with WSL 3 (it doesn't fully support Linux yet). Podman had some issues with WSL 3 that they're still releasing fixes for, but it's all working with that too.

New comment by jordand in "New Apple TV 4K"

jordand — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:10:53 +0000

They're still getting the bare minimum of maintenance software updates. It's 2019-era tech that's long overdue a refresh.

New comment by jordand in "Firefox Enterprise"

jordand — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:08:56 +0000

The number of people using web browsers has gone up massively though over the past 15 years. 2%-3% right now isn't as bad as it would have been in the past

New comment by jordand in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"

jordand — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:09:19 +0000

Many industries are sadly coupled to Windows, for years to come. There's no getting rid of a lot of legacy software/code. Oddly enough, Microsoft has rolled back their forced Copilot, in a rare step in the right direction.

New comment by jordand in "Bevy 0.20"

jordand — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:23:30 +0000

It's not that dissimilar to how Dioxus does this kind of thing with rsx! but yeah, it first got released in 0.19 and got big improvements in this release. It'll be interesting to see how uptake and adoption goes.

New comment by jordand in "Bevy 0.20"

jordand — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:20:21 +0000

The breaking Rendering changes have always been the big challenge, especially with external plugins that need time to migrate too. They're starting to get less disruptive over this past year.

New comment by jordand in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

jordand — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:41:41 +0000

LTO drives/tape are not friendly, consumer grade technology. One look on a search engine, and it's all obscure refurbished server parts costing hundreds. The prices of them going forwards might increase sharply too and make it unviable...a bit like external hard drives right now. So yeah, printing everything out and hoping for the best is the only sensible option...

New comment by jordand in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

jordand — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:30:40 +0000

LTO tapes are the worst possible format for passing on family photos to family members. I dread to think of anyone in my family trying to setup an LTO drive when they barely understand how to use their smartphone.