Hacker News: gkmcd

New comment by gkmcd in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

gkmcd — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:38:08 +0000

I don't think this is true everywhere. Queensland has the QAS[1], operated and funded by the state government. There are no (direct) fees.

[1]https://www.ambulance.qld.gov.au/

MiniMax M3 Review: Matching GPT-5.5 and Opus?

gkmcd — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/minimax-m3-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380387

Points: 1

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New comment by gkmcd in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

gkmcd — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:49:36 +0000

Syncthing is great, but no good for mobile devices if you want to store and access lot of large files - it syncs everything, and last I checked, the features to prevent that were depreciated.

New comment by gkmcd in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

gkmcd — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:19:41 +0000

I did the same thing some years ago. I chose purelymail[0] as the MX for my personal domain and would recommend. The only issue is that it's so cheap, and my credit lasts so long, I forget that it is in fact a paid service and that I do actually need to make a payment from time to time...

[0]https://purelymail.com/

New comment by gkmcd in "ICE Returns All Migrants from Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities"

gkmcd — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 23:36:20 +0000

It's redundant by now, but performative cruelty is the whole point.

New comment by gkmcd in "Migrating Away from Bcachefs"

gkmcd — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:04:36 +0000

My experience also. Kent is obviously very committed to the project.

New comment by gkmcd in "Migrating Away from Bcachefs"

gkmcd — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:58 +0000

FWIW, I've done a few bcachefs bug reports and thought Kent's responses were great.

New comment by gkmcd in "Phantom Vibrations of a Lost Smartphone"

gkmcd — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:14:48 +0000

Have you tried Kagi? It's not "peak Google", but at least I don't miss it so much anymore.

New comment by gkmcd in "Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs"

gkmcd — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:26:50 +0000

I switched back to the arch default kernel for my 32TB home media server, would you recommend going back to compiling your kernel for the time being?

New comment by gkmcd in "uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0"

gkmcd — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:18:00 +0000

Firefox on Android's URL bar still, in 2023, does not understand IPv6 addresses. So, unfortunately, there are still reasons to use Chrome. I use the Bromite f-droid repo but it hasn't had a new build since 2022. I'd like to see this project take off!

New comment by gkmcd in "Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'"

gkmcd — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:42:14 +0000

Do you know this is exactly how it works in most first world countries already? (except for the health insurance bit, because most first world countries have a public health system). Part-time workers get holiday pay, sick leave, and every entitlement of full-time workers, at a rate commensurate with their hours.

New comment by gkmcd in "The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit"

gkmcd — Tue, 09 May 2023 23:38:46 +0000

It's pretty obvious that bluesky is mostly handwaving around decentralization and federation. It will all go in the too hard basket once the service gains critical mass.

Another VC-funded bait and switch; nothing to see here.

New comment by gkmcd in "SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released"

gkmcd — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:51:50 +0000

Have you looked at peewee? It might be just what you're looking for.

http://docs.peewee-orm.com/

New comment by gkmcd in "Private and Public Mastodon"

gkmcd — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 02:03:17 +0000

It's not insincere. Many of the early adopters were social (queer, trans, furry) or political minorities (socialists, anarchists). They adopted Mastodon because they were sick of being targeted on Twitter and other centralized platforms. I can understand very much why they are protective of their space.

New comment by gkmcd in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

gkmcd — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:48:11 +0000

Have you used it? My local feed is overflowing with people that I think you would definitely describe as "normies"

New comment by gkmcd in "Takahē: An efficient ActivityPub Server for small installs with multiple domains"

gkmcd — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:54:37 +0000

Found Andrew Godwin on mastodon: @andrew@aeracode.org

New comment by gkmcd in "Quake goes Brutalist in a new map pack that's all about concrete"

gkmcd — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 01:30:07 +0000

What's the best way to play Quake on Linux these days?

New comment by gkmcd in "Trump's Truth Social stopped paying it's hosting bills 1 month after launching"

gkmcd — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 21:35:57 +0000

I guess they see (saw?) some value in being known as Trump's host... but not that much value

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RightForge

New comment by gkmcd in "Enclave: An Unpickable Lock"

gkmcd — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:49:40 +0000

brute force attack in this context is probably less technical (a hammer and a cold chisel)

New comment by gkmcd in "EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices"

gkmcd — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 03:37:23 +0000

I'll add to the chorus saying lightning is terrible. I have a mix of devices using lightning and USB-C. I have had zero issues with USB-C, in fact I still charge my phone every night with the USB-C cable that came with my Pixel 1. I've never had to replace a single one, so much so that I have a nest of spare, unused, USB-C cables in a drawer. Meanwhile, lightning cables are a continuous roulette of failure - I would guess I've purchased at least a dozen replacement lightning cables over that same time period.