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New comment by markild in "“This is not the computer for you”"

markild — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:53:10 +0000

I'd agree it is about the Neo in the sense that the device and the talk around it obviously triggered this post.

I don't think the author is exactly bashing the Chromebook. I'm reading it in that the author praise an open ecosystem where you have flexibility and the choice to "take off the guard rails" and go where the device was not originally made to take you.

There's an argument to be made that it is ironic that Apple is the example of this, but to me that shows why I _still_ like MacOS, when all the other variants (iPadOS and iOS) are entirely locked down.

New comment by markild in "Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025"

markild — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:12:56 +0000

A bit besides the point, but an FDM printer is definitely not good enough to reproduce these somewhat convincingly. That being said, a cheap-ish resin printer will probably do the job, and they are generally in the same price range.

New comment by markild in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

markild — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:32:30 +0000

Not at all saying it's a conspiracy, I just think it's a lack of transparency.

I get why, but it would give me more confidence if they would tell me about everything.

New comment by markild in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

markild — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:10:03 +0000

I get the feeling that all "serious" businesses have manual processes for publicly facing status pages, for political reasons.

I don't like it.

New comment by markild in "Fastmail desktop app"

markild — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:16:44 +0000

It's very practical when you use a lot of different devices. It's nice to use native built in email apps, but when using multiple different OSes and device types, it can be very annoying to have the different clients play nice with each other.

New comment by markild in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

markild — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:22:22 +0000

Specifically, steganography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

New comment by markild in "The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike"

markild — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:09:31 +0000

While I do think that's true, I'd say a more apt analogy is that for humans each model will produce fairly similar results on each prompt, but it helps having 8 billion different models running.

I'd also argue that we tend to have a larger context. What did you have for dinner? Did you see anything new yesterday? Are you tired of getting asked the same question over and over again?

New comment by markild in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

markild — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:31:38 +0000

Could be because of shared clipboard between devices?

New comment by markild in "GPT-5: It just does stuff"

markild — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:12:07 +0000

Very well put.

I've just recently set off time to have a few extended coding sessions, and the results are all over the place.

Guided in a good way for well defined tasks, it has saved me days if not weeks. Given more vague, or perhaps unreasonable tasks, it will quickly devolve into just delivering something, anything, no matter how "obviously" wrong it is.

New comment by markild in "Hands-On with Vescin: MINI's New Vegan Friendly Interior That Replaces Leather"

markild — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:41:29 +0000

It is actually meaningful though, as it says something about the origin of the materials. Synthetic could still mean that it was based off of animal products.

New comment by markild in "Peanut Butter Day: Going Nuts over NIST's Standard Reference Peanut Butter (2016)"

markild — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:35:46 +0000

I really love the channel, but I can't help to feel that he was held back by his, ehm, limited knowledge of cooking.

New comment by markild in "cli53 – Command line tool for Amazon Route 53"

markild — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:08:29 +0000

Though I have fairly pedestrian DNS needs, I find dnscontrol[0] a real treat to use. Also makes it possible and easy to quickly flip providers.

[0] https://dnscontrol.org/

New comment by markild in "I'm a developer not a compiler"

markild — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:56:21 +0000

I think the point about the question is that both of those answers can be very interesting and spark conversation about your knowledge about, and approach to, computer programming as problem solving.

New comment by markild in "IP.network: Check IP Address"

markild — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:39:58 +0000

Others have posted alternatives, but I really like the fact that you can self host it:

https://github.com/leafcloudhq/echoip

New comment by markild in "OpenAI Announces SearchGPT"

markild — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:52:02 +0000

I guess collaborative sites like forums are likely to suffer greatly from this shift.

New comment by markild in "Wipeout XL/2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack [video]"

markild — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:17:44 +0000

I have yet to see this, but I feel a strong need to praise noclip for pushing out absolutely stellar video game related documentaries!

New comment by markild in "Google wants employees to move faster"

markild — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:03:52 +0000

Boeing?

New comment by markild in "AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California"

markild — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 08:31:41 +0000

Absolutely every cell phone has the ability to call emergency numbers from a locked device. Even without Sim card.

New comment by markild in "Tesla Model Y: My 6 months impressions"

markild — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:16:58 +0000

I don't intend to drag this discussion on, but in my mind "8x cheaper" doesn't really make sense.

I would much prefer "electricity cost 1/8 the price" or "gas was 8x more expensive".

New comment by markild in "The value of canonicity (2020)"

markild — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 12:38:34 +0000

What breaks the validation for you? Looks good here.