Hacker News: markstos

New comment by markstos in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

markstos — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:20:44 +0000

Besides bankruptcy there is also shutting a business down, in which case are no new owners. Lavabit and Silent Circle being examples of businesses that shutdown rather than comply with laws they didn't like.

New comment by markstos in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

markstos — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:05:49 +0000

And how you would craft a law to prevent a company from forming sub-companies for specific games to isolate risk? Or make it illegal for a company to go bankrupt?

Creating sub-companies is common business practice that even small businesses use. Like if a small company wants to buy a building, they may form an LLC to hold the property to isolate that risk from the rest of their business.

New comment by markstos in "The end of responsive images"

markstos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:49:48 +0000

Summary: author is a fan of the new sizes="auto" and loading="lazy" browser features.

New comment by markstos in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

markstos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:48:13 +0000

Also, at a moment when "AI" appears in practically all tech marketing, in this environmental impact report they manage to not mention at all the impact of their ChatGPT integration or their plans for an upgraded Siri.

New comment by markstos in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

markstos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:44:19 +0000

Fairphone. https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds

New comment by markstos in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

markstos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:32:50 +0000

From the company that popularized completely unrepairable earbuds with non-replaceable batteries.

New comment by markstos in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

markstos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:25:11 +0000

On a couple of different Ghost sites I maintain, I got suspicious sign-ups from travel-related domains that require email verification.

I suspect they might have used OpenClaw to accomplish the email verification step (no evidence) and were setting themselves up for later comment spam.

Even if you aren't using OpenClaw, it may be using you!

New comment by markstos in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

markstos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:51:53 +0000

It appears Cloudflare is responding to a legal requirement to implement this IP blocking.

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflar...

New comment by markstos in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

markstos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:31:59 +0000

That's apparently mostly from Google to be the default search engine in Firefox. Diversifying their income streams is a good move.

The MZLA company that makes Thunderbird is also working on improving self-funding by launching a Thunderbird-branded webmail service.

New comment by markstos in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

markstos — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:04:36 +0000

Also need a split keyboard so a cat can sleep in between the halves.

New comment by markstos in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

markstos — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:14:43 +0000

Frustrating that FedRAMP is both a pain to get compliant with and also apparently is not a strong signal of actual security.

New comment by markstos in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

markstos — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:41:57 +0000

How is the original author making out in the new arrangement?

New comment by markstos in "X is selling existing users' handles"

markstos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:31:20 +0000

X already owned it.

New comment by markstos in "Building a new Flash"

markstos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:50:09 +0000

But will there be a browser plugin?

New comment by markstos in "MacBook Neo"

markstos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:52:18 +0000

Press release touts "built with the environment mind", but is silent on repairability.

Also this week: Lenovo's new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability showing that even popular modules of mainstream manufacturers can build with repairability in mind.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thinkpads-score-perfe...

Apple I imagine is still soldering their storage and memory to the motherboard.

New comment by markstos in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

markstos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:18:04 +0000

And then the year after this is released, will they sell you new mainboards with the rest of the laptop, so you can upgrade just the parts that need updating?

New comment by markstos in "iPhone 17e"

markstos — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:56:35 +0000

That's a great phone for runners who need to carry their phone. Smaller, lighter, pocket friendly.

New comment by markstos in "Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant"

markstos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:23:30 +0000

My "smart" gas stove can be turned on over the internet (if I allow it to connect)—perfect appliance to put an LLM in charge of.

New comment by markstos in "Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant"

markstos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:39:29 +0000

The examples seem to suggest it would be chatting with your home automation in natural language.

New comment by markstos in "Flock license plate readers cost city big, deliver little"

markstos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:46:48 +0000

So Flock helped solve a case nearly every day of the year?