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New comment by 4fterd4rk in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

4fterd4rk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:01:54 +0000

What a great collection of incorrect right wing talking points!

Look up when benefits began to be paid. The current payments very much and by design pay for the current retirees. The idea that this is some kind of elaborate “scam” when it is one of those things that every other civilized country has figured out is hilarious. Go travel. Go talk to some retirees there. Turn off the Fox News.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Self-host your mail server"

4fterd4rk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:50:01 +0000

This is years (decades?) old but I self hosted my email until everyone suddenly stopped accepting my mail. Has this phenomenon changed? Everyone on my domain was asking me what the hell happened why is my mail not being delivered and I had to do a panicked midnight migration to Google.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

4fterd4rk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:43:53 +0000

Sure they do. Cabin refits are pretty standard. A lot of the 777s flying for AA, Delta, and United were delivered with very different interior configs.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

4fterd4rk — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:56:10 +0000

The pressurization system being improved is the only thing of note in this promotional material that is for some reason on HN.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions"

4fterd4rk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:09:36 +0000

Cool, but Boeing is doing it first with the 777X.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

4fterd4rk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:24:09 +0000

The anti-screen crowd vastly overestimates people's competence with buttons. "You can hit them without taking your eyes off the road!" Please observe the typical driver as they attempt to change their climate control settings and report back.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "When 2+2=5"

4fterd4rk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:58:43 +0000

I remember when the whole AI craze was just getting started we were all pretty much in agreement that, of course, we would not give the things unfettered access to the Internet. That would be reckless and silly. Oh dear...

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"

4fterd4rk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:38:13 +0000

Chronic attention seeking weirdo discovers he has common condition, will now have to do iron and B12 supplementation. yawn

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

4fterd4rk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:16:25 +0000

For what it's worth, the Apple password implementation on Windows is actually pretty good. No love for Linux, though.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

4fterd4rk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:14:06 +0000

The activities you're proclaiming to be Apple's bread and butter in an effort to conflate them with Google and Meta are actually a rounding error. What is it about Apple that makes people have these crazy ideas?

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

4fterd4rk — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:19:49 +0000

Actually there's been studies that show the majority of heroin users self limit their use to, yes, no real harm. The idea of the heroin user that's immediately thrown into an addiction where they start pawning Grandma's TV is propaganda.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings"

4fterd4rk — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:30:02 +0000

SpaceX has not been added to the S&P 500. They asked for the rules to be waived. S&P said no. I don't understand this article.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death"

4fterd4rk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:04:08 +0000

haha I stand by my statement

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

4fterd4rk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:02:54 +0000

EU wants people to be able to plug any model into the new Siri system that will have unlimited access to all of your messages, photos, what's on your screen, browsing history, etc.

Apple says hey so we're going to need some time to figure out if we can do that in a way that won't completely fuck over our users.

Very different than the narrative you're pushing

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death"

4fterd4rk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:54:18 +0000

And going outside increases your risk of getting hit by a car

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death"

4fterd4rk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:53:34 +0000

The typical glass of wine you'd be served at a dinner party is actually two "standard" drinks. So... no. Not at all. Not even close.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger"

4fterd4rk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:20:18 +0000

That is a marginal improvement to a use case that, for most people, happens once or twice a year tops.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger"

4fterd4rk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:09:59 +0000

Probably useful for trucks, marginal utility for your typical EV owner. Articles like this seem to be speaking to people who don't own an EV and are still focused on the ICE car model of "plugging in" your car periodically at a public location. That isn't how EVs work for the vast majority of people.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration"

4fterd4rk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:18:26 +0000

Yes those bastards with their stances on checks website Russian aggression against Ukraine and Chinese human rights abuses.

New comment by 4fterd4rk in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

4fterd4rk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:44:36 +0000

That's circular logic on the gold/silver. You basically say gold/silver holds value because it holds value. Bitcoin and other crypto is really no more illogical than precious metals. Precious metals have a few relatively minor uses for industrial applications but really they're valuable because we've all agreed they're valuable, no different than Bitcoin.