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New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "The PGP problem (2019)"

bfkwlfkjf — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:15:30 +0000

I still don't understand what's so difficult about using gpg. Seems straightforward to me.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Ask HN: In the real world we pay for everything so why not software?"

bfkwlfkjf — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:02:29 +0000

Because people enjoy coding.

And before you say "the carpenter enjoys making chairs too"... I'll believe that if you can show me that a substantial percentage of carpenters spend 8 hours a day making chairs even when they're not monetising them. A substantial percentage of developers spend 8 hours a day coding when they're unemployed because they enjoy it.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds"

bfkwlfkjf — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:00:25 +0000

That's how Google wants you to think.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds"

bfkwlfkjf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:29:32 +0000

> Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment

I disagree, shouldn't be used even for entertainment. Going to YouTube for entertainment and relying on it to guide you is how you end up being radicalised on certain topics.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds"

bfkwlfkjf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:27:43 +0000

I'm not gonna be working for Google for free. If they want me to do this they can pay.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Gpg.fail"

bfkwlfkjf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:55:47 +0000

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New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone"

bfkwlfkjf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:53:02 +0000

FIVE hours a day? I spend one hour a day and I feel like I'm constantly battling addiction.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone"

bfkwlfkjf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:48:35 +0000

Why is it strange? Given that you have no idea whatsoever how pixels work, whats strange is that you have any expectation at all.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:34:10 +0000

I get puzzled by HN all the time. I never in my life could've imagined that the pull off the "successful billionaire genius" could be so strong with so many people.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:23:21 +0000

Exactly. But some people think everyone else is racist. Those people's skin colour didn't even register.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:15:29 +0000

Everything you mentioned in that list in people who can pay. As opposed to people who code and they use what they code, and furthermore share it with other people who also code and use what they code.

It's "open source" so that they save on developer costs, not for ideological reasons, and you can tell from the photos on their front page - that's what I was implying.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:13:36 +0000

Explain please. This interests me and I'm extremely curious about what you mean.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:10:15 +0000

I think that the photos they have on their front page should be enough to tell you who is their target market.

I've invented this heuristic: if the page that describes the project uses the word "solutions", then they'll attempt to use "open source" to obtain free labour, but will distribute the revenues only amongst those people who actually have control.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:08:23 +0000

The time and energy that it takes to do it and build it, and then make it easy for current users to move their automatic updates to the fork, then maintaining it etc.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:06:57 +0000

What's mattermost? People in the GitHub comments say "I just need messages" but there's lots of self hosted messaging apps/servers, no? XMPP comes to mind immediately.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:15:59 +0000

That's your opinion.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving"

bfkwlfkjf — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:14:16 +0000

Right right that's what I was going to say next

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift"

bfkwlfkjf — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:17:52 +0000

It's a business website. Those are businesses.

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "Lua 5.5"

bfkwlfkjf — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:06:14 +0000

It's slang, it's a reference to legumes I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume

New comment by bfkwlfkjf in "CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift"

bfkwlfkjf — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:53:45 +0000

When it's the CEO or if it's about silicon valley companies. I don't remember ever reading on HN about accidents in the shoe factory or in the construction site.