<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fsckboy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fsckboy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:05:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fsckboy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>a bunch of progressive legal experts poring over that contract looking for holes</i><p>all attorneys represent their clients; your attorney does not have to share your opinion of the law or public policy, they can still interpret what the law means to you.<p>if you are afraid your attorney might have a bias (they are human) you may get better advice from the "misaligned" POV: the flaws/holes in a privacy law found by a pro-business conservative attorney are more likely to find sympathy in the courts from both fellow conservatives and progressive judges.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770103</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>the home row (don't know if that's how that row of buttons is called)</i><p>the "home row" is where your fingers start out if you know how to type by touch, and it come from the days of typewriters instead of keyboards.<p>on a QWERTY keyboard, the home row is ASDFGHJKL; with your fingers resting on ASDF and JKL;<p>when they teach you to touch type, they say "put your fingers on the home row" and "home is where your fingers always return to."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766160</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Anything that decants below 78.4C</i><p>do you mean distills? decanting is just pouring carefully</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:55:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736528</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Why should they impose a limit at all? Your hardware is a natural limit</i><p>because imposing an artificial limit keeps them from exposing how low the natural limits turn out to be? Apple Silicon need always to be spoken with reverence, ye brother of the faith, do not fuel the faithless lest they rend and threadrip that which we've made of wholecloth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:55:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735771</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "The End of Eleventy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if the kickstarter campaign met its goals, but then their outgoing emails ended up in the spam folders, why does that say cancel? They cite "momentum", but doesn't the fundraising success sustain the momentum of the project and team? solve the email problem and mail the sponsors again, what's the big deal, since when do sponsors need momentum if the goal has been met?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:48:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735744</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Git was built because the commercial license of BitKeeper became unworkable for the Linux kernel community.</i><p>BitKeeper was free to linux kernel developers with a "but no reverse engineering" clause, but Tridgell went exploring of his own volition because he wanted to and kinda sorta violated that, so the license was cancelled by BitKeeper.<p>I'm not taking sides or upset about any part of this, I just wouldn't call that "becoming unworkable for the linux kernel community"; that would be like "the fence around your yard became unworkable for me in my desire to trespass on your property so I climbed over it"<p>what Tridgell discovered was pretty dumb and could be considered a distinct lack of a fence, but he connected to a socket and typed "help" and it dutifully printed out a bunch of undocumented useful commands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:47:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734970</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Which side is the bottom?</i><p>i'll tell you this if it helps, for the cohort he wishes to join he meant to say top.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:48:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723488</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>there isn't enough people left there to be worth the tradeoff</i><p>what tradeoff?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711924</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>At least 40,990 [2] innocent people died in the US in 2023, without significant outcry - that is, on the road, in car accidents.</i><p>in 2025 in NYC 235 people died in auto accidents. in 1900 in NYC, 200 people died in horse related accidents. As the population has quadrupled in that time, the death rate has dropped substantially. Automobiles claim all those saved lives, "innocent" & criminal alike.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699231</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the japanese killed around 50 times that number of people in ww2 (R.J. Rummel, <i>Statistics of Democide</i>, 1997)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:05:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665339</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Focus on the people who foment and benefit from this division and distraction"<p>is a political statement. It says: "don't talk about the actual issue, instead let's go after the enemies, we know who they are." It doesn't say "let's find them", it assumes we know who they are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:08:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653905</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>sauna is often built first because it serves as a place to live while you're building the house</i><p>wouldn't a kitchen accomplish that goal better?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653276</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Focus on the people who foment and benefit from this division and distraction</i><p>your comment is entirely politcal, i.e. contributing more to the problem.<p>qui bono? we for sure don't bono.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:53:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653213</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "Linux Running in a PDF (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>butwhy.gif</i><p>comment.svg</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632982</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read the source he listed and it doesn't say any of that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:48:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632772</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>So not only CENTCOM is blind and incurred damage in high single digit billions, but also will be unable to repair the damage any time soon (probably for decades) even if the funding were made to be available</i><p>not just what i quoted, but your source does not say any of what you are saying.<p>your source says: <i>Satellite images show damage near vital equipment on sites in at least five countries</i> <a href="https://archive.ph/QHNXW" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/QHNXW</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:47:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632759</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what's the chickenwire tunnel at the front door for? only thing i can think of is it lets the chickens see if there's a bird of prey above? but I don't know if that's something chickens are checking. or keeps certain large predators from fiddling with the door (but not large like a bear), but doesn't seem the door should open anyway</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:33:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632582</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "George Goble has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>stacks of exabyte drives</i><p>Exabyte® the brand of multi gigabyte removables, not drives of a million terabyte capacity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631132</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Where do browser extensions exist? I've got a dreadful feeling they might be on my computer.</i><p>all of the browser extensions I'm aware of are on planet earth, so i guess you'd have it linkedin is searching the planet for your browser extensions?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:43:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619240</link><dc:creator>fsckboy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fsckboy in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>dumped fuel does not land on the ground, it evaporates</p>
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