<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: kmbfjr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kmbfjr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:56:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kmbfjr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "NetBSD 11.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think this is the dick swinging contest you want to have with respect to Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:21:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139059</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "NetBSD 11.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Serious like a great file system that is ZFS?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:10:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138970</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Systemd Linger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I never had a problem with systemd init despite its quirky habits like just giving up if a mount is bad in fstab, and I rather like systemd-networkd over the other four or five ways of managing the network. Systemd-timesyncd isn’t bad either.<p>But this, systemd-logind worrying about stuck processes in userspace is exactly the kind of scope creep that ends up justifying a lot of the hand wringing a decade ago.  This thing bit me when it came out in a couple different ways and I am unapologetic in my dislike for it.  So much so that it has caused me to drift away from Linux where I can. Even though it is a simple fix, I’ve become fatigued with userspace chaos.<p>Time to re-evaluate what the bazaar has become.  Systemd is a common complaint, but it isn’t the only contributor to the fatigue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:32:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058065</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Keep in mind post tax income sources are king when retiring before age 65 and looking for ACA subsidies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:52:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029143</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That isn’t what the person to whom you’re responding is saying.<p>Morse code is very much like a language in that there are audible intonations that differentiate between See, Aye and Tee.  Being able to copy that in your head is the same as listening to English and not needing to reach for the dictionary every other word.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:11:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898136</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain–until I met him"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is a pragmatic healthy way to enjoy someone’s work.  It is pretty much how I go about it.  And it helps that my heroes are all long dead (Michael Collins, for instance ).<p>Where I think that does not work is when there is a deep resonance in shared experiences, these two had many including some really dark problems of addiction and thoughts of self-harm.  I think the author is calling out all of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:58:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795749</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you serious?<p>Only in the last week we have Sony deleting paid-for movies.  That is pretty anti-consumer.<p>I realize all of this is empirical, but the term enshitification just didn’t form out of thin air.</p>
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<p>Algorithm analysis and numerical analysis are nothing BUT math.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:29:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521671</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Such is life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425060</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Me losing $500 to Musk’s clever idea is still me losing money.  It isn’t like this is a normal market event.<p>If it is not the end of the world, cover my losses.</p>
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<p>Is it when X is clearly engaging in creative financial engineering with a goal of maximizing <i>their</i> value.</p>
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<p>Madoff’s scheme ran for nearly 15 years, starting in earnest possibly 20 years before that.<p>I think “long” is very relative to the scam.<p>Carvana has been written about in the WSJ in glowing articles, that now have shifted to a questioning tone.  This may be that inflection point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413040</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And their tax efficiency over mutual funds when outside tax advantaged accounts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:47:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375273</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "US troops are reportedly being targeted using location data, Pentagon says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe a comprehensive privacy law that bans the sale of location data, how is that for a start?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 22:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316469</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sony had a NAS device for video storage called the “Petafile”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287716</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cart abandonment.  Good grief, any company that reaches out on that premise immediately loses my business on general principle.  I may indeed have forgotten, changed my mind or found it cheaper elsewhere.<p>Get over it.  I walked out, chasing me into the parking lot is no way to get me to come back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:06:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287704</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the actors of the show recorded promos for the station, so guess not.<p>The fact that someone posted a link to the article that you probably didn’t read also refutes this premise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159369</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With notifications disabled APNS push notifications fail for the sending app backend.  The device id is rendered invalid if push notifications are disabled at any point.  Backends are supposed to handle this and quit sending messages.<p>Signal has this setting to tell the backend how much information to put into the push message. It can tell the backend to send a simple notification saying “new message” and not send information through APNS or enable it.<p>I am willing to bet Signal has a notification extension to handle edge cases where there is lag in settings to scrub the message metadata before it dings a screen alert.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:10:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718438</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EME has been made a bit more affordable and effective by weak signal modes and DSP.<p>It used to require very high power, expensive transmission lines, preamps and monstrous arrays of Yagis.  Now with JT65x, and SDRs, you can use cheaper coax to get transmit power to the antenna eating that loss with more RF, and put SDRs for RX at the array.  People running digital modes are getting away with needing less gain.<p>5650MHz is the only place to do it with this thing.  Might want to break out a calculator before the credit card because path loss has to be more than 285dB.  But if you can swing it, might want to buy two so you have someone to talk to.  I have not heard anyone using 5650.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667441</link><dc:creator>kmbfjr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmbfjr in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The backlash is from Meta trying of assign liabilities of their business practices on people who may not even be users.<p>Yes, this is just the beginning of a huge swath of innocent APIs to identify people on the internet.  Meta isn’t going to stop, and neither will governments.</p>
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