<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: mfer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mfer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:40:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mfer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "I'm returning my Framework 16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bought an early framework 13. It cost a little more. I’ve since upgraded the main board to get a faster/newer experience. The overall cost has been less than 2 laptops.<p>Some of this depends if you’re playing the long game</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:44:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379582</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Why aren't smart people happier?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the 1920's of the US the idea of making people not content to stimulate buying gained popularity. This is still used today. The culture is directed at making people not satisfied. It's hard to go against the grain of society.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:29:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828286</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Why aren't smart people happier?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two thoughts....<p>First, being intelligent (as defined in the article) doesn't relate to being happy. There is nothing inherent about being intelligent that means happy.<p>Second, our society spends a lot of time shaping culture and people to extract value from them. For example, the focus on "more" rather than "enough". We are shaped to always desire more and never be content with what we have. Even intelligent people are shaped by this. Consider the fall in terms of people who have hobbies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:17:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826700</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Roc Camera"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think about this as much for professional or amateur photography.<p>I think of verifiable images as something for legal purposes. So much is easily made up with AI. Having verifiable real photos (and eventually video) can be a benefit for things like legal proceedings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:51:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695857</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a lot missing from the articles on this whole space. The farmers are getting squeezed for things like profits. For example...<p>1. Seed prices - there is a lot of patented GMO stuff in circulation and pricing around that.<p>2. Farm equipment - bigger equipment, more sensors and computers, higher costs (even around fixing things)<p>It would be great if there was some investigative reporting that covered all the angles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:33:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301506</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> That died last week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction.<p>If the issue is one of jurisdiction, did they file the case in the wrong court?<p>Following local news, I've seen the case where a case is closed because it was filed in the wrong court. A different court had jurisdiction in the matter. I wonder if that's what happened in this case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:06:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758790</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Helm local code execution via a malicious chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has nothing to do with Git. A symlink can be packaged up in a tarball and shipped from one system to another. An attacker would need to create a malicious Chart.yaml file and a Chart.lock file pointing to another file. Then ship those to a system where dependencies are then updated.<p>This doesn't affect things like installing or upgrading a chart. Dependencies aren't updated at that time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508788</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Helm local code execution via a malicious chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The attacker creates a symlink (e.g., using `ln -s`) to another file. The attacker needs to create the malicious Chart.yaml file and symlink that the Chart.lock file points to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508741</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So why did the cockatoos gravitate to drinking fountains in the first place<p>Some species of birds, like cockatoos, like puzzles. They like to figure things out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180122</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine the time we would have if....<p>Instead of doom scrolling on social media we called a friend.<p>Instead of binge watching another meh show, we had friends over to play cards or a board game.<p>Instead of over scheduling kids with constant activities, parents had a regular night out with friends while kids spent quality time at home with the other parent.<p>The time is there. It was in the past. We just have a finite amount of time and use it differently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:39:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803531</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People have admitted in news interviews to destroying government data to prevent others from knowing what the government was doing. That’s likely criminal. This is a legitimate reason to get at information before people who might destroy have the opportunity.<p>What’s happening with judges is very political. We likely won’t know what’s allowed until things have gone through the appeals process. There have been cases of judges admitting they will rule against the current administration no matter the topic or law. This is messy, to say the least.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:37:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778207</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Setting aside legitimate (thats a matter of judgement)...<p>Some previous attempts for DOGE to get data has resulted in data being deleted before they can look and requests for judges to block access to data.<p>DOGE may be trying to be covert in order to stop these two activities from happening before they can get and review the data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:47:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43777480</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43777480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43777480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To play devils advocate here, a thought comes to mind...<p>Should the US be the one to handle the CVE database globally? The current administration wants to see other parts of the world help carry the load. A little scare could be the push needed to make this either distributed or handled by a coalition. This could be a positive for the US (who doesn't want to be the sole funder) and for those who don't want the US to have sole control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:03:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771672</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which distro do you use? I've run a mac and Linux laptop and the Linux setup keeps sending me back to Mac.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:45:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248742</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For those building applications with FIPS 140 crypto the primary concern is compliance rather than security. There are many organizations (e.g., US federal) that have requirements for it.<p>The latest version is FIPS 140-3 and is more up to date.<p>Note, binaries made for FIPS 140 with OpenSSL dynamically linked do not run on Alpine. While I've not looked at the Microsoft go/openssl compiler, it's worth testing its output across distros/versions as different distros have different versions of glibc and openssl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966793</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "WordPress Is in Trouble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to crunchbase, Automattic has taken just shy of $1B in funding. Yes, that's a B as in billion.<p>I wonder where those investors are on returns on that investment and the kinds of changes they want to get them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689963</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author of UBlockOrigin should contact the PayPal legal department (in a legal manner). That might be a more direct path dealing with the Honey business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:20:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577080</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Floridians have no right to bodies of water 'free of pollution,' court rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They do have a right through representative government.<p>The powers one level of government doesn’t take trickle down to the next. Since the state level took those powers, the local level cannot.<p>The representative government processes needs to happen at the state level in Florida.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552855</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "Updates to H-1B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If someone is a software developer who has done non-trivial things and linear algebra but not recently and needs to be refreshed, do you provide time/training to refresh on the math skills?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:56:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455855</link><dc:creator>mfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfer in "U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over TikTok divestment law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The court isn't tasked with doing what right. Who defines what's "right"?<p>The court is tasked with judging based on the laws at hand. If those laws are flawed or wrong but legal, it's upon congress to change the laws rather than the courts to decide right or wrong.<p>The court should be focused on legal or illegal. This is how the separation of powers work in the US.<p>When laws are "broken" we should be looking at congress.</p>
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