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New comment by mvdtnz in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

mvdtnz — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:41:10 +0000

> The problem with the “adjusted for inflation” argument is that it does not factor in buying power. The increase in wages has risen at out half the rate of inflation, so sure; $20 in 1975 would be $124 today, but the minimum wage in 1975 was $2.10 an hour as opposed to $7.25 today, giving you half the buying power you had 50 years ago.

Now do the same analysis but using median wage not minimum. YouTube comments are for entertainment purposes only.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

mvdtnz — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:39:16 +0000

You should consider Backblaze B2. It's not unlimited, but it's S3 compatible storage at a competitive price, without the limitations of Personal Backup.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

mvdtnz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:39:07 +0000

You're holding it wrong.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

mvdtnz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:37:46 +0000

There's absolutely no way you get a good result with a Dremel.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

mvdtnz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:31:29 +0000

If my work computer were my own I would do this in a second. The MacBook pro is ridiculously uncomfortable, both in terms of geometry and heat. I don't mind when it gets warm but on a cold morning it's just downright unpleasant to get working on it.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

mvdtnz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:28:49 +0000

America has no lack of religion.

New comment by mvdtnz in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

mvdtnz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:22:02 +0000

This is the kind of stuff a software develop should have absolutely no problem managing. It's crazy to me that so many software developers hate the idea of maintaing a computer.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

mvdtnz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:47:34 +0000

Oil futures or any other commodity purchase that doesn't result in the buyer taking actual physical ownership of what they purchase is an obscene gambling market with perverse incentives yes correct.

New comment by mvdtnz in "How to get better at guitar"

mvdtnz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:51:51 +0000

I'm a new player so I'm not asking this to be snarky but to understand. How can you think you don't need chords? It seems to me, 5 months into my journey, that chords are a fundamental aspect of guitar. It sounds like someone taking up golf but saying they don't need putts. Can you help me understand?

New comment by mvdtnz in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

mvdtnz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:02:41 +0000

It's not a reasonable question. What's the alternative for the orange peels? They were going to rot and release that CO2 whether they did it in a big pile here or somewhere else.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

mvdtnz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:35:43 +0000

You got here because you elected Donald J Trump, twice.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

mvdtnz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:35:12 +0000

Hey Americans this might be a good time to do something about that lunatic you put into office. You're the ones constantly bleating on about keeping government power in check, don't you think this is an opportunity to put your money where your mouth is? The world is watching, and judging.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

mvdtnz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:49:58 +0000

Marvel movies absolutely target the lowest common denominator of film watchers. To deny that is delusional.

New comment by mvdtnz in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mvdtnz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:02:08 +0000

You're referring to a different comment. This is the comment I left which was removed, word for word,

> What does Telegram/Discord have to do with anything? The OP never mentioned either of these software suites. In fact the only mention of Telegram anywhere in the entire thread is you copy-pasting this exact message.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

mvdtnz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:14:38 +0000

Anthropic is much more concerned about what people are ACTUALLY doing than what they could, in theory, be doing.

New comment by mvdtnz in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mvdtnz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:09:33 +0000

What is OpenClaw doing here that Claude Desktop or Claude Code couldn't do?

New comment by mvdtnz in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mvdtnz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:04:21 +0000

My reply which was not an attack was detached from this sub thread as an attack. All I did was ask a clarifying question about why Telegram and Discord were specifically called out in this reply despite not being mentioned by the OP at all. I'd still like an answer to this question.

New comment by mvdtnz in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mvdtnz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:48:55 +0000

> Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts.

The very first line in your readme is "CivicClaw is a set of scripts and prompts" though? And almost the entire repo is a bunch of python scripts under a /scripts folder.

I looked at one randomly chosen script (scripts/sf_rec_park.py) and it's 549 lines of Python to fetch and summarise data that is available on an RSS feed ( https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=... )

New comment by mvdtnz in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

mvdtnz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:28:12 +0000

You're probably being downvoted because you didn't answer the question. The questioner specifically asked what people are using it for and you answered by describing your technical setup. What we want to know is, what are you actually achieving with this tool?

New comment by mvdtnz in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

mvdtnz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:14:26 +0000

> And independent of whether Microsoft makes money or not in their OpenAI endeavor, it kills the story: they were betting the whole growth story on AI, and if that doesn’t work out, then what’s left to justify a high stock price?

Microsoft's stock price today is the same as it was in late 2021 before anyone cared about AI. What would happen? Nothing. I don't think it's a significant revenue driver today. Microsoft, like everyone else, is speculating that AI will drive profits in the future. If it all fell apart there will certainly be losers but I don't see why it would bring down Microsoft.