Hacker News: bastardoperator

New comment by bastardoperator in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

bastardoperator — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:18:13 +0000

It's famous for being toxic and unmoderated. You can do anything... want to be racist, cool, doxxing people, cool, targeted harassment, you bet your ass.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Google I/O"

bastardoperator — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:02:02 +0000

I actually love this. They think they'll be able to control this tech and be lords over everyone. In the meantime everyone is replacing them with homegrown solutions.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Grafana says stolen GitHub token allowed attackers to download its codebase"

bastardoperator — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:57:00 +0000

GH provides an IP allow list and corp proxy capability to enterprise users. Unless the attacker pwned the entire corp network which is worse than leaking a token, these types of issues can mitigated. Tokens are useless if they don't originate from a specific IP space or contain the proxy header, but you have to set them up.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Grok Build"

bastardoperator — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:41:57 +0000

LOL

New comment by bastardoperator in "Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

bastardoperator — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:26:44 +0000

Wrap it up, this guy doesn't like the database (they use two), azure is terrible despite being the cash cow for msft, and OP could easily build a more scalable scm service with their pinky and half their brain because they know better then thousands of engineers. I don't know whats more comical, GH going down everyday, or watching bros trying to flex.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

bastardoperator — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:17:14 +0000

What if I told you most enterprise customers don't even use the cloud offering and aren't impacted by any of this? Companies like Apple use GHES, and honestly thats where most of their revenue comes from, not the free offering.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

bastardoperator — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:55:04 +0000

So you want to be a hero?

New comment by bastardoperator in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

bastardoperator — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:42:50 +0000

No mitigation can stop Aisuru. Let's hope it's not that because the only end in sight is them getting bored and moving on to the next victim.

New comment by bastardoperator in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

bastardoperator — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:50 +0000

My understanding is that data centers (at least in LA) are using mostly grey/industrial water, not water you can consume or use for agriculture. It feels like we're measuring water as one entity when not all water is equally useful to a human.

New comment by bastardoperator in "GitHub Actions is the weakest link"

bastardoperator — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:11:27 +0000

No thanks, Jenkins has three DSL languages and none of it is good. You dont have to inline code in yaml, you can call a script and call it day, write that script in any language you want.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

bastardoperator — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:43:10 +0000

Was Microsoft the winner based on their 50B investment in OpenAI?

New comment by bastardoperator in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

bastardoperator — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:31:09 +0000

You think the company that just gave 40B to Anthropic is the winner? Interesting.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

bastardoperator — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:04:00 +0000

I suspect someone dumped their pet. Considering its from Mexico I also suspect it prefers a warmer water/climate?

New comment by bastardoperator in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

bastardoperator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:36:17 +0000

Just call it what it is, greed. The idiots at John Deer thought strangling their customers to death was a good business model.

New comment by bastardoperator in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

bastardoperator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:04:55 +0000

You have three features, A, B, and C. They are core features. Two of the features break. How do you prioritize which feature gets fixed first? With telemetry its obvious, without it, you're guessing.

Also, gh cli is not about git, its about the github api. In theory the app has its own user agent and of course their LB is tracking all http requests, so not anonymous ever.

New comment by bastardoperator in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

bastardoperator — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:17:03 +0000

It's not, you can literally do everything this tool does with Git, and 80% of the features could be replaced with commands in your shell rc file also using vanilla git.

This tool was described perfectly the other day. JJ is the Dvorak of Git. Most people could careless about Dvorak layout, 99.8% of people use qwerty just fine. Those 0.02% though, they're loud, and they want everyone to know how great the reinvention of bread is.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them"

bastardoperator — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:02:05 +0000

Nearly every package manager does this. You would never get work done if you had to inspect every package. Services like renovate and dependabot do this lifting at no cost to the js developer, and probably do it better.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bastardoperator — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:26:11 +0000

I've been watching a series on YT that is specifically about rural towns in Texas that are being abandoned or on the brink of total collapse. Much of it has to do with highways and routing around these communities decades ago. I don't know if a datacenter is the answer, but it has to be better then what looks like a post apocalyptic America.

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

bastardoperator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:02:19 +0000

That can't be your measurement when you're loading 3 huge js libraries which are a lot more code then say svelte, which also excels at SSG.

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

bastardoperator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:50:51 +0000

Sounds more difficult then modern web frameworks. We've all done this for little projects, but anything with users or development teams, your method is DOA.