Hacker News: christop

New comment by christop in "Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story"

christop — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:53:40 +0000

It seems more like the kernel was actively preventing safe memory access, albeit erroneously, and also has nothing to do with Rust per se?

New comment by christop in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

christop — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:18:28 +0000

Yup, same here — I see the same delay in Chrome now and then.

I guessed it was due to the cat-and-mouse adblocking prevention between YouTube and adblockers (I'm also using uBlock Origin).

New comment by christop in "Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub"

christop — Thu, 25 May 2023 00:32:43 +0000

Tailscale works hard to do all this stuff automatically.

Possibly you'd have more luck on a network where your client can allow incoming UDP connections on the Tailscale port, and so the exit node would be able to establish a direct connection.

But for a Tailscale peer I have running on AWS ECS, I can open the UDP port there, so a direct connection always happens regardless of what sort of network my Tailscale clients are on. I don't know if there's any Fly equivalent to get a direct connection to a UDP port.

New comment by christop in "Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub"

christop — Thu, 25 May 2023 00:06:23 +0000

I tried using this or a similar repo to set up a Tailscale exit node on Fly.io before.

The downside is that my traffic never went direct; it was always relayed via a Tailscale DERP node, as Fly.io machines were only accessible via anycast, and so a direct connection from Tailscale on my machine to the exit node on Fly.io couldn't be established.

So performance wasn't as great (and I felt bad about using up Tailscale's DERP bandwidth, as a free user).

New comment by christop in "Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts"

christop — Wed, 24 May 2023 23:58:55 +0000

I switched to Joplin a few years ago, and it was able to import my notes from Evernote.

My existing Fastmail account gives me WebDAV file storage, and Joplin can use that as a sync backend. End-to-end encrypted.

There are clients for macOS and Android. Neither of which are as relentlessly buggy as text editing with Evernote. Web Clipper browser extension. All open source.

I've had zero regrets about switching away from Evernote.

New comment by christop in "Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans"

christop — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:35:37 +0000

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm kinda confused about things like SSH and Funnel being moved to the Premium tier.

It feels a little odd that the Free tier lets you use Premium features indefinitely, but as soon as you get more colleagues onboard, you lose those features.

Unless you're looking carefully at the pricing page, you'd miss that Starter has many fewer features compared to Free.

New comment by christop in "Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines"

christop — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:47:24 +0000

Jenkins lets you replay a Pipeline, with changes, which is massively useful — removing the need to change things locally and commit.

New comment by christop in "GitHub Package Registry"

christop — Sat, 11 May 2019 21:29:17 +0000

While publishing to Maven Central may be onerous, there are good reasons for it, e.g. https://twitter.com/JakeWharton/status/1073102730443526144

New comment by christop in "Dependency injection on Android with dagger-android and Kotlin"

christop — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 02:57:02 +0000

Unfortunately, using Dagger for DI with Kotlin requires using the Kotlin annotation processor, kapt, which is still incredibly slow, and works non-incrementally.

If you value your build times or your sanity in the slightest, I'd recommend either severely limiting use of Dagger, e.g. by only using it in certain, small Gradle modules, or using a different DI solution.

New comment by christop in "Notice to stakeholders: withdrawal of the UK and EU rules on .eu domain names"

christop — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:18:54 +0000

No, the text says that all .eu registrars will no longer be able to accept .eu registrations or renewals from entities in the UK.

New comment by christop in "Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information"

christop — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:21:03 +0000

The GDPR applies to the data of anyone using a service while in the EU, not just to companies that are based in the EU.

New comment by christop in "Shawn Pearce, author of Gerrit and Git-related projects, has died"

christop — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:25:48 +0000

And on the Gerrit mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/repo-discuss/B4P7G1YirdM/d...

Shawn Pearce, author of Gerrit and Git-related projects, has died

christop — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:53:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/cdibona/status/957822400518696960

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16259691

Points: 41

# Comments: 4

Verifone credit card terminals in global outage

christop — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jan/16/verifone-hit-by-global-outage-on-card-machines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16162987

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by christop in "AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure"

christop — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:04:12 +0000

Yeah, looks very similar. I will be interested to see how quickly containers can be provisioned on FarGate.

Maybe I was doing something wrong, but my experience so far with ACI is that it consistently took about three to four minutes until a smallish container was ready for use.

A WebOps Postmortem

christop — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:11:33 +0000

Article URL: http://cavaliercoder.com/blog/webops-postmortem.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15322061

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by christop in "Welcome to Glitch"

christop — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:17:05 +0000

That seems reasonable, but the new name is already in wide use in software/hardware. Even outside, its dictionary definition is "a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan".

That seems like an odd choice, though the blog seems to suggest it's because everyone will be fixing each other's bugs.

New comment by christop in "Google Cloud Platform Free Tier"

christop — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:42:41 +0000

Unfortunately, you're still not allowed to use Google Cloud Platform for personal usage if you're based in Europe.

Several years ago they emailed (presumably) everyone without a tax number in their account, saying so: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602

Trying to add a billing account just now from a European country doesn't give the choice of account type; it's fixed to "business" and can't be edited.

So without a billing account, it seems nobody in Europe can use the free tier for personal use.

New comment by christop in "Berlin Living Rooms"

christop — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:48:14 +0000

And they say it's been more than thirty years since the Berlin Wall came down…

New comment by christop in "Google Goes Public with Unpatched Microsoft Edge and IE Vulnerability"

christop — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:09:04 +0000

I don't think that they're all related. Gerrit, for example, isn't part of Chrome; it was initially developed for Android, AFAIK. Nor is Monorail. I think Breakpad even predates Chrome.

But it's quite likely they all had their bug trackers on Google Code.