Hacker News: david_van_loon

New comment by david_van_loon in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

david_van_loon — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:02:22 +0000

It's uncanny. Nice work capturing so much of the attitude and conversation style, amped up just a little for effect.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"

david_van_loon — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:25:10 +0000

I've seen no indications of this supposed feature in my own experience or other sources. The article does not provide any evidence to support its claims.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Tailscale Services"

david_van_loon — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:51:00 +0000

I'm happy to see this feature added. It's a feature that I didn't quite realize I was missing, but now that I see it described, I can understand exactly how I'll put it to use. Great work as always by the Tailscale team.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Tailscale Services"

david_van_loon — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:48:41 +0000

I've found that using Tailscale on my Android phone became worlds more reliable (as far as the issues you've described) once I stopped using a custom DNS resolver on my Tailnet.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:17:14 +0000

Update: my appeal of the false positive has been accepted by Google and my domain is now unblocked.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:12:34 +0000

Thank you for the "welcome message" suggestion! I'll implement that in the hope it may help in the future.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:09:21 +0000

I have my own domain, and Immich is hosted on an "immich" subdomain.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:02:37 +0000

Immich is a great software package, and I recommend it. Sadly, Google can still flag sites based on domain name patterns, blocking content behind auth or even on your LAN.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:59:09 +0000

Indeed. Thankfully, this isn't the first time Google has caused an issue like this, so I'm familiar with the appeal process.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:58:22 +0000

The subdomain is "immich", which has crossed my mind as a potential flagging characteristic.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:56:50 +0000

Yes, it's on the "immich" subdomain. This has crossed my mind as a potential triggering cause, as has the default login page.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:08:28 +0000

Since other browsers, like Firefox, also use the Google Safe Browsing list, they are affected as well.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:40:18 +0000

Yes, my own domain.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:59:10 +0000

The issue isn't the user-hosted content - I'm running a release build of Immich on my own server and Google flagged my entire domain.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:53:45 +0000

I'm in a similar boat. Google's false flag is causing issues for my family members who use Chrome, even for internal services that aren't publicly exposed, just because they're on related subdomains.

It's scary how much control Google has over which content people can access on the web - or even on their local network!

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:51:50 +0000

Yes, my family Immich instance is blocked from indexing both via headers and robots.txt, yet it's still flagged by Google as dangerous.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

david_van_loon — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:50:12 +0000

I'm fighting this right now on my own domain. Google marked my family Immich instance as dangerous, essentially blocking access from Chrome to all services hosted on the same domain.

I know that I can bypass the warning, but the photo album I sent to my mother-in-law is now effectively inaccessible.

New comment by david_van_loon in "WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home"

david_van_loon — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:12:06 +0000

In my opinion Tailscale is the realistic option for most people. The author is familiar with Tailscale having worked with it previously, but my interpretation is that he wanted to get more familiar with the underlying Wireguard technology.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Anti-abortion group's studies retracted before Supreme Court mifepristone case"

david_van_loon — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:54:10 +0000

It's interesting how confirmation bias can lead to a case based on a faulty premise. The objection always seemed like a long shot. I wonder if additional research will find anything of interest. Of course, the suggestion that the drug is "safe" is not at all accurate, since it is intended to be deadly to the child.

New comment by david_van_loon in "Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android"

david_van_loon — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:54:20 +0000

Great work, this looks very cool and seems to work well. I hope one day to see a local backup option, as it's important to me that my chats are not lost.