Hacker News: ferngodfather

New comment by ferngodfather in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

ferngodfather — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:53:53 +0000

I could never get either working sadly.

flaresolverr even had an open issue or similar that acknowledges it's basically dead last I checked?

New comment by ferngodfather in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

ferngodfather — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:28:36 +0000

Because 1337 is behind Cloudflare meaning the Sonarr stack can't use it properly

New comment by ferngodfather in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

ferngodfather — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:25:30 +0000

I'm glad someone actually took the time. I've been running into this for weeks and it as thinking to myself isn't this a rather silly and old trick to be bringing back.

Mainly with new Mobland episodes.

New comment by ferngodfather in "Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks"

ferngodfather — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:24:33 +0000

I reported a fake software update advert on YouTube. The report was declined. I appealed, and that was also rejected.

They couldn't see anything wrong with a maliciously fake software update advert.

New comment by ferngodfather in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

ferngodfather — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:05:31 +0000

Yeah give me a vuln and I can make it anything between a 2 and 8 quite easily. I routinely see 10s that are "Critical 10.0 CVE (but only if you're using X language with X setting changed from default, and the attacker can MiTM your traffic)"

New comment by ferngodfather in "How to Write with an LLM"

ferngodfather — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:04:15 +0000

People on my FOSS project couldn't see the issue with their AI slopped documentation contributions.

On one hand I'm like, yeah fair enough it needed writing and something is better than nothing.

On the other I know nobody wants to read it now because it's just word vomit rather than how a human would write something they'd like another human to read.

I hate it so much.

New comment by ferngodfather in "How to Write with an LLM"

ferngodfather — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:00:59 +0000

You say this but fact and opinion are very similar and not at all easy to distinguish.

For instance, if I said the grass is green vs if I said the grass looks nice vs if I said the grass is doing well and looks how it should vs if I said in my opinion the grass is healthier than its ever been.

New comment by ferngodfather in "Astra for Law"

ferngodfather — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:02:18 +0000

> To submit a claim you do not need a lawyer, but the process is (intentionally?) vague and very complicated, so it takes a lot of effort to figure it out yourself.

I'm not sure there's quite accurate. The form is really not that difficult to complete.

It's basically: Party details, type of claim, particulars, damages

Obviously knowing these details requires some legal knowledge but I actually think ET claims are easy enough to bring if you've got the time to do a little research and build your case. Almost all ET judgments are public so there isn't the usual difficulty with research as you get with law reports being restricted either.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65bcbd214a666...

New comment by ferngodfather in "Astra for Law"

ferngodfather — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:53:27 +0000

Doing similar-ish things with Claude, it's helpful to have something to ground it.

For instance, if you can say:

"Refer to the database schema in x.sql as your source of truth for the database structure we want to import into*. Do not invent data, tables or columns that do not exist. Carefully match all output against this database schema and do not create output that doesn't exist if it does not match the schema, simply skip it."

You will end up with a far better result in my experience.

Gotta treat it like a child.

New comment by ferngodfather in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"

ferngodfather — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:01:03 +0000

The POS are still XP last I checked haha

New comment by ferngodfather in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

ferngodfather — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:02:19 +0000

No fire suppression and wooden ceilings?

New comment by ferngodfather in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

ferngodfather — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:51:42 +0000

1 "data center" built from a shipping container is one too many.

And, did you look at the photos you linked lol.

New comment by ferngodfather in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

ferngodfather — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:26:24 +0000

You should see the pricing of Azure web apps lol

New comment by ferngodfather in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

ferngodfather — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:25:36 +0000

My issue with OVH is the support is God awful and half French. Someone made a complaint about my server and their default stance was to nuke me from orbit and ask questions later.

Oh and their "data centers" are just shipping containers that are prone to the occasional fire.

Much happier with Hetzner, even though it's more expensive.

New comment by ferngodfather in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

ferngodfather — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:35:33 +0000

I mean, bridge tolls are absolutely a thing.

New comment by ferngodfather in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

ferngodfather — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:26:07 +0000

If only they had a parent company that specialised in search

New comment by ferngodfather in "The August 17 outage"

ferngodfather — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:52:49 +0000

But they can't process the commit until I push it?

New comment by ferngodfather in "Beware Management Consultants"

ferngodfather — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:12:31 +0000

They saw it commented on another thread.

New comment by ferngodfather in "Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules"

ferngodfather — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:12:25 +0000

This is not real life.

New comment by ferngodfather in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

ferngodfather — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:03:25 +0000

I had both setup previously and constantly ended up in my recipients spam. When I'm trying to sort my life admin with local council/government/landlord/utilities, it's one thing to have a 'cool' custom email, but it's another to say "oh yeah, sorry, it's probably in your spam".

Haven't had an issue since I moved to 365. Costs a little more but so much less hassle. I don't like it but I also need people to actually receive my emails.