Hacker News: iBotPeaches

Sketchy Boats

iBotPeaches — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:03:42 +0000

Article URL: https://sketchy.boats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407719

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by iBotPeaches in "MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs"

iBotPeaches — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:44:16 +0000

A good deal of APIs don't pin SSL certs so MITM works for a solid amount of them.

The Disappointing Starknet.io

iBotPeaches — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:27:45 +0000

Article URL: https://connortumbleson.com/2024/06/16/the-disappointing-starknet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706577

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit"

iBotPeaches — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:29:02 +0000

I do really wish the era of Xbox & Halo 2 modding returned in modern times. I owe that point in time to my career choice and still believe Halo 2 was the most innovative online game of all time.

Just buying a simple tool to load game saves and you could have a soft-modded Xbox in minutes. Now consoles blow e-fuses and prevent downgrades on top of tons of other security enhancements.

Was a great read and trip back in time. Pair this with projects like Insignia launching Halo 2 support and its a great time for classic Halo 2.

The Disappointing Tea.xyz

iBotPeaches — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:56:01 +0000

Article URL: https://connortumbleson.com/2024/02/26/the-disappointing-tea-xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39510756

Points: 167

# Comments: 85

New comment by iBotPeaches in "GitHub Spam"

iBotPeaches — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:22:27 +0000

I concur - I saw the React Native repo getting spammed with hundreds of similar issues/prs. So many unique usernames and such a cumbersome process to report a painfully obvious spam account. I hit the limit of open abuse reports you could have. My attempt to help was ended - I was only 4 accounts in.

Thought I would get creative and add comments to one of my existing reports of the other 10 or so spam accounts. The tickets were closed and only the main account was deleted - not the others mentioned in the ticket.

So I gave up.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer"

iBotPeaches — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:13:55 +0000

Love this - I can almost imagine the convincing for other companies wasn't even needed when they realized a small binary size and comparison to competitors would net them more business. A perfect little solution for triaging issues between services and comparing solutions.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

iBotPeaches — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:15:51 +0000

I write weekly on https://connortumbleson.com using Ghost. Started as a new years resolution I've kept just discussing what crosses my life or mind. My favorite posts:

* https://connortumbleson.com/2017/05/01/the-human-behind-the-... - being an open source maintainer

* https://connortumbleson.com/2018/02/11/stumbling-into-a-mlm-... - wandering into an MLM and researching it

* https://connortumbleson.com/2019/06/02/apktool-in-the-wild/ - finding apktool unintentional markings in a released application

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Disabled at 22 million commits"

iBotPeaches — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:04:36 +0000

> I decided to see how many commits GitHub (and git) could take before acting kind of wonky. At ~19 million commits (and counting) to master: it’s wonky.

This just doesn't seem right to me. Why? Its obvious at some point you'll harm the service. If the goal was to test it, why not try locally with git.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "WordPress.com launches paid newsletters"

iBotPeaches — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:28:34 +0000

Was wondering when this might come out. Ghost doing it and having such success seemed like something that would spread to competitors.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Life as a door-to-door salesman"

iBotPeaches — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:32:57 +0000

Not sure of the legality of it, but I've enjoyed just recording the solar sales folks to knock on my door and turning it into a blog. I enjoy researching the claims brought forward to see how many of them I can debunk.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Someone is pretending to be me"

iBotPeaches — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:51:44 +0000

I submitted my own blog here, but then my intentionally configured HN timeouts locked me out. I was wondering why my little Linode was dying.

Yeah this was an incredibly odd and creepy experience that I continue to investigate here and there. I really appreciate the interviewer for letting me stay on and confront the imposter.

Someone is pretending to be me

iBotPeaches — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:50:01 +0000

Article URL: https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending-to-be-me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996953

Points: 2244

# Comments: 383

New comment by iBotPeaches in "GitHub Actions Bills Wildly Overstated"

iBotPeaches — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:52:25 +0000

Well glad this was posted. Nothing like seeing you used 12 million GB and 16 million minutes and scaring everyone.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "GitHub incident: 2022/03/24"

iBotPeaches — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:28:33 +0000

Well this time looks different than the last.

* We get a non-machine message that migrations to GitHub are temporarily disabled.

* We get an exact message that the delivery of webhooks and action kickoff is delayed.

So while there are no 500s - I just have to wait a few more minutes for builds to kick off. So at least I can still review code in the meantime.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "GitHub incident 2022-03-23"

iBotPeaches — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:56:52 +0000

It seems like we haven't had a non-robot status update on the status page in days since this what seems like daily occurrence. I figure at this point we'd get something of why this is happening.

I also don't appreciate our builds freezing, unable to be cancelled and then eating up hundreds of minutes.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files"

iBotPeaches — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:27:52 +0000

Initial release sure, but if you are looking at the website linked that was released in 2018 and the last major release (2.6.0) was released in 2021. So don't think 2010 is accurate.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files"

iBotPeaches — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:26:36 +0000

When I moved the project from Google Code to GitHub, GitHub did not allow binary downloads. So I used Bitbucket, changing the download location again after moving did not seem right. So it has just been maintained since the switch. Now in present day they are also uploaded to GitHub and another mirror I host.

New comment by iBotPeaches in "Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server"

iBotPeaches — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:00:18 +0000

This was an interesting security patch that marked the first time in my memory that updating Apache led to an immediate regression. A few hours after taking this upgrade many systems experienced such strange timeout errors. Connections were low and couldn't pinpoint the misleading behavior that looked like a slowloris attack, with no connections.

Half a day later with no resolution in research a new patch [1] was available and problem resolved.

[1] https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/8720881b0634383145e87...

AWS – Forced MariaDB 10.2 Upgrade

iBotPeaches — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:19:38 +0000

We had multiple different accounts today (a few minutes ago) just spawn an automatic RDS upgrade from MariaDB 10.2.x -> MariaDB 10.3.x