Hacker News: jakejarvis

New comment by jakejarvis in "Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager"

jakejarvis — Sun, 25 May 2025 02:09:27 +0000

Acquired by Zoom (yes, that Zoom) and left to rot. A huge loss for the internet IMO. :(

New comment by jakejarvis in "Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel"

jakejarvis — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:42:49 +0000

I've noticed the same, and it's an incredibly hard habit to break!

New comment by jakejarvis in "Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefited Google"

jakejarvis — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:12:33 +0000

I believe a big chunk (the majority?) of this comes from a fairly simple deal to set Google as the default search engine in Safari. Facebook doesn't have something similar to leverage, that I can think of at least.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...

New comment by jakejarvis in "Travis CI Leaked Secure Environment Variables"

jakejarvis — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:39:58 +0000

They posted this insanely embarrassing "security bulletin" yesterday as well: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-09-13-bulletin

> As a reminder from the Support Team, cycling your secrets is something that all users should do on a regular basis per your company’s security process. If you are unsure how to do this please contact Support and we would be happy to help you.

...and that's it. That's the full "bulletin."

Adobe releases Photoshop update with native Apple Silicon support

jakejarvis — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:35:08 +0000

Article URL: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-for-apple-silicon.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410200

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jakejarvis in "Slack is down"

jakejarvis — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:29:29 +0000

root / hunter2

Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding

jakejarvis — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-prioritized-load-shedding-6cc827b02f94

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969296

Points: 239

# Comments: 73

New comment by jakejarvis in "How HN crushed David Walsh's blog"

jakejarvis — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:15:31 +0000

Since the post mentions already relying on Cloudflare for help with traffic, I enabled Cloudflare's new Automatic Platform Optimization [0] on a client's website as a test last week. Thought it would be another overhyped WP caching solution but it truly feels magical. I believe it's powered by CF Workers and stores the pure HTML in KV on the backend, but all of that is handled for you and automagically updated/purged by the plugin on any site change.

Highly recommend trying it. I'm seeing the vast majority of visits now are not hitting the origin server at all — for assets or the page itself. At least it's a good stopgap until we can convince everyone to move 100% static...one can dream, right?

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimizations...

New comment by jakejarvis in "HomePod Mini"

jakejarvis — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:42:13 +0000

Binged Schitt’s Creek over the last few weeks and David shouting “Alexis!” triggered all of my Sonos speakers. Every. Single. Time.

New comment by jakejarvis in "Spamtoberfest"

jakejarvis — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:51:38 +0000

> it's enough to file a Pull Request, not needing for it to be accepted

This part never made any sense to me. Such an easy fix to make.

New comment by jakejarvis in "Say goodbye to hold music"

jakejarvis — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:21:52 +0000

Huh? Google already controls the entirety of the Phone app — if you're convinced they want to eavesdrop on your calls, they certainly don't need you to enable this feature to do so.

Also, the post states this is done completely on-device and links to a page with significant details on this: https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/10104618

New comment by jakejarvis in "The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website"

jakejarvis — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:40:37 +0000

Commento is super easy to self-host with Docker, highly recommend it!

https://gitlab.com/commento/commento

New comment by jakejarvis in "UHS hospitals hit by reported country-wide Ryuk ransomware attack"

jakejarvis — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:21:20 +0000

Much of the article pulls from interesting/terrifying first-hand reports on Reddit, which are still pouring in:

> We are down in Florida. It’s a hot mess in the ER today. EMS diversion on cardiac patients because the cath lab is down.

> I work at an inpatient psych site in Philly PA. The nurses told me they asked the patients what they take for morning meds and then didn’t even distribute evening meds bc they have no record of their medications.

> We have no access to anything computer based including old labs, ekg's, or radiology studies. We have no access to our PACS radiology system. No patients died tonight in our ED but I can surely see how this could happen in large centers due to delay in patient care.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/j17aj1/cyberattack...

New comment by jakejarvis in "DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers"

jakejarvis — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:28:19 +0000

That's my understanding of how it's worked for decades...

1. Check for tag(s)

2. Check for /favicon.ico

3. ...give up?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong!

New comment by jakejarvis in "DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers"

jakejarvis — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:17:24 +0000

And the iOS browser it seems: https://github.com/duckduckgo/iOS/blob/1ae03d7221180bd6791cf...

New comment by jakejarvis in "The irony of Apple homepage and Safari WebP support"

jakejarvis — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:22:06 +0000

Their stubbornness around WebM is even more frustrating to me, honestly.

New comment by jakejarvis in "GitHub Is Down"

jakejarvis — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:19:08 +0000

Or Gitea, if you want to use a fraction of the resources! I use it solely as a GitHub backup — you can mirror Git repositories from anywhere and it pulls changes on a schedule. Literally set it up this week, thank goodness.

https://gitea.io/en-us/

New comment by jakejarvis in "GitHub Is Down"

jakejarvis — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 20:43:53 +0000

Even our static assets from raw.githubusercontent.com are throwing 500s. Whatever it is, it sounds like a pretty widespread failure...

ISPs agree to help subscribers who can’t pay their bills due to coronavirus

jakejarvis — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/13/att-comcast-other-internet-providers-agree-not-cancel-or-penalize-internet-subscribers-who-cant-pay-their-bills/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568854

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jakejarvis in "Wunderlist Is Shutting Down"

jakejarvis — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:01:54 +0000

What a shame. But I really appreciated (and was shocked by) how long they kept it maintained after acquisition, and I’m finding Microsoft To-Do a comfortable equivalent so far.