Hacker News: jaktet

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)"

jaktet — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:29:30 +0000

That’s a pretty good analogy though, noise is just information that isn’t immediately useful for the current task

If I need to know the current age I don’t need to know the past ages of someone

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: Generate .env files from various secret providers via checked-in config"

jaktet — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 10:12:24 +0000

As for as a general reason to use it over SSM is that it’s free for like under 10k values but it’s not secure by default since it also allows non-encrypted values to be stored. AFAIK you can use basic encrypted values with it the same as SSM, but for more advanced uses there are differences.

Fun fact: SSM is also an acronym for parameter store, it used to be known as EC2 Simple Systems Manager: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/whitepaper-ec2-ssm.pdf

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: Generate .env files from various secret providers via checked-in config"

jaktet — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:51:10 +0000

Have thought about creating this exact type of thing. I will be checking this out next week, and seeing what else might be out there though. One service I see that’s missing is parameter store, but if I actually needed it I’m guessing it would be pretty easy to add unless there’s a reason for not also including it.

New comment by jaktet in "From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]"

jaktet — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:08:57 +0000

I don’t know about timemachine but I have some anecdotal experience with Dropbox and ransomware. Essentially one person’s computer was infected which encrypted all the files for everyone in Dropbox. Because Dropbox had versioning on the files I was able to restore all the files back to the point before they were encrypted after removing and wiping the infected machines.

So if timemachine has versioning then maybe then you probably have some options, I’m not sure I’d call this being “safe” from ransomware.

New comment by jaktet in "Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports"

jaktet — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:51:44 +0000

What I’m saying though is that if I were running a script like this, unless I’m targeting a specific ip, I would just be scanning known ports for known vulnerabilities. I wouldn’t be scanning every single port.

New comment by jaktet in "Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports"

jaktet — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:01:01 +0000

Unless they are specifically targeting that system my assumption would be that they are just looking for open ports for known services, then if found checking if exploits work or not, and if not move on. I could very well be wrong but from a practical standpoint I can’t imagine this service mattering to someone that is running a program to scan for open ports with vulnerabilities.

New comment by jaktet in "Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports"

jaktet — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:21:39 +0000

I would imagine the amount of time someone spends “investigating” a port like 3306 is the amount of time it takes for the existing automated software to run a check to see if the mysql server is vulnerable. So unless the service on 3306 is able to spoof a vulnerable mysql server, they don’t care if it’s real or not. They just care if their tool reports a vulnerable service.

New comment by jaktet in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

jaktet — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:22:21 +0000

I can’t speak for OP but usually the issue with #3 for me is that the other criteria it needs to meet is that it works with whatever other integration I want. I remember when I looked the TP-Links were a good option but you just needed internet to set it up. Afterwards it just went on a vlan without internet. The camera needs to support Scrypted/Frigate for my use case but depending on needs for PTZ, Wi-Fi, resolution, night vision, etc, I may or may not be able to find one at a reasonable price that doesn’t require internet access for setup. TP Link makes good cameras at a good price but they require internet access to setup, so any camera that falls into #3 will get compared to a TP Link in #2

New comment by jaktet in "Topaz/paste: A no-datastore, client-side paste service"

jaktet — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:51:07 +0000

Haven’t seen this before, pretty neat https://topaz.github.io/paste/#XQAAAQATAAAAAAAAAAAqGgknZByHj...

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: AirPrint Bridge: Enable AirPrint for Non-AirPrint Printers on macOS"

jaktet — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:59:28 +0000

I tried this and had too many issues with other devices. I finally just bought a Brother laser printer with built in AirPrint that worked fine for many years but lately it seems to disconnect once in awhile. Current fix for that has been a smart switch that I programmed to just power cycle the printer twice a day.

Eventually I’ll just upgrade to a newer one with color and hopefully better AirPort support, but I’m glad cups and AirPrint works alright since I haven’t tried it in a few years. The issues your wife is experiencing though are likely the same ones that led me to just get a printer that supports it and from what I read at the time Brother has the best AirPrint support (purely anecdotal)

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

jaktet — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:09:56 +0000

Awesome

Some additional feedback:

Still would be nice to just put in website.com and have it assume I mean https://website.com

- If a title is required maybe offer the option to just set the title as an emoji or something. This is definitely just my personal feedback I could be an outlier here.

- Once I submitted the email went to spam. I assume there’s not much you can do here other than become more established.

- After clicking the confirm link I’m taken to a page that says my changes have been confirmed and saved. I’d expect messaging along the lines of your page has been created along with a link to my page. Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/leus6ntppsf9yihe6i1sb/Lynx.Bo...

- At this point the only way I found to get to my page is just to type in what I assumed was the url format into the browser: lynx.boo/username

Wrote the feedback as I went through it. Once I see the page itself I understand why a title is required and an emoji might not make sense. Love the super clean layout and simplicity though, I will keep this tool in mind.

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

jaktet — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:41:21 +0000

Tried it out real quick.

The validation on the form page doesn’t require a valid url but when you hit submit the validation fails if the url is incorrect. When you click back to go correct it you can’t fix it because the submit button is still spinning.

Also requiring a title for a url doesn’t seem necessary, just use the domain as the title or the url itself if it’s empty.

Sorry don’t have any other feedback I stopped there.

New comment by jaktet in "Gitea: Self-hosted Git service with CI/CD and team collaboration"

jaktet — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 04:33:39 +0000

I’ve only used this so far to quickly create a local git repo for backing something up and it seems very promising. The interface felt nearly identical to GitHub as far as creating a repo, ssh key, and pushing an existing repo to it.

New comment by jaktet in "ExpressJS 5.0 Released"

jaktet — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:15:31 +0000

These are interesting release notes… does anyone know what actually released with version 5?

New comment by jaktet in "Nginx has moved to GitHub"

jaktet — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:09:15 +0000

My experience is similar to yours, though I seem to have to login every other week or so it feels like (maybe it’s once a month I don’t know).

This feeling could also be exasperated though since while I only use a personal GitHub account, I access it frequently from the browser and app on numerous devices.

I can definitively say though that I need to login more than twice a year on any one device.

New comment by jaktet in "Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD"

jaktet — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 04:42:22 +0000

i love onshape and the capabilities featurescript offers. I wish they had a hobbyist pricing that only provided minor QOL offerings like the ability to make some things private. As long as it remains free for public use though I am very happy using it.

I was wondering if AI might help with writing FeatureScript. I’ve only scratched the surface but have leaned heavily on what other people have written for documentation.

New comment by jaktet in "I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services"

jaktet — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:29:12 +0000

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New comment by jaktet in "First randomized trial of Ozempic for alcoholism shows big drops in drinking"

jaktet — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:35:23 +0000

I’ve been on Zepbound since January and my craving/desire for any alcohol basically is gone. I have gone periods without drinking before while trying to lose weight but I always felt like I was missing out because I was only not drinking to help lose weight, I would avoid some social gatherings just because it wasn’t fun to be there and not “socialize”. Now I just don’t want to and I don’t care about saying no thanks or even think about it. And if I do have a drink it’s usually literally just a drink and even then I might not even finish it.

I’m down 60+ lbs so far.

New comment by jaktet in "Ask HN: How to make `screen` behave like a native shell?"

jaktet — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:14:20 +0000

I think it’s altscreen on that you want, you can see my base settings here https://github.com/jensbodal/shell-settings/blob/main/docs/s...

New comment by jaktet in "Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes"

jaktet — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:46:23 +0000

> A number of minutes equals an amount of time

This is short and succinct and sums it up pretty well