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New comment by justinclift in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub"

justinclift — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:05:45 +0000

Most places I've worked in the last few years don't have logs greater than 12 months, and some even only retain logs for 1-3 months. Apart from specific 7+ year legally mandated systems for things like financial records.

New comment by justinclift in "Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month"

justinclift — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:56:12 +0000

Heh, sounds like it'd be along the same lines as the SCO Unix kerfuffle back in the day.

New comment by justinclift in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub"

justinclift — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:05:22 +0000

> Our logs confirm

You retain all logs back through to (at least) March 2023?

New comment by justinclift in "Texas police dept ordered closed for failing to provide any community benefit"

justinclift — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:23:28 +0000

That link seems to be a blank page unless you remove the `/amp/` fragment on the end of it.

And after reading the page, it would probably be better on The Onion as satire if it wasn't real. o_O

New comment by justinclift in "Texas police dept ordered closed for failing to provide any community benefit"

justinclift — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:15:14 +0000

Sounds like the budget for the police could be better used for improving their water supply. :)

New comment by justinclift in "Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)"

justinclift — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:23:22 +0000

Yeah, they closed and locked that issue about an hour ago. :(

New comment by justinclift in "Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)"

justinclift — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:21:43 +0000

Looks like the GitHub repo added some minimal attribution a few days ago: https://github.com/google/artemis/commit/371aa6df56880643da5...

They've also closed the reporting issue, and pro-actively locked it without any kind of explanation or apology: https://github.com/google/artemis/issues/40#issuecomment-568...

That they didn't even bother to apologise or explain their actions seems pretty shitty. :(

New comment by justinclift in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:24:37 +0000

Awesome, thanks. :)

New comment by justinclift in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:34:59 +0000

Thanks. I skimmed the video as it was late at night, and didn't notice it. I'd better take a proper look at the video. :)

New comment by justinclift in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:24:27 +0000

> Are you not reading the thread where people with direct experience with these specific backends are noting the WSDLs either are not accessible or don’t match the actual services?

Correct, yes I haven't.

Other members of staff where I'm working are from Java backgrounds, and have described (in detail) WSDL/XSD (when things are accurate) in positive terms as I put above.

And yeah, I'm presently dealing with vendor specs/docs that don't match what's actually sent over the wire, and it's a huge pain in the arse. And the vendor doesn't give a shit, as like you allude to they're in the telco business so the lock in aspect you mention is correct to. :(

New comment by justinclift in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:20:05 +0000

Is that a guess, or do you know for sure? :)

New comment by justinclift in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:26:52 +0000

> That seems like a Go problem.

Yeah, fully agree. I was super surprised to find the SOAP support is practically non-existing too, as Go is really strong in lots of other areas. :(

That being said, SOAP's stronghold is clearly the Java ecosystem. Wonder if it's as popular in any other non-java-ecosystem based languages?

New comment by justinclift in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:15:47 +0000

Looking at the vendor page for that 5K colour camera, the page directly says they only support Windows and macOS. :( :( :(

> The Arcturus Vision apps include Arcturus Vision Camera for recording and playing 5K HDR spatial video, Arcturus Vision Gaussian XR for exploring 3D Gaussian splats, and Sync for transferring recordings to Windows or Mac (with conversion for other players on Mac).

https://arcturus.vision

I've emailed their support to ask, just in case. :)

New comment by justinclift in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:12:13 +0000

> WSDL/XSD specs in this case seem to be incomplete or just wrong.

Are you meaning in my comment, or in the GitHub repo the article references?

Asking because AFAIK the theory of having (accurate) vendor provided WSDL/XSD files is that you can generate a bunch of code (ie parsers, strong validation) that works with it, generate tests. There are additionally well developed SOAP specific GUIs (ie www.soapui.org) which will directly load the WSDL/XSD files and let you immediately make test network calls to validate things.

Though sure, you can do the above manually without WSDL/XSD files, but if you have accurate ones provided to you by vendors then it makes things a lot easier.

New comment by justinclift in "I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:17:14 +0000

Couldn't it be both? :)

New comment by justinclift in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We mapped it all"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:59:56 +0000

Yeah, kind of.

It's more than just a few days of effort though. Sme of the members of my team at work have been working on adding SOAP 1.1 support. It's a significant amount of time and effort though.

New comment by justinclift in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:22:40 +0000

People still use IMDB after they introduced mandatory account registration to even see user reviews?

New comment by justinclift in "Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2"

justinclift — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:10:41 +0000

> mature code generation support for all relevant languages.

Heh, "relevant languages" is kind of an interesting term there. If the relevant language is Java then sure, it's fine.

Some popular modern languages (ie Go) don't have good SOAP support (yet). At least not to the point of being able to point them at WSDL/XSD specs and have everything auto-generated. :(

New comment by justinclift in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

justinclift — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:12:45 +0000

Yeah. The primary draw for me is being able to try out VR stuff on Linux (finally).

There are other devices with what seems like unofficial Linux support, but this seems like the only modern VR system with official support for it.

New comment by justinclift in "Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents"

justinclift — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:56:39 +0000

I think the think they're aiming for here isn't to rewind to a particular point in time, but to remove a transaction from the history and while keeping the transactions after it.