Hacker News: markwakeford

New comment by markwakeford in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

markwakeford — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:55:07 +0000

Onlyoffice is also not a bad alternative. (docx,xlsx etc)

New comment by markwakeford in "Atlassian Down - approx. 04:42-04:52UTC"

markwakeford — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:54:48 +0000

Slowly coming back

New comment by markwakeford in "O'Reilly Auto Part 121G"

markwakeford — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:42:25 +0000

hug of death

New comment by markwakeford in "MS “Smart” Screen says every AP-southeast-* S3 bucket are unsafe"

markwakeford — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 05:01:26 +0000

https://example.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ doesn't throw a warning in Edge for you ?

This is what I see https://ibb.co/dLS5vJN getting reports from numerous clients.

MS “Smart” Screen says every AP-southeast-* S3 bucket are unsafe

markwakeford — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:37:09 +0000

Edge has erroneously flagged every single https://.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com and https://.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com subdomain as Unsafe Site.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34436426

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

ASK HN: AWS SES / Microsoft Outage ?

markwakeford — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:47:53 +0000

Getting tons of bounces in the last 48 hours for @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com and @msn.com. A lot of the error messages are just "smtp; 550 4.4.7 Message expired: unable to deliver in 840 minutes.<421 4.4.1 Unable to connect to remote host

Ive noticed in the AWS support forums several topics on this but there appears to be no way in my AWS account to submit a ticket because I don't have paid support but I think its a wider issue.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827650

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by markwakeford in "Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments"

markwakeford — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:36:51 +0000

You can also just disable javascript for the website.

New comment by markwakeford in "Are We Wayland Yet?"

markwakeford — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:26:31 +0000

Interestingly enough using Chrome on OSX it looked nothing like those screenshots and didn't bother me at all. I am also red green colour blind.

New comment by markwakeford in "Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows"

markwakeford — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:41:45 +0000

Hello old friend :), wheres the DMG download ?? :P

New comment by markwakeford in "ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts"

markwakeford — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:29:38 +0000

While AWS supports DNSSEC for domain registration they don't support it for DNS. While it does appear that most of these attacks would not have been prevented by DNSSEC isn't it about time AWS supported DNSSEC ?

New comment by markwakeford in "First-ever DNSSEC root key rollover"

markwakeford — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 01:00:42 +0000

ahmen

New comment by markwakeford in "Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home"

markwakeford — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 03:04:47 +0000

Yeah, thats generally what they run for here in QLD as well, are the smashed avo loving areas over inflating building costs as well as land prices ?

New comment by markwakeford in "Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home"

markwakeford — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 02:25:19 +0000

Our build was around $355'000, for 279m2 but it was high set. We did opt for some premium finishes not found on most homes built these days, we have 2.7m high ceilings, ducted ac, ducted vac, square set cornices, stone bench tops through out, floor to ceiling tiles in the bathrooms and wc, we also have european appliances, built in coffee machine, steam oven etc.

Based on what we spent yeah ours would have been around $230k if we had built 180m2, but you have to factor in the fact we did go double storey.

New comment by markwakeford in "Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home"

markwakeford — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:43:58 +0000

Can someone help me out on the missing pieces here, whats the average construction cost of a regular home in the US ? In Australia a single storey 180m2 home which is just under 2000 ft2 would run for approximately $200k AUD. That works out to be $1100 per square meter or a little over $100 AUD or $80 USD per square foot. The article is stating around $300 USD per square foot, this seems astronomically expensive.

New comment by markwakeford in "Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address"

markwakeford — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:22:27 +0000

So a lot of systems these days use email password recovery, is this not just adding another attack vector ?.

> bdav24: Hi water42, don't ever trust anyone with your data, governments and big companies get hacked every day. Our angle: we don't ask for any personal information

You will be able to route/read all of an individuals inbound mail ?

New comment by markwakeford in "Dishwasher has directory traversal bug"

markwakeford — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:41:26 +0000

This is a commercial medical laboratory Washer-disinfector. The reporting is most likely mandated based on its usage in a medical setting. Some of these devices print out reports that are required to be stored. I suppose this would allow them to easily keep those records paperless.

I am in no way justifying the lack of security but I think its important to understand that its unlikely to be opened up for a free for all connected to the public internet.

New comment by markwakeford in "FedEx Offers Coupon If Users Enable Flash on Browser"

markwakeford — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 02:27:10 +0000

Do I get more coupons if i use IE7 while we're at it ?

New comment by markwakeford in "GitHub usage spam"

markwakeford — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 01:59:40 +0000

Thanks Matt, i shall take a look.

GitHub usage spam

markwakeford — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:36:58 +0000

Hi, just curious if anyone else has received anything like this, but I received an email from a company today stating that they saw i had contributed to an open source project on Github and they currently have a product that i might be interested in. Its currently in open beta but clearly going to be a commercial product.

This really rubbed me up the wrong way they are going about it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12386535

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by markwakeford in "Show HN: Pinglist – My SaaS Project"

markwakeford — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 05:57:47 +0000

I am not sure but I figured it would be the easiest to deploy from a scaling perspective.