Hacker News: neya

New comment by neya in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"

neya — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:32:19 +0000

I think so, but, only if you differentiate in the privacy angle (think Proton vs GMail) and this is similar to how most enterprise GIT offerings work, too. The risk is GitHub offering to existing orgs who are already on Office 365 a self-hosted version (I think they already do). So, this business model will fail in the SWOT analysis itself. Still, there might be some looking to exit MS office ecosystem, it might make more sense for them.

New comment by neya in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"

neya — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:02:10 +0000

> making sure your own shit doesn't get pwned is a full time job.

Not if you didn't vide code your architecture. I have a 7 year box running without a single incident (touchwood) because 7 years ago we didn't have vibe coding and I used a compiled language. To use PHP for anything serious in 2026 is just insane, let's be honest.

New comment by neya in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"

neya — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:00:04 +0000

Thank you, just looking at it. Looks awesome so far. Thanks so much!

New comment by neya in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"

neya — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:59:37 +0000

So, the solution is just "suck it up and deal with it"? We pay good money to Microsoft for some of our client orgs and defending this level of piss poor reliability is just cope in the name of support for FOSS. I don't see why this should be accepted. This is mainly because their shitstorm that's Azure.

New comment by neya in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"

neya — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:37:08 +0000

Good. I want everyone to do this. I want to see the downfall of Microsoft. Time and again they've proved that anything they touch can't be trusted nor reliable. I am tired of this. They even bully their users - on Mac OS, GitHub desktop doesn't respect the word "no". It installs all kinds of helpers and acts like borderline spyware. Someone created an issue about it on Github and the MS employees told them to fuck off in corporate[1]

I am even considering hosting my own GIT server myself. Some of our deployments got affected multiple times in the last 6 months alone we were really caught off-guard. Thankfully our clients were understanding of the GitHub outages. But, this should not be the baseline. Reliability should not be the cost of doing business.

[1] https://github.com/creativefoundrysg/desktop#an-open-letter-...

New comment by neya in "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"

neya — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:47:14 +0000

> Vote with your wallet. Fuck them.

Easier said than done. Because, "Apple can do no wrong" is the general public perception. Look at any wrongdoing by Apple - whether they were caught slowing down the phones, degrading cameras on purpose or even the lawsuit where they were caught spying on people's voice recordings. There will always be some NPC defending them as if the billion dollar corporation gives a shit about them.

That or "Apple is the only pro-privacy company in the world" despite there being an active lawsuit against them for the exact opposite.

So, I say: Vote with your wallet. Fuck them...and the fanboys.

New comment by neya in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

neya — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:51:25 +0000

    With over 17 years of expertise, eMudhra is a global provider of digital identity, trust, and security solutions, enabling secure digital transformation for banks and financial institutions (BFSI),

So, you were in business for 17 years and still decided to use plaintext number "4" for your private key?

    The company’s Global digital signature certificate (DSC), eSign, and other signing services, including those in India, its enterprise PKI Solutions (emCA, CertiNext platforms), emSigner eSignature Suite, and its identity and authentication solutions (SecurePass, emAS) are not affected and continue to operate as normal.

Oh yeah, I'm sure the other customers are sipping their bobba tea reading about this instead of thinking "are we next?"

Fuck these clowns, in India to get an import/export license you had get a hardware key via USB from them to access the government portal. Worse yet, their website is designed to look eerily similar to a government website and a lot of people won't even be able to tell it's a private entity.

Now imagine, all the customers who had purchased this key from them have their private details exposed. There was absolutely no mention of this anywhere. Not even as much as an apology. This letter is full of arrogance, deflection and insult to injury. I hope they burn to their ground. It's a really shame the government isn't even stepping in to do anything about this as their customers are the ones that are most impacted because they mandated the stupid hardware key requirement. What a joke of a situation.

In any other country, everyone involved would be fired and there would be serious consequences for such a level of breach (Eg. Equifax). In India, even a class action suit would lead nowhere and the fact that these assholes would be operational still despite this is extremely infuriating.

New comment by neya in "PingCap TiDB Leaks"

neya — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:50:37 +0000

Pingcap's statement:

    With support from outside counsel and third-party forensic specialists, there is no evidence that data stored in TiDB was impacted. We keep on investigating and will provide updates on any new findings.

They have the fucking data in a tarball and Pingcap claims no data was impacted. This sounds like the bad blood story part 2 all over again.

New comment by neya in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

neya — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:22:36 +0000

True. From the breach, it was discovered, they had lat long coordinates of each customer. Along with their credit cards and order values. So, in theory, if you were a hacker, you could target people by their financial situation, family size and the locality they lived in. Their shitty CEO/CTO didn't as much as even disclose to the affected customers. Some of them only found out after their card was charged for unauthorized amounts.

New comment by neya in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

neya — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:43:08 +0000

These clowns were responsible for getting a key as part of the process of getting an import/export license in India. It used to be a requirement to get a USB hardware key from them. India doesn't have any stringent data protection laws, so nothing will happen to them, even. None of their customers will actually even get to know about this incident unless they hear about it from elsewhere as most of the times, Indian companies never communicate such breaches to their customers (Eg. Domino's Pizza India had a massive breach and they never even sent as much as an email). It's really a sad state for privacy.

New comment by neya in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:48:21 +0000

Wow, your comment history is just full on defence mode for Apple, hope the big corporation that doesn't care about you gets to see that.

New comment by neya in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:40:41 +0000

You're right. The pro indeed is more expensive now. I bought mine with a trade in, so you're right.

New comment by neya in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:39:09 +0000

He could have achieved all that even with an iPad Air. So again, my question is what is the relevance of the "pro" moniker?

The broader question is "is a desktop grade processor sold with a "pro" moniker being able to perform some basic PowerPoint and screensharing worth the $1000 asking price?"

New comment by neya in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:51:11 +0000

So, using powerpoint related functions on a tablet is a problem solved in 2014. Are we still going to be using that as a justification to a pro label on a $1000+ device with a desktop grade processor?

New comment by neya in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:49:47 +0000

Because you slapped a "Pro" label in your marketing and sold it as a capable device to begin with, going on over about how powerful it is. That is directly targeted towards a professional audience.

New comment by neya in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:39:07 +0000

At some point people are going to realize how crippled iPad OS is and will start switching to other platforms. It doesn't matter how powerful the processor is, the OS has always been the limitation. My M4 iPad Pro has a desktop grade processor but fucking useless for any real task even remotely related programming. It's just a glorified $1000 YouTube machine at this point because the OS pretty much doesn't allow you to do anything with it other than media consumption or basic media editing. The "Pro" moniker is just a joke.

New comment by neya in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:29:36 +0000

Well, what can I say? If you play dirty, then so can everyone else. The way I see it, consumers are the real winners here. Just another variation of classic competition. If such open models didn't exist, then make no mistake, OpenAI and Anthropic would be making sure you are bleeding dry with your wallet without much innovation.

New comment by neya in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

neya — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:26:05 +0000

Unfortunately, Cloudflare doesn't really support some pretty important TLDs. I am looking at Porkbun, but man, what a shitty name haha.

New comment by neya in "Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks"

neya — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:43:25 +0000

Here you go:

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

New comment by neya in "Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks"

neya — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:16:44 +0000

It's Microsoft's touch. Anything they touch gets fucked up. It's because of their shitty infrastructure aka Azure. There was an employee here who actually gave insight into how bad the situation was a while back. Just reading that should make you re-evaluate anything owned by Microsoft.

Edit: here's the link: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...