Hacker News: proactivesvcs

New comment by proactivesvcs in "EU Commission Response to 'Stop Destroying Videogames'"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:42:56 +0000

Link to article: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

New comment by proactivesvcs in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:08:28 +0000

I've known a fair few drives with uncorrectable sectors or adaptor warnings that continue to work but a lot more that have degraded or just outright failed.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"

proactivesvcs — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:35:43 +0000

Well I don't see why you'd want to keep running a drive that is showing warning signs, it's just asking for trouble. But even if one doesn't replace them from this data, if you start seeing alerts and at the same time your database suffers from corruption, that also shows the use of SMART.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"

proactivesvcs — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:37:19 +0000

I'm surprised to have read to the end and found that they're still not performing any hardware monitoring and alerting. SMART may not always show up pre-failure warnings but when it does they can usually be trusted.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:49:21 +0000

With this change of policy the foundation does not "have any control or influence over what WinGet does", one of the first class methods to install python.

https://github.com/python/pymanager/issues/287

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:11:02 +0000

The article links to a statement made by Backblaze:

"The Backup Client now excludes popular cloud storage providers [...] this change aligns with Backblaze’s policy to back up only local and directly connected storage."

I guess windows 10 and 11 users aren't backing up much to Backblaze, since microsoft is tricking so many into moving all of their data to onedrive.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:02:09 +0000

"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

proactivesvcs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:11:03 +0000

We could have said that for publisher a few years back. Its death knell has been sounded and microsoft aren't even offering any way for people to properly view or print their publisher files, let alone edit them.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:43:43 +0000

I saw this on restic's main repository the other day.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "SSH Secret Menu"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:38:43 +0000

Not as much as they hate Enter ~ .

See "escape characters" under man ssh.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:59:32 +0000

It recently popped up on the HIBP feed; they tend to be pretty careful when checking the veracity of claims.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Substack

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:10:15 +0000

The UK's BT Broadband did this around 2007 via Phorm. Actually they did worse - used the data to inject custom advertising. Not only were their customers chill with it, so was the Information Commissioner's Office, the government arm that ostensibly protects our privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)"

proactivesvcs — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:31:22 +0000

  i netted six
  alone in a scope of the entire globe,
  temporary,
  dynamic.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:01:58 +0000

ursinewave@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/a/ursinewave/video-channels "Roberta Fidora is a genre-bender from the Isle of Wight, UK, hopping between field recordings in space, industrial-tinged electroclash, guerrilla puppeteering and wildly maximalist, mildly-anarchic pop music."

meljoann@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/c/meljoann/ "Meljoann is an extremely physically attractive Irish multidisciplinary artist. They’ve been supported by Pitchfork, Beats Per Minute, XLR8, KEXP, Dan Hegarty, Cian Ó Cíobháin, Jenny Greene and Tara Stewart of RTÉ radio, Irish Times, Nialler9, Hot Press, BBC’s Gemma Bradley, Dummy Mag, HMUK and the Arts Council of England. She’s currently releasing a series of self-directed video singles. ‘HR’, their anti-capital concept album, is out now. Their third album, ‘Status’, releases in 2025"

New comment by proactivesvcs in "ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:38:59 +0000

There's a lot of it on the Fediverse tech circles. I find a lot of it through following the #Fediverse tag on Mastodon.

Bandwagon.fm: A federated platform for musicians and fans: https://bandwagon.fm/

Bonfire: A modular server for building communities with a wide variety of services: https://bonfirenetworks.org/

write.as: "Type words, put them on the internet." https://write.as/

New comment by proactivesvcs in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:05:13 +0000

In the context of UK infrastructure, "OR" is an abbreviation of "Openreach", part of the BT Group that is responsible for the infrastructure from ducts and poles to street cabinets and exchange buildings. It is not an organisation that an end user can access for support and is charged by ISPs to repair, upgrade and install additions to large parts the telecommunications network. It can be difficult to convince one's ISP to have Openreach investigate a physical fault or bottleneck, unless that ISP is the aforementioned Andrews and Arnold who literally implemented automated methods to repeatedly bounce faults back to Openreach when the latter insists on erroneously rejecting faults. Makes for entertaining reading :-)

New comment by proactivesvcs in "The Rust version of `du` outputs wrong sizes in Ubuntu 25.10"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:44:06 +0000

Someone's already made a pull request to resolve the bug: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9202

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Blue Origin Launches NASA's Escapade Mission to Mars: How to Watch"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:15:41 +0000

I think the webcast will be hosted here: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2

New comment by proactivesvcs in "3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:01:33 +0000

At 1,685,278 bytes this almost fits on within the hallowed 1.44 megabytes. Maybe the front and rear covers can be discarded?

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:31:04 +0000

"So, if you’re a Wrangler 4xe owner, here’s your order of operations for the time being:"

Do not use the vehicle under any circumstances and have the dealer take it away and keep it until it is safe to drive again.