Hacker News: skullone

New comment by skullone in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

skullone — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:37:37 +0000

Oregon auto atically registers you to vote when you get a license/ID, and has a pretty reliable mail in voting system. Other states interested in their constituents should do the same

New comment by skullone in "Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol"

skullone — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:31:38 +0000

Could be a solo person or a team of 5,000. This is amateur hour, and they are not serious about their purported secure and private platform.

New comment by skullone in "Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol"

skullone — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:33:01 +0000

This whole project reads like amateur hour. Still using curl pipe to shell install and everything. Plus this lax security disclosure with just an outstandingly foolish security flaw. Gross.

New comment by skullone in "The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin"

skullone — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:00:59 +0000

This whole article shouldn't even exist, and should just point to wikipedia or mayo clinic.

New comment by skullone in "California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere [video]"

skullone — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:54:58 +0000

It's nick shirley, there is quite the agenda.

New comment by skullone in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

skullone — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:01:43 +0000

Serious weather? Ehhh...

New comment by skullone in "Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed"

skullone — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:16:57 +0000

Tolerance of intolerance, what a world

New comment by skullone in "When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering"

skullone — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:30:37 +0000

We should allow kids to roam more. But their specific example of a couple letting their 5 year old go to the pond a couple blocks away without supervision is borderline. My spidey senses go off much more when water or pools are involved.

New comment by skullone in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

skullone — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:43:31 +0000

This spying is even more prevelant in Korean cars, too. Really sad, because they can be a decent enough product (no worse than any other cheap car) but they are very anti consumer and burning their reputation.

New comment by skullone in "Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set"

skullone — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:41:42 +0000

I turned off my ad blocker to check (Firefox mobile) and got zero ads. Hm

New comment by skullone in "Migrating to HTTPX2"

skullone — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:47:35 +0000

Ugh. certifi the most annoying thing ever. It snuck into numerous python dependencies, never made anything better, and confuses all the junior devs when their venvs/containers etc can't access internal CA signed resources. Probably have explained what to do over 9,000 times. And for what? "To provide updated root CAs". Meh. I don't need daily CA trust store updates. If your CA roots are that new, I want nothing to do with it. Cert issuers (cough sectigo and their amateur hour CA root rotation recently, not even Mozilla had it).

New comment by skullone in "CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API"

skullone — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:45:21 +0000

Django and Wagtail are among the silent heros of "getting stuff done". Appreciate your releases!

New comment by skullone in "Tim Curry has died"

skullone — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:18:18 +0000

Ohhhh, it was about 25 years ago. They've been doing their weekend show for nearly 50 years apparently :p

New comment by skullone in "Tim Curry has died"

skullone — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:21:11 +0000

I remember when a group of friends went to see Rocky Horror at Clinton Street theater here in Portland, not having any idea what we were getting ourselves into. What a memory. Rest in peace Tim Curry

New comment by skullone in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

skullone — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:24:59 +0000

Did similar, but went 12x16, trenched power and cat6, did rockwool insulation, did pine tongue and groove paneling and an Alaskan white cedar porch. When we sold the house, I'm pretty sure the shed is what sealed the deal, people had all sorts of things they wanted it to be, even as a spare bedroom

New comment by skullone in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

skullone — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:58:11 +0000

syslog isn't an observability system, you're right. It's just a transport. It doesn't really care what it transports either, delimeted, positional, structured - it'll transport it all. It'll do it durably, accurately and reliable with very modest systems at millions of messages a second. The goal is to get it to the right place for the observability systems, and to feed them reliably. We keep local logs for 24 hours, a sideline feed to S3, they then get sent to multiple multiple systems for tracing and legal and audits and siem etc etc. It's not trying to be a foglight or datadog, it just helps enable them. Apologies for being argumentative, but I come into orgs who make these generalizations, and I discover (or they engage me) because they've missed critical logging paths and face legal and compliance or intrusions and want to build more robust logging. Otel is certainly part of it, but writing off syslog because of configuration options that aren't durable etc, when that hasn't been the baseline in decades - well, it keeps me employed at a high salary because I see this often

New comment by skullone in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

skullone — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:59:03 +0000

As someone whose built megabyte to petabyte scale system of records, "yah but" to nits is annoying. You've solved it all yourself in your thought exercise though. Saying "the world has moved on", eh, not in any sense of the legal world, no. There's entire ecosystems around syslog alone to satisfy everything, otel is a baby fart feature and reliability and attestable wise

New comment by skullone in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

skullone — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:35:04 +0000

Yes, go observe a broad array of sites - for someone who says theyre a (non)practicing attorney, you know in environments where logs and audit are considered evidence, to such a degree that they must be reliably transported and immunutable, someone doesn't just turn on UDP syslog to a box and let it sit there. Architecture and implementation happen, where it matters. So what if anyone uses otel or syslog, people can configure em both to be lossy or lossless, I struggle to understand the "gotchas" you point to.

New comment by skullone in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

skullone — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:06:27 +0000

If you are doing massive log streams with mixed priority/durability, use named queues if you have different priority and retry and durability needs. You keep bringing up edge cases, but they've already been considered and solutions already engineered and available in every major syslog implementation.

New comment by skullone in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

skullone — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:04:34 +0000

"Beginner tutorial", I'm sorry for not taking your point seriously, but I can't take it seriously. TCP for syslog (and RELP) have been around a long time (late 90s for syslog over TCP, 2006 for RELP). rsyslog and syslog-ng support it all, and operators have had choices given the import of their log data and what they can tolerate.