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New comment by spl757 in "Ubuntu Pro auth service down?"

spl757 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:55:40 +0000

I've been trying since yesterday to attach a new ubuntu install to Ubuntu Pro. 'sudo pro attach' runs, and gives me the key to enter on the link they provide but I just get '502 Bad Gateway. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Ubuntu Pro auth service down?

spl757 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:55:40 +0000

Article URL: https://ubuntu.com/login?next=/pro/attach?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052606

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by spl757 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

spl757 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:55:10 +0000

I remember when Plex wasn't a money grab. Many moons ago.

New comment by spl757 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

spl757 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:55:34 +0000

Easy fix. Don't use Windows. It's been enshittified so many times over that I can't believe people put up with what it has become. I haven't used Windows on my desktop for well over a decade. People are switching away from it now, and MS is trying to backtrack some, but it's too late. They destroyed themselves with false promises of AI that backfired, and just absolute greed.

New comment by spl757 in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

spl757 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:27:26 +0000

In the US, people are going to shoot at it with guns. Bullets that go straight up? Probably not lethal when it falls back to the ground, tumbling and lacking ballistic energy, but bullets that follows a ballistic trajectory are going to hit with force. What could posssibly go wrong?

New comment by spl757 in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

spl757 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:06:25 +0000

Willie Nelson.

New comment by spl757 in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

spl757 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:37:01 +0000

When a corporation makes playing by the rules harder than pirating, especially after "selling" you a movie, then people are going to pirate.

Corporations bring it on themselves by acting poorly and just being greedy and giving the consumer no quarter as they movies they "purchased" are removed without refund.

Pirating is easy. Why should I deal with thieves that sell you something then steal it back from you when, with a broadband connection, I can have a 4k Blue Ray rip downloadewd and imported into a media server and watchable in less than 10 minutes?

Now they are trying to argue that all unnofficial servers running minecraft are illegial, and they are going to start going after the minecrafters. Good luck with THAT.

Fuck that nonsense.

New comment by spl757 in "Older tech workers are tapping out early"

spl757 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:28:57 +0000

Car mechanics at dealerships are in shortage. You use a laptop more than a wrench these days, and they want people with tech experience now. If you are struggling to look for tech work, that's a tech-adjacent job market right now, at least here on the east coast of the US.

New comment by spl757 in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

spl757 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:56:34 +0000

A poorly documented, poorly implememented, and poorly understood protocol is a worthless protocol. More than that, it's a potential attack surface, and the idea is to reduce those. If you are the admin of something, and you are putting things into production in which you don't fully understand the implications, because you copy/pasted some crap from stackexchange assuming the person that posted it knew what they are talking about, then you are doing it wrong. Just look at this thread. It's chaos and reinforces the fact that even people that think they know, don't really know. When in doubt, grab the RFC and figure it out.

New comment by spl757 in "CBC to stop airing NHL games after 74 years, end of free hockey on Canadian TV"

spl757 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:57:17 +0000

This is a harbinger of darkness.

New comment by spl757 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

spl757 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:26:26 +0000

The term "forced consent" is an oxymoron. It shouldn't take much more critical thinking than reading that term to know it makes no sense.

New comment by spl757 in "Oracle Cloud might start charing for their forever-free instances"

spl757 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:13:11 +0000

If I had a nickel for every time a corporation cancels "lifetime" subscriptions I'd be rich.

New comment by spl757 in "Yserver: Modern X11 Server Written in Rust with the Help of Claude Code"

spl757 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:17:39 +0000

As stated on the project page, by design, this is not meant to be a full-featured X11 server.

As such it will have it's own use cases, so I wanted to mention that there is a project that is a fork of X11 called XLibre.

It is, by design, meant to be a drop in replacement that will perpetuate X11 as Wayland starts to become the default.

The current release of Ubuntu 26.04 is the last version that will use X11. The next major release will use wayland.

Personally, I think it's a mistake to just write of X11 in favor of Wayland because they are not compatible in fundamental way, so I'm always glad to see projects like this and XLibre.

New comment by spl757 in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

spl757 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:30:59 +0000

This is extremely disappointing corporate behavior coming from Motorola. I've had better luck with $350 unlocked Moto something I can use anywhere and comes with no bloatware. I like that part, do more of that.

New comment by spl757 in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

spl757 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:33:56 +0000

They are impractical on the ground. Why anyone would think this is a good idea is byond me.

New comment by spl757 in "Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads"

spl757 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:21:42 +0000

This is what Amazon did with Amazon Prime. I was paying for no ads, then they added ads and demanded a ransomm of $36/year to return to the no-ad experience I was already paying for. I cancelled Prime and vote with my wallet by not giving them money. I also had AWS cloud stuff. I pulled everything. I don't believe that should even be legal, and there is probably a regulation against it that just isn't being enforced because the like of Amazon vote with money, because corporations are people and money is speech. The entire economic system in the USA is designed to do one thing, and one thing only. Find every way possible to make sure money goes up from the poorest to the richest. Citizens United must go if we want to see adults running the country again in good faith and with common-sense regulations opn the wealthiest corporations, and those with monopolies. We we are seeing is what happens when capitalism no longer has gaurdrails to protect consumer. I'm not anti-capitalism, but I do argure that umnregulated capitalism is unsustainable, and regulation is necessary bot both the good of the corporations and more importainly, the midle-class down to the poorest amongst us. Consumer protection used to be a thing, but all of the agencies that were a bulwark against enshittification have been dismantled or destroyed completely. Corporations are not people, and money is not political speech. Enshittification couldn't happen the way it is now where there were things the Consumer Saftey Board and other organizations that made sure there's no lead in your kids toys.

New comment by spl757 in "Training our own AI models"

spl757 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:28:49 +0000

CEOs and the like speak Weasel and only use Weasel Words.

New comment by spl757 in "Can we have the day off?"

spl757 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:19:42 +0000

Channeling my inner-masteroftheworld, No.

New comment by spl757 in "CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting"

spl757 — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:05:33 +0000

work without the internet/power

New comment by spl757 in "Solving the “Zork” Mystery"

spl757 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:24:33 +0000

Now they sprinkle dopamine rewards all over the place to incentivize the thirst for even more. Especially if there are ads shown every time you get that dopamine hit.