Hacker News: tgmatt

Ask HN: Phished Microsoft account, recovery useless

tgmatt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:15:06 +0000

So my little brother (child) managed to fall for a phishing scam and got his Microsoft / Minecraft account stolen by some scumbag, and the recovery process has been denied by Microsoft.

We provided previous passwords, address where it had been used, last 4 digits of a card used to make purchases on it, all to no avail. He is even part of the Microsoft Family I set up, with his mother as the owner.

The password and recovery email have of course been changed, so we currently have no recourse to get the account back.

Does anyone know any solutions to this, or a contact at Microsoft that we can get assistance from? This seems utterly outrageous that an account of a child that is part of a family account can have his account stolen, and the family owner can't recover the account. How is that a thing?

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New comment by tgmatt in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

tgmatt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:12:48 +0000

The whole point of my company using Bedrock is so that we knew our data wasn't being shipped off anywhere. This means we will a) block Mythos-class models at the organisation level and b) further consider using smaller, self-hosted models for our purposes. Nice footgun Anthropic.

New comment by tgmatt in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

tgmatt — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:37:55 +0000

I'd be careful with the name and the way you're describing it, as Nintendo are notoriously litigious. Best of luck with the project, though!

New comment by tgmatt in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

tgmatt — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:26:16 +0000

I don't know where these mythical "good people" are, but they have been few and far between in my experience. People _will_ let you down, people _will_ disappoint you, even the so-called "good" ones, even family. I don't have the same opinion of AI as the OP, I've never used it for anything other than questions that needed answering or work related stuff, and I don't think I could ever use it for personal things, but I agree that people overwhelmingly suck.

New comment by tgmatt in "Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs"

tgmatt — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:36:21 +0000

Looks pretty neat. Would be nice if you could point it at a cluster to view deployed applications somehow to see what is defined and what _could_ be defined, but aren't.

New comment by tgmatt in "Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform"

tgmatt — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:57:23 +0000

SAML was just an example - I didn't see the PR before I made that post. That said, it feels fundamentally incompatible to a business strategy where your community edition is able to offer all of the features of the premium offering. I just can't see how that business would be able to survive if they allow that to happen.

I'm always dubious of freemium software, because the free version is always gimped in some way, be it SSO compatibility (OK, yours supports OIDC it seems so that's not _terrible_), role-based access controls, high availability, etc.

I will concede that businesses probably _should_ be paying for good software that is critical to their business to help support the vendors, but given how important cost savings are to companies these days, one can hardly blame engineers looking for cheaper offerings.

New comment by tgmatt in "Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform"

tgmatt — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:38:19 +0000

This is nice in theory, but what happens when a community member wants to implement SAML for the community edition, or other premium features?

New comment by tgmatt in "Cross-Account and Cross-Region Backups with AWS Backup (and Friends)"

tgmatt — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:59:06 +0000

Be aware that AWS Backup is _very_ expensive. We recently stopped using it and switched to AWS DataSync, which is an order of magnitude cheaper. If you want to go even cheaper, S3 replication (not delete markers) will do it for even less.

Backup to S3, use the above to copy it elsewhere.

New comment by tgmatt in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

tgmatt — Sat, 24 May 2025 02:51:33 +0000

Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College would disagree.

New comment by tgmatt in "Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V"

tgmatt — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:18:50 +0000

I can highly recommend it. Have been using it for a couple years or so now, haven't had any serious issues.

New comment by tgmatt in "The NSA Selector"

tgmatt — Wed, 21 May 2025 00:25:19 +0000

This seems hard to believe, given how many different modems from different sources you can use, as well as thirdparty ones. Source?

New comment by tgmatt in "Docker Model Runner"

tgmatt — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:30:55 +0000

Seems like https://kitops.org/ but fewer features.

New comment by tgmatt in "Recall going back into Windows"

tgmatt — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:53:11 +0000

I like Pop_OS! from System76 quite a lot. They also peddle their own hardware (I use a custom desktop), so you can be reasonably sure their stuff will work with it. Quite excited about the new DE they're building too.

New comment by tgmatt in "That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows"

tgmatt — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:33:48 +0000

This is true, there are a select few that use a particular anti-cheat that doesn't work on Linux and that's unfortunately unavoidable. That said, as others have stated, several of them do work like Easy Anti-Cheat, which means I can happily play those online without getting kicked.

New comment by tgmatt in "Recall going back into Windows"

tgmatt — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:34:57 +0000

As someone that ditched Windows for Linux over a year ago, I have to say I haven't really looked back. I can do anything I need to, and I don't need to worry about all this garbage. I can play all the games I want to play, even brand new releases, usually with little to no tinkering.

If you're technically minded, and are at least somewhat familiar with Linux, I can't recommend it enough. I wouldn't recommend it for a layman though; I did have to do some initial tinkering to get it spot on.

New comment by tgmatt in "AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards"

tgmatt — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:17:16 +0000

Contrary to what other people are saying, I've had no significant issues with nvidia drivers on Linux either, but I use X not Wayland so that may be why. Play tons of games, even brand new releases, without issues.

New comment by tgmatt in "Macrodata Refinement"

tgmatt — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:12:04 +0000

In refining BA3FAB:154AD1 (Labrador) in 00h 07m 55s 602ms I have brought glory to the company. Praise Kier. 1⃣0⃣2⃣0⃣2⃣ 8⃣9⃣2⃣0⃣3⃣ 9⃣1⃣8⃣5⃣2⃣ 8⃣6⃣5⃣0⃣8⃣ 8⃣1⃣6⃣2⃣5⃣ #mdrlumon #severance lumon-industries.com

New comment by tgmatt in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

tgmatt — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:34:45 +0000

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Rake yet. Having the full capability of Ruby and whatever gem you want makes it a dream for these kind of tasks. Absolutely love it.

New comment by tgmatt in "Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby"

tgmatt — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:01:39 +0000

Another language comparison repo that's been going for longer with more languages https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison.

New comment by tgmatt in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

tgmatt — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:57:49 +0000

Maybe this will lead to Chromium finally getting proper vertical tabs which Google clearly otherwise block due to it eating up horizontal real estate that would otherwise be used for ads.