Hacker News: ulysses

Fixing issues on multiple servers caused by a recently expired root certificate

ulysses — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:50:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zoocha.com/news/fixing-issues-multiple-servers-caused-recently-expired-root-certificate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28724249

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ulysses in "Valve Steam Deck"

ulysses — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:42:50 +0000

Looks nice, but...

It doesn't appear to be set up to work without logging in to Steam first. That really reduces the portability.

New comment by ulysses in "My Life in E-Ink"

ulysses — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:33:21 +0000

If it's a book that's only available DRM, I buy it on the Kindle. I'm not fond of buying DRMed books, but most are only available that way, and Amazon is the most likely to still be around in the future.

For non-DRM:

Tor Books are no longer DRMed.

Baen Books -- https://www.baen.com/ -- don't have DRM, and you can buy directly from the publisher, and manage your library on their site, and download as many times as you like. You can also often purchase eArc versions, and they have a monthly subscription bundle were you can read parts of the book as it comes out, and then you get the complete book when it's done.

If you're interested in translated Japanese light novels, there's J Novel Club -- https://j-novel.club/ -- for a monthly subscription, you can read book parts for free as they're being translated. Once they're fully translated, you can then purchase the final epub directly from their site.

Books are interesting in that they both are and aren't fungible. If, say, I want to read the next Martha Wells Murderbot book, or the next Julie McGalliard Rougarou book, I have to buy that particular book.

But if I'm just looking for another book to read, I always check Tor, Baen, and J Novel Club first.

New comment by ulysses in "Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation"

ulysses — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:18:08 +0000

Perhaps replace the time worked with time spent looking for another job. Despite having faced suicidal depression a time or two myself, I have no great advice to offer; but one of the things I've turned to many times is a bit in the ASR FAQ.

  5.8) But seriously, should I kill myself?

  Seriously, no.
  As posted to ASR by Ed Evans:

    Ultimate recovery stalks us all, no need to succour it.  Quit or
    take a leave with or without pay (or permission), stop seeing him
    or her, recognise that the cat or dog does rule you, call in sick
    and spend the day in the big blue room, it's only money and can
    be earned again, all the pictures will be posted again, call the
    local professionals if you really feel that way...

    And if all else fails?  Lawn mowing.

  If you're willing to take the severe step of killing yourself, you should
  be willing to take less severe steps such as quitting your job or taking a
  leave without permission.  And really, there _is_ help out there.
  Maybe in here, too.

  And more of us have been there than you may realize.  We're grateful
  now that we didn't do it.  (Most days.)  In chess they have a saying,
  "You can't win by resigning."  Keep playing; you never know.

New comment by ulysses in "Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc"

ulysses — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:45:59 +0000

They use AWS for their DNS, so of course it's failing...

  Trying j.gtld-servers.net.
    parler.com.           172800  IN      NS      ns-8.awsdns-01.com.
    parler.com.           172800  IN      NS      ns-715.awsdns-25.net.
    parler.com.           172800  IN      NS      ns-1170.awsdns-18.org.
    parler.com.           172800  IN      NS      ns-1848.awsdns-39.co.uk.

New comment by ulysses in "Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room"

ulysses — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:58:44 +0000

Thank you. I think Nintendo's quote from that article is even funnier:

"Nintendo does not talk about confidential discussions with other companies. In any event, nothing came of these discussions."

New comment by ulysses in "Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly"

ulysses — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:13:01 +0000

Speed. I moved mostly to Ruby years ago, but when doing lots of text processing, a trivial script in Perl runs a lot faster than a similar trivial script in Ruby.

Nintendo isn’t saying, so here’s how to fend off the account hijacking spree

ulysses — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:56:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/nintendo-isnt-saying-so-heres-how-to-fend-off-the-account-hijacking-spree/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946930

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ulysses in "New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems"

ulysses — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:13:56 +0000

That doesn't work, unless you have an unusual Linux setup:

  $ tar -zxvf srs-epub.epub
  gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
  tar: Child returned status 2
  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

But you can do "unzip srs-epub.epub".

New comment by ulysses in "How to play with people who are better than you"

ulysses — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:06:01 +0000

The part where your friend stopped playing you -- that's something that I just don't understand, on a fundamental level.

My brother-in-law talked about chess for years, I finally agreed to play him, and won both games. He's never brought it up again. It makes no sense to me.

Growing up, I was the youngest, so I generally lost at whatever games we played, and it never made me want to stop playing. When my significantly older brother came back home and stayed with us for awhile, we played chess regularly, and I lost a _lot_. But I kept playing, and when I finally got to the point where I won one out of three, it felt really good.

How much fun would I have missed out on if I hadn't kept playing?

New comment by ulysses in "Pure Bash Bible"

ulysses — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:20:06 +0000

"A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes."

Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake

ulysses — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/valve-says-turning-away-researcher-reporting-steam-vulnerability-was-a-mistake/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20772701

Points: 47

# Comments: 12

New comment by ulysses in "How can phone companies detect tethering?"

ulysses — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:46:52 +0000

"They won't admit to this on their website"? I think it's more that they won't shut up about it. Their entire business model and their marketing is all based on the idea that most people are around wifi most of the time.

The cell data you pay for is your cell data usage, you (of course) don't pay them for your wifi data usage.

New comment by ulysses in "Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM"

ulysses — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:05:01 +0000

Baen Books

https://www.baen.com/

They have always been very customer friendly. They have a "free library" section, too. (Often has such things as the first book in a series.)

J Novel Club

https://j-novel.club/top

Translated Japanese light novels. There's a membership that lets you read along as they translate, but if you purchase the ebook when they're done, it's DRM free.

And of course http://www.gutenberg.org/

Entropay Is Closing Down

ulysses — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:04:28 +0000

Article URL: http://journal.ulyco.com/2019/04/29/entropay-is-closing-down.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780862

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ulysses in "AWS Web Console Down?"

ulysses — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:20:06 +0000

The date on the status page is 9:50 AM PDT, the original poster posted well before that.

It isn't historically uncommon for AWS outage information to be posted and commented on here well before the status page is updated.

New comment by ulysses in "Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats"

ulysses — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 19:24:20 +0000

I had such a wonderful visual in my head, of drones with tiny machine guns doing night strafing runs on rats...

Sigh.

(Also was looking forward to the next article, about the rats scavenging from the drones and firing back...)

Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning

ulysses — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:11:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/02/02/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-problem-price-cost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072238

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ulysses in "The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing"

ulysses — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:30:54 +0000

The config files are for a game that was announced in 1999 and released in 2003.

New comment by ulysses in "Building CockroachDB on top of RocksDB"

ulysses — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:05:17 +0000

Usually, that's because /bin/mv is just changing a link to the file, not moving the file itself. In cases where it's actually moving the file -- say across a file system boundary -- it does copy the file and then delete the old version.