Hacker News: yaleman

New comment by yaleman in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

yaleman — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:55:10 +0000

The local emergency services uses it as a duplicate method because it's mostly more reliable than any service they can afford to offer... and historically a lot of people were using the site, so sharing helps get things noticed.

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

yaleman — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:34:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488

Points: 504

# Comments: 534

New comment by yaleman in "Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit"

yaleman — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:34:03 +0000

Seems like curious timing that this also happened? https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response

New comment by yaleman in "The Python Package Index Should Get Rid of Its Training Wheels"

yaleman — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:16:40 +0000

The fact that tensorflow takes up 12.9TiB is truly horrifying, and most of that because they use pypi's storage as a dumping ground for their pre-release packages. What a nightmare they've put on other people's shoulders.

New comment by yaleman in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"

yaleman — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:04:26 +0000

It does, works great. Not sure about vaultwarden's support for it though.

New comment by yaleman in "Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users"

yaleman — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:40:26 +0000

Run your own Kanidm instance for free ^_^

New comment by yaleman in "Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative"

yaleman — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:50:42 +0000

It's literally a big red X on the OSS version, so no, it's not "in the base pricing".

New comment by yaleman in "Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent"

yaleman — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:36:10 +0000

I think you'll find that's google's services, not Apple's....

New comment by yaleman in "Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform"

yaleman — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:59:58 +0000

OIDC support's been merged, which would likely help with that?

New comment by yaleman in "Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform"

yaleman — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:46:45 +0000

There's a lot more checks and balances built into rust as a language, so the foot-gun opportunities are less likely - which makes it rather suitable for reliable systems programming.

And getting back to this particular case... kanidm is fast AND reliable. There's a lot of testing going on comparing it to 389 DS.

New comment by yaleman in "Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform"

yaleman — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:44:09 +0000

Yes, it's a replacement for both - still in (a rapidly developing) Alpha stage currently.

So far LDAP and PAM/NSS modules are fully operational, and OAuth's being tested.

New comment by yaleman in "Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform"

yaleman — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:39:10 +0000

Authentication is part of the "accounts" part. :)

New comment by yaleman in "Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform"

yaleman — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:36:59 +0000

The front page says "the research and education system for IAM" ... that reads like it's not for production use and would turn me off immediately.

New comment by yaleman in "YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views"

yaleman — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 03:09:17 +0000

Turns out, even before you click on "OK" to start watching, it's doing it in the background - my watch history is now full of hours of this junk :(

New comment by yaleman in "SaaS CTO Security Checklist"

yaleman — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 04:24:22 +0000

2FA on SaaS applications is free and easy, while centralising authentication is much harder - you need to manage an authentication platform instead of just using the application's own authentication.

Taken by itself the suggestion is odd, but in concert with the next entry "use password management software" it makes for a low-cost, zero management, higher security stance than not suggesting 2FA by itself. Noone should ever ignore the option to turn on 2FA.

New comment by yaleman in "SaaS CTO Security Checklist"

yaleman — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 04:18:16 +0000

If you require PCI DSS I hope you're not just blindly following some random post on hackernews for your policy ;)

New comment by yaleman in "Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute"

yaleman — Sat, 25 May 2019 23:38:05 +0000

6'9" guy checking in, thankfully just a tourist to the town for a week - it was always leg day when I was on the tube.

New comment by yaleman in "The State of Apple's Developer Documentation"

yaleman — Tue, 21 May 2019 10:00:12 +0000

They removed the man pages a while back and broke so many links. It just seems punitive and petty.

New comment by yaleman in "Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)"

yaleman — Tue, 21 May 2019 09:55:21 +0000

Most external USB enclosures I've used run hot, die early and are dog slow...

New comment by yaleman in "Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)"

yaleman — Tue, 21 May 2019 09:52:47 +0000

It's the same as the Helios in OP's article, seems to be a Kickstarter doing limited runs.