computerfriend's comments

On: GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

[computerfriend]

Yeah, their "standard library" so to speak (basically everything under the actions org) is lacking. But for this specifically, you can use the gh CLI.

On: When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

[computerfriend]

Same, plus my VPN connection.

[alyandon → computerfriend]

Same here too. Ironically, the blog is accessible over TOR for me.

On: I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input

[computerfriend]

I do something similar with LoadCredential and it is quite amazing, especially when you want to run the application as a dynamic user.

On: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers

[computerfriend]

YouTube NonStop: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-nonst....

On: Ask HN: Why don't form-fitting Faraday iPhone cases exist?

[computerfriend]

The kidnapping of Abu Omar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGsr3SzCZc

On: Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

[computerfriend]

They thought I had a gun in Toronto airport and were surprisingly calm about it. (I didn't actually have a gun.)

On: Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

[computerfriend]

I also can't help but feel bad for the author. However, when the first line of the README is

> A production-grade Matrix homeserver

this is engineering malpractice. It is also unethical to present the work of an LLM as your own.

On: BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

[computerfriend]

Signal has exports.

[neves → computerfriend]

Which non hacker news user exports chats?

I'm the only person I know who ever did it.

[popol12 → neves]

They released cloud backups recently and I believe they are also working on manual exports on iOS too

On: I Like GitLab

[computerfriend]

If you log into your GitLab account from a Hong Kong IP address, they'll delete your account after 60 days and tell you to use JiHu, a Chinese company, instead.

On: Cloudflare zero-day: Accessing any host globally

[computerfriend]

> We wish to express our deep gratitude to Jason Lau, CISO and the Crypto[.]com Security Team, who we approached first to help independently verify this zero-day vulnerability.

Bizarre choice.