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Re:Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permi... on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:09AM (#50367621)
Absolutely abysmal situation. Postman has lost my trust.
Re:Turbo Haskell on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:54PM (#49926967)
Avast blocks the site from being loaded.

So Long KubeSail

Posted by vocatan on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:56PM
from the self-post dept.

Looks like KubeSail shut down last year (their github repo is still up at https://github.com/kubesail/pibox-os ) and I just recently dusted off an old PiBox that I had purchased from them.I recall being slightly underwhelmed by the performance of the kubernetes cluster when the system was running, but I'm looking for some suggestions of good uses for this very attractive looking black box...

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Re:iPhone Safari Lost Bookmarks on Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:43PM (#45713222)
I should be more clear - iCloud safari restore just says “loading…” for about 5 minutes then says “No bookmarks”

Thanks Apple

iPhone Safari Lost Bookmarks

Posted by vocatan on Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:41PM
from the self-post dept.

Looks like Apple is having some problems with losing bookmarks in safari - and not even being able to restore via https://www.icloud.com/recovery/Not affecting all users - but curious to know how many are affected

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most amazing Awk program you've used on Monday February 12, 2024 @08:25PM (#39353147)
Somebody posted a git client written in awk here on hacker news today.
Re:Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase? on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:19AM (#38841323)
I used sled.com — Sam’s Little Editor - for years while a university student - and years later tracked down the author to pay him.

Bought every single boxed product that Borland put out: TurboC, TurboDebugger, TurboAssembly, TurboPascal, TurboC++

Bought 3 versions of OS/2 — back when I thought it might win over Windows. Oops

Re:Tailscale vs. Narrowlink on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:11PM (#37090348)
I started reading through the Narrowlink URL, but the frequency of typos was frustrating enough the I came right back to HackerNews to read the comments and synopsis of what the kerfuffle is about.

Thanks for the pointer to headscale - will take a look ;)

Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here? on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:06PM (#36711500)
MAJOR two thumbs up on this one - the pibox is a very cool product, great for learning, easy to deploy on, and powerful enough for smaller tasks. the Kubesail folks are responsive (both in email and on their Discord server). Couldn't be happier!
Re:Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:01PM (#36328934)
Another option for open source aficionados might be https://www.pgedge.com - with their spock extension they also achieve multi-master replication. Looks very interesting!
Re:Amazon Photos just ate 240,364 of my photos on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:51AM (#35181205)
Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly.

I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up.

Thanks for the comments!

Re:Amazon Photos just ate 240,364 of my photos on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:02AM (#35180833)
Pop goes the photo cache, all my family photos mysteriously vanish into the depths of Amazon Photos
Re:Tell HN: 1Password6 is dead on Chrome 99. Indefinite license is finite on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:58PM (#30726801)
I think that as somebody's already commented - having people send email to both [email protected] as well as to [email protected] may be the best option here.

This represents an involuntary migration of customers who purchased a license to 1Password6 to REQUIRE them to upgrade to 1Passwords SaaS offering -- evidently through no fault of 1Password, since it's actually on Google for changing how the signing of the binaries changed.

I've added my email to the list of messages sent over to 1password.

DON'T BE RUDE in your email to them - I'm sure that they're frustrated with the change as well, but you also have to admit that they have a business to run.

a price break, and this unfortunate turn of events, might just be that final tipping point where I finally upgrade to get features that I don't want. :(

Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:19PM (#29798008)
Can anybody reveal WHERE to buy the standalone / non-subscription version of 1Password? It seems like it's vanished off their site (it used to be that if you hunted for long enough, you could find it)
Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:19AM (#16508035)
Ahh, that makes sense - thanks!
Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:56PM (#16506128)
Consuming from twitter is like drinking from a genuine firehose, gives me nothing but gas and regrets. :D

Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice?

Posted by vocatan on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:47PM
from the self-post dept.

so https://www.slashdot.org hasn't been showing new stories for since yesterday mid-day. If you go to the firehose url of https://slashdot.org/recent it shows "503 - Service Offline Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later."Am I the only dinosaur who turns to Slashdot for my daily...

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Re:One Road Out of Depression on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @09:31AM (#12900478)
Looks like we melted it -- or the server got depressed.
Re:The Shack is closed, as is the shed. (info disclosure) on Friday August 21, 2015 @09:31AM (#10097280)
Kind of silly to leave this amount of info up - and the breadcrumb to http://shedcloud.com is similarly underwhelming.

SSL certificate at https://www.cnn.com/ bad?

Posted by vocatan on Monday February 23, 2015 @05:05PM
from the self-post dept.

Testing SSL certificates and found that the SSL certificate that presents itself at https://www.cnn.com doesn't allow that hostname?www.cnn.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: a.ssl.fastly.net, .a.ssl.fastly.net, fast.wistia.com, purge.fastly.net, mirrors.fastly.net, .imgix.net, .parsecdn.com, .fastssl.net, voxer.com, www.voxer.com,...

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Re:Ask HN: What quarterly journals do you read? on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @08:54PM (#8013032)
Does 2600 count?
Re:Google I/O Event Easter Egg on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @10:58PM (#5678527)
11100111 = cats