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GuyPostington

147 karma · joined November 28, 2017

Just a guy on the internet.
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GuyPostington··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
1x 3b+ Retropi cabinet 1x 3b+ Prometheus metrics scraping + grafana 2x 3b+ Volumio
GuyPostington··on Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation
Have you been able to reach out to the author and get clarification?
GuyPostington··on Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack
You're free to parse through the 1.6 million certificates issued yesterday! https://crt.sh
GuyPostington··on Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?
nmap
GuyPostington··on K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
Not to be confused by Qubes (pronounced koobs)
GuyPostington··on Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
Got this email just now.

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Hello,

We’re contacting you about an ongoing outage with the Mandrill app. This email provides background on what happened and how users are affected, what we’re doing to address the issue, and what’s next for our customers.

What happened Mandrill uses a sharded Postgres setup as one of our main datastores. On Sunday, February 3, at 10:30pm EST, 1 of our 5 physical Postgres instances saw a significant spike in writes. The spike in writes triggered a Transaction ID Wraparound issue. When this occurs, database activity is completely halted. The database sets itself in read-only mode until offline maintenance (known as vacuuming) can occur.

The database is large—running the vacuum process takes a significant amount of time and resources, and there’s no clear way to track progress.

Customer impact The impact to users could come in the form of not tracking opens, clicks, bounces, email sends, inbound email, webhook events, and more. Right now, it looks like the database outage is affecting up to 20% of our outbound volume as well as a majority of inbound email and webhooks.

What we’re doing to address this We don’t have an estimated time for when the vacuum process and cleanup work will be complete. While we have a parallel set of tasks going to try to get the database back in working order, these efforts are also slow and difficult with a database of this size. We’re trying everything we can to finish this process as quickly as possible, but this could take several days, or longer. We hope to have more information and a timeline for resolution soon.

In the meantime, it’s possible that you may see errors related to sending and receiving emails. We’ll continue to update you on our progress by email and let you know as soon as these issues are fully resolved.

What’s next We apologize for the disruption to your business. Once the outage is resolved, we plan to offer refunds to all affected users. You don’t need to take any action at this time—we’ll share details in a follow-up email and will automatically credit your account.

Again, we’re sorry for the interruption and we hope to have good news to share soon.

GuyPostington··on I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018)
That's a good point, thank you.
GuyPostington··on I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018)
Or you know, update your packages.
GuyPostington··on Office 365 global authentication outage
I don't agree with this. Not everyone wants to click an extra link when browsing on a mobile device.
GuyPostington··on I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018)
If not, installing from pip is always an option.

`pip install --upgrade --user certbot`

GuyPostington··on Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps
That's some beautiful looking work!
GuyPostington··on Chromecast Support for Firefox
Videostream is great.
GuyPostington··on U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further
USA #1! You can't kill yourself as good as we can!
GuyPostington··on How to be an open source gardener (2014)
I thought this was going to be about actual gardening and am a bit disappointed.
GuyPostington··on Classic text adventures online
No! The ending code broke and exited. I had to revert to old school style by following her into the living room and getting down on one knee.
GuyPostington··on Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking
For me, it's in the top right corner of every issue.
GuyPostington··on DuckDuckGo Traffic
I had no idea that DDG was Perl based. This gives me a whole new level of respect for DDG.
GuyPostington··on Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking
I've submitted many benchmarks over the years for new jira and confluence UI "upgrades". I've received responses to the tune of, "our developers don't see that behavior issue on Windows" even though the test systems I used were Linux based and clearly stated as such. Speaking frankly, the new jira ui is fucking shit and makes my job slower due to the fact that pertinent information is obscured and only clearly displayed when I click "use old interface". This means that I must first wait for the whole page to render, click a link, and wait for the entire page to redirect to the old UI and render again. Multiply this for every single ticket I have to open and you can see the minutes tick off the clock.
GuyPostington··on How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems
I run a pfsense + unifi network for the home and it's fantastic.
GuyPostington··on Classic text adventures online
I proposed to my (now) wife via a text based adventure game.
GuyPostington··on The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow
Have you tried it to see if it's actually as bad as you think?
GuyPostington··on Google.gov
"""

“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” he elaborates. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”

Let’s say you’re walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, “we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are.” Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are. Mr. Schmidt leaves it to a listener to imagine the possibilities: If you need milk and there’s a place nearby to get milk, Google will remind you to get milk. [Emphasis added.]

"""

This is all sorts of terrifying. This feels like google wants us all to become slaves to the google machine and they will dictate all aspects of our lives. Where is the free thought? An argument against that would be, "Oh but it frees you up to think about other meaningful subjects instead of groceries!". I don't buy it.

GuyPostington··on Surprising Findings About How People Actually Buy Clothes and Shoes
I've got a pair of 36x36 Duluth Trading flex firehose work pants that have finally worn out after 2.5 years. They were worn almost every day.
GuyPostington··on Qubes OS 4.0 has been released
I've been running qubes 4 on an X1 Gen 5 carbon. I can put together a guide tomorrow. Message me again just in case I forget and do it again on Monday just in case again.
GuyPostington··on Listening for illegal logging chainsaws using TensorFlow
If a tree falls in the forest, TensorFlow will hear it.
GuyPostington··on My Forgotten Language: the brain can lose and reclaim an abandoned mother tongue
When I get drunk enough I'll get a super thick accent and my words will switch over to ${OTHER_LANG}.
GuyPostington··on Ask HN: What kitchen/cooking hacks that have been really effective for you?
8 sticks of unsalted butter, a small dutch oven, medium heat, and ~40 minutes gives you fantastic ghee which can be eaten by lactose intolerant folks. Strain the resulting liquid through some cheese cloth into a mason jar and set it aside to cool down. We use it as a replacement for butter.
GuyPostington··on American Airline's SSL certificate revoked
According to the Entrust revocation list for the Entrust L1M CA http://www.entrust.net/customer/crl_form.cfm

    Certificate issued by L1M with serial number 1BDA21F20CD791160000000054CDC61A has been revoked.

    Revocation Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 5:00:17 AM +00:00

    Revocation Reason: Superseded
GuyPostington··on Show HN: Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS
How does this stack up against Unbound?
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