1. cmg Dec 27, 2025 parent

   From the FAQ:

   > You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.

2. cmg Aug 4, 2025 parent

   I once bought one of those alarms that brighten along with the pattern of natural sunlight in the morning (and dim in the evening), as I don’t get much natural light in my bedroom. The time display on it was so unbelievably bright at its lowest setting that my sleep was worse until I piled stuff up in front of it. I don’t even bother with it anymore.
3. cmg Jul 28, 2025 parent

   Of 60-something Linodes in Newark across a few accounts (we don't use LKE, Node Balancers, etc)

   - Many came back up yesterday. Most of the rest came back up this morning.

   - All but two are back online. One of those is "Powered off" but can't be turned on because "Linode busy". The other is online but unreachable, same behavior as most of them during the outage.

   - Three required me to put them in Rescue Mode and run fsck.ext4 -F /dev/sda to get them back online.

4. cmg Jul 27, 2025 parent

   I woke up to a few hundred messages from Icinga - thankfully my phone is on do-not-disturb overnight. Some of my servers in Newark are up and responding, some are not.

   Happy Sunday! Cleaning up the automatically-created maintenance/alert tickets generated by this is going to be a fun time.

5. cmg Jul 2, 2025 parent

   Archive link: https://archive.ph/ARnyu
6. cmg Feb 19, 2025 parent

   This isn't obvious at all but you can click the star next to an item that's "Linked" on DF (where the title goes to another site) to get a permalink to the item on DF itself! https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane
7. cmg Jan 8, 2025 parent

   For anyone else trying this, the password is hackernews - without an exclamation point. Tripped me up.

   Thanks for setting this up adenta!

8. cmg Dec 27, 2024 parent

   From the article:

   > The new law doesn’t apply to classified code, national security systems or code that would post privacy risks if shared.

9. cmg Aug 17, 2024 parent

   With Icinga, for webservers:

   - apt status (for security/critical updates that haven't been run yet)

   - reboot needed (presence of /var/run/reboot-required)

   - fail2ban jail status (how many are in each of our defined jails)

   - CPU usage

   - MySQL active, long-running processes, number of queries

   - iostat numbers

   - disk space

   - SSL cert expiration date

   - domain expiration date

   - reachability (ping, domain resolution, specific string in an HTTP request)

   - Application-specific checks (WordPress, Drupal, CRM, etc)

   - postfix queue size

10. cmg Aug 1, 2024 parent

    The comment I’m replying to says they’re “the only impartial observers who were in Venezuela for the election,” so I think the point stands - given their funding and connection to the US government and international capital, they can’t be considered impartial in this situation.
11. cmg Aug 1, 2024 parent

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12. cmg Jul 17, 2024 parent

    Even in messenger-type apps there's a weird setup. With iMessage, if you're in a group chat with yourself and other people (B and C): if C sends a message and B reacts to it, you still get a message about B's reaction to C. Drives me crazy in certain group chats I'm in.

    Signal, for some reason, notifies of reactions to your message on desktop but not on mobile (at least iOS).

13. cmg May 8, 2024 parent

    HN hug of death? I sent an email to the address provided and over time, the page showed:

      Waiting for incoming email...  
      You don't have to write us an entire love letter :-). 
      Still waiting... 
      It's pretty quiet here... ¯\(°_o)/¯. 
      Waiting...  
      I'm giving up, reload the page to start over. (︶︹︶).
    

    I've been very lucky overall to use Sendgrid for the majority of my email, so that DKIM is just a matter of setting up the CNAMEs they provide, but just had a situation where I had to set up OpenDKIM on a server running mailman to deal with the latest requirements from Yahoo and Google. (Apple also seems to be part of this enhanced enforcement, though never really mentioned.)
14. cmg Feb 23, 2024 parent

    Texting also became expensive once the carriers figured out people wanted to use it. I remember being pissed off in the mid-2000s when I posted an item for sale on Craigslist and someone texted me about it instead of calling - that text probably cost me a quarter!

    (Now, of course, I can't imagine calling a random person or putting my phone number on an item listing.)

15. cmg Feb 22, 2024 parent

    My service came back around 1:30PM in Connecticut. Data and calls are working fine. I requested a 2FA code at 2:30 from a service that only offers SMS. An hour and a half later, I still haven't gotten it.
16. cmg Jan 10, 2024 parent

    And somehow I still get regular “H0ME_DEPOT Order CONFRIMATION” junk landing at the top of my Gmail inbox.
17. cmg Oct 31, 2023 parent

    Looks like a VAX 11 thing: https://documentation.help/VAX11/op_POLY.htm

    See also http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/vax_poly.pdf# and some HN discussion from 2015: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/vax_poly.pdf#

18. cmg Oct 31, 2023 parent

    With the right hardware combinations, the only break you'd theoretically have in the System/MacOS/macOS history from 1984's System 1 to 2023's macOS Sonoma 14.1 is from MacOS 9 to MacOS X 10.0. OS X was actually a completely new operating system and oftentimes you had both OSes side-by-side on the same disk to either dual boot or to run OS 9 stuff in Classic mode under OS X.

    (With full disk encryption, T2 chips and other various low-level hardware changes this might not actually be feasible under Apple Silicon chips, but at least through the Intel days you could have upgraded a system with hardware changes in the same way.)

19. cmg Oct 2, 2023 parent

    Hey Siri re-enabled itself on my iPhone 12 Pro Max after I installed the iOS 17.0 update. It's one of the first things I turn off when I get a new phone and I would not have knowingly turned it back on.

    Could it have been an installer fluke? Sure. But it's concerning enough.

20. cmg Aug 1, 2023 parent

    This was also me as a kid with the Mac - we got our first home computer in 1993. Pascal? WindowPtr? Compilers? Yikes - I'm only 9 years old! I'd done some QBasic and Logo at school but couldn't wrap my head around the 'abstract' GUI stuff: If I tell the turtle to go Forward, it goes forward...

    Then I discovered HTML - much easier to wrap my head around at the time.

21. cmg Jul 27, 2023 parent

    I'm also @cmg on Twitter, which used to get plenty of Instagram mentions of this type, as well as people thinking I'm CheckMate Gaming, Canadian Media Guild, Cocaine Muzik Group, Chipotle Mexican Grill and all sorts of wild stuff.
22. cmg Jul 17, 2023 parent

    Because 1 !== true and 0 !== false in JavaScript:

      const index = "Hello HN".indexOf("H")
      console.log(index);
      >> 0
      index == false
      >> TRUE
      index === false
      >> FALSE

23. cmg Jul 10, 2023 parent

    For me, the "magic word" is my WWDC 2007 bag. Pretty much the only reason I keep it around these days.
24. cmg Apr 22, 2023 parent

    If you're not rebuilding the desktop every other day you're really missing out!
25. cmg Mar 29, 2023 parent

    Before anyone looks up and emails that relative, please note that it's been attempted already:

    https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75314#p753...

26. cmg Jan 24, 2023 parent

    I took the Shinkansen on my last trip to Japan in 2016 and I didn't see any smoking cars, but there were closed-off smoking rooms available on the train with really good ventilation systems.
27. cmg Dec 7, 2022 parent

    One of the first things I did in my new position was to add ncdu (and mysqltuner) to our Ansible playbooks. It's that useful for me - I probably use it every other day at least.
28. cmg Nov 23, 2022 parent

    [2007] but also timeless advice, at least while our UIs still follow the same general paradigms.

    It's important to note that Aza Raskin is the son of Jef Raskin, who wrote a lot about interfaces (including a book called The Humane Interface), and worked on the original Macintosh at Apple, on the interface.

    Aza Raskin has continued that work at Mozilla and elsewhere and I'm glad he has. Though I miss the original Songza interface https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1117-fresh-ui-ideas-from-song...

29. cmg Nov 9, 2022 parent

    For what it's worth, I use Mailplane on an M1 MacBook Air (8GB) with 2 Gmail tabs and a calendar tab without noticeable issues.

    Unfortunately the developers weren't able to get Google to work with them on a policy change that impacted the app [0] [1] and so gave up and have moved on to a new and completely different customer support service.

    [0] https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/guidance-for-our-e... [1] https://mailplaneapp.com/blog/entry/mailplane_stopped_sellin...

    So unfortunately

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