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jackdecker··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Made tough here as you’re behind nginx w/ a 1MB request body cap! Sweet idea :)
jackdecker··on Salesforce Global Outage
Was really just poking fun at them - AWS’s status page isn’t much better
jackdecker··on Salesforce Global Outage
Ah yes. Exactly what a status page should look like: an endless list of random ID’s that don’t mean anything and no information whatsoever

At least salesforce is consistent with their design language

jackdecker··on Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
So I can use android auto on an android automotive head unit - got it but also this seems needlessly confusing naming structure. Apple TV comparison is apt lol
jackdecker··on Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
For whatever reason, the idea of this being in my car is relatively scarier for me than if this was just my phone ?

I think partially as my mental model of both android auto and CarPlay is that they operate as a passthrough of my device rather than as an separate installation of the OS entirely (I wasn’t aware the head unit itself had the ability to install APKs independently).

Also, feel like John Gruber is going to have a field day with this one

jackdecker··on Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets
Was just talking about this the other day - although more in-line with a custom controller to replace _all_ secrets / env variables used at runtime automatically (LD_PRELOAD get_env ?). Recognize this serves a different use case - I was trying to only decrypt KMS encrypted secrets in-memory / in-flight so that an attacker would have a harder time reading secrets in-cluster or in pod shell.

Such a sick idea, and incredibly useful. Would be nice if it integrated directly with secrets managers RE: ESO

jackdecker··on Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
Really enjoyed the way you put this - I’m going to use these axes going forward as I’ve had a hard time putting words to these
jackdecker··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas HN!

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jackdecker··on TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without Real ID or passport
While I don’t feel one way or another about this w.r.t. charging this fee to people without a Real ID who show up with a normal ID, as someone who has just lost their ID entirely, or shown up accidentally to the airport without it -

This totally makes sense.

The amount of effort it takes for a TSA agent (granted, this is mostly entirely fabricated effort, this seems like a more solved problem, but I digress) to verify my identity the few times this had happened is well worth $18.

It’s not a quick phone call to an external agency and you rattle off your social; it’s a whole shebang.

“Did you live at x? Who else lived at that address with you?” “What was your sisters last address before her current” “What was the second address you lived at in [city]”

To be entirely honest, the whole thing was super entertaining. I think part of it was just it made me feel like some super spy.

Anyway - good on them for charging a few bucks. Don’t forget your ID or get your ID updated.

(Sidenote: this line of questioning wasn’t this interesting every time. Sometimes it is more like a one and done question, but I am at my most impressed with TSA when it seems like they actually do give a fuck, and the times it’s been an in-depth line of questioning has stuck with me)

jackdecker··on Yet another year with Decker
Best platform name of all time - had no idea this existed, this is awesome
jackdecker··on I reverse engineered TikTok's login wall to watch any video without the app
I actually made a shortcut on my phone to do this. Maybe I’m missing some complexity here, but my running assumption is that TikTok only forces you to the app when opening a shared link. If you remove the entirety of the query string in the url (match everything before the ?: ^.*?(?=\?)) it opens fine.

If someone sends me a link, I copy it, and click on the icon on my Home Screen - here’s the link to that shortcut (iOS specific):

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6d62250b944d40f292142d1cdcf...

jackdecker··on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
I was thinking the same thing - Went back and re-read it though, and I think it’s more that the author wrote a first draft and then had AI to help spice some stuff up. He either:

1. Used AI to help and doesn’t care if it sounds a little AI generated / actually likes it 2. Didn’t use AI but reads enough AI slop that his writing style is directly influenced by it (scary) 3. Used AI but doesn’t use AI enough to immediately recognize when language sounds like it was generated by ChatGPT and didn’t bother correcting (this is my guess)

There’s a few times I got tripped up because it went from pretty human writing to “holy shit shit that’s ChatGPT I’m going to stop reading,” yet the author would save it with human writing right after.

This is kind of a ramble, but it actually was one of those pieces of writing that I felt was genuine and improved by some of the ChatGPT language rather than just clickbait garbage - I could tell the author was just trying to make it worthwhile and interesting to read, and I honestly really enjoyed it.

jackdecker··on DuckDuckGo was down
All I know is that I would not want to be the one who had last committed to production.