| ▲ | frenchie4111 9 hours ago |
| I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith" |
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| ▲ | sandermvanvliet 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| As a joke I built an extension to the GitHub CLI called “omens” so you can run “gh omens” before you’re planning to use GitHub and it’ll tell you if it’s likely to work in idiomatic Aussie. As an example: $> gh omens reckon github's about to go full bin chicken —- You can find it here:
https://github.com/sandermvanvliet-stack/gh-omens |
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| ▲ | VladVladikoff 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | >go full bin chicken LOL is this really something Aussie's say? That’s hilarious! | | |
| ▲ | denkmoon 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Bin chicken is local slang for these horrible birds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis ), and “go full x” is also a common utterance, but I’ve never heard them said together like that. | | |
| ▲ | FridgeSeal 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ibis’ are fantastic creatures, and don’t deserve the scorn you’ve heaped upon them! Their bin-chicken status is testament to their adaptability, but it’s essentially our fault they’re that way. | | |
| ▲ | SugarReflex 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | They really are bin chickens for a reason. I remember in Lakemba in Sydney watching a young child trying to shoo an ibis from a bin where it was having its lunch.
For a very long time I believed that they had migrated from Egypt because of their long beak - I think I asked my Mum once and she in tiredness just affirmed it. |
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| ▲ | ncr100 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A browser extension to indicate githubstatus being yellow/red: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfo... A VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRy... Firefox: https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker Caveat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450924 (disclaimer: none of these are recommended by me to use - merely sharing to build on for this discussion) |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Another useful disclaimer: all of these lets the developers push updates to your computer as they wish by default in most setups, these days you might want to decrease that kind of attack surface and just check the status in the official website when "git push" suddenly stop working. Especially when extensions and stuff sometimes changes hand and it's kind of hard to keep track of it, except for when something bad happens and gets news attention. I'm also not sure why you'd share links to software you don't even recommend yourself? Isn't it better to just not share that then? I think others could use search engine/LLM too if they need whatever, but most generally expect things shared in the comments here to actually at least have been looked at by the person sharing them. | | |
| ▲ | jmb99 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, the alternatives are: > It would be really cool if someone built an extension to show GitHub status live "These already exist, why wouldn't you search before posting?" > There exist quite a few extensions to show live GitHub status "Why would you not post them if you know they exist?" Or, what actually happened: > Here are some extensions that might work for you to show live GitHub status "Why would you recommend extensions to do this?" Seems to me like, if your goal is to pick apart someone suggesting something, you'll find a way to. | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > "Why would you recommend extensions to do this?" This is not my complaint though, my complain is: Why would you recommend extensions you haven't tried nor even read about yourself? The goal isn't to pick apart the message to piss someone off, the goal is prevent someone else than the author from getting hacked because they install some random extension, not understanding what kind of access you're giving others when doing so. | | |
| ▲ | timcambrant 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | They didn't recommend the extensions. They linked them because they were "merely sharing to build on for this discussion". Is all content in HN supposed to be professional and serious, or are humorous comments in fact allowed when discussing a market leading company who has had regular outages for a year and a half? (Yes, I know the actual reasons why GitHub are struggling.) | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Is all content in HN supposed to be professional and serious No > are humorous comments in fact allowed Yes Neither is what's going on here. It's reckless to share stuff you haven't even looked at yourself, that's fairly basic thing to care about. Sharing "here's a bunch of random GitHub repositories" isn't humor (I think?) nor would it been different if the text was "more professional and serious", whatever that means. Why you so mad about someone trying to help others from getting hacked? Install all extensions you want, based on what someone recommend or what you find randomly on YouTube, but let others be educated about what that means for their own security, not sure who that hurts and why you'd wanna stop it. | | |
| ▲ | timcambrant 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I found it quite funny that people develop extensions that track the availability of one of the most important building blocks of the software industry, because their reliability is so poor. You could have posted a warning to not actually install random extensions. Instead you came across as questioning why anyone would post links to them at all. The poster was clear they didn't actually recommend the extensions. Sharing stuff is fun, and hardly any software posted to HN is professionally reviewed beforehand anyway. |
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| ▲ | LPisGood 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I can tell it’s getting bad because I went to close some Safari tabs and got confused because the tab next to this was [a dupe of] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597. |
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| ▲ | parthdesai 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | You've a tab from 9 days ago open? Maybe you should be closing your tabs more often :p | | |
| ▲ | anvuong 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I have tabs from like 6 months ago. Modern browsers have gotten pretty good at hibernating unused tabs and restore when needed. And this website is extremely light, it gets restored in milliseconds. | | |
| ▲ | mijowi an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes but why | |
| ▲ | tonyhart7 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I hording my tab in case I need them later (I don't, 99% of the case) but I always have sense of fear that I might need it someday | | |
| ▲ | timcambrant 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Every 3-6 months I purge all my tabs, but always dump all URLs to an html file in case I will need them in the future. You never know! | | |
| ▲ | spockz 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That is just called your browser history? | | |
| ▲ | timcambrant 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The browser history contains a lot of junk and I don't want that saved forever. Curated tab history is a bit different. It's stupid for sure, but also a bit comforting to keep the most important articles and such. For anything I really care about, there's always ArchiveBox. | | |
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| ▲ | tonyhart7 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I do that too but instead of html, I store them on discord and obsidian text file (double back up) but I still keep it on my browser, maybe someday I would like to fetch LLM and describe my interest over time |
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| ▲ | vinnymac 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| For me this started happening when I type "stat" too. Which surprised me because of the many hundreds of services I rely on regularly that also have status pages. |
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| ▲ | b112 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Good lord, hundreds?! Uptime reliability is nkt additive, it's multiplicative, sometimes even logarithmic. Downtime of 99% and 99% is 98.1%. I hope almost all those services are non-prod related. |
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| ▲ | Melatonic 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I notice I sometimes wake up before my alarm because I get an SMS about GitHub being down. It could be a new Microsoft feature ! |
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| ▲ | tom1337 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| i noticed it today as well - typing "g" is enough to go to the statuspage. and surprisingly often when i go there by accident, they have an incident… |
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| ▲ | frenchie4111 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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