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jmb99 5 hours ago

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.

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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.

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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.)

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Is all content in HN supposed to be professional and serious

> 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.