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I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"

vinnymac 1mo ago
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.
- b112 1mo ago
  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.
ncr100 1mo ago
A browser extension to indicate githubstatus being yellow/red: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfoclnaebbfglncdbjiepfbclfhpphf?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfo... A VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRystsov.github-status https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRy... Firefox: https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker Caveat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450924 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)
- embedding-shape 1mo ago
  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 1mo 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.
    - embedding-shape 1mo ago
      > "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 1mo ago
        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 1mo ago
        > 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.
frenchie4111 1mo ago
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LPisGood 1mo ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597.
- parthdesai 1mo ago
  You've a tab from 9 days ago open? Maybe you should be closing your tabs more often :p
  - anvuong 1mo ago
    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.
    - tonyhart7 1mo ago
      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 1mo ago
        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 1mo ago
        That is just called your browser history?
        timcambrant 1mo ago
        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.
Melatonic 1mo ago
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 !
tom1337 1mo ago
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…
sandermvanvliet 1mo ago
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 https://github.com/sandermvanvliet-stack/gh-omens
- VladVladikoff 1mo ago
  >go full bin chicken LOL is this really something Aussie's say? That’s hilarious!
  - denkmoon 1mo ago
    Bin chicken is local slang for these horrible birds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis 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 1mo ago
      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 1mo ago
        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.

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.

b112 1mo ago
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.

ncr100 1mo ago

A browser extension to indicate githubstatus being yellow/red: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfoclnaebbfglncdbjiepfbclfhpphf?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfo... A VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRystsov.github-status https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRy... Firefox: https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker Caveat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450924 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)

embedding-shape 1mo ago
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 1mo 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.
  - embedding-shape 1mo ago
    > "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 1mo ago
      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 1mo ago
        > 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.

frenchie4111 1mo ago

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LPisGood 1mo ago

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597.

parthdesai 1mo ago
You've a tab from 9 days ago open? Maybe you should be closing your tabs more often :p
- anvuong 1mo ago
  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.
  - tonyhart7 1mo ago
    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 1mo ago
      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 1mo ago
        That is just called your browser history?
        timcambrant 1mo ago
        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.

Melatonic 1mo ago

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 !

tom1337 1mo ago

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…

sandermvanvliet 1mo ago

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 https://github.com/sandermvanvliet-stack/gh-omens

VladVladikoff 1mo ago
>go full bin chicken LOL is this really something Aussie's say? That’s hilarious!
- denkmoon 1mo ago
  Bin chicken is local slang for these horrible birds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis 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 1mo ago
    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 1mo ago
      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.