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Baljhinon Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

--and Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, SearXNG, Startpage, Yahoo! JAPAN, Yandex - and Kagi.

Baljhinon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

Agreed. I remember addons from the XUL Firefox era that did this.

I miss that feature. And that era.

Baljhinon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

What I do is put the link to the job listing in that field. haha, suck to be in HR if you think you're getting my profile info!

I've never seen any ATS that required Linkedin for login, but even having it as an option I've always thought of as weird.

Then again, I have see many an ATS that include Facebook and other slop sites, so welcome to another layer of jobhunting madness.

Baljhinon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

Big thanks for that!

damn!- was sitting in the Fx queue for TEN years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380637

Baljhinon A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

Many years ago I was 'converted' to browse like that, one of the reasons was just that - to prevent back-button fatfinger.

Here's the setup I use:

[1] install this userscript, keep the default `include` i.e. 'every link": https://greasyfork.org/scripts/12367-open-links-in-new-tab; add to the `exclude` section the sites from [2].

[2] install this one and turn OFF the default: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/4416-open-links-in-current-ta...; add any sites you want to stay in the same tab to the `include` section (e.g. see [0]). Depending on how you browse, this will be a small list.

You can couple this with a tab-memory addon: example-- set [1]-Tabs to 'sleep' after a certain time; that way they're not using resources but still available later.

AND if you decide you're not gonna read those tabs anyway, just manually close them with having to activate them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763404

Baljhinon The Instant Messaging Freedom Knowledge Base

> a project to gather IM libraries and share the reverse engineering effort on protocols.

Curiously neither this page nor the homepage[1] have a link to its forums: https://discourse.imfreedom.org

[1] https://imfreedom.org/

Baljhinon Russian military hackers reroute British internet users' traffic

https://archive.ph/JnBQY

Baljhinon Odd Lots: This Is How to Tell If Writing Was Made by AI

> ...to potentially degrading the experience on sites like Reddit.

Was...was this a joke?

Baljhinon Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law

https://archive.ph/vObdg

Baljhinon A school district tried to help train Waymos to stop for school buses

https://archive.ph/1BblR

"A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work."

Baljhinon Google kept featuring this Chrome extension for months after it turned malicious

Interesting-- the original dev explains his side of the story - back in 2024!: https://gist.github.com/c0m4r/45e15fc1ec13c544393feafca30e74...

As the article describes, this malware was flagged by independent researchers 'years' before, and by other stores months before CWS.

Baljhinon Tech Exec Accused of Smuggling Nvidia Chips to China Resigns from Board

Thanks! haha No need to use a redirector service.

Baljhinon Tell HN: Click on 'I'm Feeling Lucky' on Google for the first result directly

Side-note: someone developed a userscript workaround for the redirect notice when using the function: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/564083-google-url-linkfilter-.... Don't know if this gets-around when Google forces the search to go to Gemini or AI Mode.

Baljhinon Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

Another post listed the Arkenfox project, but that's focused on privacy & security, and secondarily performance -- not on UI/UX. (Changing some parameters might affect contextmenu entries.)

It's a thankless task - except by nontech browser users - to modify Fx's menus. Anybody remember the XUL-era addon 'Menu Editor'? So many years and so much effort to make it 'simple' for typical users to customize Menu Bar and context-menus; and always a target that refused to stay standard given Firefox version changes ALWAYS break something about the UI. Ultimately a valiant but unrewarded failure, no blame to the 'Menu Editor' developer(s) and userbase.

As the writer will learn, the 'best' way to UI changes current (and XUL) Firefox is via userChrome.js/.css -- which has also had troubled history, as waves of main-office Fx developers have been openly hostile to promoting and supporting is functionalities.

[0] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Baljhinon Redirector Privacy Alternatives: forward links to privacy aware front ends

Using the addon Redirector [0] (R.I.P. Einar Egilsson [1]), a set of rules to autoforward links to "privacy aware" (is this different from "privacy-respecting"??) frontends.

Also available @ https://codeberg.org/duyfken/RedirectorPrivacyAlternatives

Uses updated info previously shared on HN and elsewhere, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191719

This is also a lower-scale alternative to LibRedirect, containing one option it does not in its default config-- a non-dead way to redirect Instagram links.

[0] https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector - has links to addon sites

[1] https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector/issues/329

Baljhinon Alternative Privacy-respecting Web Front-ends to popular online platforms

"This is a list of privacy-respecting front-ends to popular online services, including social media, streaming and information services. All of the options are cross-platform webapps and should work on your device no matter the OS or hardware."

Also @ https://codeberg.org/duyfken/alternative-front-ends

Updated from earlier efforts previously shared on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29662235

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620275

There are also separate lists for Mobile, TV, and Desktop Front-ends.

Baljhinon Who Is Parker Miller? (From Mitchell Martin)

So it has begun. A US recruiting company has (finally?) openly advertised to front-loading their human screeners (assuming they actually had used them previously; I have my doubts) with a chatbot that will "make hiring more human" by doing screening calls of applicants after they've submitted an application.

This reminds me of a piece by "Ask The Headhunter" Nick Corcodilos - from 2018 - on having an AI do interviews on behalf of candidates [0]: I wonder if we can get Avatar Hank and Parker on a call, save and scrutinize their conversation for valuable insights. [0] https://www.asktheheadhunter.com/11783/interview-for-1500-jo...

Curiously, in a perfect case of coincidence, a human (we assume!) 'Parker Miller' just a few weeks ago had something to say about shortsighted decision-making on human replacement by AI: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-miller-ams_aistrategy-...

Baljhinon Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?

There's a userscript called 'HN Blacklist' that's existed for quite a few years, does what OP and others are asking for-- can hide/filter content from users, titles and domain sources {this was actually a request I submitted to the developer}: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282379

Baljhinon Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

The English version is @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wva0cyliVk

Baljhinon For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet

There's a userscript called 'HN Blacklist' that can hide/filter content from users, titles and sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282379

Baljhinon From a small startup to a successful job board – how Lensa was founded

"In 2020, Lensa partnered with LinkedIn, fusing their job-matching skills with LinkedIn’s platform."

Baljhinon I Quit Google Search for AI–and I'm Not Going Back

Mind sharing the question/prompt? It'll be fun to try it in other LLMs.

Baljhinon Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

> I seem to remember a story of a mafia don who turned out to be an informant, which seems wild to me.

There's also "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno who turned FBI informant. In Ovid Demaris' book "The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno", he quotes Jimmy even laughs about being one, taking money from FBI and still running his rackets for a time.

Baljhinon Show HN: Windows 95 Themed Job Board (With Minesweeper)

> 1995 was a simpler time. There was no react ...

> ... (Built with react lol)

We see what you did there, ololol

Baljhinon HN Blacklist userscript – Hide HN submissions from sources you don't want to see

A userscript which allows hiding threads on Hacker News from certain sources, filtering based on domain, title and/or user.

https://github.com/booleandilemma/hn-blacklist

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/427213-hn-blacklist

Originally created in 2021, first HN reference is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745576

Baljhinon Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

Or even...Tencent

Baljhinon Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report

You've noticed that too?

It's almost as if there's a cadre of actors (not just on HN) who's job it is to quickly jump on any UFO -related topic and ensure they post as much misinformation and nonsensical points to muddle any serious discussion. Hmm...

You would think they would finally give up, given the cat is outta the bag, even the minuscule but legitimate evidence provided by insider govt sources, since at least 2017.

At least the upvoting ratio seems to be good on this thread, let's see how long that last.

Baljhinon Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16

Yes you would: you'ld learn <pick-a-language> just like people have for centuries - in school,

and you'ld learn how to code just like millions have for decades - in school or library computer rooms, or with an age-restricted computer that your family would provide.

Baljhinon Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16

> Never forgetten that the Western worlds first, most successful racist genocide occurred in Australia

oh dear, have we forgotten about The Holocaust so soon?

Or are we just going to let slide mis-information on true historical events that don't need lying to relay the injustice, and support justice?

Btw we are not going to accept that you mistyped, Again.