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Baljhinon New dark pattern: Google spam links with [SOLVED] at the start of the title

Share the link - and the search query - so we can see as well. (Such sites might be fodder for a new blocklist or hosts file)

Baljhinon TikTok CEO admits staff in China have ability to see TikTok users’ information

> When asked if ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has been able to spy on staff, he said: ”I don't think that spying is the right way to describe it.”

Baljhinon My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500

So does this mean that Getty is essentially selling...NFTs?

Baljhinon Are Americans Worried About Chinese Apps?

No worries of that - there are plenty of CCP-sponsored alts on HN, they'll upvote this to the front page!

Baljhinon Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts

Wouldn't it be a fairer criticism to say that Devs-with-CompScis are to computers what e.g. jet plane designers are to high-tech jets? (believe me, I'm not gonzo for Devs, but stick with me here) - those engineers design the slickest, leanest& meanest symbols of the advances in aeronautics - but don't, never have, never will actually fly a plane. Even a simple one.

Baljhinon Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts

I must have grown up in a parallel universe of the dotcom era: one of the biggest reasons -- and criticisms of - the dotcom Bubble growth was due to too much and easy (wait for it...) VC money. Back then, literally any wild, and foolish, idea that you could smack 'Tech' onto was guaranteed to get fast & easy investor money.

>Back then...

Oh wait...

Baljhinon Man stuck in snow, deep in woods, uses drone to lift cell phone to call for help

I don't know about built-in, but such features were possible and offered in third-party apps since... the Windows Mobile (5!) / HTC Wizard days, probably before those.

Being an early adopter of e.g. Gizmo5[0], and messaging using internet connectivity (oh man, GTalk...), rather than carriers' extortionist pay-per-message schemes[1] (before they finally relented and included SMS 'for free' in most plans) many of us abandoned SMS back in the early 2000s.

However for that story, abandoning SMS outright would not have made for a feel-good outcome!

[0] https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmo5

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070314004039/http://gigaom.com...

Baljhinon Show HN: Bookmarklet to Highlight OP's Username

Related: try userscript 'HN Highlight Author'

> Highlights author (name) without breaking comment collapse

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/393187

Works for me on Firefox; haven't tested on Chrome.

Baljhinon Sued by Meta, Freenom halts domain registrations

And for those who want to track...

> The 10 Most Abused Top Level Domains

(updated daily?)

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

Baljhinon A ‘new generation’ of employee has never worked in an office–Kevin O’Leary

> Asked whether remote work has hurt productivity, (Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary) replied: “I found that it hasn’t changed anything because they don’t know anything else. Some of them just got out of college and started working out of their homes. They’ve never worked in an office. Basically what it changes, [is] project management.”

Baljhinon At Marc Benioff’s Salesforce, It’s One Big Family–Until Trouble Hits

'Company Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Year to Sit Around' | Futurism

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34998043

Baljhinon “iPhones are made in hell”: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city

> Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen...

> "'Smith!' screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.'"

> A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away.

Baljhinon Why I’m Resigning as an FTC Commissioner

It's amusing that the 2nd link is over the count limit by one character, ha.

Baljhinon Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs

> Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, has been building up its infrastructure over the years so that it can operate more like a tech company.

This explains alot! Especially with this most-current tech bubble deflating.

Baljhinon CNN’s Hero of the Year, 2022: Nelly Cheboi, Co-Founder of TechLit Africa

Cheboi introduced herself to HN back in 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374547

Baljhinon CNN’s Hero of the Year, 2022: Nelly Cheboi, Co-Founder of TechLit Africa

Ms. Cheboi quit her software engineering job in the US to create the startup TechLit Africa, an organization that builds computer labs in Kenyan schools in order to increase schoolchildren's exposure and education in computer technology.

Baljhinon Ask HN: Who wants to be fired (February 2023)

Is it 'Quitting' - or being 'Laid off' (or even out-&out 'Fired', which is different)...which are we talking about here?

Just want to be clear, as the Title differs with the Description.

Baljhinon Ask HN: Email admins, do you restrict mass email sites

They not only block domains, some also block TLDs [0], particularly the ones listed on Spamhaus' 'Top 10 Worst TLDs' [1].

Speaking of SpamAssassin, a blast from the past... https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/spamassassin/users/199808...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain

[1] https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

Baljhinon Microsoft is giving U.S. salaried employees unlimited vacation

Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34344821