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SlimyHogon Hang on to Your Firefox

What websites? I've been using Firefox exclusively forever and the only times I've had to switch browsers was doing my passport application and I had to find a windows desktop to get that to work

SlimyHogon The map that keeps Burning Man honest

Are you trying to imply that Jeff Bezos and Mark Zukerberg are counterculture in some way? What?

SlimyHogon I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

"instead of giving them pennies, let's give them nothing!!!"

SlimyHogon On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

Firefox.

SlimyHogon PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights

You realize that this part was a joke and didn't actually happen right?

SlimyHogon Use Rails

This goes hand-in-hand with the idea of using "boring" technology. If it's mission critical, I'd rather be using something battle-tested than the brand-new hot tech. There's re tooling, more documentation and likely more search-able solutions to whatever problems you may run into.

SlimyHogon Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

I deleted my account once they killed 3rd party apps and whenever I visit I've noticed that the quality of comments is WAY worse than I remember.

SlimyHogon How I search in 2024

I think they mean "before"

SlimyHogon Kagi search reached 20k paying members

Since the browser extension only works on the FE, this just means you are hiding the site and receiving fewer results on a page.

SlimyHogon I Have No Mobile-Friendly Pages

That site sure is something...

SlimyHogon Apollo will close down on June 30th

> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?

In addition to what everyone else has said, he really has 1 month if he has any chance of siphoning off reddit users.

SlimyHogon Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

I can't even find this feature. I googled "for you" and got LMGTFY and related sites. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SlimyHogon Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

I got banned from some subreddit that I've never visited for making fun of someone in /r/conservative, just because I posted there.

SlimyHogon Code Blocks in Google Docs

Thanks for a reminder that this is releasing more generally, I use Google Docs for any investigation that I want to share out and have been using screenshots; being able to copy/paste the code will be much better.

SlimyHogon Overture Maps Foundation

Thank you. This is exactly what I was wondering

SlimyHogon Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Yeah the one thing I've purchased on their recommendation that I'm not satisfied with is headphones.

SlimyHogon Ask HN: Is Apple down?

Yeah, I'm seeing anecdotal reports of a bunch of services out

SlimyHogon All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022

This would just mean that rich companies/people will get to keep the copyright and others do not. We're in this whole situation where things don't enter the public domain for 100 years because of Disney's lobbying.

SlimyHogon Ask HN: Are you concerned about your privacy when using services like DocuSign?

> Personally I wouldn't accept a signature made by mouse instead of a pen.

I had to implement a "signature" at my current gig and, legally speaking, a check-box is a valid signature when e-signing something.

SlimyHogon Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit

The HTML is more volatile and subject to change than other sources though

SlimyHogon Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds

This seems reasonable to me as a free user. I thought it was rad that I got free compute from dockerhub, but CPU cycles aren't free.

SlimyHogon Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

> SA is just kind of limping along

Jeffery has been posting financials that look pretty good

SlimyHogon Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges

Oh no, how can these companies underpay their employees now?