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chicagojoeon Job: Head of Stonehenge

I was slightly disappointed when I first visited Stonehenge as the standard tours keep you fairly far away and roped off.

But, I took a modestly more expensive "Inner Stones" tour a few months ago and lucked out being selected to be fully alone for a minute. It was a profound experience being in the middle of such a historic place.

Highly, highly recommended!

chicagojoeon Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it

I had this happen recently too, also not covering up any email activity (I combed through 3000+ spam emails).

Double check that there are no forwarding rules added to your inbox and add some protection against a SIM swap.

In my case, they didn't compromise any of my accounts but did attempt to open a new credit card so it would be worth double checking your credit reports.

chicagojoeon Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

The Torlonia collection was recently in Chicago and had some truly stunning pieces. The Ostia relief was tucked away in a corner and I nearly missed it. The traveling exhibition is well worth seeing for anyone remotely interested in ancient history.

chicagojoeon Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

These show as unavailable/with lock icons for me. Is there some process to download locked content from IA?

chicagojoeon Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does

This is great! Are you using a news API or pulling in RSS feeds yourself? Is there a list of what sources are included?

chicagojoeon When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"

Buying an Oculus actually did allow me to successfully restore my wife's Facebook after it was hacked, thanks to finding probably the same thread you're referencing.

The amount of emotional capital held in various platforms is terrifying when you consider how easy it is to be locked out.

I now regularly "takeout" all of our actively used platforms and store them on physical media.

chicagojoeon Wikipedia as a Graph

Click stream data is also published by Wikipedia which would be useful to show the strength of each link between pages: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/readme.html

chicagojoeon Does MHz Still Matter?

Consumer grade CPUs aren't meant to be pushed with heavy load 24/7, meaning, durability becomes another variable which, in my experience, will quickly outweigh the brief burst of speed.

chicagojoeon Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk

FWIW, clicking around, there are some odd display issues in the "References" (https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1486)

It looks like you're embedding data from Twitter - are you paying for decahose/enterprise access or just paying for a low volume of high value tweets (i.e. I'm seeing many from FalconFeedsio, DailyDarkWeb)

chicagojoeon Brave launches Search Ads in key markets after successful test phase

The other purpose of the ad is to keep the product top of mind. Those bubbles-and-ice ads aren't to introduce you to the concept but to remind you that you want one - now.

chicagojoeon Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

Fellow Chicagoan here! I went down one of the piers and saw it as well. At first it looked like cirrus clouds but the colors emerged as my eyes acclimated. I thought it was my brain hallucinating the details it expected but my phone validated what I was seeing. Truly stunning even with just a 2sec exposure.