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gaucherieson The Post Millennial hacked, subscriber database leaked

i know i do

gaucherieson The Collapse of Small Press Distribution

While I was in undergrad, I volunteered at SPD’s warehouse in Berkeley for a summer. Although I enjoyed my time there, and I learned a lot about non-profits, publishing and more, I found it be a very strange, tense, and awkward place to work. And cliquey. I did not feel welcome, seen or accepted. Kind of like the Bay Area at large over the past decade or more (and I speak as a regional native).

An anonymous former employee supports the claim that SPD was a poor place to work, run by toxic people: https://damagedbookworker.medium.com/terrorized-by-spd-61201...

gaucherieson Show HN: I built an API for Google autocomplete

Nice work, but I am surprised that you would charge people money to use this, and I imagine that it will be promptly shut down by Google.

gaucherieson Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

I appreciate the way that duesee handled that whole issue.

gaucherieson Every single new Google product

I don’t think the naming itself is the point of the joke.

gaucherieson Live in Cook County Jail

idk why you got downvoted. But I do too. I think it’s because of the band Joan of Arc - they use “live” in that way in a couple of their records’ titles.

gaucherieson How big is YouTube?

I think YouTube locked down their APIs after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

gaucherieson Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

The TechCrunch article’s real title seems to be more descriptive: “Cruise-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns”

gaucherieson Cosmopolitan Third Edition

The author might be interested to know that this page might be displaying in an undesired way on iPhone mini screens:

https://i.ibb.co/v4s0Xpj/IMG-1221.png

gaucherieson Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

It seems to me like Meta’s marketing harms everybody who uses their products… it’s not specifically kids.

gaucherieson Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

What’s stopping parents from allowing their kids to use Meta’s products?

gaucherieson Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline

I switched to yogurt. I like eating Greek yogurt (lately Fage 0% fat) with blueberries, granola, hemp seeds, and chia seeds. It seems like the adult version of breakfast cereal to me.

gaucherieson Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

The person who downvoted my comment should reply.

gaucherieson Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

The author’s point about Threads’ privacy/data usage seems moot. Presumably they already use Instagram, and that app’s “Data Linked to You” section in the iOS App Store is comparable to Threads.

I thought that they made a good point about how the Threads screen that links to the privacy policies doesn’t highlight the links very well. But it seems to me that the average social media user probably doesn’t care and would gloss over it anyway.

I liked their suggestion that the App Store use a “privacy rating” feature.

gaucherieson Amazon Andy Jassy shouldn’t make RTO decisions in echo chamber of CEOs feelings

Offices make it easier to control employees and their time.

gaucherieson Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve

Got it pretty quickly actually. Maybe I just got lucky with the clues.

gaucherieson Adobe Account Expiration

i don't think you're supposed to call people names here.

gaucherieson Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

you can toggle Continuous Scrolling in Search Settings.

gaucherieson Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted

you don’t need to do anything

gaucherieson Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted

> Yelp, founded in San Francisco in 2004, is deeply entrenched in American consumer habits

is it really? couldn't tell you the last time i loaded yelp.com on purpose.

gaucherieson CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day

you mean that's not the whole point of posting here?

gaucherieson Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets

I’ve noticed it depends on your karma score and reputation

gaucherieson Planned obsolescence: Apple attacked for the “serialization” of its spare parts

Video discussion of this topic by Louis Rossmann: https://youtu.be/ki5jSAyS8tA

gaucherieson The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)

Oh I guess someone with more karma than me didn't like my comment ;)

gaucherieson The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)

I loved this map. Hours and hours of fun. Also this article was published in 2020.

gaucherieson Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

> Apple, known for supposedly delivering sleek products, launched in 2010 the iPhone 4, still under the tutelage of Steve Jobs. Within hours of release, users flooded the internet to complain about dropped connections and abrupt reductions in internet speed. The problem, according to Jobs, was with users holding the iPhone 4 with their left hand [8]. As this was a hardware issue, it was never really solved.

They did fix it with later versions of the iPhone 4 and with the iPhone 4S. Also, I remember that they made the "bumper" cases to alleviate the issue with the antenna: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPhone_4_Bumper

gaucherieson 9k-year-old Stonehenge-like structure found under Lake Michigan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21649869

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24102035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27695726

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25478693

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gaucherieson Setting the bozo bit on Apple

> I don’t think Music is really intended for this use case.

What do you think are the intended use cases of the operating system's proprietary audio-file-playing application?

gaucherieson Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web

Tangentially related: Do Mastodon instances display funny for anyone else's mobile browser? For me, the pages are always scrunched to the left, with a mostly empty side bar taking 10% of the right side of the screen. I'm using a 12 mini though, maybe not a popular surface?

gaucherieson Little Free Library

All the other times this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=littlefreelibrary.org