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heroh··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
valuefoodie

greatmealdeal (or permutations)

both available.

You can also make the chimpmunk into your foodie mascot for branding.

heroh··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
so did Meta for Llama.

The entire chat thread and email exchange was exposed in Discovery; apparently Zuck signed off on it. In one of the IM exchanges one of them say ‘everyone is doing it’

https://x.com/jason_kint/status/1879152507865485497?s=20

heroh··on Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
It’s in the Apple app store App Privacy disclosure [1]

Location (“coarse location”), identifiers (“device id, user id”)

^ both are deemed a necessity for app functionality, with deviceID required for analytics too.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recaptcha/id6746882749

heroh··on Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
recaptcha v3 will require the human to have a Google certified android device (i.e. no GrapheneOS or LineageOS etc.) and a dedicated iOS app which leaks device ID and other data.

Google will get to know every user browsing the web and link it to a smartphone. Since they’re rolling out government issue ID verification at the OS level, this change will allow Google to identify a random web visitor to a govt ID.

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652?hl=en

heroh··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
It’s not rolling 30 days. Lost 2 days of use by subscribing in February.
heroh··on TikTok goes dark in the US
The conflict in Palestine was one (1).

The ADL head (Greenblatt) noted they had a major issue with young people seeing footage from the front lines negatively impacting perception of Israel, this is in a leaked voice memo from early 2024. Ban legislation followed within a month.

(1) https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1852851603365036222

https://x.com/PatriotSt0rm17/status/1878777137479712889

https://x.com/infolibnews/status/1878706591626924522

heroh··on Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
a job posting is half the battle - you want to have a competitive job description that's scraped by job engines and discoverable to the potential candidate. This may mean you have to look at how competitors are doing it and replicating what they're doing to maintain competitive presence -- which can include copy/paste and customizing as appropriate.

You can make a job description a special snowflake, but then not reach the right candidates. In my experience, I will find job postings on a job aggregator website, which will lead me to a companies website for the position. These positings will usually include a boilerplate on what the job includes + other details on the company. If it seems interesting, I'll research the firm to see what they're doing, opinions on glassdoor etc.

Judging a company and their treatment of their employees by job description alone is a very narrow view of how business operates.

heroh··on WordPress creator slams Wix: ‘Your app editor is built with stolen code’
any recommended resources to learn more about licenses, differences and when to consider what?
heroh··on Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publishers, and showing you ads
About 50 tracking, remarketing and generally privacy invasive scripts are executed on your browser [0] when visiting Forbes via their "Ad Light" experience.

Allowing all that scripting to run still didn't let me access the article. I can live without ever going to Forbes.

https://i.imgur.com/W6tYjHF.png

heroh··on Show HN: Send your items worldwide with travelers or make money while traveling
this venture will not takeoff
heroh··on Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox
>a lot of that is disabled when you go to incognito mode

ಠ_ಠ

heroh··on Facebook Sponsors Let's Encrypt
when FB runs an elaborate campaign to make plebs believe their dear leader is investing his fortune into a charity, when in reality he's invested it into a Delaware based LLC that allows him to avoid Estate taxes....then you start questioning the intent of FB.

It's not "philanthropic purpose" it's an investment vehicle that can be used to do virtually everyone, without scrutiny.

heroh··on Latest Android phones hijacked with one-shot Chrome exploit
you run your devices without any care for all the background datamining, constant analytics, access to your PII, facebook social graph etc.? you oughta'be ashamed of yourself.
heroh··on U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks
you know what's a coincidence though: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/hours-befo...

drills as mass attacks are happening - be it 9/11 , Sandy Hook, London Bombing or others

+ factor in: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/serbian-police-...

The passport of a "suicide bomber" escaped the bomb blast and landed into the hands of autorities (conviniently) -- but now Serbian police have proven it to be a fraudulent passport...so how did it get there?

heroh··on U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks
>What I have said above only scratches the surface.

keep going.

be aware the analytical & technically savy are also considered threats to the establishment: "NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance"

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extrem...

heroh··on U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks
In Wake of Paris, FCC Seeks Power to Monitor, Shutter Websites

"Citing possible links between terror-related websites and online communications and Friday’s attacks on Paris, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler suggested Tuesday Congress give the agency more authority to use ‘big data’ to monitor and act on potential threats."

http://www.insidesources.com/in-wake-of-paris-fcc-seeks-powe...

This will be pushed into the narrative & they will have their way.

heroh··on The Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense”
How about NSA director lying to congress? America doesn't care
heroh··on Facing Cash Crunch, Retailer Jet.com Racing to Complete Funding Round
this means you are allow Google to datamine every click

you should be running an add-on to scrape all tracking off Google

heroh··on Leading 'anti adblock' provider gets hacked- pushed malware to end users
I don't think Google's looking to decentralize in any way shape or form. If anything, they want to know more about a viewer and will be actively fighting to prevent decentralization... especially as it'll break a lot of reporting that advertisers expect.
heroh··on Leading 'anti adblock' provider gets hacked- pushed malware to end users
this puts you outside the reach of big ad $, which is moving towards programmatic buying and serving retargeting ads.

You may be able to link up to a big player, but hosting things yourself will require quite a bit of overhead and they pay off may not be worth it, unless you're getting substantial volume (or appealing to a very targeted audience)

btw, traditional display ad CTR is rubbish from an advertisers perspective and we all want to go all in on programmatic + retargeting.

heroh··on The two faces of Airbnb
that describes Uber pretty well too
heroh··on Walgreens announces deal to buy Rite Aid for $9 a share
all taxpayers are donors to the unwanted war

"the point of public relations slogans like support our troops is that they don't mean anything... you don't want people to think about the issue, that's the whole point of good propaganda..." - Noam Chomsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DdWmWUa_8

heroh··on Windows 10 upgrade nags become more aggressive, offer no opt-out
why? Because Microsoft wants to monetize plebs

http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10...

heroh··on The Drone Papers
perhaps Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction

perhaps we didn't create Al-Queda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLvzV9xAHA [Hillary Clinton]

perhaps we're not involved in training/funding ISIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDKmM8npBQ [John McCain]

or maybe there's something seriously wrong with the traditional narrative - http://naplay.it/763/41-47

heroh··on The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P
Full video is available on YT, highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ou9rOssPg
heroh··on Islamic State has shifted to Telegram from Twitter
The US government allows the Isalmic State to exist, from providing them training, Toyota trucks + enabling the "black market" sales of oil

all this is mostly fear mongering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXe4gy_ABf8

heroh··on What we break when we fix ad blocking
being logged into Google while browsing around the web is stupid. It's a isht plan.
heroh··on Hacked emails reveal China’s Internet propaganda machine
if you use Linux, TOR, Tails or any real encryption you're already deemed an extremist by NSA.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extrem...

heroh··on Google Wants to Sell You Auto Insurance
more like $60 - $180 per credit card signup + $$ for just getting people to apply. Given the high volume of traffic Google can drive, I'm sure they'll get the best commissions from banks.

It looks like the commission is all they're after too, since it's not possible to sort by things like 'Sign Up Bonus', which would be useful to consumers.

heroh··on Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
can be blocked without any impact on the browsing experience.
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