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sm4rk0on Observing my cellphone switch towers

Useful pro-privacy tip from the article:

> According to the LTE specs, cell-towers don't have to perform UE hand-overs like in GSM/UMTS. The phone starts camping on the next tower while remaining in RCC_IDLE mode without emitting data. Not only does this save battery, it also means operators don't really know where the phone is as long as it remains in the same LAC.

And another tip: I wanted to know what "very expensive" means for LTE-related literature, so I searched DuckDuckGo for the first book mentioned (sold on Amazon for $105) and the second result was an OCR'd PDF at huaweicup.ru

sm4rk0on Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

To buy more at a lower price?

sm4rk0on Show HN: I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions

What happened at 7:36UTC? It dropped from second place to 16th.

sm4rk0on Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

better reviews => more sales => more profit

sm4rk0on ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

> Why is it frustrating when others point out

Because it's painful to be awaken from the "American dream".

sm4rk0on OpenFlights – airport and airline data

Thank you for discovering bit.io!

sm4rk0on Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars

Strange that neither the article nor the comments mention https://gravatar.com/

It hashes the user's email http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/hash/ and creates an "identicon" from the hash http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_identicon/ or loads a user-defined image.

sm4rk0on The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned

Why not both?

sm4rk0on The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned

Earliest date in one of the columns (last login?) is something around 2019-04-28.

sm4rk0on France reports three new cases of thrombosis, more deaths after AstraZeneca jabs

It's still not proven that vaccinated people can't infect others: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210203-why-vaccinated-p...

sm4rk0on US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults

I believe. You can ask them what's their plan for a moment when their job position gets replaced by a robot or an AWS Lambda function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk

sm4rk0on US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults

But the USA are the embodiment of democracy. How can't you choose something better? /s

sm4rk0on 100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines

That was meant more as a semi-joke (on me). Never thought about seeking a professional help because it's not affecting my life too much. I hope other people in my life would agree.

sm4rk0on LineageOS 18.1

You obviously didn't follow the OnePlus' motto (:

sm4rk0on 100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines

And how can't you empathize with a fellow HNer's OCD? (:

sm4rk0on 100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines

Yuo cna undrestnad thsi, rgiht?

One thing is if I could understand it and another thing is if the author's writing skills are good enough to advise others about writing.

BTW, the submitter (or a moderator) seems to agree with me (check the current HN-entry title).

sm4rk0on 100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines

First, you need to know that (at least in SI) "m" is for "mili" - a thousandth part of something, and "M" is for "mega", which means "a million units". So, 100m is 0.1 headlines.

sm4rk0on The Drivers Cooperative

> Underpaid compared to what?

You said: "relatively cheap". Relative to what?

sm4rk0on The Drivers Cooperative

> What keeps Uber competitive is access to a relatively cheap reservoir of labor force.

Cheap labor force means someone is underpaid. If the coop cuts the middlemen out and transfer the extra to drivers then it's a win-win: drivers get more and customers pay the same for a better service because well-paid driver => good service.

sm4rk0on One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz

https://web.archive.org/web/20210324184305/https://laughtone...

sm4rk0on Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy

You're close, but there's no "Firefox Corp".

From Wikipedia: "Mozilla [...] is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. [...] The community is supported institutionally by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation."

sm4rk0on Gitlab 13.10 Released

This one should've landed, too:

"New predefined variables for job start time and pipeline created time"

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22901

sm4rk0on Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants, say experts

Maybe because it's not profitable?

sm4rk0on There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day

I like to hack different spheres of my life and surroundings, but this seems like an idea geared towards further dissolving family and embracing a "new normal".

sm4rk0on Ansible 3.0.0

Also big:

* We're currently planning to release Ansible-4.0.0 in the middle of May, roughly a month after Ansible-core-2.11 releases. See the Ansible 4 Roadmap for details: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_4...

sm4rk0on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

Serbian news aggregator/search engine:

https://naslovi.net/

Its name is "Headlines" in Serbian.

sm4rk0on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

Run a plate for any Swedish vehicle: https://biluppgifter.se/

Another privacy nightmare with complete vehicle history -- better than carvertical.com or vin-info.com

sm4rk0on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

Something like https://idealo.de/ (and .at .es .fr .it .co.uk)?

sm4rk0on Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships

There's just a black rectangle at the top of the page when opened with Firefox for Android or Firefox Klar (Focus for German-speaking countries, telemetry disabled by default) -- even with tracking protection off.

Edit: turning uBlock Origin off helped!