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xtat··on Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
Apple's playing both sides.
xtat··on Crypto Wash Trading
FWIW this is old data (and very old news) in crypto terms and there have been positive audits of the big players since.
xtat··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
Every once and a while the FTC does some hero shit
xtat··on YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
Super sad - I love these streams
xtat··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
Youtube is over
xtat··on Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
hn is beginning to understand
xtat··on The metaverse is bullshit
> Tech companies are now spending billions of dollars straining against that basic fact: For most of what we do online, sitting at a monitor and typing is going to be the most practical interface for a very long time.

This seems incredibly short-sighted.

xtat··on Facebook Renames to Meta
So much this.
xtat··on Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years
I always got a lot of pressure from certain well meaning SV business types to hire from bootcamps and always struggled to find folks - suppose it depends on the industry but "learn engineering fast" isn't really a thing that works.
xtat··on Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
A+
xtat··on NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
...and yet they milk our very livelihood with their app stores
xtat··on Nomad vs. Kubernetes
I was into it until I saw there is an enterprise version link. If it's not FLOSS I'm out.
xtat··on Tech compensation in 2021
I'm not sure "higher" is the right word here - perhaps more specialized.
xtat··on Is going to the office a broken way of working?
Yes please don't randomly tap people on the shoulder and ask quick questions.
xtat··on Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
Great move. The Bay Area "peak" is starting to feel like a long time ago.
xtat··on When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up
How many of those visits were people trying to figure out what was going on with facebook? I bet most.
xtat··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
This describes any currency.
xtat··on Statement from Mark Zuckerberg
Here's a reminder that it's illegal for this man to say anything that would hurt Facebook's profitability. Don't expect anything but propaganda here.
xtat··on Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
big +1 here
xtat··on Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
So academic papers have also gone the route of clickbait titles :)
xtat··on Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
Cloudflare are also good at disappearing people from the Internet
xtat··on Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
There's something really dystopic about all of this.
xtat··on NFT projects are just MLMs for tech elites
Never before have I found the technically competent so divided. I sit in both HN and crypto camps I find this article catches all of the negative and none of the positive. I think everyone needs to zoom out.
xtat··on Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
Very handy thanks for sharing.
xtat··on Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer
What this article does is let me take a mental not to take anything too seriously from this source that pops up in the future.
xtat··on Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
Came to write this - same here
xtat··on Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)
Weird thing is I worked at a few places and we all used this joke on each other managers, etc and I never felt burned by it- didn't seem to bother peers either.
xtat··on iOS 15
The inevitable end state of a closed ecosystem is compromise and that's why I'm out.
xtat··on iOS 15
Is it me or do these updates look more and more like they should be dot releases?
xtat··on Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale
The original title on this was better imo
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