Hacker News: techslave

New comment by techslave in "Welcome to the Old Internet Again"

techslave — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:52:45 +0000

that’s revisionist. usenet was already dead. google extended its life, in fact.

New comment by techslave in "Welcome to the Old Internet Again"

techslave — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:52:05 +0000

why would you need a usenet similar service? usenet still exists and the barrier is, as you say, high enough.

New comment by techslave in "I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts"

techslave — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:57:30 +0000

I don’t see a problem with it. It says more about the comment author than it does about the article. If he (commenter) wants to out himself as a knowitallogist, so be it?

New comment by techslave in "“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”"

techslave — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 20:12:12 +0000

> Advertisers shouldn't know what I like, they should only know that a certain device with a certain ID likes X,Y topics.

That is in fact what advertisers know. It’s the aggregators that know who you are, not the advertisers.

New comment by techslave in "Sonos is spying on me (and you)"

techslave — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:49:41 +0000

thought this would be useless griping of sonos that has existed for years now. no, this is new and valuable information. glad i got rid of sonos long ago.

New comment by techslave in "Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com"

techslave — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:02:36 +0000

well known. only use domains.google (for searching).

New comment by techslave in "Fuck Cloud Messaging"

techslave — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:55:40 +0000

> they'd have to give them their FCM credentials, which is a no-no.

trivially addressed via a proxy, which you’d want anyway to properly monetize it

New comment by techslave in "Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?"

techslave — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:45:01 +0000

casual culture talk with 2 people, then a 2-5 day contract. only works for out of work candidates of course.

Rich people leave, artists and queerdos return

techslave — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:07:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/12/san-francisco-tech-workers-leaving-rent-covid-remote-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454658

Points: 2

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New comment by techslave in "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)"

techslave — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:11:09 +0000

yeah well you’re not being persecuted. for many it may as well be the 12th century or whatever

New comment by techslave in "The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account"

techslave — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:27:57 +0000

gmail burns addresses forever. no one else will get it if you close it.

New comment by techslave in "The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account"

techslave — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:19:25 +0000

i owned root@pobox.com for many years before they realized they shouldn’t have allowed that to be registered. that was fun.

New comment by techslave in "Tesla and FBI prevented $1M ransomware hack"

techslave — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:56:42 +0000

muy interensante.

we often theorize about / present a threat model of an insider becoming malicious in exactly this way. rare that we hear of it actually occurring.

the number used in such threat modeling scenarios is typically $1MM. maybe we need to up that to $4.5MM. (per TFA)

note the simplification in the headline: the $1MM was merely the insider’s share, not the proposed ransomware amount.

New comment by techslave in "Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK"

techslave — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:51:51 +0000

i think this deserves a nitpick. when we say “makes” wrt a person, it means their gross salary/income. here, it refers to revenue. that’s misleading.

New comment by techslave in "US plans to produce ‘Iberian’ ham in Texas and Georgia"

techslave — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:18:58 +0000

yes funny but why would they call it that. jamon murica

New comment by techslave in "Mass Exodus of SF"

techslave — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:57:15 +0000

> It should be noted that San Francisco had an unusually low inventory relative to other large cities prior to the pandemic. Historically, the ratio of homes for sale relative to total housing has been a quarter of what New York's was.

the article is totally about percentages. 1->2 = 100%. poor framing, for clicks, if you ask me.

New comment by techslave in "Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California"

techslave — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:45:50 +0000

I detest uber. yet AB5 is an abomination, an embarrassment. sad

New comment by techslave in "Cardboard theft"

techslave — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 03:50:00 +0000

what is wrong? it costs money to pick up anything. equipment fuel salaries workman’s comp etc. thieves don’t have such costs.

New comment by techslave in "Celebrate Woz's 70th"

techslave — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:16:04 +0000

just? sales is the more important part of a for profit company you know.

New comment by techslave in "Tom Cruise's jacket says a lot about Hollywood's craven attitude to China"

techslave — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:14:28 +0000

exactly. it’s not so much craven as it is purely capitalistic. one should not be surprised. i think it’s fine. i welcome it even. it’s better to be beholden to capital than to the political whims of the day. (not in general, just for an industry that has such power)