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Re:IsUserAMonkey() on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:14AM (#37505922)
Re:Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:21PM (#33030503)
I got reached out multiple times and got hired twice based on my public repos and contributions. While I’d like to enable this option for privacy purposes, seems that the only way I’d use this if my employer requires me to do so.
Re:The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:31PM (#28192713)
I did a similar thing back in college at [insert fast food franchise name].

One branch I went had a poster that roughly says "enter our mobile app survey and get a free meal", so I connect to their public wifi, downloaded it, enter the survey, and got a text message that can be exchanged on the cashier for some decent fries and other stuff. Later I learned that the app limits one submission per device per day, so few days later I start bringing friends to submit on their phones and got ourselves a free lunch. We did this once or twice a week so the manager doesn't get suspicious.

Then one time I accidentally got disconnected to the wifi after submitting, tried reopening the app and to my surprise, it allowed me to submit again. I guessed that they limit submission per IP address, so I tried reconnecting to the wifi and the app limits me like before. Me being curious, tried using a VPN and it didn't limit me both on wifi and mobile data, so that means I can do four submissions per day per device. Imagine how many meals I can get.

Few months later, the poster was removed, then later I learned that it was also removed on every branch in the city. The app just shows a blank white screen. Today I tried downloading the app and it still shows nothing.

Recently Coil sent an email to customers related to their privacy policy update, and apparently the email is sent by CC-in to 600+ addresses. There is also a follow up email from them aplogizing that “ due to a human error related to how we interface with our mailing list provider, a number of users' email addresses were populated alongside yours”.
Re:Talon – scriptable voice/gaze input on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:33PM (#24995676)
Re:Show HN: Lag – Know Before You Go on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:59AM (#24478888)
Love the app! Straightforward with no extra stuff here and there. I’d like to share some suggestions after using it for a while:

- adding an option to partially omit or edit the address would be great since not every part of the world shows the exact address accurately

- inform what datas are stored (i did wonder why they show the latitude and longitude, because privacy reasons)

- add prompts for isp/carrier provider, subscription/plan type, and other granular details so people know what to pick or expect

- minor improvements on the user interaction, like autofocusing on the input so users can instantly type, or tap an entry to view more details

Overall, looking forward to share the app to my fellow iOS 14 users!

Re:Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets on Saturday February 15, 2020 @10:47AM (#22335904)
Here's the repo for obtaining the tweets, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/mathdroid/twitter-dev-salaries-scraper
Re:Webpack Doesn't Work on Monday (On Windows) on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:59AM (#20390899)
Other day related bugs: OpenOffice can’t print on Tuesdays

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956

Ask HN: Docker file download manager?

I've seen plenty of open source download managers (not torrents), one of them is jdownloader. It seems that jdownloader is the only thing that has been dockerized. Are there any other download manager available as a container? Probably something like XDM or uget.

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Re:Performance Testing vs. Load Testing on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:35AM (#13499141)
Error establishing a database connection
Re:Space Travel (the video game that led to creation of Unix) on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:22AM (#12565270)
No Man's Sky, anyone?
Re:What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative on Saturday August 27, 2016 @08:57AM (#12372158)
How about Discord?