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Not only you are paying extra for tips and whatever the restaurant adds additional chargers to cover “employee costs” (yes this is real in the US), you are giving them more money w…

Verizon made an update to its privacy policies. Account holders’ email addresses are no more private. Also, the option opt out keeps reverting back to “allow”. Their policy now sta…

It is an old product that is no longer relevant, and there is no longer any demand for it. Time to move on.

I had Grammarly premium for many years as part of my university studies until it was dropped today. $30 a month for premium is a lot, and I am hesitant to pay the discount annual. …

awesome. thank you

Cool. Curious about IUB.zip. Can you share more details when to find it.

My LinkedIn ban was lifted today. It is not clear what reversed the decision. Whatever the reason was, it doesn’t matter. I appreciate all your supporting voices. Thank you.

Thank you. I have side question for you. Sorry, all this thread coincides with another thread about LinkedIn and me getting banned without knowing why ( https://news.ycombinator.co…

What are the most common freelancing sites you use for job postings?

Thank you. This was extremely helpful.

I haven’t. Thank you for that.

That can happen cause it some point some LLM folks are scraping HN. But then, aren’t the majority of LLM owners the same that own the social media products, especially the centrali…

100% in agreement there and that is exactly why I focused solely on LinkedIn to build my network. Now it all vanished.

Thank you. If only I can talk to a human not a machine at LinkedIn. I am always getting the same automated response each time I try to reply to the ban email message. “ We've deeme…

Thank you. I needed that.

Amen to that !

Their term of service states that one cannot have more the one account. Plus, right before they permanently banned me they asked me to upload a government id to confirm that I am a…

I was thinking on the same lines but we have Mastodon and Fediverse today that still need to grow beyond the techies of the world and include business folks or even recruiters. A s…

:) I also find the word “free” in freelancer as odd and contractor is for someone fixing your home. All are simply labels.

GitHub was a missed opportunity for me. After copilot, I dropped GitHub, both public and private code for serious code contribution, except for some necessary cloning or helping so…

Another name for freelancer. I code and also have experience in managing IT teams. I decided to go solo and attempted to promote my experience via LinkedIn posts instead of GitHub …

The only thing that I was consciously aware of is that I was solely using the web version of LinkedIn on my phone. Last month they restricted my account and they told me that I am …

I am enjoying Gopher, BBS, IRC apps, and the sdf.org PDP terminals that make me feel like I am in the 90s again.

I posted earlier on HN that LinkedIn permanently banned me without knowing why. It’s a moot point with them because no person on LinkedIn seems willing (or aware) to talk to me and…