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  1. Half-Staff American Flag Notifications (halfstaff.org)
    1 points 0
  2. Tell HN: Dark Pattern from YouTube Movies and TV

    I don't carry a streaming video subscription anywhere, and so I mostly watch free YouTube, or I go to the theater and pay for a film. A while back, YouTube began promoting its films "Free with Ads" and I watched many of…

    4 points 2
  3. Ask HN: Is it likely for a customer's reputation to be exchanged among services?

    We know that there exist third-party data brokers for everything under the sun. Is it likely that services as varied as food delivery, ride share, or health care, would buy and sell reputational data on customers of…

    2 points 0
  4. Tell HN: I-9 Debacle Nationwide

    So apparently, the DHS enacted special emegency concessions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed employers to virtually/remotely verify identification documents and complete the I-9 form (verification of…

    8 points 23
  5. Tell HN: Discrepancy in Google's Account Inactivity Policy

    So Google sent users an email about their updated inactivity policy, and listed some exemptions: There are some exceptions to this policy. Examples include: a Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an…

    3 points 0
  6. Acoustics expert brings rock-and-roll touch to sound of St. Peter’s (cruxnow.com)
    1 points 1
  7. Websites with fake MFA: security theater?

    Greetings, I may have discovered a very common weakness in multi-factor authentication (MFA) as widely implemented by many websites and organizations. So far, the suspects include GitLab and Credly: the exploit begins…

    23 points 18
  8. Site breakage from DNS ad-blockers

    So this past week I had an unpleasant experience with my adblocker interfering with a paid service I use. The adblocker I use is NextDNS.io, a DNS-based service sort of like a "Pi Hole in the Cloud". I have a fairly…

    6 points 3