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Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-that-connects-cloudflare-to-the-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32836661

Points: 11

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Article URL: https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/09/14/Tornado-Cash-and-bullets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32836785

Points: 29

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Article URL: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837249

Points: 29

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A few weeks ago I bought a one month Disney+ subscription to check it out. I have all kinds of problems when using their web player compared to Netflix and YouTube:

- subtitle settings get reset every time I close the website.

- the button for changing subtitles is in the upper right corner. Once you open the menu the button for closing it appears in the upper left corner. You can't close the menu by clicking outside of it, despite the fact that you can still see the blurred video in the background.

- pressing space doesn't pause the video, but repeats the last action you did. If you closed the subtitle menu by pressing esc, pressing space will open it again. If you entered the full screen mode, pressing space will close it.

- there is no way (afaik) to open a list of all episodes from within the player. You have to go back to the show's main page, choose the season (because it always defaults to season 1) and scroll a horizontal list (which always defaults to the first episode) using a button that appears only once you hover it. Scrolling with a mouse scroll/touchpad doesn't work.

- it is impossible to search for movies using a director's name. For example, I know that Disney+ has a lot of Charlie Kaufman's and Wes Anderson's movies available - they are my favorite directors - but I couldn't quickly check which specific movies there are.

I know that it's possible that I have higher standards of UX because I'm a programmer, but I doubt that Disney+'s interface is intuitive to anyone.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837397

Points: 9

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Article URL: https://kevquirk.com/privacy-vs-i-have-nothing-to-hide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835966

Points: 142

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Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/news/duckduckgo-proton-mozilla-throw-weight-behind-bill-targeting-big-tech-surveillance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837233

Points: 118

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Article URL: https://typefully.com/DanHollick/qr-codes-T7tLlNi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837565

Points: 25

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Article URL: https://blog.payara.fish/whats-new-in-jakarta-ee-10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32838321

Points: 27

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Article URL: https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32838475

Points: 91

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I've been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it's been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal.

Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that's not a complete race to the bottom? I find I'm close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.

The other two job boards I've been keeping an eye on are mostly about React and other frontend roles, with offers few and far between. Linkedin is similarly dire for contract work.

Is Toptal the only option for someone with 16 years experience that wouldn't want to work for peanuts? Or just going back to being an employee?

(In case anyone's reading that's looking for a senior Elixir/Rust/Go engineer/sysadmin, resume's in my profile. I'm based in London.)

EDIT: excellent responses so far, thanks. I like how many are suggesting going through recruiters, while the common motif on other similar posts is to avoid LinkedIn. I've started cleaning up my Linkedin profile this week, and I already have a dozen recruiters setting up appointments with me. I will try and explicitly request contract jobs with them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837800

Points: 118

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