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Jocund··on Show HN: No-Cloud Needed – A License for Devices That Work Without the Cloud
I created this license to make it easy to identify products that don’t have vendor lock-in.
Jocund··on Former Employee Sentenced for Stealing Confidential Data and Extorting Company
Full title was too long for post: Former Employee Of Technology Company Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Stealing Confidential Data And Extorting Company For Ransom

The Verge reports that the employee worked for Ubiquiti. He was caught because his IP address was exposed "during an internet outage...[that] disrupted his VPN". I assume he had a software-based VPN/firewall that crashed while he was stealing data from Ubiquiti.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584414/ubiquiti-develope...

Jocund··on E-Commerce Company Boxed Files for Bankruptcy as Online Grocery Struggles
Boxed Market (fresh grocery delivery) has been suspended, but Boxed.com is still running.
Jocund··on Ask HN: Anonymous vs. non-anonymous feedback? Which is better?
Anonymous feedback doesn't really work. It's not hard to figure out who wrote the feedback if they write anything non-trivial.
Jocund··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

  Location: NYC
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: SQL Server, PostgreSQL I'm looking for a DBA / DRE position. I've worked with AWS EC2s, RDS, and bare-metal 
  Résumé/CV:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNpAq6WzWgGkZ98Z09EeZniF...

  Email: (In CV)
Jocund··on A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and their 6% fee
The 6% fee needs to end! I'm a Co-founder of a new firm in NYC who rebates 50%+ of the buyer side commission back to the buyer.

The average buyer doesn't a ton of assistance and giving them 1.5% of the purchase price back at closing just makes sense.

Jocund··on Ask HN: 30+ year olds - how much have you saved so far?
30

192K in Robinhood 127k Equity in my apartment 65k 401k 82k IRA 10k Savings 3k Bonds Net worth: 479K

Jocund··on Ask HN: Charting tools
Google has an API for charts. [1] https://developers.google.com/chart/

I preferred their older image charts which are now deprecated. [2] https://developers.google.com/chart/image/?hl=en

Jocund··on Email reminder, 1d@gleym.com gives you a reminder in 1 day,
Neat idea. I currently use the snooze feature in the Mailbox app for reminders, so I'm not sure when I would use this.