chicagojoe (u/chicagojoe)

chicagojoe commented on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 openculture.com/2026/01/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

owlninja · 2 months ago

What a crazy coincidence... I had not been to the Kimbell art musesum that is only about 20 minutes away from me in many years. We had a family outing this weekend to go see the Torlonia Collection exhibit there and this painting was just sitting there in their permanent collection! I even got to listen to the guided tour group that happened to be at that painting as I was walking by.

chicagojoe · 2 months ago

The Torlonia collection was recently in Chicago and had some truly stunning pieces. The Ostia relief was tucked away in a corner and I nearly missed it. The traveling exhibition is well worth seeing for anyone remotely interested in ancient history.

chicagojoe commented on Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever github.com/19-84/redd-arc... · Posted by u/19-84

19-84 · 2 months ago

there is nearly 10TB of youtube metadata available on archive.org https://archive.org/details/youtube-metadata

chicagojoe · 2 months ago

These show as unavailable/with lock icons for me. Is there some process to download locked content from IA?

chicagojoe commented on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does deadstack.net/recent... · Posted by u/dreadsword

chicagojoe · 5 months ago

This is great! Are you using a news API or pulling in RSS feeds yourself? Is there a list of what sources are included?

chicagojoe commented on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail" eff.org/pages/when-knowin... · Posted by u/01-_-

_-_-__-_-_- · 6 months ago

I lost my facebook account about five years ago--total outright account ban. No recourse at all. It happened to a group of about 10 people that had been administrators of a local non-profit's facebook page and who had managed groups for the organization in the past. Our non-profit was non-denominational and helped local teens with after school type programs. We never knew why our personal accounts were banned. Best we could figure was that we used a tagline in the past in some facebook comments and posts that later got co-opted and spread by a "white power" group in the USA. We were located in Canada.

At the time, some people recommended buying an Occulus device and calling their support because they were able to recover accounts and they had human support. We tried appealing to the company on social media, but we didn't have any luck.

I had to rebuild my social media profile and our organizations profiles and I lost 14 years of Messenger conversations, posts, and photos. These memories were just gone. It sucked. For the non-profit, it meant lost donations and lost connections for our alumni. Keep your own content off-platform.

chicagojoe · 6 months ago

Buying an Oculus actually did allow me to successfully restore my wife's Facebook after it was hacked, thanks to finding probably the same thread you're referencing.

The amount of emotional capital held in various platforms is terrifying when you consider how easy it is to be locked out.

I now regularly "takeout" all of our actively used platforms and store them on physical media.

chicagojoe commented on Wikipedia as a Graph wikigrapher.com/paths... · Posted by u/gidellav

chicagojoe · 6 months ago

Click stream data is also published by Wikipedia which would be useful to show the strength of each link between pages: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/readme.html

chicagojoe commented on Does MHz Still Matter? ubicloud.com/blog/does-mh... · Posted by u/furkansahin

chicagojoe · 7 months ago

Consumer grade CPUs aren't meant to be pushed with heavy load 24/7, meaning, durability becomes another variable which, in my experience, will quickly outweigh the brief burst of speed.

chicagojoe commented on Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk · Posted by u/Bisen

chicagojoe · 2 years ago

FWIW, clicking around, there are some odd display issues in the "References" (https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1486)

It looks like you're embedding data from Twitter - are you paying for decahose/enterprise access or just paying for a low volume of high value tweets (i.e. I'm seeing many from FalconFeedsio, DailyDarkWeb)

chicagojoe commented on Brave launches Search Ads in key markets after successful test phase brave.com/blog/brave-sear... · Posted by u/LorenDB

tialaramex · 2 years ago

Advertising is potentially useful, it's the scale that's a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g

Like, "Every inch of the new park is covered in sponsor branding" is a problem, but "I had no idea that a store selling towels opened in our town" is also a problem. These are both advertising, at some point you cross from "I didn't know about that, thanks" to "Just fuck off already" and that's too much advertising.

Dispepsi for example, the Negativland album, is premised on the idea that everybody on the entire planet already knows about Coca-Cola and Pepsi, so their continued advertising is entirely futile. Nobody who wants a brown fizzy beverage is unsure whether they could obtain such a thing or what it might be called. So all they're doing is annoying us.

chicagojoe · 2 years ago

The other purpose of the ad is to keep the product top of mind. Those bubbles-and-ice ads aren't to introduce you to the concept but to remind you that you want one - now.

chicagojoe commented on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luc... · Posted by u/luispa

cozzyd · 2 years ago

Just saw it in downtown Chicago (by the lake). Faint, but visible with naked eye. Easier to capture with my pixel 8 than with my (handheld) DSLR, even with a fast lens...kicking myself for not grabbing my tripod

chicagojoe · 2 years ago

Fellow Chicagoan here! I went down one of the piers and saw it as well. At first it looked like cirrus clouds but the colors emerged as my eyes acclimated. I thought it was my brain hallucinating the details it expected but my phone validated what I was seeing. Truly stunning even with just a 2sec exposure.