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diff --git a/website/src/content/blog/2024/01/29/euhwc_toast_to_the_lasses_2024.md b/website/src/content/blog/2024/01/29/euhwc_toast_to_the_lasses_2024.md
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@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ She uses what her Maker has endowed her<br>
 with: her recorder skills are off the charts;<br>
 youse think I’m joking, but I wouldn’t doubt her!<br>
 This lass of the land of the Rot-Gold-Schwarz<br>
-will soon depart, though long we might beseech ya<br>
+will soon depart, though long we might beseech you<br>
 to stay. Of course, you’ll break all of our hearts,<br>
 but mine most of all. Any time, Felicia,<br>
 Creag Meagaidh calls, I know routes up the rear<br>
diff --git a/website/src/content/blog/2024/10/tracking_pixels.md b/website/src/content/blog/2024/10/tracking_pixels.md
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+---
+title: Tracking pixels
+description: Concerning a notice in the privacy policy of an HR app
+pubDate: 2024-04-10
+---
+
+I recently made the mistake of reading the privacy policy of the HR app my
+employer uses. Take this choice excerpt:
+
+> **Tracking Pixels**
+>
+> We may place tracking pixels in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). These
+> pixels are used for analytics purposes, including to track statistical
+> information around when an email sent to you is opened.
+
+Translation:
+
+> We reserve the right to know whether you have read our emails, how long you
+> spent reading them, at what time and in what physical location you read them,
+> and any other information we can get our hands on. We reserve the right to do
+> this as soon as you open an email, without asking for your permission first,
+> and ask for your forgiveness later. That is, if you ever find out: which you
+> won't, because we also reserve the right to hide this information in a Privacy
+> Policy which we know you won't read, and we design our data-harvesting monster
+> to be completely undetectable to anyone except determined experts, on purpose.
+> We reserve the right to leave this data lying unused in a data warehouse where
+> someone might steal it, and we also reserve the right to use it, if we can
+> think of something satisfactorily dastardly to do with it. On the bright side,
+> we probably won't, so having your data leaked to hackers and fraudsters is
+> probably the worst you have to worry about. Unless we sell your data to
+> advertisers, or a ~black hole of stolen data~ Large Language Model. Oh yeah,
+> we probably reserve the right to do that, too. We doubt anyone will ever check.