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by jrcii 2y ago
> US manufacturing has pretty much been constantly Middle class manufacturing jobs have fallen off a cliff and completely destroyed huge swaths of our country. Take a tour around Bridgeport, CT sometime as a great example. The northeast
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by jrcii 6y ago
It's called a network tap, or port mirroring.
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by jrcii 7y ago
Auto-update is configurable per extension, so you could shut it off.
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by jrcii 7y ago
I unpacked the XPIs and inspected the JavaScript source. Nothing suspicious (remote URLs, obfuscated code, etc) looking in there.
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by jrcii 7y ago
I’ve recently decided to only buy products made in the USA, if at all possible. If that’s not available ideally Germany, France, or maybe Japan. I’ve noticed that products tend to originate in these countries because the manufacturer has de
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by jrcii 7y ago
I like OpenBSD. I issue a 'ps -ax' and can see a short list of processes which I understand the purpose of, I feel like I understand more or less how the OS works without being a systems/kernel programmer. When I do the same
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by jrcii 7y ago
There is no avenue to escape the rich from creating profit at the expense of the masses. Digital privacy serves neither the government nor the wealthy executives helming these corporations so it will never happen. The public is apathetic an
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by jrcii 7y ago
I wouldn’t touch their cameras with a 10-foot pole anyway because they don’t follow the ONVIF spec and so can’t inter operate with anything else (vendor lock in).
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by jrcii 7y ago
Add to that Cookie Autodelete and uMatrix
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by jrcii 7y ago
Why would there be a “discussion”? They knew their users didn’t want this anti-feature before they implemented it and they did it anyway. Then they add insult to injury by pretending to “discuss” it as if user consent or participation has a
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by jrcii 7y ago
Lego has an extremely low manufacturing tolerance which makes it very expensive to produce, but also is responsible for the quality you see. Most people wouldn’t assume such precision manufacturing goes into something that’s sold as a toy.
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by jrcii 7y ago
> it's not ok to use HN primarily for political, ideological, or national battle Funny since your priority on HN is to push your far-left social justice agenda, shadowbanning people who say anything that can be remotely construed as
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by jrcii 7y ago
dang will be so disappointed he can’t shadow ban people that fail to conform to his far-left political agenda
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by jrcii 7y ago
dang, the liberal groupthink thought policeman who silences anyone who doesn’t agree with his liberal social justice agenda. I can’t imagine a worse moderator.
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by jrcii 7y ago
Why don’t they start with Hacker News, where you’re permanently silenced if you express a non-left political opinion.
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by jrcii 7y ago
He checks every comment and submission to ensure no one is making a political statement against his leftist agenda that he disagrees with so he knows who needs to be silenced. Kind of like a digital Stalin, whom I’m sure he looks up to.
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by jrcii 7y ago
Topre Realforce. I have a 110 key at work and 10 keyless at home due to the smaller desk. For “real work” I use the keypad constantly, I never related to the argument that travel distance to the mouse was worth sacrificing the keypad. The T
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by jrcii 7y ago
A significant part of my life is cable management. Velcro brand cable ties are the way to go. Zip ties are banned from my networks. They don’t cut into the cables, you can add cables later, they’re very strong. You can chain them together a
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by jrcii 7y ago
Dang is a totalitarian liberal thought policeman. Hope you’re a San Francisco liberal or your opinions are banned. You’re free to express anything as long as you agree with his view of the world which, of course, must be the correct one. Pl
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by jrcii 7y ago
Ambient temperature in the Herald Square station (one of the biggest) in the summer is often well over 100 degrees, humid, and stagnant, while the platforms and tracks are filthy and smell like mold and pee everywhere. During rush times, th
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by jrcii 8y ago
You're screwed because of the application process. To get a place you need: 1. To have never had your name on a housing court case, even if it was found in your favor or you had a legitimate reason to be in housing court 2. A completed
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by jrcii 9y ago
> YouTube's algorithm recommended extremist/conspiracy content Would you agree that the algorithm recommended this content because people believe in, or at least are interested in, conspiracies? Even if we feel that's a mi
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by jrcii 9y ago
Yesterday I was trying to find organizations registered to the address 1011 1st Ave, which primarily belongs to the Archdiocese of New York. So I gave Google this query: "1011 1st ave" "new york" -archdiocese Many of the
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by jrcii 9y ago
Only liberals are allowed to work at Google, and only liberals are allowed to express their political opinions on HN. The liberal-tech crowd groupthink enforcement is real.
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by jrcii 9y ago
eBay, PayPal, and Amazon are useless without JavaScript, just off the top of my head.
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by jrcii 9y ago
"fall in line" is exactly what HN is about. Someone once quoted an old article that used the word "oriental" to describe Asian people, and someone on HN said that was highly offensive. I replied and said based on multipl
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by jrcii 9y ago
Like lobste.rs, way better than HN with the wacko-fascist mods on this website that force their political views on the users.
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by jrcii 9y ago
Reality appears to work in probabilities, and practically does, because the complexities of reality's mechanics are transcendent.
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by jrcii 9y ago
Why should you have to?
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by jrcii 10y ago
Obviously not, right?

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