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> 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 is littered with towns like this. These executives and their buddies in Congress mortgaged our middle class for profits by sending all our industry to Asia.
It's called a network tap, or port mirroring.
Auto-update is configurable per extension, so you could shut it off.
I unpacked the XPIs and inspected the JavaScript source. Nothing suspicious (remote URLs, obfuscated code, etc) looking in there.
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 decided to prioritize quality. As a bonus I’m much less concerned about contributing to horrible labor conditions.
I personally put my heart and soul into ensuring that the things I make are exceptional. I’m not going to accept less from the products I rely on for long periods of my life. If I’m not going to need it for a long time I probably don’t need it.
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 with Ubuntu I get a massive list of processes, most of which I don't understand or recognize. I'm back to the Windows feeling that the OS is a transcendent black box, but now with no Microsoft Office, power management, and display (esp multi-monitor) bugs.
I love the idea of Linux but it seems like the less practical option.
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 and preoccupied with rising food and housing costs. The merits of digital privacy won’t fix any of this.
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).
Add to that Cookie Autodelete and uMatrix
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 anything to do with this.
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.
> 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 not agreeing with your worldview.
dang will be so disappointed he can’t shadow ban people that fail to conform to his far-left political agenda
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.
Why don’t they start with Hacker News, where you’re permanently silenced if you express a non-left political opinion.
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.
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 Topre’s caps lock light doesn’t work with OS X out of the box but Karabiner can fix that.
I would have been open to a mechanical keyboard if I didn’t work within earshot of other people, and found the quiet mechanical switches to be inferior to the topre.
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 as your bundle size increases. I keep a spare roll in my briefcase.
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.
Please let me know what to think dang.
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, there are half the number of necessary cars so you're crammed up against strangers. There's no way to tell when the trains are coming. 5 will get you 10 this tax does nothing to improve the subway.
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 application including the contact information for your last two landlords who have to say nice things about you even if they were crazy/bad
3. Annual income at 40-45x the monthly rent, as reflected in your last two tax returns (hope you were making more money than you actually need to be able to afford the rent 3 years ago!)
4. Letters of reference
5. Months of bank statements
6. Pay stubs
7. Tax transcripts
8. Perfect credit (or 6 months of deposit-- you have $15,000 in cash for this, right? Oh it's okay, do you have a guarantor who makes 100x the rent (hundreds of thousands of dollars) that wants to put their SSN on your rent payment? Oh no?)
Getting approved for a tiny 100 sq ft studio is the same process as getting approved for a 10 million dollar loan. Normal people have no chance. Don't have your financial life in perfect order? You're garbage that doesn't have a right to live somewhere.
> 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 mistake, who are we (or Google) to be the arbiters of truth?
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 results do not include both of these quoted strings. So Google went from discarding your search terms and requiring quotes, to even discarding your quoted terms. I had to fire up duckduckgo to complete my search, which is something I never use but I had no choice.
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.
eBay, PayPal, and Amazon are useless without JavaScript, just off the top of my head.
"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 multiple conversations I've had with Asian friends I don't think it's an offensive term.
Well it turns out Scott the HN mod ultraliberal from San Fransisco thought that was reason enough to shadowban me forever on HN. That's the game here -- agree with Silicon Valley/San Francisco liberal politics or be banned.
Like lobste.rs, way better than HN with the wacko-fascist mods on this website that force their political views on the users.
Reality appears to work in probabilities, and practically does, because the complexities of reality's mechanics are transcendent.