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I'd accept that challenge, but I can't now because it's been edited out. For what it's worth, I remember somewhat agreeing with it.

> The "hacker spirit" doesn't require being a Luddite Just to be pedantic, the Luddites weren't anti-technology, they were fighting against a means of production that they could ne…

Or just forego the pin and put a countersunk machine screw, washer, and nylock nut in it's place.

Well... Wikipedia has content that some would consider offensive or unsuitable for children. I'm not in favor of limiting any access to Wikipedia, but I'd consider it a certainty t…

I consider such rights to be my natural rights, regardless of statute. This is a product of my personal ethics and philosophy. In that sense, it is a right that I have. Whether I c…

A decade ago I used to joke that Google should have it's own dating app. "NOTIFICATION: See that person at the other end of the bar? They share the same interests as you and like t…

It's just a different game. A web site is much easier to instrument than a physical place. Say I go to a bar, I show my ID to the bouncer. My identity isn't recorded (unless they s…

Ah, the plea for sanity dollar! Huge Market! Sadly, he was never able to rid the world of all these fevered egos tainting our collective unconscious and making us pay a higher psyc…

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If somebody calls you like this, immediately ask them for their name and supervisor in the calmest, most business-like tone you can muster. A good tactic is to tell them you can't …

Observing and recording law enforcement is generally not illegal, however threatening it might feel to them. It's unfair to compare that to an event where protesters broke into a g…

Or they could make a zip gun with materials purchased from any hardware store, right down to the necessary ingredients for making black powder. In fact, if you make a muzzle-loadin…

Luckily the California bill seems to only apply to additive manufacturing processes. It's both sad and amusing to think of the thousands of legacy machines that will become legally…

A good friend of mine is a ferrier, or as he likes to say, "equine podiatrist". There's actually quite a lot to it. They are responsible for shaping the hoof and shoe in a way that…

Jones lost in a civil suit. If you lie about somebody repeatedly and cause them harm you can be held accountable. It's called defamation. That is not the same thing as government a…

That rot was the direct result of the ad economy that made Google all of its money. Now maybe if they hadn't done it then somebody else would have, but they did do it, and poisoned…

I learned from a BSides presentation that Ukranian military are using Starlink trancievers placed in pits to beat ground-based signal detection. Do with that what you will.

I've had issues with this same chipset family for years running FreeBSD on some Hetzner hardware. Helps to turn off jumbo frames and checksum offloading. The actual OEM "open sourc…

My impression of FreeCAD as a project is that for much if its life it has suffered from a certain amount of developer churn and lack of focus. It's like somebody builds a workbench…

We did as well for about 20 years. It is a very solid program and does everything it promises. Unfortunately it lacks modern features, and development is sparse to say the least, s…

> Electromagnets dont work for DC, so your breaker will never trip. If electromagnets don't work for DC then what am I supposed to do with this pile of DC solenoids and relays? ;) …

The database for configuration and zone data is strictly internal and not tied to an external relational database, like what's shown in the article.

He was gifted an arch flash suit by the guys from Lightening on Demand :D