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by jjkaczor 1y ago
In some areas - like US wine and alcohol sales to Canada - and tourism, according to ongoing news reports it is apparently devastating - they are begging Canadians to buy their products again. In other areas - when the entire Canadian feder
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Historically in the US - yes. However, with the current "regime change", the targets of tracking are expanding exponentially to basically anyone who says or does anything the current leadership does not like. This has been warned
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
That's why I like dabbling in Arduino - it is a very limited environment, with fairly linear code-flow. It harkens back to those ancient times. ... occasionally dabble in Lazarus/FreePascal to also scratch that "mid-90'
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Yup... according to this tracker, "Project 2025" is 47% implemented: https://www.project2025.observer/en
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
So... basically like when Delve was first introduced and was improperly security trimming things it was suggesting and search results. ... Or ... a very long-time ago, when SharePoint search would display results and synopsis's for sea
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
I wanted to like OS/2 *Warp 3.x?)... However, it was the only operating system that I have ever used (before or since) that had some issues with it's provided disk drivers that ended-up deleting data and corrupting it's own
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
True - I mean, one could try and block based on file-extension/MIME-types, but... nothing stopping a malicious user from renaming a file to an allowed extension, with some sort of malicious/secret payload. (Or... spreading some s
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
... well, I live in Canada - my understanding is that the maximum lifetime fine for copyright infringement is about $5,000 when files are shared for personal, non-commercial use... Which sounds like alot, but if we factor in the extended fa
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
As others have said - it would be standalone, not connected to the internet. Have debated making it "read-only", but then I would be culpable for the curation of content... That and perhaps I just don't want to encourage peop
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Heh... I have one... have always wanted to make a little solar-powered "library" on my front-lawn... (You know, like the neighbourhood "take-a-book, leave-a-book" little libraries, except for... digital content... It wou
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Naw - the internet enables "long-tail" content - but I say this as a person who occasionally writes VERY long "blog-posts" that are technically KB/how-to, magazine article length... Yes, AI will scrape it and regurg
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Places are filled with people... 70 million of whom wanted this nonsense and another 90 million too apathetic to vote, so willing to accept whatever the incoming administration would be. Sure - America is a beautiful country, and people tha
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
So sad that the policies and actions implemented by the current "regime" can affect the views of people that are not living there, or perhaps you just haven't been paying attention to the news since February 2025...
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Then why are all the border states, towns and cities (and their elected representatives) begging Canadian tourists to come back, with endless advertisements, appeals to our historic friendship, temporarily re-naming streets ("Canada St
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Had the same thing happen when standalone GPS units were introduced to the mass market, I got one - and one of my tech friends suggested replacing the stock voice with a sarcastic/whiny one (maybe ... C3PO)... My response was: "yo
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Yes, I am finally making the move to USB-C - and love it (even though I am the only person in the house that has a phone with it...) Am extremely happy whenever a new device has it, and am making that a purchasing requirement from now on.
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
From my experience in Canada, tariffs are definitely having an impact on both returns auctions and bin stores... You can see the amount of "stock/items" available decrease month over month.
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
I have a mother-in-law who has 30-year old electronic gadgets she has no idea what they are for... Image-search turns up no results... (A few are in their original packaging - those are identifiable - but typically useless) Her box of rando
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
You are not the only one - I almost never return things, if they are unwanted and functional I give them to friends/family, or donate them. However - I have been a Costco member for 25+ years - today, for the first time ever, I returne
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
First it was returns auction sites, I am lucky enough to be in a local regional distribution hub, so for a few years there were amazing finds; $45 FDM 3d-printer that just needed to be levelled properly, a $65 resin 3d-printer (12k) - event
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Heh - I have been in many corporate and government environments where the desktop browsers are locked down via centralized policies, and not only is "View Source" disabled/removed, but so are the "Developer tools"..
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
And so has the amount of plastic in our biosystems and brains. And increased PFAS chemicals in various ecosystems. Soon with increased air overall environmental pollution in the US due to regulations being removed from various industries.
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-... Next
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Uh... there are new people every day... about 10,000 of them: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Definately remember it fondly - and Jeff Duntemann who continues to update and publish his definitive works on learning assembly - the latest edition/revision is: "x64 Assembly Language Step by Step" - https://www.
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Heh - I had something similar when I started at Microsoft - but from my wife (now ex), who was emailing "[myGivenFirstName]@microsoft.com" for some reason, thinking that I was the only person with that name at Microsoft (uh-huh) a
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
I have a stack of old harddrives in external enclosures - as I upgrade (non-failed) drives, I buy another enclosure and then do backups that way. So far, over 30-years, it has proven to be more reliable than burned media (I have even had t
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Well - at the very least it forced Microsoft to come up with their version, which is better than the previous binary formats and can be handled by open-source API's.
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by jjkaczor 1y ago
Home Depot has pretty cheap truck rentals if all you need is to take a load home in under an hour... $20 IIRC.

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