taborj

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by taborj 6y ago
But time and again we've seen violent crimes rise after enacting gun control, most recently in New Zealand[0] (this particular report focuses on gun crimes, which are on the rise after gun control has been enacted, but it's by n
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by taborj 6y ago
I'm sorry, this is like pulling a single line out of a book and using it to bolster a specific argument. In other words, there's loads of context that's missing. Your video has less than 10 seconds of context. What happene
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by taborj 6y ago
Likely, but it could also be someone who wanted to express their honest opinion without "ruining" their normal account. I didn't get to see the comment, so I can't really offer any commentary on it beyond that.
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by taborj 6y ago
Sort of like how my brother built a pool in his dorm room out of plywood and tarps. On the second floor. Maintenance was not amused.
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by taborj 6y ago
My day job is building healthcare interfaces. I've done more than my share of immunization registry interfaces, where we connect a clinic up to the state registry. If I've learned anything working with state governments, it'
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by taborj 6y ago
> Oregon has been voting by mail for almost 20 years. But here is what people seem to gloss over -- Yes, Oregon has been voting by mail for almost 40 years in fact. But it wasn't just done overnight. In fact, the process start
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by taborj 6y ago
Solution: add chickens. They'll periodically jump up onto the arm of your chair to see what you're doing, thus startling you awake from your nap and reminding you to do some work before you doze off again. In all seriousness, in
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by taborj 6y ago
I use DNS hijacking to redirect known adhosts to a black hole (basically a pi-hole, but done on OpenBSD with Unbound). You think disabling two ad-blockers is a chore, wait until you have to SSH into another box, tweak a .conf file, and rel
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by taborj 6y ago
...assuming that they knew they were looted. You could make a case that, yes of course these items were looted, and they turned a blind eye to that. But you could also make a case that they trusted a 3rd party to validate the artifacts.
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by taborj 6y ago
> but Frontier is another firm (others include FairPoint and Hawaiian Telcom) that tried to find a business in Verizon's trash bin Can confirm; now our ISP/telco is Ziply Fiber, whoever they are.
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by taborj 6y ago
Honestly, it's hard to articulate or even pinpoint one thing. I like the layout and options of FreshRSS, and a few little things; for example, I use categories, and when I hit 'mark as read' on a category in tt-rss, it would
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by taborj 6y ago
I used tt-rss for a long time, but about 6 months ago I moved over to FreshRSS. But either way, self-hosted RSS is the way to go. Nobody can take it away from you...
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by taborj 6y ago
Yeah, I can't decide if that was a "this is convenient" or "I'm getting paid to hock this service." Either way, there are other ways to get RSS feeds; I run my own FreshRSS server, but there are apps for your
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by taborj 6y ago
Building a list of RSS feeds takes time. I find that when I stumble across a new site (regardless of how I got there), I poke around to see if the content is interesting. If so, I seek out an RSS feed for it. Note there are ways to get an
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by taborj 6y ago
When one of my employers closed our site and merged operations with our Chicago office at the end of 2001, we were left with surplus equipment. Nobody wanted about 4 giant quad-PPro servers, so I took them. I never did anything with them
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by taborj 6y ago
Even simpler (though not necessarily a great interface, but it's sort of a Hayes AT command set) is the TCP232-T2, which can be had for about $10 off of eBay. I wrote up my experiences with it on my VIC-20[0] [0] http://obs
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by taborj 6y ago
Timing, for one thing. For example, we have two sites in India; one of them works on Eastern time, the other on Indian time. The one that works Eastern time is a lot easier to deal with, as they are active when the rest of the US-based co
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by taborj 6y ago
I need to get my NodeMCU weather station back online so I can feed it to my .plan file and run fingerd again. Back in the 90s, it was good fun seeing all the stuff people put out on finger. Aside from the link someone else posted to Shodan
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by taborj 6y ago
Where I live, the school district sent equipment home for kids to use if they didn't have anything else. They fully expect to not receive a certain percentage back.
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by taborj 6y ago
I'm not sure how much I agree with this. On the one hand, yes, you'll have fewer arrests on drug charges, but you'll still have (or maybe have more of) crimes related to drug use, such as theft and assault. Addicts lookin
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by taborj 6y ago
I've been doing :wq for so long that my fingers have already done it before I realize I should have done :x
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by taborj 6y ago
Well, seeing as how the second amendment says "shall not be infringed", it could be argued that any law restricting arms ownership is in violation. In fact, you'll find many folks with that opinion.
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by taborj 6y ago
I will never be fine with this kind of surveillance, in part because it can never be accurate about intentions. Here, watch this, it's a good talk about why voluntarily providing information will generally backfire on you: https:&#x
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by taborj 6y ago
I disagree with your first part (gun rights advocates live everywhere, even if they're not as vocal), but I do agree with your second part (you reap what you sow). This is an effect of slowly giving up rights over the years.
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by taborj 6y ago
Baltimore has always had a crime crisis. COVID19 is a convenient excuse to enact some draconian "orders" that overstep the normal bounds of authority. I'm sure they believe it will reduce crime, and it probably will. But
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by taborj 6y ago
If you're a single-issue voter, and your single-issue is climate change, then you're probably right. But if there are other things you care about even a little, then blindly voting for one party or the other is stupid. Whenever vo
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by taborj 6y ago
> Taking the most extreme predictions and then pulling them from headlines that misrepresent them By the way, you've accurately described what the mainstream media does with climate change (and many other topics). Also, those are
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by taborj 6y ago
[citation needed] Not trying to be snarky, but I see claims like this all the time (and not just about climate change), and nobody seems to provide a reputable source for said claims. Cite your source, just like you were in school.
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by taborj 6y ago
Very interesting. Do you have a link so I can learn more?
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by taborj 6y ago
Oh, that's good to know.

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