Eric Duncan 🔵
@eduncan911.com
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Father, AI, IT, CyberSec, 3DP, IoT, RC, HomeLab, CAD, PCB, #RightToRepair everything. Maker & guru of all things geek. DMs open.
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When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD
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Block list for Trump regime government accounts
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I cannot fathom a single good reason why Meta is building, allowing, and even attempting to empower parents for such a thing.

The only reason has to be future robot training for faux live (sex) companions.

#nefarious

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I was pleasantly surprised an update from my favorite code editor @neovim.io was in my Discovery feed today.
#neovim Development News

The 0.12 version will add support for `textDocument/linkedEditingRange` request. This will allow LSP server to update related regions when one has changed (like HTML closing tag when editing an opening one).

PR:
- github.com/neovim/neovi...
feat(lsp): support linked editing ranges by ribru17 · Pull Request #34388 · neovim/neovim
See https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#textDocument_linkedEditingRange. Maybe some LSP experts can help point me in the right direction with...
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For this year's #RightToRepair #InternationalRepairDay, we have a number of items:
- Surface3 LTE battery replacement.
- Pixel 8a cracked screen.
- Circa-2008 120Hz gaming monitor that no longer turns on.
- Hack a Toyota ECU to ignore bad tire pressure sensors to stop the constant alerts.
Remember: Most Nazis fled to Argentina when their fascism ended.
MAGA: Make Argentina Great Again
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It’s a propaganda technique used to create an atmosphere in which people cannot tell what is reality or truth by constantly distorting the truth and outright making shit up.
Give credit to a Linux channel to explain everything about extending Windows 10, the LastVersionOfWindowsEver™.

- $30, then $60, then $120 in year 3 (donate to Linux instead!!)
- Win10 malware is growing
- Stressing the telemetry
- Office apps
- VM for Win10

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oox...
Windows 10 is done, and this is a bad thing for everyone (not just Windows users)
YouTube video by The Linux Experiment
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I hate to burst your bubble, but...
As en embedded engineer, I've built my fair share of ARM and x86 bootloaders and kernels, even BSDi cross compiled SMP kernels in the 90s.

I haven't personally researched LFS, mainly as I'm an 8yr veteran of Arch Linux and have done plenty of "built from scratch" Arch installs. But will look now!
Install Mint on USB stick 1.
Install Manjaro KDE on USB stick 2.
Install Kali on USB stick 3.

Take a breath... Cancel your entire week, and then install ArchLinux, The Arch Way, on USB stick 4. Now you know how to fix all of the above.
And my parents were well into their 70s when I switched them to Linux well over a decade ago. You're point?

Linux these days, such as Mint, have such a polished OOB experience now.
Also remember the #ActivisionBlizzard Microsoft merger a while back, and under Biden FTC scrutiny, M$ pledged to not raise Xbox game/live prices due to this monopoly?

h/t www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuOM...
Xbox: Your subscription price is changing from $19.99 to $29.99

me: no the fuck it isn't.
Been trying to tell people this back during his first term as he was overwhelming blocked by the courts and officials w/o #Project2025.

But now, my friends and family on the red side is brushing it off as no big deal.

"I think the Constitution should be changed", is one line I've been given.
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
There has also been a few .NET CLR and Java JVM malware injectors for compilations.

And then you have the 1000s of DLL hijacking exploits, using the old DLL reflection techniques - to where you don't need to compromise the compiler: just piggy back on what it outputs.
While humorous, there is something disturbing here as this feels nothing like how Bob would write code.

It's not art or beauty to admire.
Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life
I've struggled w/this concept since the 1990s developing phpBB (attachments), as well as blog software in early 00s.

The root of the issue is where to store the binary, that isn't under the control of a large corporation.

This is what #SelfHosting answers with #Cloudflare hiding your IP.
I think independent, RSS feed-driven, podcasting is more important today than it has ever been and I'm not so sure the push for everything to be video only on a handful oligarch-led platforms is the right play.

It's significantly more difficult to deplatform content that isn't platform dependent.
DIY replacing brake calipers are still a PITA.
Feel free to ask questions. :)
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Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
My family has been proud to be part of that Linux gaming percentage over the years.

Even as one child ages out of my tech decisions, they continue to pick Linux over Apple devices. Success!
I don't know how to tell people Linux is an option, that 1% increase in Steam user stats since a year ago is a LOT of people, consistently higher than macOS now too
One problem is, DDR4 UDIMM ECC had more than doubled in the last few years in the gray market.