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But stories like this, White woman with good paper work, and regular traveler to the USA (similar to myself), No criminal record, No apparent reason, no ability to call a lawyer, getting detained for weeks, is making me very nervous.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...

My company is considering starting our own local conference, outside the US, as an alternative. A expensive and distracting exercise that I would prefer not to have to do.

I am not worried about gun violence in the US at the moment.

I am worried about arbitrary detention without representation or recourse.

Comment · 2 years ago

As a exercise I created my own password manager in response to the license issues with BitWarden last week.

Its rough, but functional, an exercise not a real product, never expected to be a real product. https://github.com/funvill/FancyGorillaPasswordManager

The tech is easy. Website, Browser extension, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, MacOS apps done in less then a day.

Gaining trust is hard, who is going to trust a random guy on the internet.

Comment · 3 years ago

I been using 'Advanced Rest Client' (ARC) https://install.advancedrestclient.com/

No accounts required, offline, open source, A little bloated using electron but its multiplatform and a desktop client.

Comment · 4 years ago

Dell shipped a monitor to my billing address (office) instead of the shipping address (home). Because of COVID there was no one at my office but it was picked up by "GUARD". Never found the monitor.

DELL wanted me to do an insurance claim with the shipper. The shipper wanted me to do the insurance claim with DELL. Took two months to figure out. In the meantime, I just went to a brick-and-mortar place and bought a monitor.

In the end DELL credited me the money for the missing monitor and would not provide a cash refund. I ended up selling the DELL credits to the next person who had an equally horrible experience with them.

Don't buy DELL

Comment · 4 years ago

This reminded me of usesthis.com too

Comment · 7 years ago

A union at one of the bigger tech startups is bound to happen sooner or later. As much as the management wants to keep it from happening.

Comment · 7 years ago

Travel advertises for Saudi Arabia https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/saudi-arabia

I think I will pass

Comment · 7 years ago

People are allowed to have their own communities. If a persons comments, only to get a enrage and entice a negative response then they are a troll. They should be shown the door https://xkcd.com/1357/

Comment · 7 years ago

be careful POE can be anything up to 48 volts. Unless you control the input voltage. I suggest using a DC-DC converter with a larger input voltage.

Comment · 9 years ago

check out https://hckrnews.com/ the "top 10", "top 20", "top 50%" links are great features for me.

Comment · 14 years ago

A hackerspace is a place where people hack on things including space, Origami, microprocessors, 3d printers, ect...

Here is a video of the space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgVxIblE_LU