jrcii

> US manufacturing has pretty much been constantly

Middle class manufacturing jobs have fallen off a cliff and completely destroyed huge swaths of our country. Take a tour around Bridgeport, CT sometime as a great example. The northeast is littered with towns like this. These executives and their buddies in Congress mortgaged our middle class for profits by sending all our industry to Asia.

It's called a network tap, or port mirroring.

Auto-update is configurable per extension, so you could shut it off.

I unpacked the XPIs and inspected the JavaScript source. Nothing suspicious (remote URLs, obfuscated code, etc) looking in there.

I’ve recently decided to only buy products made in the USA, if at all possible. If that’s not available ideally Germany, France, or maybe Japan.

I’ve noticed that products tend to originate in these countries because the manufacturer has decided to prioritize quality. As a bonus I’m much less concerned about contributing to horrible labor conditions.

I personally put my heart and soul into ensuring that the things I make are exceptional. I’m not going to accept less from the products I rely on for long periods of my life. If I’m not going to need it for a long time I probably don’t need it.

I like OpenBSD. I issue a 'ps -ax' and can see a short list of processes which I understand the purpose of, I feel like I understand more or less how the OS works without being a systems/kernel programmer.

When I do the same with Ubuntu I get a massive list of processes, most of which I don't understand or recognize. I'm back to the Windows feeling that the OS is a transcendent black box, but now with no Microsoft Office, power management, and display (esp multi-monitor) bugs.

I love the idea of Linux but it seems like the less practical option.

There is no avenue to escape the rich from creating profit at the expense of the masses. Digital privacy serves neither the government nor the wealthy executives helming these corporations so it will never happen. The public is apathetic and preoccupied with rising food and housing costs. The merits of digital privacy won’t fix any of this.

I wouldn’t touch their cameras with a 10-foot pole anyway because they don’t follow the ONVIF spec and so can’t inter operate with anything else (vendor lock in).