I have NoScript by default set to no run. Some sites work better without it.
NoScript also allows you to select which scripts you want to allow. It's not all or none. You can also view the source before you decide to let it run.
Readit Newsmemcg commented on Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy andrewmarder.net/firefox/... · Posted by u/amarder
I fill 5 gal bottles at a water store. Some of the 12 bottles I use are 30 years old. My kids and their friends grew up drinking from a water cooler at our house instead of sodas or juice.
When I started buying in 1993, my treated municipal water sourced from the Potomac river had a chlorine taste that seemed more noticeable in the winter. I now use unfiltered tap for coffee, tea and cooking, and barely notice any chlorine taste.
memcg commented on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach? · Posted by u/akktor
Gold recovery from scrap circuit boards and electroplating solution. I worked in a PCB shop until 1998 and have a small collection of scrap that I would like to process.
memcg commented on Building an AI server on a budget informationga.in/blog/bui... · Posted by u/mful
Eh, yeah - the article starts off pretty specific but then gets into the weeds of stuff like how to put your PC together, which is far from novel information and certainly not on-topic in my opinion.
I sent the article link to my son because he does not have experience building or assembling hardware or installing or using Linux. Also took the author's ChatGPT prompt and changed it to ask about reusing two HPE ML150 Gen9 servers I picked up free. I think my son will benefit from the details in the article that many find off-topic.
memcg commented on Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out sfstandard.com/2025/05/20... · Posted by u/nradov
It would be nice if the President signed an executive order that tariffs companies 1000% for off shoring tech work.
These folks are stealing our jerbs.
"As Trump pursues mass deportation, his businesses again seek foreign workers"
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...
(OP here) Let me know if folks have questions!
Well, I made the mistake of giving you an email address, but bailed when you you wanted more PII just to find out where a lab was in Maryland. Since then I have received 5 emails in my Yahoo spam folder. The "Unsubscribe - Unsubscribe Preferences" links in the emails don't function. I replied with unsubscribe in the subject line, but still get what is now clearly spam.
She just needs a microcell/femtocell.
Talk to your provider, explain to them you get poor service at your home or place of work, and they'll send you a free Internet-in cellular-out radio AP. She doesn't need a tower-based booster if she's got fiber/cable/DSL, those only serve to amplify weak signals and she's too many miles and too many mountain ridges away from the nearest tower, she wants something with RJ-45 input, a little GPS antenna so the cell supports e911 location data, and it will broadcast LTE (or now 5g) cellular data.
I work at a shop with metal walls located in a river valley. It's a cellular data black hole. People used to climb the hill up the driveway to make and take calls, but various people called their ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile providers and all three shipped us femtocells. Mow the users and the contractors/customers who come to visit can't even tell that their phones have switched to data over our ISP instead of a tower, it just works - including 2FA codes and MVNOs.
She may have to switch to first-party Verizon service instead of using an MVNO.
I have a 4G LTE Network Extender provided free by Verizon. My only issue is calls drop as I leave my property.
I called 911 in January and gave my address before the call dropped as I moved my car from my driveway to the street. The 911 operator called me back once I was back in range.
A few months later Verizon asked me to edit the location data with my address. Hopefully, I won't need to test anytime soon.
memcg commented on How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school newyorker.com/books/page-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
We teach old books because no one would ever agree on what new books to teach.
This is what teachers told me when my sons were in high school 2004-2010. Any mention of drug use, sex or race would result in complaints from a few parents.
Can I get a straw poll on people who still use a dedicated alarm clock?
I was born 1990±2, but I have always been an old soul. I've been waking up to BBC Radio 4 since I was a teenager.
My current one used to belong to my dad, it's a Sony dream machine with FM/AM, circa 2002.
My wife uses a Radio Shack alarm clock that looks nearly identical to the one in this post. It broke recently and I fixed it by removing about 3 inches of the power cord where it attaches to the transformer.
Per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57528450/adb-connection-... newer Samsungs (after 2015 per https://news.samsung.com/us/six-advantages-of-tizen-os-on-sa...) run Tizen https://www.tizen.org/