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PCBs made in America. Twice as fast as Shenzhen.
Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.
No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.
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“You are quite openly Jewish”
“If you choose to remain here you will be arrested for breaching the peace”
In Sadiq Kahn’s diverse & inclusive London - Police threaten you with arrest just for being Jewish in areas of the City people might take offence to that.
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Völlig irre. Ein der junge Engländer @YoungBobRB wird hier gerade von Polizei verhaftet und abgeführt, weil er das Wort "Paki" gesagt hat.
Das ist offembar ein schweres "Hassverbrechen".
Dabei hat er mit diesem Wort niemanden beschimpft, sondern darüber diskutiert, ob man dieses Wort sagen darf und es dabei ausgesprochen.
Das sind Szenen wie aus einer dystopischen Fantasie. Von wegen aufgeklärte Gesellschaft. Wir leben in einem antiweißen Sektenstaat voll von magischem Aberglauben.
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THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
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Muslim community leader brags that Alvin Tedjo's unexpected win in Mississauga can be credited to his statement against Islamophobia and the genocide in Gaza.
Takeaways are two-fold.
1. Our municipal elections are being hijacked by ethnic voting blocs to focus foreign issues that have nothing to do with local government.
2. This is the sort of impact an organized community can make in elections with only 17% of the electorate.
Imagine the impact Canadians can have if we just take our own side.
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Do nothing and DEFINITELY lose or actually try for a chance to save our country.
The choice is yours.
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Imagine you live in a condo
and the condo board was sending A LOT of reserve money to another condo building on the other side of town
to pay for Lesbian farming classes for the residents
This is what the Canadian Federal government does with your tax dollars. (in Africa)
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Watch as they all pig out on food meant for the homeless and needy.
Hindu culture rewards this behaviour as “Jugaad”.
This culture rewards stepping over people to get ahead, even if it’s the less fortunate.
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Five Indians living in the same house visit food bank and show off the massive amount of groceries they scammed.
Why are we importing people that scam the poorest of our neighbours?
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Watch this exchange regarding immigration coming in from the EU if this “Associate Membership” goes through.
Our immigration minister Lena Diab is sitting in the HOC but isn’t allowed to answer questions regarding immigration?
Instead we get some Pro EU trade propaganda from Sidhu and MacKinnon.
This should worry everyone. They are clearly keeping the truth from Canadians.
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"We stopped the last channel invasion in 1940"
Veteran with sign protesting against the invasion of the UK.
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Sexual offences are FAR higher for Afghans, evidence in the economist shows. We knew that, so let's ban all immigration into Britain from Afghanistan. The same for large parts of Africa, the Middle East and the rest of Asia. Don't manage that immigration, or restrict it, or control it.
End it.
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If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
xitter.cf/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
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Toronto police prep. Literally two Canadians in the entire group.
Very dark times ahead for Canada.
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Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
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It is one of the most incredible own goals I have ever seen in politics. You have to watch the clips to believe them.
It's the culmination of two months of debates between @BradMBradford and @oliviachow when last night, mayor Olivia Chow revealed something so vital about her own leadership.
She said:
"At some point, you need to take a stand. You have to say this is what I believe in. Yes or No. It is tough, but that's what leadership is about."
Here is what Olivia Chow believes in, apparently.