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lesonaon Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

You can submit a public comment on the proposal to DHS at the link below:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/USCIS-2025-0205-0002/co...

They’re purple (blue is the other option) because veins are harder to see under purple light. They’re used to deter drug use, from my understanding.

Edit: final clause

lesonaon Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124

Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches - subheading "No large media elements" [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

lesonaon Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)

Would anyone have any recommendations for books/textbooks of this style and the comment's Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach, by professor Jerome Keisler on Algebra/PreCalc & Trig?

I've always wanted to learn math but my teachers could never explain it to me in a way that clicked and any textbook I've read couldn't either. These two above really seem to be in my wheelhouse.

lesonaon Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

git archive --format=tar HEAD

I like the idea that some of us will live long enough to not be defined by our jobs.

lesonaon Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network

Trying to get to an agent is practically impossible. I called recently to make an account change, but after I went through the automated system I got an "I'm sorry, we see there is an outage in your area. Please wait for the outage to be resolved and then call back."

Insane.

lesonaon Shelter Protocol: End-to-end encrypted, federated, user-friendly web apps

Off topic - is this webpage impossible to back-button out of without double-clicking? I really, really hate that.

lesonaon Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

Previously favorite? I'm looking for something to replace my current KB, and I was wondering what your current favorite is/why you like it better than Das keyboard.

lesonaon Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

In case anyone wants the original article the adafruit post is based on - [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/d...

lesonaon PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law

You might see a lot of that personally, but the Utah legislature has a dearth of "health bro influencer" types, especially in its Senate.

The chief sponsor of the bill went to BYU.[1] The co-sponsor of the bill went to BYU [2]

[1] https://senate.utah.gov/sen/WEILET/

[2] https://house.utleg.gov/rep/PULSIS/

Edit: spacing