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I had a couple including one USB one that I later modified to use to scan regular bar codes.

I pulled up Wikipedia to look up who created them, and apparently he changed his name after they failed. He was also on Curse of Oak Island searching for gold and was involved in ballot shenanigans in the 2020 US presidential election where he was notable for supposedly inventing a machine to find bamboo fibers on ballots.

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[–] JaymesRS@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I remember being a teenager in the 90’s and going in to see if I could special order a 75pf - 100pf Variable Capacitor. The guy behind the counter just said that he wasn’t going to help me because he knew I was just looking to make a cable descrambler to watch ppv porn. I mean, he wasn’t wrong, but it still hurt.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh no, someone is going to harmlessly watch porn. What a dick.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. It would be hard to tell when the video was scrambled right?

[–] JaymesRS@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Basically all of us in the 90’s watching scrambled porn.

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