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They aren't just tracking license plates though. They're tracking people - let me explain. Their 'ALPR' cameras (purposefully misleading to call them ALPR btw) capture the footage and send it off to their servers where it's retained - building a long-term historical location history on every vehicle. Advanced analysis is performed on the data to provide features to their customers such as the ability to search for vehicles based on a description of its characteristics (no plate needed), real-time route prediction, location heatmaps, and identifying vehicles that travel together (convoy search). Here's the important part - data is also ingested into another service they run called 'Nova', which is essentially a people search tool that connects the vehicles they capture directly to people and their PII. Access to their platforms (Flock OS, Nova, etc.) is sold via a subscription to law enforcement where they can perform searches for individuals or vehicle whereabouts for any reason, without a warrant, and practically no oversight or regulations.

When you said "It's a fairly well established geopolitical principle." I assumed you were talking about the legal aspect. That's why I responded the way I did.

Now I understand you're talking about not about the legality, but the practicality. That's even easier to refute I think: if a world power wanted to annex that part of Alaska, the ~4000 current residents of Nome wouldn't be much of a deterrent, even with their hunting rifles.


I think it probably has more to do with Mac's lack of adoption by the US Government and large corporations.

Microsoft took accessibility of Windows and apps as a basic requirement. The fact that Windows is the daily driver desktop for the staff of the regulatory agencies that would bring complaints would not have gone unnoticed.

But really, why wouldn't you? You almost get it for free if you use the standard widgets, and smooth keyboard navigation is far faster for experienced users than having to repeatedly move one's hand between keyboard and mouse.


I've had exactly zero issues hosting Forgejo. GitHub is only going to get worse.

I love the effort to help modernize go code! I feel like it might have been better if they leveraged the Analyzer framework to get this stuff into `go vet` and `go fix`, which would be infinitely easier for LLMs and developers alike to use.

You do understand that corporations aren't the only entities who produce content and file copyright claims, right? Independent artists, authors, developers, etc. all need to be able to file claims too, and they're already much more vulnerable. I hate the current copyright regime as much as anyone, but the solution can't be one that makes it even less useful for independent creatives and even more abusable by corporations.

Compute In Memory has been most of what electronics research (more accurately, the parts I am interacting with) talking about this year. There are a few trends and I am curious to see which ones survive in the market. RAM designers are hot in the market and job openings at the moment.

I'm debating the tradeoff for secret management in my app as well. Storing it is easy you just need encryption and it's mostly good. But delivering it is tricky. Delivery via env is simple for sure but can get leaked. The other route would be a job scoped signature, but this doesnt stop the job from printing the secret out, it only shrinks the blast radius.

But if you delete the secret after the job is done or deployment is up, it's pretty much the same result


i.e. create a personal bubble to avoid be confronted with alternative points of view. We’ve seen how well that has been working out.

I’m pretty sure they actually can actually. On an iPhone with a default configuration, I’d wager it’s probably even easier on the web than it is in an app.

Ok, I had a chance to look into it. A previous version of the website only checked for recalls for vehicles that had an email alert setup. I'm currently working on importing the backlog of all recalls. Thank you again!

Are SF, and LA not built on fault lines? Is Tokyo not built in the middle of them? Is Omaha not right in the middle fo tornado valley? Why do people settle in Florida when it gets hit by tornados. Everywhere has a inherit risk with it, maybe they like it there or are from there. Victim blaming them isnt helpful

Sorry, I was too busy flagging and killing your posts. A total of 4 in just a few minutes! A new record for me. So satisfying watching your posts immediately going grey after clicking 'flag'.

But seriously, anyone who has actually studied American history at a high school level knows you're posting nonsense, and that you're just a garden variety anti-immigration zealot. Your posts give you away.

Anyway, the burden of proof isn't on me. Your claim requires your evidence.


Per TFA less than one truck load of imported chicken is being recalled across 5 states that are small enough one delivery driver probably hits three of them in a single route because the importer got caught falsifying their paperwork.

Your comment and all the speculative piling on it spawned look kinda silly in light of this context.


Interesting -- I stand at least in part corrected. It _is_ the case that there's regulations intended specifically to address this. It seems they're not 100% effective, though.

What gets me about your linked cases is that, with one exception, they're all to foods that you'd consume without further preparation or cooking. Not sure what to make of that--but it's not what you'd expect for a salmonella source.


Sorry, you are still arguing against things I never said or that you desperately want to misinterpret in a disingenuous way. If I was actually wrong about anything I said, all you had to do was write down the explicit metric and point out exactly where it disagrees with what I said. But if you did, you would immediately see that your argumentation falls apart.

> Democracy is about access

No, not really. I know what you are trying to say, and I fully agree. We need to stop using "democracy" or "democratizing".

Democracy, in it's purest form, is about mob rule --majority rule, if you want to say it in a softer/kinder way. "Democratizing" means giving a mob control of the thing, it does not mean making it accessible to all at all.


Ah. Especially once you're doing an AI model that makes plenty of sense.

For non-AI, non-AAA gaming needs, I was able to get an RX560 GPU module[1] for my EliteDesk, which I use for Minecraft (It is mutually exclusive with its 2.5" HDD/SSD bay, but I just have an nvme drive in that).

[1] this part: https://www.ebay.com/p/13066999150?iid=277828413614


Signal will allow traffic analysis. You send the message to signal, if they wish they can write down to whom they send it on.

It is impossible to make a secure system without the continuous transmission of dummy messages to large numbers of users.


I use various bookmarklets to address this issue. The javascript is easy enough that you can modify it even if you're not a programmer. For example see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43488943

I agree with banning them, but it's not really a paywall, it's an account wall, isn't it?

I'm not sure where the (2025) in the title comes from, but this has been around much longer than that.

Those screenshots are hideous. What's with the kerning in the headings?

The brits briefly reanimated a court after 2 centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Chivalry#Jurisdi...


Growing up in India, this was a huge issue back then. Sand miners were sort of like your alcohol runners. Big mob operations with connections into a bent police force at a high level.

One of those things which needs a strong state to protect the commons. Weak state power is easily outmatched by individual agents of the state conspiring with the mob.


> For things that were intended good, but ended up bad, there's an English idiom:

Better is the enemy of good.

Old Italian proverb: "il meglio è nemico del bene"

Shakespeare, King Lear: "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well".


I can't think of any software engineers I personally know who use Mac. In my industry, pretty much anyone who uses Mac is in a managerial position.

Thats overdone - almost burnt. Felt "done" after about a year / 9 or 10 patches.

This is so incredibly naive. You're basically saying no consumer laws should exist at all. Any commercial activity is fine no matter how underhanded.

This article makes me feel guilty of my growing backlog of books. Will read through some of them this weekend.

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