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It's almost as if acting solely in one's own self-interest is stupid.

I did this in Oregon earlier this year for legislation that sat at the intersection of tech and surveillance. I am currently a registered lobbyist as a consequence of those efforts…

Hiiiiii, developer who hates LLMs here. waves I think I've avoided all of the LLM debate thus far, but I figure that some of my actual positions probably ought to be represented in…

> A majority eligible of voters chose to re-elect the incumbent. I wish you could have seen the meme-able face I made when I read this. Putin is similarly popular in Russia, China'…

There's a glaring lie of omission when Singapore is cited as a "safe society" in a surveillance context without also mentioning that those same surveillance systems are used to agg…

Every time someone repeats this, they are telling a self-fulfilling story. I got a law passed -- a state law, about ALPRs, establishing a list of restrictions on them. I didn't do …

Salem, Oregon, assembled its own using OpenALPR and an on-prem server. There are plenty of reasonable criticisms of that approach too, but it's currently the farthest thing from Fl…

The earliest versions of MacOS, all the way up through 9, had a ROM call at 0xA9F4 which was labeled `_exitToShell`. In the days before pre-emptive multitasking, this instruction's…

I kind of want to be able to see a Flock (YC S17)-related thread on HN without feeling obligated to participate, but, alas. Just for background: I was one of the ringleaders of a c…

I am a Hetzner customer. I was in the middle of migrating infrastructure from DigitalOcean to Hetzner, most of all because DO's i/o on their droplets has been abysmal for a long ti…

You may also like Information Graphics : https://www.taschen.com/en/books/graphic-design/44653/inform...

I have no insight into this particular case/incident, but I do have to deal with a lot of http traffic management, and I've lately been seeing Cloudflare IPs show up a lot more oft…

I'm not anyone you would know, so this probably isn't worth a whole lot, but you're one of my favorite people (in the set of people I'm not personally familiar with). I really appr…

~jedberg is talking about a hypothetical law that would apply to ALPR data. In reply, you said "The information itself is evidence, used in active criminal investigations." ("The i…

The information is not in any way restricted to use in active criminal investigations, and further, has been found to frequently be used for a variety of other purposes. It's a bit…

Except that Flock very clearly benefits financially from having direct access to this data: owning (and in their own documentation, they very clearly do own it) a network of 80,000…

I wonder what happened to the person that wrote "Coding as Creative Expression" ( https://build.ms/2022/5/21/coding-as-creative-expression/ )? I'm not (just) being glib. That earli…

That's all true, but juggling connections based on key fingerprints would also require users to have different keys for different containers -- which is good practice, but I've fou…

Yeah, I ran into this problem too. I tried a few different hacky solutions and then settled on using port knocking to sort inbound ssh connections into their intended destinations.…

-12 is what was queued up for the vote up until 2:30 pm that afternoon: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Downloads/Prop... -14 materialized, Prozanski called for a vot…

We need more good people getting involved to be able to change the way this all works. And, in less than a year, we've developed a ton of political capital and we're still gaining …

We've got lots of local resources! I've been in the capitol about half of the last two weeks, my partner is there right now, we've been working closely with ACLU Oregon and Nationa…

I think at this point getting doxed is an inevitability. ;-) I worked most closely with Senator Floyd Prozanski. He's my local senator, and was in many ways an ideal fit for this. …

Here in Oregon, I very nearly managed to get some decent legislation drafted that would have required a number of strong data protections from ALPR vendors. Axon interfered heavily…

People are experiencing wildly different Americas depending on their circumstances and level of political involvement. If you're a tech worker and you still have a job and you thin…