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by fitblipper 5d ago
Since those 1s and 0s became heavy enough to cause a global shortage of memory and GPUs.
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by fitblipper 14d ago
>even worse, your phone that you carry around in public Sorry to attach on to such a small part of your comment. Why do you think having it attached to your phone is worse? In my understanding phones are WAY more secure than any run of
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by fitblipper 19d ago
Contributing to Open Street Map has given me a ton of satisfaction. Knowing that my somewhat minor efforts to correct one address, add one feature, correct one trail will propagate to so many different places and help other people not get
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by fitblipper 1mo ago
I've always loved the ridiculousness of the "going dark" label when law enforcement can't access encrypted chats or a back door isn't built into a piece of software. When there are security cameras on the vast majo
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by fitblipper 1mo ago
With fewer and fewer interesting things getting added from one generation to the next, freedom, security, and privacy have become my main selling point when deciding on a phone. 7 years of updates, strong hardware enforced security and the
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by fitblipper 1mo ago
Stop manipulating our markets under the guize of national security or protecting Americans. If we need to be protected from bad behavior we need to be protected by all bad behavior regardless of it's origin. Has back doors? Ban it. Has
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by fitblipper 2mo ago
They should have never been deployed to begin with. How expensive are drones? Way less expensive than a police officer. They can be deployed at scale. You can imagine a world where every move everyone makes is tracked. If you don't thi
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by fitblipper 4mo ago
I have fairly simplistic view of the economics involved here. Could you explain why the ability to sell more chips wouldn't be sufficient enough incentive to increase supply?
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by fitblipper 4mo ago
Might be nitpicking, but USC 1983 does not prevent anything, it is an attempt at restitution after the fact, and even then, when qualified immunity in play the efficacy of even that is questionable. What does it cost a police force to abuse
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by fitblipper 4mo ago
Just this morning I listened to an EFF podcast episode (Effector) about how license plate readers tend to suffer from mission creep. They might be deployed for one of the "reasonable" purposes you list but when the tool is availa
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by fitblipper 5mo ago
I don't think "could" is doing a lot of work here at all. It seems logical that if cases where the misuse of flock systems were discovered only when the same officers misbehaved in other, more visible situations then there ar
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by fitblipper 8mo ago
That is far down the list of reasons someone might want to know who is performing actions against them with the backing of the federal government. Much higher on the list would be accountability if they do something wrong or to reference th
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by fitblipper 11mo ago
Pardons only enable presidents to direct their goons to operate outside of the rule of law without repercussions.Having one individual with strong incentives to enable their team stay in power as much as possible retain the power is shockin
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by fitblipper 1y ago
This could fit in well with the Pixel's upcoming desktop mode or Samsung DeX. Hopefully Google keeps developing desktop mode to make it more usable.
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by fitblipper 1y ago
This is the tired excuses: If you've got nothing to hide then you shouldn't want privacy And If you already lack privacy in some places you should just give up on having any. The first is stupid. If there exists capacity to keep t
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by fitblipper 1y ago
It seems like a centralized authority for DNS that must answer to some government is prone to censorship. Would moving domain registration into a public Blockchain allow for a more resilient and democratized internet?
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by fitblipper 1y ago
Organic Maps is great and I'm hoping the transition to Forgejo goes smoothly for the project. I've recently started hiking and just generally going outside in my community more. When I relied on Google Maps I would get some random
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by fitblipper 2y ago
Have you ever experienced prison yourself or through someone close? Prisons don't put people on a level playing field at all. It is significantly more comfortable to be rich in prison than poor in prison.
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by fitblipper 2y ago
Why do you feel that info is relevant? If my driver's license expired yesterday and then I get pulled over while I'm driving to the DMV today to get it renewed, should I not get a citation? Just because they had permission before
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by fitblipper 2y ago
With kids involved many of the rights you normally have are removed. Police and DCS can use your silence (or a pile of dirty laundry, or you asking for a lawyer to be present, or anything they want) as a reason they need to take your child
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by fitblipper 2y ago
Even more than phones, this is the reason our children are being raised stuck indoors, contributing to the ever increasing mental health crisis with our kids. Instead they should be able to discovering the pride and joy that comes from sel
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by fitblipper 2y ago
They are claiming that it is privacy preserving, since it uses AI and not humans, and only for catching csam Assuming those claims are true(I know, that is a big ask, but they claim it) what function do exceptions provide unless they are pu
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by fitblipper 2y ago
I am thinking of starting a competing product that uses wifi APs for geo location instead of GPS satellites. I want to be a more customer friendly business than google or apple though, it'll only be opt-in. All you have to do to indic
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by fitblipper 2y ago
Seems like the perfect use case for timelock encryption: https://drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/
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by fitblipper 3y ago
> My interpretation leans more towards NIST making an internal mistake in evaluating the algorithms, rather than NSA pushing its agenda. Why do you say this? The NSA has done this exact thing in the past[1], so why give them the benefit
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by fitblipper 3y ago
When Tucson experienced a hazardous chemical spill during evening rush hour[0] officials required everyone to shelter in their homes to avoid the poisonous fumes outside. At the same time they closed tons of roads for miles around the area,
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by fitblipper 4y ago
True, but I think that misses the point. I think the comment was an attempt at facilitating empathy for the incarcerated who are in this situation since for most people they don't see themselves as criminals (even those who are in fac
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by fitblipper 4y ago
Ring doorbells providing this information to law enforcement quickly and easily is working as intended and is part of the reason it exists at all. Amazon has even used police to sell the doorbells arguing it provides better security [1]. I
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by fitblipper 4y ago
I am a paid subscriber but I am not happy with this at all. The mobile phone app is a pretty buggy, when I start typing in 1 place the cursor jumps to another. Copy/paste has also given me problems. I do like that it encrypts locally
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by fitblipper 4y ago
This is horribly frustrating and I'm sorry you are facing this. The thing I have taken away from these continual Tell HN posts about Google acounts getting locked up because of 2FA is that the "something you have" factor need

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