sfRattan

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by sfRattan 8d ago
> I realised it doesn't improve my life, to care about folder structure and naming, so much that I insist on retaining it and hobbling the media browsing frontend. There's no good reason for any folder structure to hobble a me
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by sfRattan 9d ago
Not OP, but I've run into similar instances of Jellyfin "going nuts." Mixed media type libraries are depreciated and "broken" according to the documentation[1], which is fair enough, but sometimes this results in we
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by sfRattan 26d ago
The details you mention are all hammered out to death and back as a regular part of the legal process, before and during a trial, and by both prosecution and defense. One can only imagine a huge potential for abuse by suspending any and all
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> But it does AFAIK care about plausible deniability. Whether or not any given instance of denial is plausible must of course ultimately be determined by a judge. There is near zero chance that a judge or jury will decide you have plausi
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> If the prosection doesn't have to demonstrate that something was valid evidence beyond a shadow of doubt that's rife for all sorts of abuse. Assuming that is the preceding paragraph you reference, then there is nothing to re
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> In general I don't believe I can catch a (legitimate) felony for locking myself in the bathroom and flushing the toilet during a police raid. Most juristictions have a duty to preserve or not to spoil evidence once you are clearly
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> I was distressed and got confused and gave the wrong PIN. Anyway there was no evidence on the phone just a few embarrassing photos. > Also I just so happened to catch a bad case of indigestion right as the police knocked down my doo
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> A factory reset done in anticipation of a search is not as different from using a duress feature as you believe it is. Forensics software would have clearly identified the device was recently factory reset. It would provide another def
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by sfRattan 26d ago
I'd generally agree that the police shouldn't be able to lie to a detained suspect, or at least that such deception should be more constrained than it is in the context but, in general, the law as practiced hinges on the question,
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> When a house is raided and someone flushes a toilet, can courts assume they flushed drugs, or does that have to be proven? Game it out at the systems level. If the prosecution had to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that what was des
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by sfRattan 26d ago
> As far as federal overreach of power goes, that's pretty inexcusable. Selectively detaining this guy, likely overreach. Trying to get his phone's unlock code to go on a fishing expedition for whatever they can find, absolute
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by sfRattan 27d ago
Each one is a bit funny in isolation, and it's also true that the most common feedback is always unhappy feedback, but every company looking for another vein to tap for sustenance hopes observers will write off their particular incisi
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by sfRattan 1mo ago
The use of "bug" for engineering defect (a use that predates software by around a century) shares Middle English etymology with bugbear and bugaboo, both of which relate to evil spirits/creatures and annoyances. Khrafstar is
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by sfRattan 1mo ago
Latin in school from 6th grade onward. And a classical education with many holes and gaps that I am continually filling in.
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by sfRattan 1mo ago
> Migrating to small-scale local LLMs would be a significant improvement over using data centers. This shift is probably inevitable, but it will vary significantly by region depending on prices for electricity. Look at, for example, the
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
> Unless your needs are simple, you can relocate somewhere to live very cheaply, and you don't have any dependents. As a human, your needs are simple[1]. With a $1M net worth, you can relocate somewhere to live very cheaply. And
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
> clauses against hosting your own website on residential providers If their standard residential Internet packages don't offer truly static IP addresses, then it at least makes nominal sense to say: if you want to host your own web
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
> I hate sites like Substack because they are a single point of failure that rely on partners like Stripe for any kind of financial linkage. The real choke point is one step up the chain with payment processors, and since 9/11 and s
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
You've left out the important qualifier I put at the outset of those three points: > If your threat model includes US state actors It was not advice for everyone, nor even most people. I have plenty of friends abroad, and a few of t
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
> I was worried that they could use any crime in a broad area and just force everyone to say with who they were and what they were doing In authoritarian countries, that absolutely happens. In America and the West, police are generally e
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
In America, the defendant generally has the right not to testify against himself by remaining silent, both in court and when questioned by agents of the state out of court. Not a right to lie . This is why criminal defense attorneys advise
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
Yeah, but the way HN works is leagues ahead of other, similar platforms. And the top voted comment of a subthread (at that moment) being flagged is its own interesting signal about both the issue at hand and the HN userbase. I'll be gr
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
> U.S. law though is highly non-autistic and what you were trying to do is just as important as what you superficially did. Love this way of putting it. Stealing for future conversations with fellow software developers.
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
> They asked for the pin, maybe they should have said "not the duress pin" This is a Mickey Mouse distinction no court will take seriously. > Wiping a device I own is extreme? When the consequences are potential years in pri
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
Double check your nose. 18 U.S. Code § 1001 [1] [1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
18 U.S. Code § 1001 [1] [1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
Edit for the confused and misinformed: 18 USC 1001. Also, is ≠ ought. Lying to a federal officer is a crime, IIRC, and if the lie results in destruction of evidence, the person who told the lie is probably accountable for both crimes. Thi
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
Ultimately, when you choose to enter a duress PIN that will wipe your device, you have to recognize that choice may have legal consequences. I don't like the amount of power our government has at the national border when it comes to de
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
The Multi-account containers extension does sync via Firefox sync, but you have to go into the extension's settings in each browser and manually enable it. Annoying, and took me a while to find it, but it's there at least. Hopeful
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by sfRattan 2mo ago
Steam Store page for the Backyard Sports franchise, with links to the new/reboot game and the patched/updated classics: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/backyardsports

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