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by akerl_ 1mo ago
Why does the site need to be possible?
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by akerl_ 1mo ago
Oh. Because they often aren’t controllable.
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by akerl_ 1mo ago
Are you asking why emotions aren't logical?
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
That was the joke, yes.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
"can't" here isn't really the right word. They obviously could, in the same way that a company making $4.5 million could . But there's a near infinite number of things they could do; they're constantly choosin
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
I guess we’ll have to see how this affects the results in 2026’s global IQ census.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
musl has no problem building and using shared libraries. What you can't do is build something statically with musl and then reliably dlopen shared libraries built with glibc.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Wanted to thank you for the highly informative breakdown, especially given we got here by me making the mistake of not pulling up the underlying complaint before commenting.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Edited my earlier comment to point here. Is your assessment that CFTC is pulling the broader impact fully out of the air, or are likely to try to spin the coverage of events in New York for participants outside of New York as counting as in
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
The "order" there is effectively a reset button to the TRO. Its function is to say "you can ignore the TRO and continue business as usual". It doesn't force Kalshi to continue operating if they had their own reasons
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Do you have a source for that? From the release: > In the lawsuit, filed on July 31, New York seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting KalshiEX, LLC from offering all event contracts nationwide and more than $36 billion in damages
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
It's not an order to Kalshi to continue operations. They overrode the TRO from the state court. The target of the order is the state court / executive, essentially saying "You cannot halt Kalshi's operations via the TRO&
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Yea; interstate commerce being the domain of the federal government is one of the more tested legal concepts we have here.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
I (unfortunately) think that the NY AG screwed up our opportunity to press that question by aiming nationally. The CFTC got to skip that and just shut down the national TRO. I'd love to see another state push for a state-specific restr
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Not seeing that here; is your connection being MITM'd? Issuer I'm seeing is Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36. Avast is nominally an AV/VPN company; are you running their tooling on your machine?
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
EDIT: see DannyBee's comment below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266746 ). It does look like the CFTC has extrapolated the "nationwide" out of either some novel interpretation of the filing or just
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
I think a quick glance at the poster's submission history might suggest they're not experiencing the same reality as you and I.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
You're correct that we disagree on that point. Flock is providing a tool; if we think the tool can be used in problematic ways, we ought to regulate users of the tool (in this case, government entities). This has the added benefit that
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Is that the case? I see this note focusing on AI reports in the release notes, and I've poked around the OpenSSH project more generally and don't see any indication that they don't accept or welcome other AI inputs.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
> No, AI assistance is NOT welcome in general. Can you cite that? I see them specifically welcoming AI security reports; I don't see any evidence that other AI submissions are not welcome.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Is it? Cards on the table, I am an optimist. But this feels pretty realistic: it's basically a corollary to the idea that public outrage about bad policies, bad practices, or bad tooling is problematic for these government entities. Th
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
To spare you the search of his comment history, my memory is that it's roughly: the stolen car databases have tons of cars listed that weren't actually stolen, or have already been recovered, so you end up pulling over a ton of un
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
I'm getting https://xkcd.com/810/ vibes. If government entities get good PR for rolling out strong policies, practices, and tooling for the data they have, and that makes more of them very keen to do so... mission
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
There always ends up being a real world to digital interface and it always has the potential for abuse, and thus always requires some level of monitoring and validation. The department in this article appears to be doing just that: > Eve
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
I think we may be agreeing? I'm in favor of pushing for police departments (and really any governmental body with access to any kind of data) to have regulations around access to that data, access controls to restrict illegitimate acce
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
This feels like a weird comment on an article about how they monitored usage, identified misuse, and terminated the people involved. There's surely plenty of entities that need better controls around usage of technology / records
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Or pay the news organizations making content you want to consume.
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
The difference is that Mullvad doesn't enable any east/west connectivity at all. If somebody guesses a user's Mullvad 16 digit number, they can use Mullvad's services as that user. If somebody gets a SmokeVPN users'
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
Some questions: > Your 16-digit account number is your login - anyone who has it can use your account, and it cannot be recovered if you lose it. Can you explain the intent here? 16 digits seems to be nowhere near the threshold that&#x27
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by akerl_ 2mo ago
I think you've accidentally lumped together "people who work in tech in / around the field of information security" and "criminals". There have been a variety of cultural elements to people doing security resea

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