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by akerl_ 1y ago
The paper is a study of an existing market. They looked at data about people who had requested loans and data about which of those loans were funded, with the intent of seeing whether or not lenders were being biased by requester photos. Th
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Do other disciplines do this in reverse? Is there a lawyer forum where the members constantly try to construct from the ground up "how does the internet happen", and then draw a bunch of inferences and concerns from their construc
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by akerl_ 1y ago
It's basically a way for people to externalize tasks that require a human but pay fractions of what it would cost to actually employ those humans. Mechanical Turk was one of the early entrants into "how can we rebrand outsourcing
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Just to be clear: I think ordinary people (and message board nerds when they’re not trying to win message board debates) are entirely capable of looking at a fact pattern and identifying if it was or wasn’t hacking. If you think that’s not
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Message board nerds spend a lot of digital ink debating the clarity of what “authorization” means in the CFAA. It’s not clear to me that actual courts or juries find it to be that complicated, relative to other areas of criminal law. I don’
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by akerl_ 1y ago
How is this any different than all the other commonly prosecuted laws that hinge on intent?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
As far as I’m aware, that works the same as things like tailscale is doing, where you need at least one node that is publicly reachable to facilitate.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Yes. I’m replying to a comment thread debating WireGuard vs tinc where someone said that WireGuard couldn’t, as if it was a differentiated thing between them.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Neither can tinc.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
I'm not asking for an intrinsic difference: I'm suggesting that if "I can install custom applications/code on this device I own" is a fundamental right, there would need to be an intrinsic difference. My personal op
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Why? My washing machine could be programmed to do all of those things you're worried about without any writeable memory. Why does the parts the manufacturer puts into it turn it from an appliance that washes my clothes to a computer th
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by akerl_ 1y ago
I'm not asking what you'd like to do. I'd like to be able to customize all of those things too. I'm asking why taking a device that uses a microcontroller and making a new model with an ARM chipset and a Linux-based OS s
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by akerl_ 1y ago
"why not" isn't a compelling case for something to be a fundamental right. I'm not saying I dislike the concept of being able to run my own code on my devices. I love it. I do it on several devices, some of which involve
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by akerl_ 1y ago
This is sort of delightfully circular? > I'd say that if you figure out how to run software of your choice on them the manufacturer shouldn't be able to legally stop you. That's already the case. The manufacturer can'
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Good catch. They are similarly noteworthy to phones: there are all kinds of projects and tools built around making custom and modded games for the Gameboy, or hacking the NES, but there wasn't a movement saying Nintendo was violating o
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Is there no line, in your opinion? At this point, there are computers (many of which run variants of Linux in many cases) in my: 1. Laptop 2. Phone 3. Car 4. Washing machine 5. Handheld GPS 6. E-reader 7. TV Is there some intrinsic differen
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Why? What negative thing happens to the dnsmasq project if they just don’t argue about whether or not it’s a big deal.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
People being able to collectively analyze a vulnerability instead of having to all do it independently is pretty much the whole reason for having a CVE database, so I'm glad we agree.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
> The developer typically defines its threat model. Is this the case? As we're seeing here, getting a CVE assigned does not require input or agreement from the developer. This isn't a bug bounty where the developer sets a scope
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Maybe we should issue a CVE for company vulnerability response processes that blindly take CVSS scoring as input without evaluating the vulnerability.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
It seems weird to take an inaccurate paraphrase from a commenter and then use it to paint the authors with your desired brush.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
There are tons of advent calendars commercially sold that have fewer than 25 slots. It’s safe to say this ship has sailed.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
If they’re released every day for 12 days, you can do a puzzle every other day. If the were released every other day, people who wanted to do them for 12 straight days could not.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
This argument seems neatly circular. Any example where somebody says an article doesn’t do a great job defining its terms just becomes proof that the authors only wanted readers who already understand the terms.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
A quick skim of https://iverify.io/blog makes it seem pretty clear that iVerify’s audience is people who are interested in security, not just existing industry experts.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
These are corporate roles, not retail staff.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
I’m saying: I am certain the constitution does not guarantee payment in this situation. I am not certain a court couldn’t find a way to connect the takings clause and expand current case law to apply to a case like you’re describing in the
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The case law I’m seeing does not seem to provide that level of certainty. There’s plenty of flexibility in the case law for what counts as “public use”, but nearly all of it is about individual cases where the government takes a specific pe
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by akerl_ 1y ago
You can pretty clearly see this isn’t the case. Prior to the reversal of the bump stock ban, owners of bump stocks were required to surrender or destroy them.
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I think you may have to check the text again? The 5th amendment says you get due process, and requires compensation if something is taken for “public use”. Passing a law which you can challenge in court that says “machine guns are illegal n

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