bgentry

15 ms·

151.
by bgentry 6y ago
>The attack was against AT&T, there was zero public interest in the information from a whistleblower perspective, the victims were customers of AT&T, a telecommunications provider. You think there's "zero public interes
152.
by bgentry 6y ago
People have been sent to prison before for nothing more than fetching publicly available web pages by incrementing numbers in a URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
153.
by bgentry 6y ago
Or perhaps they left California for Texas because they didn’t approve of the policies that have made CA a worse place to live, but their vote is in the minority in CA and so they can’t realistically do anything about how broken and dysfun
154.
by bgentry 6y ago
Even if the content of the leaks was fake, which we have no evidence to indicate and none of the key actors have really claimed (as opposed to the story about how they were obtained), it would still be legal to publish it because the public
155.
by bgentry 6y ago
No, if if the content is true and in the public interest, there is really no question about the legality of publishing it in the US: it is 100% constitutionally protected. Twitter’s initial justification for removing the “hacked” material i
156.
by bgentry 6y ago
Microsoft is a member of the RIAA, so that would be an odd lawsuit: https://www.riaa.com/about-riaa/riaa-members/
157.
by bgentry 6y ago
I think that comic understates the amazingness of the adaptation. The honeybees don’t just swarm the hornets, they will actually retreat into the hive and allow the hornets to enter, then trap them inside while they roast them to death. All
158.
by bgentry 6y ago
It’s worth noting that the honeybee defense mechanism you describe is unique to Asian honeybees, which evolved this defense specifically because of the native Asian giant hornet / murder hornet. European honeybees, which are used in mo
159.
by bgentry 6y ago
The 1Password macOS app is not subscription-only; the standalone purchase is just fairly well hidden because it's not the recommended path: https://support.1password.com/upgrade-mac/ This topic inevitably comes up
160.
PostgreSQL Monitoring for Application Developers(info.crunchydata.com)
3 points by bgentry 6y ago|0 comments
161.
by bgentry 6y ago
I’ve been getting hit by this for years. How is there still not a setting for this?? My workaround for this is to go out of my way to make sure the iOS app is closed before I resume playback on my desktop.
162.
by bgentry 6y ago
Spotify still doesn’t support AirPlay 2 streaming in their iOS app, so playback is susceptible to networking blips as I walk around the house into dead spots or change APs. If they supported AirPlay 2, effectively the entire song would get
163.
Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust(stratechery.com)
3 points by bgentry 6y ago|0 comments
164.
SEC Form 8-K: Opendoor going public through Social Capital SPAC $IPOB(sec.gov)
3 points by bgentry 6y ago|0 comments
165.
by bgentry 6y ago
SEC 8-K filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801169/000110465920...
166.
Palihapitiya to acquire Opendoor, valuing home marketplace at $4.8B(cnbc.com)
8 points by bgentry 6y ago|1 comments
167.
by bgentry 6y ago
Hi there, I couldn't find a way to disable built-in logging & analytics to log.lunar.fyi. Is there a setting to disable any network requests other than for software updates? Thanks!
168.
Why San Francisco is in trouble – highly compensated city employees(forbes.com)
64 points by bgentry 6y ago|60 comments
169.
by bgentry 6y ago
Qualified Immunity is a protection against civil liability. This does not generally involve District Attorneys, whose job is to prosecute criminal cases. The lack of criminal prosecutions is more of an indication that District Attorne
170.
by bgentry 6y ago
Completely agree! Qualified Immunity only frustrates civil suits and does not impact criminal prosecutions, and IMO it is more important that cops who break the law or take away rights be criminally prosecuted for it. Ending Qualified Imm
171.
by bgentry 6y ago
There's also the Players Coalition, a group of >1400 prominent professional athletes and coaches, which has publicly called on Congress to pass the Ending Qualified Immunity Act: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports
172.
by bgentry 6y ago
Nice work! If I can offer a suggestion, I think it might help to list everybody who is on record as supporting the bill. In addition to many House Democrats, at least one Republican has also signed on: https://twitter.com/ju
173.
by bgentry 6y ago
Qualified immunity already doesn't protect you if you knowingly break the law, and it doesn't protect you if you are clearly incompetent. If you believe the experts that are well-versed in this area, this is not how it works in
174.
Supreme Court declines to hear cases over qualified immunity(cnbc.com)
285 points by bgentry 6y ago|214 comments
175.
US House: Justice in Policing Act of 2020 [pdf](judiciary.house.gov)
2 points by bgentry 6y ago|0 comments
176.
by bgentry 6y ago
It's entirely insufficient. Qualified immunity is a concept that protects officers from civil liability. It's part of the puzzle for sure, but the much bigger issue is that officers that violate the law or others' rights al
177.
by bgentry 6y ago
The actual law in this case is the 1871 Enforcement Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act Its text is quite straightforward, essentially saying that judi
178.
by bgentry 6y ago
Small typo in the title: it's the "Ending Qualified Immunity Act", not the " End Qualified Immunity Act".
179.
by bgentry 6y ago
I looked up the last screenshot I had of this. What I asked was "In 2 days remind me to call FRIEND_NAME", and Siri created a reminder that just said "call". Transcribed perfectly, wrong content in the reminder. I tried
180.
by bgentry 6y ago
The craziest and most confusing behavior of Siri for me is: Sometimes you can ask a question and watch it be perfectly transcribed in real time, but then receive a nonsensical answer from it. Ask the exact same question immediately after on

More ›