chaps

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by chaps 6mo ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, yeah stop publishing garbage data, but as a FOIA nerd... I'll take the data in any state it is. I'm not personally going to be able to clean the data before I receive it. Does that me
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by chaps 6mo ago
Friend, $3B is unfathomable wealth for an individual.
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by chaps 7mo ago
It took me a long time, too. Caution's the game. Collect as many hearts as you can in the beginning and as much gold. Perk shuffling is important, especially early on so you'll want to afford it. My first win was with Luminous dri
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by chaps 7mo ago
If anyone's interested in this sort of puzzle, the game Noita is filled with them. A large chunk of the code's in lua and you can inspect it! The final puzzle for the game is a cryptographic puzzle that's been unsolved for fi
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by chaps 7mo ago
Once worked with a systems architect who intentionally disorganized their flow diagrams by just moving nodes in their flow to random places (hi Dan!). The only reason I can think of why he'd do that is to maintain job security by keepi
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by chaps 7mo ago
If you think "justice and freedom of expression seems to have prevailed", then please consider the people who aren't famous and can't get media attention when this sort of thing happens to them. Justice and freedom of ex
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by chaps 7mo ago
This.... absolutely already happens. It's trivial and cheap to purchase the three meter, three second resolution data of millions of vehicles.
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by chaps 7mo ago
Yeah, I took that to mean to refresh the game and so I did.... and then lost my progress :(. I really want to play the rest but I don't want to go through the rest of the levels.
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by chaps 7mo ago
Free stuff has a way of short circuiting things.
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by chaps 7mo ago
....yes, half a million dollars per year is highly paid.
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by chaps 7mo ago
I'm one of those weirdos who opts out of the scanners because I'd rather avoid having people casually look inside of my body. Last time I flew out of Laguardia I opted out and while I was being patted down another TSA agent about
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by chaps 7mo ago
"Apps that already need location data are probably the most likely sources of collecting such data" Yes, and many companies have access to both feeds.....
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by chaps 7mo ago
There definitely is and I've definitely pitched it to places. The Intercept had interest but told me that they wanted me to build the story out more to be less focused on Chicago. I understand where they were coming from (and the other
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by chaps 7mo ago
Sure, hard. But, um, lots of things are hard. For example, it was very hard for me to identify myself in an anonymized public dataset of vehicle trips, but I did. It was also hard to FOIA for the documents showing them writing SQL to spot m
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by chaps 7mo ago
I worked in ad-tech for a year before I left the tech industry as a whole. I've also done a fair bit of investigative journalism. Let me share a thing: Factual, a company that specializes in hyperlocal geofencing, uses geofencing much
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by chaps 7mo ago
They're not removing cameras. > For now, Everett’s Flock camera network remains offline, as the debate over transparency, privacy and public safety continues in the Legislature. The bill in Olympia that would put guidelines on Flock
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by chaps 8mo ago
Yeah, it was about the ownership of the characters that was at-issue IIRC. From memory, they said they couldn't use the characters because I made the suggestion.
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by chaps 8mo ago
Amazing. Just texted my mom asking if she has the letter. I doubt it all these years later but I'll share it if she still has it! Edit: no dice!
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by chaps 8mo ago
When I was 10 I pitched a game to Lucas Arts. Sent a letter and everything. Their lawyers responded telling me why they cannot make my game. Feel like that opened something in me..
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by chaps 8mo ago
I tried using it, but I don't understand what it wants me to do! It says scroll, but when I do it just zooms in. Which is the same as clicking? I tried scrolling to the left but that just moved me to where I am now. Love the idea, but
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by chaps 8mo ago
Anyone have any similar uBlock filter lists like this?
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by chaps 8mo ago
Sure -- it's something I figured out during the 2020 protests for some reporting work I was doing which led to this reporting: https://thetriibe.com/2020/12/hundreds-of-chicago-police-mad... This reporting wa
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by chaps 8mo ago
Glad you could stop by to contribute! :)
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by chaps 8mo ago
Friend. Friend.... Snobbery is a spectrum. You might not perceive your words as snobbery, but I do. We just have a different opinion of where you fall on that snobbery line.
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by chaps 8mo ago
You might not be a snob, but you sure as hell sound like one. It's okay when other people like simple things that you don't like.
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by chaps 8mo ago
I like to use textual anchors for things like, "line starts with" or "line ends with" or "file ends with" and combining that with levenshtein distance with some normalization stuff (combining adjacent strings i
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by chaps 8mo ago
It kinda does, friend.
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by chaps 8mo ago
Ooh, totally. Many years ago I was doing some analysis of parking ticket data using gnuplot and had it output a chart png per-street. Not great, but worked well to get to the next step of that project of sorting the directory by file size.
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by chaps 8mo ago
Well, for background, my background is in investigative journalism with a focus on policing, technology, and transparency. I've been the plaintiff in a bit over 10 FOIA lawsuits and have three ongoing suits now. "Our guys" wa
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by chaps 8mo ago
> I still think it is foolish to write off the current administration as if it's just another iteration of back and forth corruption You are deeply, deeply misunderstanding my point if this is what you got from my post. "Our gu

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