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by joshdata 5y ago
Worth pointing out that the article is about rich politicians elected from around the country. The 700,000 residents of Washington, DC do not have an insider trading problem. Wish the article and the HN headline didn't blame DC for oth
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by joshdata 5y ago
Thanks for your work! (If our paths crossed you would have known me as the persistent guy at GovTrack asking for bill status XML over and over. :) )
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by joshdata 5y ago
This is not really a fair picture of history. The folks at the Government Publishing Office who decided to use RSS have really no connection to Swartz's prosecutors and probably were using RSS before the prosecution. (This is also not
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by joshdata 5y ago
If someone put you in charge, you probably would not know how to do the thing you're imagining. (For example, "classified" doesn't really apply to Congress. That's an executive branch thing. So you're already o
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by joshdata 5y ago
The civil servants who are responsible for creating govinfo.gov deserve some praise for publishing a truly massive amount of information in an accurate, reliable, and developer-friendly way. (I know them. They are hard-working people!) Also
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by joshdata 5y ago
Great!
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by joshdata 5y ago
The bills proposed by legislators are published in open data (thanks to years of advocacy by myself and others, but that's another story). If you want to read it and know who proposed it, this information has been readily available on
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by joshdata 5y ago
Ahha! Glad to hear.
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by joshdata 5y ago
Thanks!
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by joshdata 5y ago
I think around 1998 or 1999. I don't think we disagree on the facts: I totally agree that there is a lot more to understand and that deliverability is a nightmare. No question. What I see is that today people can achieve a reasonable m
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by joshdata 5y ago
> I ran mailinabox for a year or two ... the documentation seemed actively hostile Maintainer of Mail-in-a-Box here. I'm sorry you had that experience. Definitely was not the intention of the project to be hostile (but I can see how
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by joshdata 5y ago
> Things that have happened in the last 20 years include SPF, DKIM, DMARC Right, of course. The protocols are more complex. (Add TLS, MTA-STS...) But whereas 20 years ago you _had_ to start from scratch and understand the whole stack, to
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by joshdata 5y ago
The comments all seem to be from people who think making an artisanal choice is a bad thing. There should be more art, experimentation, and expression in computing. If we've outgrown running our own mail servers as a practical choice,
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by joshdata 5y ago
I operate a website that likely meets one of the requirements to be subject to CCPA that received the emails from the research study. We have basically no revenue or staff. I didn't appreciate being lied to (about who was sending the m
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by joshdata 10y ago
It wasn't retribution. This was in the works for many years and this was just an opportunistic time to put it up / it became something people were suddenly interested in. -- the guy behind the linked site
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by joshdata 10y ago
> A better strategy would be to determine which ISP serves Congress, and pay them for the data of IPs originating from Congress. This isn't an either-or scenario. If you want to do that, do that. Go raise a lot of money. In the mean
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by joshdata 10y ago
We'd consider helping with that, but someone else would need to take the lead on the effort. -- the guy behind GovTrack
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by joshdata 10y ago
The US Congress is not subject to federal FOIA law, so that would be impossible at the federal level. -- guy behind the linked site
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by joshdata 11y ago
> Why would you choose the 538 map to pick on It was a convenient example. And I hadn't noticed the interactivity before writing the article. That said, I don't think the zoom function makes it much better. If you think it&#x27
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by joshdata 11y ago
Hey. I'm the author of the article. If folks want to toss links to good examples of cartograms in replies here, I'll add them to the article!
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by joshdata 11y ago
> Does mail-in-a-box then provide the scripts to perform regular software updates and any configuration migrations between versions? Yes it does.
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Mail-in-a-Box Security Guide(github.com)
97 points by joshdata 11y ago|39 comments
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Next-Generation Political Crowdfunding Platforms Reimagine Small Dollar Giving(techpresident.com)
1 points by joshdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joshdata 12y ago
Only half of the US Code is authoritative (so called 'positive law titles'). For the rest, the original statutes are authoritative. For the authoritative part- Congress isn't the only stakeholder who wants to see the law publ
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by joshdata 12y ago
I'm trying to build a system that is simple and auditable. Mail-in-a-Box is also really a system configuration project and not a project to build a better UI. So the goals are very different. For instance on auditing, from looking at K
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by joshdata 12y ago
Hi, metadata. It sounds scary to set up glue records, but so is setting up all of the DNS records manually that you'd need for really good mail: MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and if you want secure DNS and/or mandatory encryption on t
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by joshdata 12y ago
Yup, didn't mean to imply that I had solved the whole problem. :)
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by joshdata 12y ago
Yes, it uses STARTTLS, HSTS, modern cipher settings, DNSSEC and many more security best practices! [I'm the guy behind the project.]
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by joshdata 12y ago
As corv mentioned in another comment, the goal of Mail-in-a-Box is a little different from iRedMail. I'm trying to build something closer to a one-click email appliance that eventually anyone might be able to use, rather than a setup f
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by joshdata 12y ago
Hey. Please start an issue on github sooner rather than later so you don't do lots of work and then I end up rejecting the PR. :) Communication! [I'm the guy behind the project.]

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