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by mlissner 5y ago
My organization built a similar tool that can find bad redactions caused when people just use a black rectangle on top of text in PDFs: https://free.law/projects/x-ray Very fun project. Lots of problems out there.
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by mlissner 5y ago
Yes, exactly this. All that's needed is to tell senders when a message wasn't received after X hours. You don't have to figure out if the user uninstalled. This also happens if they get a new phone and don't re-install o
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by mlissner 5y ago
They can just say the message wasn't received. They don't have to say it was uninstalled. Just loudly tell me things aren't working like I expected. That's all this takes.
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by mlissner 5y ago
They just have to tell you if a message isn't received after a day or two. This is already exposed via the check marks, so it's just something they have to amplify with a notification. Or when you start writing a message to somebo
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by mlissner 5y ago
This is fine, but signal still doesn't tell you when the person you're sending to has uninstalled signal. Instead, your messages go into ether and you think the person is ignoring you. It blows my mind they haven't prioritize
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by mlissner 5y ago
This is linked from the help page here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217#zippy=%2Cwhat-if-i... > we understand some customers may not use their G Suite legacy free edition for business and may be inter
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Sign up for personal users of G Suite Legacy free edition(docs.google.com)
6 points by mlissner 5y ago|3 comments
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by mlissner 5y ago
In January 2023, Chrome will stop running any manifest v2 extensions. I suspect that's about 99.9% of all extensions. This is going to be a huge loss.
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by mlissner 5y ago
There's a pretty big legal tech scene these days. I run Free Law Project, where we're looking for experienced python developers and we don't care about having a CS degree if you're good. There are a lot of other orgs doi
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by mlissner 5y ago
My organization, Free Law Project, provided the data for this and several other related stories. It was a multi-year process pulling data out of tables embedded in tiff files. More here: https://free.law/2021/09/28
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Show HN: X-Ray, a tool for finding bad redactions in PDFs(github.com)
3 points by mlissner 5y ago|1 comments
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Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing(blog.mozilla.org)
8 points by mlissner 6y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 6y ago
That'd be a win, but to our knowledge, no.
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by mlissner 6y ago
Yes, very true, thanks. Another interesting angle is how DOJ can subpoena tech co's for, say, location information, but defense attorneys can't. So if you want exculpatory data, you have fewer avenues for getting it. The deck is
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by mlissner 6y ago
Right, you can usually find opinions, but in many cases, that's because the provider you're using — WestLaw, Bloomberg, Justia, Google Scholar, whatever — paid for it on your behalf. They (we) have to go to PACER and buy these thi
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by mlissner 6y ago
Good point! https://free.law/contact/
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by mlissner 6y ago
I'm chiming in a lot, but this is only sort of true. In theory, yes, opinions and orders are free on PACER. In practice clerks have to check a box when they upload each opinion to mark it as free, and yeah....some clerks do a great job
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by mlissner 6y ago
I'm the director of Free Law Project. For the case mentioned in the article we actually did a full expert testimony figuring out roughly how much per page it'd cost to run PACER using AWS GovCloud and a handful of other assumption
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by mlissner 6y ago
I'm the director of Free Law Project, the org that makes RECAP. We're always looking for help with the extension, our APIs, etc. We have a new project, for example, we're working on called the "PACER Pray and Pay Project
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by mlissner 6y ago
It gets even worse than that. Many pages are charged by the number of results or the length of the page generated. But you don't know the price until you load it and see how long the page is. Most have a cap of $3, but some don't,
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by mlissner 6y ago
Hi, founder of Free Law Project here. Actually, the DOJ is the biggest PACER user and they pay a ton of money on PACER each year. Somebody FOIA'ed it a few years back, and it totals about $3-4M/year. https://free.law&#x
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Internet Archive responds to publishers lawsuit [pdf](courtlistener.com)
3 points by mlissner 6y ago|0 comments
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Sidebery – A Better Tree Style Tabs Extension for Firefox(addons.mozilla.org)
3 points by mlissner 6y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 7y ago
I (the director of Free Law Project) agree with a lot of the other responses here, but I'll just add two points. First, technically PACER isn't a website. If you ask the judiciary, they'll tell you that PACER is only the pu
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by mlissner 7y ago
Everything out of the Mueller report, frankly. It's history-making stuff. https://free.law/featured-cases/special-counsel/
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by mlissner 7y ago
We're thinking about that, actually! There are a couple hard parts though: 1. How do you know which documents to buy with the donated credits? 2. How do you get access to the user's account? Do you store their password somewhere?
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by mlissner 7y ago
Send me an email: mike@free.law. We can take a look. I don't know of any jurisdictions that have that issue, but it could be an emerging pattern or one we've missed.
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by mlissner 7y ago
Yeah, we had some outage yesterday. Docker seems to be opening files and then not closing them again, which causes issues sooner or later. Sorry about that. The one redeeming thing with this is when this happens we're usually still g
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by mlissner 7y ago
Thanks for posting this! I'm the executive director of Free Law Project. If anybody has any questions or comments, I'm happy to chat!
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Top Universities Join to Push ‘Public Interest Technology’(nytimes.com)
2 points by mlissner 8y ago|0 comments

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