public_defender

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by public_defender 4y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. "Just resist psychopaths" is an ableist, reductive paradigm. Of course many people can't just resist. People have families, care responsibilities, and many are indeed conditioned to a
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by public_defender 4y ago
It's Stripe for Play Store reviewer sandbox detection and anti-analysis! I'm ready to invest.
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by public_defender 4y ago
This article looks good. I'll read below the fold later, but: 1) It's about federal sentencing, which is not the same as state sentencing. 2) Sentencing is complicated and often done wrong by practitioners. For example, in a situa
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by public_defender 4y ago
I agree that Reason is pretty agenda-driven, and not really a reliable source of reporting, but I don't think there is a special reason to mistrust this story. I have represented several hundreds of people in situations like this. This
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by public_defender 4y ago
CPS still put this woman--and inexplicably her husband--on a "safety plan" requiring supervision of other family members for two weeks. I am actually amazed that the author thought this would be a good time to plug her legislative
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by public_defender 4y ago
What is the benefit of the "secure app spawning" toggle? Also, it would be great to be able to disable this for system apps or per-app (assuming it makes sense in the security model).
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by public_defender 4y ago
The reason (afaik) is that you can enroll a developer key and re-lock the bootloader on a pixel, so your phone will check OTA updates against the enrolled key to be sure you didn't get a compromised update. This is not possible on othe
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by public_defender 4y ago
Does the gas station check what car is pulling up, or do you choose based on what you think works best for the engine?
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by public_defender 4y ago
I love this as a check on zero-rating. I think that Facebook zero-rating in emerging economies will prove to have an abysmal toxic legacy. Anything that can tax the value proposition by e.g. forcing a lot of data through the pipe should be
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by public_defender 4y ago
This analogy is no good. Plans have data limits. It is not an all-you-can-eat buffet. Tethering restrictions are an attempt to paywall features which the device can do without harming anyone else on the network. A better analogy is a gas st
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by public_defender 4y ago
This is true, but it solves a different (though often related issue).
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by public_defender 4y ago
I think it's a fair point that compatibility pain is low, but it does exist and people should consider it. Then there's also play services. A lot of things do work without it, but a lot either won't start (Uber) or become ann
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by public_defender 4y ago
First of all, thanks for the very detailed write up. Someone (maybe you) had explained this to me in a chat and it was convincing to me, but I didn't really do it justice in my comment. > The reason for this is because we don't
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by public_defender 4y ago
I love GrapheneOS. Before trying it one should consider that unlike some "sister" projects, it does not support signature spoofing, so if you need SafetyNet or something similar, you will likely be out of luck. On one hand I like
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by public_defender 4y ago
I disagree with this. There isn't a consumer-level alternative to the security provided by a pixel if you want to use a cell phone right now. I guess you can argue that the iphone is better, but without a specific threat model to discu
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by public_defender 4y ago
> Somalia in the 90's. Or Lebanon right now, which has USD as a competing currency rather than crypto. I tend to agree with this perspective--that all states should see a private economy as an adversary--but there are a lot of state
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by public_defender 4y ago
It's the one where you work an agreed number of hours and the employer pays you for fewer. https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft
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by public_defender 4y ago
Wage theft is the most common form of theft.
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by public_defender 4y ago
> "Stretched thin" means there are few of you. I think in context you can assume OP means the people are being overworked because they are perceived as replaceable. > I just don't understand your point here. I would ima
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by public_defender 4y ago
Yes, this is more accurate. They would need to spend fractionally more on the tumbler, which I really think they have no incentive to do because the target customer will not know or care about the physical security upgrade.
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by public_defender 4y ago
I thought that was just a machine translation or something, but nope. Those are links to their own listicles on the best iphones and watches of 2022.
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by public_defender 4y ago
There would have been engineering cost to designing a better lock. Also, that's not their product concept. These are not locks for people who care about security, they are for people who care about iphone ecosystem synergy. If you look
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by public_defender 4y ago
> Nigeria is likely to have a billion people in a few years. There are less than 220M people in Nigeria now. The population growth is very fast, but even on long odds it's more accurate to say "a few decades."
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by public_defender 4y ago
I fixed it by hot swapping to another SIM then back. I will never understand what happened.
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by public_defender 4y ago
~ $ nmap 66.111.4.148 Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-11-05 17:12 EDT Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.11 seconds
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by public_defender 4y ago
I can't load the website by entering the IP (66.111.4.148) in my browser and can't ping it from termux. Weird.
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by public_defender 4y ago
Phone email client is trying imap.fastmail.com/2607:7700:0:1e:0:1:426f:488 and timing out. Now that I think about it, this started when I left the house/wifi. Must be something weird about the mobile network connection. I just swi
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Ask HN: Is Fastmail Down?
1 points by public_defender 4y ago|7 comments
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by public_defender 4y ago
It's sort of a different thought pattern than most of us are used to using. Imagine the anarchists vote: 49 for logging, 51 against. The question is then whether 51 anarchists foresters will mobilize to stop 49 anarchist deforesters. W
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by public_defender 4y ago
That would not be an accurate label. Nothing you wrote implies any economic system. Of course the society you describe would allow for capitalism, but it equally allows other models.

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