public_defender

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by public_defender 4y ago
The issue is that ShotSpotter may be profiting by giving police an excuse to search people when they would not otherwise have sufficient legal grounds.
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by public_defender 4y ago
They are being ordered to disclose and they are refusing to do it. The article says the lawyer requested to be held in "friendly contempt." I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist. It would probably be more accurate to say th
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ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology(chicagoreader.com)
246 points by public_defender 4y ago|305 comments
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by public_defender 4y ago
This is an audio surveillance company which sells itself to cities as a gunshot detection system. Based on how they appear to be acting in court, it would be reasonable to assume that either: (1) Their methodology is about to be debunked, o
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by public_defender 4y ago
> other great methods of communication. Really though? From my perspective, it seems as though an option can either be a great academic solution or it can be widely adopted. I've used Signal service discovery to decloak a whole mess
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by public_defender 4y ago
I've never denied these permissions to Signal, but I have denied them to WhatsApp. What's really surprising to me is that WhatsApp never asks again and totally functions without contacts access. Weird, right? I just receive messag
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by public_defender 4y ago
The same NYT reporting was also given a treatment in The Daily[0]. I did explain in numbered items above how I think the history is not adequately accounted for. My comment wasn't that they didn't address it, but that they didn&#x
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by public_defender 4y ago
The NYT piece has a thesis which this author doesn't really engage with. To simplify, the Times says that Haiti agreed to pay a huge fee to France to indemnify it for having lost a profitable colony. The debt was then transferred to pr
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by public_defender 4y ago
Yes, this is what I meant by "not the most frictionless experience." However in my mind it was all paid back to me 100 fold when a customs officer at an international border tried to open my laptop and examine it, but was subjecte
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by public_defender 4y ago
I have done this twice: The first time was a complete failure. I walked into a place and hand-delivered a fancy paper application. The office lost the application because they weren't expecting to receive anything like that at the fron
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by public_defender 4y ago
I didn't know about Mr. Chromebox. Very cool. You can also press CTRL+D at boot when you have dev mode enabled to boot an OS from external storage. This is viable on ARM architectures with, for example, Arch Linux ARM.
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by public_defender 4y ago
This is correct, but also a lot of these machines can native boot Linux if you enable developer mode. It's not the most frictionless experience in the world, but it can work pretty well.
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by public_defender 4y ago
Thanks, I missed this on the first read-through. I wonder how it compares to similar-tier ARM computers.
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by public_defender 4y ago
I love these cheap ARM laptops. I wish there was better support for the hardware, though. I have been using an Asus c101pa as a second laptop for so long that it's outlasted three thinkpads, but e.g. there is still no Linux support for
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by public_defender 4y ago
> too reliant on non-revenue based sources (grants/partnerships) to keep the doors open I looked into joining NYCResistor a while back and the membership fee was quite high (I don't remember it and I don't want to give wro
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by public_defender 4y ago
I don't think the bill would have any effect. With the current FCC, providers could just do a network management study, impose even lower caps, and probably be fine. If the FCC materially changed, I don't think they would need the
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by public_defender 4y ago
No, of course not. I think the sibling comments give lots of clear reasons to discount the author (and to credit him). I only wanted to point out that the piece seems very one-sided. And of course I am one of nature's counterbalances t
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by public_defender 4y ago
He is trying to say that he was an Assistant US Attorney (federal prosecutor), an Assistant District Attorney (local prosecutor), and that he held the top DA job somewhere (elected DA). It's really quite a brag.
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by public_defender 4y ago
Even if they have huge costs for addiction care etc. they must be saving millions by closing down jail space, downsizing the criminal courts, fielding fewer police, and using probation departments less. I would love to know the reinvestment
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by public_defender 4y ago
This article was written by a person who is so proud to be a prosecutor that he mentions three ways he was a prosecutor in his 26-word bio at the end. So his thesis is... that Oregon should prosecute more people. At least he's consiste
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by public_defender 4y ago
What you are saying makes sense, but it feels a little weird in this context. Aren't these just the windows EULAs? This section would only be useful to me if it differentiated between EULAs that come with windows no matter what and ven
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by public_defender 4y ago
Am I the only one bothered by the "agree to continue" box at the bottom of the article? It implies that it is telling us something about this laptop, but as far as I can tell, it's just a generic complaint about windows.
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by public_defender 4y ago
This article suffers from a credulous belief in the efficacy of criminal courts which, in addition to not being borne out by any data, is harmful and regressive. I am disappointed that it has a Pro Publica byline and I wonder how that happe