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by sjy 7y ago
How does the ribbon hide functionality compared to menus? I’m a big fan of it because it exposed functionality like styles, using large buttons that intuitively show how the function works, to people who were never going to independently di
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by sjy 7y ago
They wouldn’t be able to charge so much if the laws were published using a machine-readable version control system. Citizens should expect this from their legislature; lawyers shouldn’t be allowed to paywall historical information about pub
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by sjy 7y ago
That may be accurate for commercial contracts but lawyers write lots of other documents too, some of which are subject to thousands of edits. Think about judicial opinions, advices, written arguments, continuously updated legal commentary s
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by sjy 7y ago
If the legal field doesn’t need anything more complicated, I suppose you think this Git repo is a pointless novelty, not something that would actually be really useful if it were available and authoritative for all statutes?
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by sjy 7y ago
The ability to keep track of many, potentially thousands of individual changes and assign labels to significant versions. Track Changes is basically like Git if every file write triggered an automatic commit with no commit message and anyon
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by sjy 7y ago
Two huge firms negotiating a huge deal probably are in fact using Word, right?
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by sjy 7y ago
ugh, “statutes can still be compiled artifacts”
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by sjy 7y ago
In my experience these services tend to have terrible UX, they’re not reliable or comprehensive, and they require human maintenance so there are usually huge subscription fees that scale with the number of statutes you have access to. Legis
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by sjy 7y ago
I often get really slow download speeds from the GitHub CDN, which my ISP must not peer with or something. My ISP has faster routes to most of the rest of the internet, including some VPN endpoints, so a VPN can be used to cut out the bottl
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by sjy 7y ago
It doesn't. Instead, you install WireGuard for iOS for free and take a photo of the QR code supplied by your sysadmin, which just encodes a simple text configuration file with an ed25519 key. Then your sysadmin can route all your iOS t
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by sjy 7y ago
We don't know that all violations are coming to the surface, but we can be pretty sure that if there are VPN honeypots then they are either obviously sketchy services or part of an expensive, sophisticated, secret and therefore targete
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by sjy 7y ago
This is probably just meant to be a joke, but I have been in that situation before and I don't think offering to gamble away your job would be an effective way to convince others to accept your advice on risk management. I still don&#x
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by sjy 7y ago
The opinions expressed in the article aren't new to me, but I thought the fact that I saw them on the front page of HN implied that they were becoming increasingly popular or there was some new development (eg. confirmation of certain
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by sjy 7y ago
Can (2015) be added to the submission title? This hasn't been substantially updated since then.
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by sjy 7y ago
Do you think that Al Capone was imprisoned for making an honest mistake on his tax return after receiving conflicting advice from two accountants?
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by sjy 7y ago
It's an interesting idea. Assuming it's feasible, I wonder whether people would actually want to use a messaging service that's private, except where it thinks it detects illegal activity, in which case messages are copied to
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by sjy 7y ago
The wrong assumption is in BuzzFeed's reference to "99% of child exploitation." The letter, which they deserve credit for quoting in full, says that "more than 99% of the content Facebook takes action against – both fo
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by sjy 7y ago
It is much easier to trust that `apt-get install pidgin` will run the published Pidgin source code, than it is to trust that Messenger or WhatsApp will only do the (undocumented) things that I expect them to do.
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by sjy 7y ago
The NYT article refers to "both recirculated and new images" and states that "in some online forums, children are forced to hold up signs with the name of the group or other identifying information to prove the images are fre
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by sjy 7y ago
There are laws authorising this, and they are frequently used to investigate serious crimes (like murder). They are not used for less serious crimes which do not warrant such a serious invasion of privacy.
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by sjy 7y ago
How does this analogy apply to the competing goals of protecting privacy vs. detecting and preventing crime by monitoring private conversations? Which one corresponds to a plane getting shot down?
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by sjy 7y ago
It's well-documented that terrorists use Facebook and other social media. There's a whole Wikipedia article about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_and_social_media
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by sjy 7y ago
> The government has not caught anyone of importance this way The letter specifically describes an offender who was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment, detected when Facebook read his non-E2EE communications with a child victim. Ar
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by sjy 7y ago
The controversy is about Facebook's proposal to implement E2EE on Messenger, thus ending Facebook's ability to comply with warrants ordering them to disclose Facebook messages. Due to the lack of E2EE, Facebook can currently detec
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by sjy 7y ago
Privacy is a basic right; it is even constitutionally protected in the United States by the Fourth Amendment. However, it has always been accepted that gross invasions of privacy can be authorised in appropriate cases – for example, warrant
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by sjy 7y ago
> End-to-end encryption does little to change the availability of information in a targeted investigation A secure E2EE system must resist even targeted, legally authorised attacks. Are you suggesting that secure, practical E2EE systems
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by sjy 7y ago
Facebook relies on the fact that most Facebook messages are not end-to-end encrypted to detect illegal activity. Forget the last 1% – how would Facebook continue to detect the 99% without access to decrypted message contents?
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by sjy 7y ago
If you accept Stallman's assumptions (the victim was 17, coerced by Epstein, and "presented as entirely willing" to Minsky), then Minsky did not commit a "sexual assault" as defined by that Colorado law. Which seems
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by sjy 7y ago
You're aware of specific instances of people actually going to jail for this sort of thing? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but honestly I'd be surprised if it did, and surprised if Ito was criminally charged in relati
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by sjy 7y ago
There is a difference: people have been using small handheld objects to create images on flat surfaces for tens of thousands of years. Moving squares of plastic to remotely and invisibly trigger a change in the patterns of light emitted by

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