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811.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Again, not sure what you're trying to prove here. By your own timeline the cameras were inactive by the deadline in the termination notice. But even if they weren't, what do you think the plot was? That they were just going to kee
812.
by tptacek 4mo ago
The whole pitch for the cameras is alerting! The point is to interdict the cars right after they pass the camera.
813.
by tptacek 4mo ago
An ordinance banning ALPRs that impacts previously-installed Flock cameras is not an ex post facto law. But a municipal ban on private Flock cameras poses constitutional problems --- and not because of post facto or takings. Generally, th
814.
by tptacek 4mo ago
They'll never do what? Flock has taken cameras down all over the place. They're a company we don't trust, but they're not Bond villains.
815.
by tptacek 4mo ago
How do you do a warrant for a device that alerts when a car on a hotlist transits an intersection?
816.
by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't know what you think these links are accomplishing for you. I'm not talking about Flock in the abstract; I have firsthand experience with it. I'm part of a group of people who ultimately got the cameras taken down in m
817.
by tptacek 4mo ago
When a municipality passes an ordinance prohibiting ALPRs, and the municipal police force refuses to shut off the ALPRs, and the municipality does not then fire the chief (or the muni executive, if needed), then the muni was full of shit ab
818.
by tptacek 4mo ago
What's a not-simple app? I've had Claude generate: * A Markdown viewer (obviously pretty simple) * A menu bar Apple TV remote (surprisingly complicated) * A menu bar and desktop temperature tracker for the silly Tapo temperature t
819.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Your big problem in Chicagoland is Illinois LEADS, which is the statewide hotlist Chicago uses. It was never intended for real-time enforcement, and it doesn't work; Flock curbs large numbers of innocent cars simply because LEADS isn&#
820.
by tptacek 4mo ago
That's a pretty uncivil way to say "you're wrong". People are wrong about things all the time; I'm sure you have been too.
821.
by tptacek 4mo ago
People have been making the case that this central HN design goal (of being unsiloed) is bad or obsolete or whatever for many years, long before AI was a thing. I'm just saying: it's an explicit goal.
822.
by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't doubt that they will, if all your muni cares about is "not paying anymore", they'll take advantage of the easement or whatever. Kind of the same way DirecTV was happy for you to leave the dish installed.
823.
by tptacek 4mo ago
I've read this like 5 times and I still can't make sense of it. Is this a variant of the "5-bedroom houses in Cairo Illinois only cost $40,000, there is no housing shortage" argument?
824.
by tptacek 4mo ago
This is all very silly. Flock is not a scheme to install forever-cameras. They get paid primarily by municipalities. If your muni votes to shut the cameras off, they will shut the cameras off. If it votes to take the cameras down, nobody is
825.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Everybody is filter-bubbled and people on HN are profoundly filter-bubbled. Wait'll you find what a huge number of ordinary people think about NSA surveillance. The cameras apprehend criminals. I can show with evidence that the juice
826.
by tptacek 4mo ago
This is just FOIA. You don't need any special website or process; just Google [(your state) FOIA] or [(your municipality) FOIA officer]. In Illinois, you can simply email free-form requests for documents and start a 10-day clock on th
827.
by tptacek 4mo ago
It is never reasonable to copy and paste on threads. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
828.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Please don't paste walls of links into threads, especially not when they're copies from the same thread.
829.
by tptacek 4mo ago
My thing with this story is that no part of it has anything to do with him being a county commissioner; it's just added to the narrative because it makes it sound like he should have been authorized to do this.
830.
by tptacek 4mo ago
The court enforces it. We're getting into movie plot politics here. The sheriff's department will not in fact ignore a district court ruling. These scenarios rapidly reach the point where the sheriff is removed from office and imp
831.
by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't know much of anything about any other jurisdictions. I'm saying that my municipality took the cameras down with zero drama. I'm on one of its commissions with oversight on this. (More precisely: there was drama, but i
832.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Again: if it's one commissioner, he doesn't have any options. The only power a county commissioner has that you don't is voting on motions.
833.
by tptacek 4mo ago
We didn't really negotiate the contract, either; these were just their stock terms. Does someone have a Flock contract that says something else? A reminder: for most munis deploying Flock, these contracts are public record; you can jus
834.
by tptacek 4mo ago
You can definitely take the cameras down. We did, there was zero drama. On the other hand, it wouldn't be surprising if a single county commissioner got in trouble for just deciding by fiat to take civic infrastructure down himself. Th
835.
by tptacek 4mo ago
The Flock contract I read from Oak Park, where we designed what I think are the country's most restrictive ALPR rules and ultimately took our cameras down, did not allow Flock to continue running, recording, and selling data after we t
836.
by tptacek 4mo ago
We spend way less on policing than people think we do. A generation of progressives got turned around on this because people don't understand how overlapping taxing bodies work.
837.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Yes, with exclusive zoning and permitting rules. That's the entire point of Abundance. The housing market dwarfs the Interstate Highway System, by the way. It's like comparing Europa to Jupiter. But the defeatism thing you'
838.
by tptacek 4mo ago
I believe you are two orders of magnitude wrong, in the upward direction, on that number (the first of them). You're talking about reliable remote numbers there, full chain, full enablement, tranched with maintenance.
839.
by tptacek 4mo ago
Capitalist YIMBYs oppose McMansions . They're like the central thing we oppose. The whole point of the movement is replacing large-lot-coverage single-family-homes with multifamily. The whole point of YIMBYism is multifamily housing.
840.
by tptacek 4mo ago
A fixed dropdown list of flag reasons would be a very good change, I think, because it would somewhat counteract strategic flagging of stories as a downvote. I think you'd want to keep the list pretty tight, because it seems like a hug

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