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> being forced to

Choosing to.

The idea that the SPD consent decree constituted "severe consequences", or was successful at all, is a joke.

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/01/video-cops-rallie...

Currency debasement is an option. Taxes would be less inflationary, of course.

Transit fare collection systems in many metros already log tap on / tap off location data and make it accessible to planners (and police).

Judgment: https://torrentfreak.com/images/anna-oclc-default-judgment.p...

Disappointing in particular to see the court validate a ToS "browsewrap agreement", admitting that OCLC provided no evidence that Anna's Archive was aware of the agreement, but still finding the fact that "Defendant is a sophisticated party that scraped data from Plaintiffs website daily" as sufficient to bind them to it.

That's leaving money on the table, unless they continue to charge the previous tenant for the duration of quarantine.

Yes, please publish the location of your dev servers in Cert Transparency logs for everyone to see.

It competes with "Sign in with Google" SSO.

> TIPS are paying 2.6% above inflation.

2.6% above CPI. Investor calculus should include a consideration of how CPI is set vs what their actual personal rate of inflation will be.

> Wasn't 1.1.1.1 explicitly created to help people in countries with government internet restrictions to get around them?

No, it was explicitly created to receive and study the stream of "garbage traffic" being sent to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, which were previously held by APNIC and donated to Cloudflare on this basis. https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

> APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network.

> We talked to the APNIC team about how we wanted to create a privacy-first, extremely fast DNS system. They thought it was a laudable goal. We offered Cloudflare's network to receive and study the garbage traffic in exchange for being able to offer a DNS resolver on the memorable IPs. And, with that, 1.1.1.1 was born.

Classifying Phrack as a blog is about as accurate as classifying future interest payments as liabilities.

> supply

> product

OFAC regulates international trade. Isn't Tor's publication an act of pure speech, rather than commerce? They're not charging for it, and they aren't physically moving any goods across borders. How could Tor be subject to any restrictions here?

(not a lawyer, just someone who naively thought the Crypto Wars ended in the 90s)

I'm unable to find the server, but it looks like they've released some protocol analysis tooling: https://github.com/iconidentify/wiretap

If Flock truly believed that the domain name infringes on their trademark, they would file an ICANN UDRP complaint instead of Cloudflare and Hetzner abuse reports.

But they don't, because the former would require them to perjure themselves, and the latter just requires them to lie to a hosting company.

As a youngster, I frequented a laser tag place that issued you an iButton when you registered for a game, containing your player name. When you got into the arena, you would tap the iButton to the laser gun to sign in, so the system knew which gun was in use by which player.

The time is ripe for ALPR-based sousveillance. If these types of countermeasures are outlawed, legislators and police could use a reminder that the legal principle that enables Flock imperils their privacy just as much as ours.

Their policy today is to grant certificates liberally. There is no technical guarantee that this remains the case indefinitely, only a political one. I don't doubt the sincerity of this guarantee, but I wish I didn't have to rely on it.

It's absolutely new. No HTML5 features were restricted to secure origins only pre-LE. Today, many are. Google was able to push these requirements in large part due to Let's Encrypt's success making secure origins ubiquitous.

New baseline expectation that web traffic will be encrypted on the wire: very good!

New de-facto requirement that you need to receive the blessing of a CA to make use of basic web platform features... not so good.

> The AI Act applies to you [...] regardless of where you’re based

By what mechanism? Extradition?

> compared to a riskless VOO

Where do I get some of this "riskless" VOO? My broker only seems willing to sell me the regular, risky kind.

RIRs don't prohibit out-of-region use of IP addresses or ASNs registered in their region. The country an IP is registered in is not necessarily the country it's being used in.

Yes, secondary sellers can claim capital losses. But they typically go for a discount even at the primary Treasury auction, so there's still more than $20 of total profit after netting across holders.

That's a reasonable interpretation from the Treasury's perspective. But if you ask the IRS, I've realized all $70 as interest income ($50 as OID, which they consider a form of interest).

(And yes, coupons pay 2x yearly, but they are quoted on an annual basis; I would receive two $10 payments.)

If I buy a $1000 bond with a 1 year duration and 2% coupon for $950, realizing $70 of net income from it over the following year ($20 coupon payments, $50 "extra" principal return), has the government paid $20 or $70 of interest?

Only allowing government repurchase makes the system vulnerable to corruption - make a backroom deal with a government official and extract a promise not to buy, then declare at $1. A system where anyone can purchase the property at the declared value is more robust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harberger_Tax

It should be noted that SFMTA, the alleged victim of this website, uses a network of 400+ Flock ALPR cameras to track the movement of every vehicle in the region. They're able to do this not because of some special agency authority, but because it's legal for anyone to surveil public areas.

> What makes us so foolish?

High time preference. The free stuff is here today, and the pain will only come much later, so I can disregard it for now.

Over a long enough time frame, this also includes any small company with ambitions to become a large company. Tiny Speck started in 2009 with a $1.5M seed round, before pivoting to Slack, before the $27B Salesforce acquisition.

The bill's text: https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintro...