pavel_lishin

It's funny, I use OSX as my daily driver, and going over to Windows is painful - probably as painful as it is for OP to go from whatever they're using to OSX.

I'm pretty sure I can tack on myemailaddress+whatever@gmail.com, and still have it arrive in the myemailaddress@gmail.com inbox. It's just a reverse of your `theirname.you@13rt.com` approach.

Very true - but it was nice while it was still around!

Ah, Mr. Acevedo, nice to see you.

> Public surveillance is a common good that can be used as a public service, for better or worse.

It can also be used as a weapon by the government against you.

> But does my neighbor's camera help me? No.

Sure it can. If a crime occurs, they can hand their footage over to the police. That's different from the police having free access to all cameras, everywhere.

> I am therefore forced to assume that anything I do at my front door is sent directly to the CCP or the CCCP or FSB. That, to me, is far less desirable than the NSA/CIA/TLA knowing what I do at my front door.

Why? Local, US-based government agencies have much more power to hurt me than the Chinese or the Russian government do.

> They're not pissed, they have a job to do and these cameras help them

I mean, at least some of them are, unless you think the article completely made up those quotes.

One counter-example is Reddit's old.reddit.com interface, compared to their new one.

> ESP32 based device that tries to detect bluetooth/MAC addresses of flock cameras and beeps when it does

Is it this thing?

https://simeononsecurity.com/articles/flock-you-detection-pr...

Isn't this a free feature of Gmail?

3-2-1 strikes again.

I think this was also one of the inspirations for Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", which also deals with (among other things) the nature of consciousness and religion in the human mind.

How exactly is the judge an activist judge in this case?

Did you just find a random HN article that had "judge" in the name, and register an account to air an unrelated grievance?

Is there additional revenue from a bunch of people pushing their vibe-coded stuff up to Github?

What was their epiphany?

Oh, interesting - I wonder if that's new. The last time I checked (granted, a few years ago), it was limited to something much smaller.

I have noticed that the tar files toward the end tend to be smaller, but they still typically weigh in at multiple gigs apiece - 37, 14, etc.

"Saying we'll cure cancer is a cliche. So I'm here to announce that we're going to try to cure cancer!"

But Flock cameras aren't a gun, and they should be held to the same standard as any other information-gathering - it should require a warrant.

Remember to choose the `tar` version, not the `zip` one, unless you like downloading ten thousand zip files one by one. The tar files can be up to 50GB, the zip ones are much smaller.

Nobody's taking away their ability to do their job. What we're trying to do is make sure that the police don't abuse their power, that their use of power is accountable, and that they can be held liable for it when they do abuse it.

Police have to get warrants for searches as well, and nobody seems to be saying that that stops them from being able to do their job.

That's a heck of a correlation!

And the police can't use my phone camera to track down where their ex-girlfriend has been going for the past two weeks.

I load the front page, scan for interesting articles. Read 'em, read the comments.

If there's nothing interesting, I leave.

No, but it's likely the event he's most associated with.

If you asked random strangers in the street what Moses is most well known for, I'd wager bringing the stone tablets down would be #1.

There's apparently a pretty amusing adaptation on Netflix as well.

Yeah, I thought he was easily recognizable because he's holding stone tablets.

But apparently it is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_of_Moses

> The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light.[1] The idea comes from a translation, or mistranslation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible, and many later vernacular translations dependent on that. Moses is said to be "horned", or radiant, or glorified, after he sees God who presents him with the tablets of the law in the Book of Exodus.

> not actually the recommended solution, but...

That $4k plus the free shoebox could have saved them quite a bit in lawyer fees :P

Two is one, and one is none.

> Very likely the decision by PBS to hire OSS was corrupt (OSS are just a reseller of Iron Mountain)

That's making a lot of assumptions. I host some of my backups on what is effectively a reseller of S3; was that decision corrupt?

But, yes, PBS does bear some responsibility here. If you leave your car in a parking lot overnight with the door open and the key in the ignition, the thief is still wrong for taking it, but there's a limit to how much indignity you can have.

Well, the new system is electromagnetic, which probably means it's powered by wind or solar. But steam! Now that's good burnin' stuff.

Either that, or he happened to have dinner the night before next to someone who reminisced about steam catapults.

Is there some positive way to identify Flock cameras based on bluetooth/wifi/other signals they're putting out?