chrismeller

I’ve used MuckRock to request records on ALPR systems for years. I gave up several years ago because SC agencies had started rejecting them all under an exemption for law enforcement / public safety.

There’s no appeal process in SC, so they know they can just stonewall you and you’re highly unlikely to try to sue. The law is also just ambiguous enough that you risk losing even if you did sue, so it’s a lose-lose for the filer.

I admit that I still subconsciously treat com/net/org as somehow more legitimate, though there's no logical reason. I do like that there are more options now, but some of the gTLDs are quite ridiculous.

And I really don't like that companies like Google/MS can buy their own TLD now. I don't think allowing a trademarked term to be used should have been allowed.

Anyone know of something similar for Windows?

Title should probably be updated to indicate this is from 2009.

I use Obsidian, but don't have much invested in any plugins or themes, so maybe I'm just not informed enough on the backstory here.

While I can't disagree with anything said, it's also not really unique, is it? This is the classic open vs. closed ecosystem debate - do we protect users with a walled garden or do we let them load up anything they want, even if that turns out poorly for some subset of them?

If you're going to plead for some kind of change, I think it would be more helpful if you had specific action items. A willingness to help is great, but how do you propose to help? A lot of people are technical, that's awesome. What are they going to build to fix the problem? Who or what is preventing them from doing that now?

I was wondering the same thing, so thanks for the explanation. Disappointing that the article didn’t bother to explain it.

From Section 166 it looks like the state can also convert an HOV lane to an HOT lane and set the toll amount. The contrarian in me wants to believe there’s some ridiculous loophole in there…

> What is "hardware" anyway? Does a microcontroller-based integrator or debouncer count?

Hmm, good question. In this context, I guess "continues to work after the EMP"?

I don't own a Tesla, but I've been a passenger in well north of 100 different ones over the years (Uber/Bolt/etc.) and had no idea there even was a mechanical release. In the event of an emergency I would... not fare well.

Years ago (decades now?) I remember James May on Top Gear doing a segment where he was looking for the first mass-produced car that "looked like a car". Of course there have been tons of changes, but it's also amazing to me how much some things are still the same 100 years later.

Particularly when it comes to safety devices it just seems like you shouldn't mess with that combination of intuitive design and ingrained societal learning from media. It's literally something a child can do...

My main one is for ADSB using adsb-lol.

I also have the Pimoroni Enviro+ in my living room. I've got their Grow kit somewhere as well, but... no plants since I moved.

I used to have a Kubernetes cluster running on some Pi3's, but they got a little too slow and I was bumping up against the lower memory. Lots of other self-hosted stuff, but it's all on some old off-lease computers I found cheap, not on a Pi.

Can I ask for a few more details on your GPS NTP setup? That thought popped into my head the other day but I can't think of a real reason to do it, it'd really just be a cool way to waste some time.

I was thinking the same thing. I know I’m cynical, but I’m sure there’s some blanket rejection reason like “suspected fraud” that is used shockingly frequently. You can’t argue with it because fraud is a real thing, but somehow you just know…

Slack vs. Teams is one of those great examples of designing a product from the ground up to do exactly what it's supposed to do well vs. seeing a business opportunity and throwing a bunch of crap together to meet it.

My subscription is actually for "Microsoft 365 blah blah blah (without Teams)" and costs some small amount less, so I had just assumed they already had?

I was surprised when I moved to Europe that at least several (many?) EU countries don’t even authorize any ADHD drugs to be prescribed. So sure, maybe the doctor knows you have it, but even if they say you have it… so what, what can they do about it?

As someone with some horrific environmental allergies, I see it as similar. The US has a ton more allergy medications available (both RX or OTC) than any of the other countries I’ve lived in or visited, so of course there are more people who have a diagnosis. In Finland they just stared at me wide-eyed and shook their heads when I asked if they had Sudafed. “Oh no, very strong…”

The UI is also just… awful. It gets so confused about what is read and what isn’t. Muting a channel doesn’t really work the way you would expect. Scrolling through messages suddenly just stops and waits 30 seconds to load the next “page”. Even reading through JIRA updates in Teams is hard because the UI is so bland and blank it’s tough to distinguish between the individual updates, but in Slack I have no problem.

Oh, and of course there are three different ways to add a code snippet now, and all three absolutely suck. In Slack there is one, and it just f’ing works.

Teams is free because no one would ever pay for it.