nateb2022

nateb2022

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> So if police can observe things freely and they can record their observations, well can't police departments store and search through police records?

This is unnecessarily reductive; if we reduce all action enough we can justify anything as simply continuous 1 centimeter movement; e.g. grand theft would be innocently grasping an object in a store, and then a series of 1 centimeter movements which you could independently justify as "freedom to move."

We understand complex actions to have complex consequences, and the aggregation of vehicular data is itself a search, which by our laws requires a warrant. Jurisprudence evaluates the totality of an act and its consequences.

> The state will take for itself power that the people have but do not wield.

The Framers of the Constitution would understand this idea as tyranny.

nateb2022

3 gün öncediscuss

> Can the police department post police officers on every street corner and instruct them to record license plate numbers for every car they see? Would that constitute a search and if so a search of what exactly?

Let me quote myself on this:

> As Justice Sotomayor noted in United States v. Jones, logging a vehicle's public movements "reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations." An action revealing all this is ipso facto a search.

> I'm not in love with the encroaching mass surveillance society but in terms of privacy in public there is little in the US by right.

Suggesting that a citizen possesses "little privacy in public by right" is to stand the American constitutional order squarely on its head. You have a very Eurocentric understanding of rights, as if they're concessions by the king/government to the people. We do things the opposite way.

The enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people (Ninth Amendment). Further, the Tenth Amendment explicitly reserves powers not delegated to the government to the states or to the people. What's your proposed basis, historic or constitutionally, granting the state the power to aggregate people's location history? The burden does not fall on the citizen to produce a right not to be monitored; it rests entirely on the state to demonstrate the authority to monitor.

nateb2022

3 gün öncediscuss

> US v Jones was in the context of placing an actual recording device on an individual vehicle

You are focusing exclusively on Justice Scalia's opinion. Five other Justices provided two separate concurrences in that same case, including Alito's:

  society’s expectation has been that law enforcement agents and others would not—and indeed, in the main, simply could not—secretly monitor and catalogue every single movement of an individual’s car for a very long period.

nateb2022

4 gün öncediscuss

As Katz established, the Fourth Amendment protects people, NOT places. The assumption that "if it's visible from the windows, it's public" is a dangerous non-sequiter that completely falls apart under any form of jurisprudence.

Your understanding of privacy misapplies the plain view doctrine. Plain view allows the state to seize evidence provided that the officer seizing the evidence has a lawful right to access or observe the seized object. (Collins v. Virginia)

An officer glancing through a car window is performing a constitutional act.

However, were the state to compile a history of your car's location, which it does, that exposes your "familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations." (Jones) This compilation of data is an action legally defined as a search, since it turns up data NOT readily available in plain view. And this search takes place without warrant.

nateb2022

5 gün öncediscuss

In the 1760s there was something called a writ of assistance, which allowed British officers to search any location for smuggled goods without specific suspicion.

The Framers of the Constitution drafted the Fourth Amendment in direct response to these abusive general warrants, protecting against the exact kind of arbitrary power that placed "the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer." (John Adams)

Moreso, Adams maintains:

  Writs in their nature are temporary things. When the purposes for which they are issued are answered, they exist no more; but these live forever; no one can be called to account...

  But these prove no more than what I before observed, that special writs may be granted on oath and probable suspicion. The act of 7 and 8 William III that the officers of the plantations shall have the same powers, etc., is confined to this sense; that an officer should show probable ground; should take his oath of it; should do this before a magistrate; and that such magistrate, if he think proper, should issue a special warrant to a constable to search the places.

As Justice Sotomayor noted in United States v. Jones, logging a vehicle's public movements "reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations." An action revealing all this is ipso facto a search; and Flock performs this search in the very absence of a specific warrant that Adams so vehemently opposed.

nateb2022

5 gün öncediscuss

> Can the police take pictures of every car they see and use that to determine your travel history?

You conflate the generally unremarkable act of taking a picture of a single car in public with the indiscriminate collection of photos of all vehicles. The former is a constitutional, isolated observation. The latter is a search, since in toto it reveals personal information.

> If the police don't have the expertise to maintain such a network can they pay a third party to do so?

May the police pay a third party to execute warrantless searches?

nateb2022

5 gün öncediscuss

> Automobiles are highly regulated and driving is a privilege. There is no _right_ to drive a vehicle from point A to point B, in secret or not.

If we accept your premise that the government can spy on you simply because an activity is regulated, then the Fourth Amendment is effectively dead. Under that logic, the state could mandate interior cameras in every heavily regulated business, or search the backpack of every passenger using public transit without a warrant.

You have a reasonable expectation of privacy for the contents of your trunk, your backpack, and your travel history. The police cannot search your trunk without a warrant just because you are driving on public roads. They should not be able to search your travel history either.

nateb2022

5 gün öncediscuss

> In comparison: license plates, when in public, are always visible, and very easy to discern from one-another (different state-unique numbers); so in my mind the expectation of privacy is far lower.

According to Carpenter:

  A person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing into the public sphere. To the contrary, 'what [a person] seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.'

Being present in plain view isn't equivalent to a total surrender of privacy.

nateb2022

17 gün öncediscuss

Curious if bunny.net offers any measurable DNS performance improvements over Cloudflare or vice versa.

nateb2022

18 gün öncediscuss

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648039 (2 hours ago, 58 comments)

nateb2022

18 gün öncediscuss

I applaud this. Assuming this is to combat the rampant LLM posts and comments that irk me whenever I visit.

nateb2022

21 gün öncediscuss

Feels like a solution in search of a problem; a reinvention of https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/

opencode (https://opencode.ai/docs/permissions/#defaults) already forbids access to .env by default.

nateb2022

21 gün öncediscuss

On Amazon I see a "Orange Pi 6 Plus 32GB RAM 12 Core 64 Bit LPDDR5 Single Board Computer, CIX SoC 45TOPS AI NPU Mini PC Run Linux, Android, Windows, ROS2 OS with Heat Dissipation Assembly with Cooling Fan" listed for $734.99 USD.

You can get a mini PC for less with a modern Ryzen 8845HS/Core Ultra processor with a SOC that pushes far past 45 TOPS. And you'll get standard x86 architecture so you won't have to deal with ARM oddities or fight with non mainline kernels.

nateb2022

21 gün öncediscuss

> Mozilla’s fast release cycle for Firefox is a minor irritation, yes. (Of course, there’s always the Extended Support Release channel, if you want to hop off the treadmill.)

I am unaware of anyone irritated by Firefox's release cycle.

nateb2022

24 gün öncediscuss

> Seems very unethical, no? Who uses service providers like this? The whole point of anti-bot measures is to get rid of bots - you are not wanted there.

I'm familiar with companies automating access to software only accessible via the web with poor/no API support. This is software they pay (usually a lot of money) for, and usually has built in captchas to guard logins. They aren't a large enough customer to ask the removal of these captchas or whitelabelled (just one out of many SaaS tenants), so they simply work around that restriction.

nateb2022

24 gün öncediscuss

> With Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf?

Ahh no I'm using the MLX version, it's about 5-10% faster than GGUFs in my experience.

nateb2022

25 gün öncediscuss

I get over 100 tok/s sustained on my M4 Max and M5 Max, in MacBook Pro's. LM Studio + MLX.

nateb2022

25 gün öncediscuss

> As long as you use proprietary OSes, do not ever update past what has come with the hardware(reinstall back to it if needed). That's why there are still machines using windows xp still in use today. That's where you will get the fastest/best experience.

This is terrible advice that would cause a TON of people to become exposed to patched vulnerabilities.

nateb2022

25 gün öncediscuss

How's your battery health? A severely degraded battery will not be able to deliver power at the rate your system may be demanding it. I'd replace it asap.

nateb2022

25 gün öncediscuss

What sites already are using JPEG-XL en masse?

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