That would frankly be a narrow, reasonable application.
The problem is the database building. Law enforcement queries should all be forced to be
1. Require a warrant or an active emergency and
2. Be strictly real-time, for a set duration, and store no information about cars that are not subject to the warrant.
If either of those is not hardcoses into the technology, I don't want my local police department to be allowed to use license plate scanners whatsoever.
I'm with you on shooting for the moon, but there are many, many, many little wins that need to happen before then. But it's not work that'll happen on its own. If you want to have your hand in poking at the problem, the best place to start is to start submitting FOIA requests to the places you'd want disclosure from and hold them accountable (ie, sue them) when they inevitably don't give you what they're legally required to give.
I mean frankly if the police had to put in the work to make parallel constructions for all the evidence they're gaining by abusing this system that would be a pretty solid start.
Friend, you should try actually submitting some FOIA requests or bumping up against the "open data" stuff out there. What you're suggesting works in a perfect world where government agencies actually want to disclose information. They do not. Saying this as someone who's been in constant FOIA litigation for ten years.
No, I'm saying if when using said data to charge people with crimes, if cops/feds had to put in the work of parallel construction to have their evidence be admissible in court or risk their entire case vanish in a puff of tainted evidence, it would at the very least dramatically slow down the abuse and would also reduce the incentive for said abuse.
I've looked at many, many criminal court cases with these questions in mind and it really isn't that simple in court. Judges and prosecutors very often and truly don't give a fuck. Or the prosecution will just nolle the case if issues of facts come up. That happens with a lot of technology oriented cases, eg shotspotter and stingrays, where 4a issues are dropped. See [1].
Please realize that defense counsel is fighting an uphill battle while their client is stuck in pretrial limbo. The issue of parallel construction, with some exception, will not really come up. As many lawyers have told me -- what matters to them is getting their client out of jail/pretrial. And because that's the concern over all else, the publicly available information about these abuses simply don't come up in the public eye. So these problems go and go and go.
Really, a lot of what you hope happens in court just... really fucking doesn't. All that'll happen is people will be in jail longer because so many people were arrested under 4a-violating arrests and the defense attorneys get more work load.
An answer to your puzzle in another post that is locked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42498953
The "alternate" 5x5 word square that satisfies all the clues without using the words from the first grid is:
S T R I P
C H I N A
R E G A L
A T O N E
P A R E R
Breakdown of the solution:
Across
STRIP (Remove the outer layer of, perhaps) — Counterpart to SCALD.
CHINA (Region on a globe) — Counterpart to POLAR.
REGAL (Like some movie theaters; e.g., Regal Cinemas) — Counterpart to ARTSY.
ATONE (Command to a lawbreaker) — Counterpart to CEASE.
PARER (Rhyme for Tom Lehrer /'lɛrər/) — Counterpart to ERROR.
Down
SCRAP (____yard; scrapyard is a common sci-fi setting) — Counterpart to SPACE.
THETA (It goes something like this: Ꮎ) — Counterpart to CORER.
RIGOR (Feature of liturgy, often; strictness/adherence to rubrics) — Counterpart to ALTAR.
INANE (It's vacuous, in a sense) — Counterpart to LASSO.
PALER (Fino is paler than Pedro Ximénez sherry) — Counterpart to DRYER.
This is a neat app. Though when looking at the files in finder it looks like while some files are stored as '.md' files the sample md files only contain HTML.
Ah that might be a bug sorry, the sample notes should also have the html extension. The notes themselves are currently stored as html (because of the metadata and the state in notes mainly, you can still export to markdown).
We need to do some work before we can also just store them simply as markdown files.
"Toyota vehicles could “Alert local authorities if a license plate or other vehicle identifier associated with a suspected vehicle is identified” AKA “Amber Alert Assistance” at first, but later?" https://x.com/SteveMoser/status/1675876541845188611
Well, you could say the same thing about most notifications including most emails, yet people presumably like notifications so much they'll get them delivered straight to their wrist watch.
I don't see how Github is much different in this regard. Besides, maybe you want the notifications while on the clock.
I'd rather get an app notification than an email notification for pretty much everything I can think of. I'd be surprised if I wasn't in the vast majority on this.
Well, if I can consolidate all my notifications to email, then only one application on my phone needs to have a constant/reoccurring connection to a server for push notifications. Instead of fifteen of the things all acting independently.
Benefit of using an app notification always would come down to platform specific experiences. But replying to github threads over email has been something that I don't have to think twice about
And I install one app per hundred sites that annoyingly prompt me to install their app so they can give me push notifications (or, worse, a working website because they didn't bother even trying to build their product as a website anymore because of the lack of push notifications; it is ridiculous). So? The site is going to prompt me either way. This argument makes no sense: of course I would rather get promoted for the one feature I don't want to give them instead of an attempt to upsell me on an entirely different experience after being served crippled content... that is a total no brainer.
In the Apply Card Privacy Policy it states that part of the algorithm for credit worthiness is that it checks your Apple ID for Apple purchases. There is a good chance that DHH makes all the Apple purchases in his family and thus he received a higher limit. https://thetapedrive.com/apple-card-onboarding
