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I can't tell from the article if there's a real problem. None of the levels exceed FDA thresholds, and it sounds bad, but there's also no definite claim of harm.

Hah, yeah I got a Debian floppy and then tried to install packages over DSL. Somehow it didn't immediately kill my interest in Linux, eventually ran OpenBSD as my server for a while.

Citation?

"And he paid for, at least in part, a drone and explosives to be used as a weapon of mass destruction to commit an attack," investigators said in the federal affidavit.

What's "mass" about one drone? Is this just language to bring different legalities to bear?

Looks nice! Sounds like a very fun process too.

Is one side larger than the other, or is that a trick of perspective / lens distortion?

How did you integrate the charger, and where's the power cord? I've thought of doing something similar but not tried to design it.

Here he is:

What a mom, just reassuring her daughter the whole time.

I've been donating to Democracy Forward, who is suing people around the clock.

The fastest, most power hungry BSer.

Looks so convincing until you start looking at details.

Octopus Lady is 100% crazy ocean creature facts. Also on Nebula.

If you haven't played with Pulumi (for configuring cloud services) and Ansible (for local services, shell commands, apt installs etc) you may enjoy them as a way to capture / re-apply configuration.

Have seen this IRL. The only part that's inaccurate is that the poop would be a single object rather than an area effect.

Video of the abduction. Good on the people of Boston for shouting them down in the street. Looks like some ICE goons without masks this time.

This is also the day of the DC protest, and there is a pay-what-you-can bus from Boston to DC for that: https://bit.ly/boston2dc . But great to gather in Boston & thanks for spreading this info!

Thanks. Pleasantly surprised that there are not too many ALPRs nearby me according to deflock.me. I was thinking, though, what about privately owned ALPRs to track known enforcement vehicles. I didn't know what laws come into play there (or what unequal enforcement). The photos on the article do look high quality though, definitely beyond a Pi camera board pointed out a window. OTOH tagging "purple bumper sticker" or "bike rack" honestly doesn't sound that far beyond OpenCV or AI tools these days.

What's the camera technology like? Is a distributed citizen-owned network to watch the watchers feasible?

Thanks! I did run across those heaters, but what I found were $30+ and online, versus eventually finding a $6 bulb at my local hardware store. Someone also suggested reptile heaters, but most were only 10W or so which wasn't enough to maintain >80F in the (poorly sealed/insulated) cabinet. I do like the idea of something that doesn't mind drips/bumps as much as a glass bulb might, though.

Description of ICE training and practices, including:

What this means is that ICE cannot enter a home without a judicial warrant (a warrant signed by a judge) or voluntary permission (consent) from an authorized adult. They almost never have a judicial warrant and therefore need consent to legally enter your home. ICE agents uses ruses as a way to get inside homes without identifying that they are ICE.

It's not clear to me if "resisting arrest" is a thing with ICE.

I do do interviews too. It's a lot of time and work. A well designed interview can and should be a realistic, rewarding problem solving session where you get to try out collaboration with potential colleagues.

Cheating leetcode interviews with AI doesn't seem that innovative to me, just adding dishonesty to a broken practice. Destruction is always easier than creation.

Also, as someone who frequently designs and runs SW interviews, it's totally possible to run interviews that test actually important SW skills like OO design, error handling, and using APIs, which AIs still fail handily.

If you want to do something cool, make an AI to refactor your codebase for maintainability and security.