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I completely agree that the tooling is questionable, and that the protocol is meh, but in this case the monitoring noticed the problem yet humans did not notice (or get) the alert.
Initially it's a report. Place, time, allegation, supporting evidence.
The question is how much (automated) detection ought to be allowed, what's the retention period, and so on.
Flock is a bad trade-off, but that doesn't mean there's no point in collecting data. If every datum is a semi-tangible report, then the sensitivity/specificity has quite a good change of being high (especially compared to dragnet surveillance with post-hoc data fishing).
obviously if someone is a repeat offender then as they cross the threshold, chop-chop, straight to jail, charge them with the whole batch of crimes together.
it doesn't mean keep no records of crimes and don't respond at all.
let's start with the ones above $1,000 first, hm?
though not updated yet, but the script is on GitHub
unfortunately no stats displayed :)
i am using that as support for my claim that this extralegal proscription of access to financial services would likely also not survive the courts.
my position on this is simple. if the state claims there's something illegal then they should charge him/them, if not then pressuring private parties to stop exercising their freedom of assembly and association obviously goes against the spirit of civil rights and the rule of law.
(and I know the problem is convoluted, hard and obviously a realpolitik minefield, but ... again, obviously whatever the last 20 years of elected governments were/are doing did not solve the problems.)
on mobile it works (where I would expect the hamburger menu), and on usual desktop I have the usual menu bar, but when I change the window size on desktop I get the hamburger menu (and then the UX jankiness is evident, but for me easy to work around, as moving the mouse down closes the "research" block and then it's quite simple to move it up to be able to click "policy")
at this point I think Opus does something better by default
IMHO it's obvious that there should be a limited minimum/basic account provided by the state unconditionally, and that the current practice of using AML regulations to effectively ban people from having bank cards and bank accounts goes against the spirit of due process.
it's quite farcical that private banks are used as mandatory designated sin-eaters (scapegoats) for this. they don't want to and mostly can't comment on the specifics (because SAR - suspicious activity reporting - and the various national equivalents, usually immediately triggers the requirement to play dumb, since that's the only way to ensure that the bank cannot be later dragged in front of whatever authority for not cooperating with the investigation) but everyone knows it, since it's in the fucking news.
and the actual legal actions tend to be overturned.
all of which in total end up helping these organizations (and these politicians) to farm reputation.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/entry-ban-for-austrian-...
I don't like the changes, but if someone wants easy access to all the Android phones someone needs to take responsibility for what gets published. (and naturally since it's mostly a sham we need to have some shell corporation, just as malware publishers already have.)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-breed-individual-beh...
> Breed offers little predictive value for individuals, explaining just 9% of variation in behavior.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0639
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/which-dog-breed-s... (here note how big the overlap is between breeds for most traits, and clumpiness is rare, but present)
or pooling together tokens and asking Claude nicely to make a mobile app
this is a very local need of some people. they are a minority, and they want some accomodations.
hard to stand up for EU (or even national) values if some dude in Washington has the keys for most of your military
having at least some in-house expertise is the first step.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-kajplats-smart-bu...
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-kajplats-smart-bu...
via
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1tvtyyj/ikea...
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-strategic-pet...
https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/pull/504 of course with sweet sweet drama!