kevin_thibedeau's comments

On: Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant

[kevin_thibedeau]

I've had two police stops in the past initiated by ALPR systems fraudulently claiming I didn't have a valid registration. Presumably because the state that issued the plates didn't share such data. I wasn't motivated to do anything about it but something more severe like this should be fought with a multimillion dollar libel suit against the C-suite and board.

On: Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

[kevin_thibedeau]

They might have to figure out running CI on their own hardware. The horror.

On: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions

[kevin_thibedeau]

Stack Exchange sort of tried to do this. It never seemed to get off the ground.

On: Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

[kevin_thibedeau]

The lofty .88889

On: Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

[kevin_thibedeau]

Akamai is the OG Cloudflare, just not as cool.

[miohtama → kevin_thibedeau]

And costs 1000x more

On: GCC 16 has been released

[kevin_thibedeau]

This still has unresolved alignment issues that blow up outside the amd64 ecosystem.

[jandrewrogers → kevin_thibedeau]

Is this just a basic lack of alignment enforcement or is there a bigger issue?

On: Where the goblins came from

[kevin_thibedeau]

We're going to be living in a perpetual holodeck malfunction episode.

On: Online age verification is the hill to die on

[kevin_thibedeau]

Now Persona has your picture and PII. Pray they never have a breach.

On: Online age verification is the hill to die on

[kevin_thibedeau]

> fine sites not participating into oblivion.

That would also amount to compelled speech.

[Bender → kevin_thibedeau]

That would also amount to compelled speech.

I disagree. The legal requirement to apply a warning label is a well known, understood and accepted process that is applied to a myriad of hazards to children and adults. As just one example businesses in some states, most notably California are compelled to add warning labels to foods and other products that could cause cancer.

[SpaceNoodled → Bender]

That's not the best example, since the levels set for Prop 65 warnings are so low that the warnings are effectively useless; every single commercial building in CA now somehow causes cancer.

[Bender → SpaceNoodled]

Surely we both understand the point I was making in that labels are already compelled by laws today.

Fine, cigarettes must be labelled as being a risk of causing cancer. The punishment for failing to do this is both civil and federal penalties including massive fines and federal prison time.

[SpaceNoodled → Bender]

Now that I think about it, perhaps that example did a good job of demonstrating how ill-conceived requirements can wind up having zero effect except for just making everything a little bit more inconvenient.

[tardedmeme → SpaceNoodled]

Nobody was talking about their utility. Are they constitutional?

[sailfast → Bender]

Do you believe using the Internet should require a license? Isn’t that what covers these product warning labels?

[Bender → sailfast]

I never implied an internet license. Rather if a server operator a business has content that may be adult in nature they must label their site. Businesses require a license already but that is unrelated to this.

[Ekaros → kevin_thibedeau]

Clients could refuse to show content that does not have headers set.

On other hand servers might choose to lie. After all that is their free speech right.

So maybe you need some third party vetting list. Ofc, that one should be fully liable for any damages misclassification can cause... But someone would step up.

[AlienRobot → kevin_thibedeau]

Compelled to disclaim facts is good compelled speech, though.

On: I won a championship that doesn't exist

[kevin_thibedeau]

Simon is a founding member of the Whale Namer's Guild. You don't get more legitimate than that.