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kodah commented on New laws trying to criminalize filming cops   slate.com/news-and-politi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
autoexec · 2 years ago
These laws have nothing to do with safety. They are only about making it illegal to film police abuses. Here's the law in AZ https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf

Note the words "IF THE PERSON IS NOT INTERFERING WITH LAWFUL POLICE ACTIONS"

We've seen example after example of police screaming "stop resisting" while they beat someone who is handcuffed and/or unconscious. By "resisting", those people were "interfering with lawful police actions". They might not have been guilty of anything before the police started beating them, but under this law if they were recording any of it they'd be criminals.

kodah · 2 years ago
Again, the problem seems to be who the arbiter of safety is. The police being the arbiter seems to be the problem. I don't think we disagree much. That bill carves out reasonable exemptions that become unreasonable when the police are the interpreters.
kodah commented on New laws trying to criminalize filming cops   slate.com/news-and-politi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
autoexec · 2 years ago
10-25 feet isn't reasonable for a no-filming police abuses zone. It can make it crime for someone who is handcuffed and being beaten by police to record what happened to them.

These laws don't make interfering with police a crime, it only makes filming them illegal.

kodah · 2 years ago
> 10-25 feet isn't reasonable for a no-filming police abuses zone. It can make it crime for someone who is handcuffed and being beaten by police from recording them.

Has that actually been interpreted by a court in that way or are you proposing a hypothetical? Your interpretation makes all dashcams illegal, which makes many Tesla and Toyota cars illegal.

The way I interpreted it was that people who are not part of a scene need to maintain some distance for safety.

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The legality of filming police is thorny. For instance, a number of states passed laws after LivePD became a thing that barred the filming of traffic stops. That, however, contradicts the abilities of citizen journalists to document traffic stops and interactions.

Personally speaking, I don't want to be filmed during a traffic stop unless its my own footage. When I was arrested and went to jail the police posted my mug shot to every local paper and crime reporting website. It took quite a long time to scrub the internet of all of that once charges were dropped. Footage would be much worse because at one point after my head was driven into the ground I was sobbing. My instance also involved the police roughing me up because they perceived me to be "strong".

kodah commented on New laws trying to criminalize filming cops   slate.com/news-and-politi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
mitt_romney_12 · 2 years ago
The issue is also the distance, because it makes it harder to get accurate footage of what's going on
kodah · 2 years ago
How do you account for the safety and liability of near proximity parties?
kodah commented on New laws trying to criminalize filming cops   slate.com/news-and-politi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
chmod600 · 2 years ago
A law about staying back when a police officer asks doesn’t seem like the most terrible rights violation. It’s like virtual yellow police tape.

One way to look at this is that it clarifies how far you need to stand back. 25 feet is slightly far, maybe it should be 15 feet instead?

kodah · 2 years ago
10-25 feet seems reasonable with 25 being the upper bound of reasonability. The average person can move 9-12ft/s in a single direction; starting speed would be slower so generous is 5-6ft/s. 2 seconds worth of distance sounds reasonable to keep everyone safe.

As others have pointed out the issue likely isn't the distance. It's that police can enforce their own measures here without accountability.

kodah commented on Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM    · Posted by u/iFelix
jxf · 2 years ago
Workday isn't owned by Salesforce.
kodah · 2 years ago
That was my fault, I don't know why I thought that, but they got it from me.
kodah commented on Top Software Trends Reports for 2023   ofbizian.com/2023/07/top-... · Posted by u/bibryam
000ooo000 · 2 years ago
How is their handling of a bad apple in any way related to the quality of their research? Should we dismiss all of the good work of scientists because their organisations likely employed a few undesirable people at any given moment? Seems silly to me.
kodah · 2 years ago
Sure, you all are probably right that unless I care to dig up his now deleted tweets and a recording of that conference that it's not worth saying anything about.

On the note of DORAs quality, I don't think they've ever actually released any datasets. The excuse they give is anonymity but their collection surveys always stated that the surveys are anonymous. It's impossible to determine the quality of their research beyond their own statements.

kodah commented on Geothermal Ahead of Schedule   twitter.com/TimMLatimer/s... · Posted by u/ChuckMcM
kodah · 2 years ago
I'm curious how this will impact Radon release from deep areas of the crust. For context, a Radon risk map of the US: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/documents/ra...

Uranium and Thorium decomposes into Radium, which themselves are found at 450m but the gas then rises through the Earths crust as it moves. I could see this kind of constant agitation releasing significantly more at least within a radius.

kodah commented on ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products   intel.com/content/www/us/... · Posted by u/mepian
j45 · 2 years ago
Nice, I'll check it out. Know some folks who swore by it for their development desktop machine, even if they didn't develop much, they'd just remote into it from the macbook as needed.
kodah · 2 years ago
fwiw, I'm OP. I use it with 32GiB of RAM and a 1TB M.2 and it's been fantastic for day to day development on two HiDPI screens. The Vega-M graphics card mine came with is also on mainline Linux in terms of driver support.
kodah commented on Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM    · Posted by u/iFelix
paxys · 2 years ago
Workday is not Salesforce. The rest, yes.
kodah · 2 years ago
You're right! My mistake.
kodah commented on Top Software Trends Reports for 2023   ofbizian.com/2023/07/top-... · Posted by u/bibryam
bberrry · 2 years ago
Because _one_ person affiliated with DORA behaved badly we should dismiss their research findings? Does that still sound reasonable to you after being spelled out? I really detest this attitude.
kodah · 2 years ago
He wasn't just affiliated, but I understand the frustration with the idea to some extent. Yes, it does sound reasonable because at any point in time they could've sat him down for a course correction and helped him learn. This was pretty much his brand as much as I can tell.

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