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mlncn

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Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no harm.

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Last night a Brandi Carlile concert came to a triumphant finish at Target Center in Minneapolis, having run over the scheduled time by 45 minutes— with, by all reports, every second beloved by the attendees and staff. The delighted fans, still singing along to Carlile's chosen exit music, found the doors where they had entered, on the upper level of the stadium, to be locked.

Minneapolis closes its skyways late at night, because it is run by cruel people who hate that somebody with nowhere to live might take shelter in these heated hallways above the city's streets.

If the powers of downtown Minneapolis were not opposed to unhoused people existing in public (or were willing to give people housing), the skyways would have been open to the very people they want to give a stellar city experience to.

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The "curb cut effect" refers to how making built environments (real and virtual) more accommodating of people with disabilities benefits everybody. It gets its name the little ramps built into curbs so people using wheelchairs can get the half-foot from street onto the sidewalk— which then benefit everybody with an easier time, especially people with strollers, grocery carts, and rolling suitcases.

What should we call it when declining to try to punish poor people results in side-effect benefits for everybody else? Dropping means-testing means universal availability of basic needs, so maybe "Free lunch effect"? Or "Open bathrooms effect"? "Comfortable bench effect"? Maybe "Skyway effect", so people have to come back to this one anecdote to learn what people are talking about!

@mlncn@social.coop avatar mlncn , to random

If local police enforced traffic law against their whole operation would pretty much stop, seriously, for moving violations alone. Most egregiously, they routinely blow through red lights and stopsigns. This is common knowledge among people observing ICE.

Now ICE reportedly caused a serious crash in St Paul that, because the ICE agent also went to the hospital, may be the first absolutely known to involve ICE here in the . (Not counting all the times ICE rammed cars intentionally.)

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

An image of a black Orbic mobile hotspot on a tan table. The screen says "retrieving data usage info."
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@briankrebs one thing that is not clear in EFF's writeup— to use these, one needs to pay for a separate cellphone line? (Or pre-paid SIM cards i guess?)

@mlncn@social.coop avatar mlncn , to random

@bitwarden i should find your issue queue as i'm sure this feedback is in already already, but lazily complaining is half the joy of social media:

How did you roll out a major UX update and nobody in testing found it annoying that where pressing the label of a saved login used to autofill it (most common action == easiest), now one must press a small "Fill" button, and if you press the whole label you are viewing it and there's no way to fill from this view card without pressing back?

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Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars after just 15 days — one of the shortest windows in the country.

The sales have particularly affected low-income people, who have lost jobs after they were unable to get their cars back.

https://propub.li/3DGYCPs

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@kevin

Any time it is legal for one group of people to do something that most people are prohibited by law from doing, that looks like to me.

Tow trucks that steal cars are cops.

@mlncn@social.coop avatar mlncn , to random

i saw the police chief's e-mail address on the livestream of @micahflee at during a five minute breezethrough of data from the hacked Canadian right-wing sham news mill "The Post Millennial". Excellent talk on the art of analyzing hacked and leaked data. While pulling up users with police or .gov addresses, there was the minneapolismn.gov address of Medaria Arradondo, who was police chief until 2022.

Now i need to see that for myself! Got to find the dataset first…