Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@hasani @tropicalchaos AIUI on a strict legal interpretation, "qualified immunity" just means you can't bring legal action against individual officers for things they did in the line of duty. It's an after-the-fact get-out-of-jail card for them, orthogonal to any right you might or might not have to defend yourself or others before-the-fact.

Of course we can't expect compromised courts or executive to apply it that way.

@thorsheim Ok, it sounds like I completely misread your initial intent then.

@thomasclaburn @bloor I think you mean antifungals. Antibiotics can exacerbate a fungal infection by reducing competition from harmless bacteria. 🙃

@thorsheim It got started because you were advocating for a US-based email-scanning MITM provider to offer DANE so EU businesses could use them.

This would purely increase risk. We're better off with regulatory requirements ruling them out so thar business decision makers who don't understand the risks of letting a US company read all their emails don't adopt their service.

@thorsheim "There are mail servers out there using..." does not affect your privacy. If your DANE records require use of an adequate strength key, nobody honoring DANE can attempt to deliver mail to you without using it.

Other direction of course depends on what recipient domain is doing. But this only matters for the parties you have important communications with, not any random site using improper keys or no DANE.

Anyone whose employer is demanding AI usage should be negotiating hazard pay for the cognitohazard, backed with research showing it's a hazard. You should be getting paid like you might be unemployable within a few years and needing long term psych care.

If you are in a public space and "a safe distance away" and "not getting in the way" you are following all of the laws when filming openly.

Shockingly even if you are clearly doing all of these things a police officer may react as if you aren't. Be ready for that reaction.

The more people do this the more video there will be so the truth gets out to the public. But, even if the video isn't important it sends a message about your community and expectations.

"Am I free to leave?" *will* mark you out as an "annoying do-gooder who doesn't like police"

But this could be an improvement on seeming like someone they could trick or trip up more easily.

Prepare to be ignored. Police will try to provoke you so they can arrest you or stop you from filming. Police will hit you unprovoked or try to knock your phone away.

Don't waste time "reasoning" with them. Just get the video so more people can see what they are doing.

When you are filming police try not to talk to them. Avoid:

"Is it OK if I film?" (That isn't up to them.)
"Sorry officer." (You have done nothing wrong don't apologize.)

Try things like.
"I am filming from a safe distance."

If they start yelling at you focus on:

"Am I free to leave?"

Every time I've said this the officer has responded with "shut up" (ok??)
I'm happy to comply with *that* one and keep filming from a safe distance.

Practice how you will film and what you will say. It will be a very stressful situation and it's tempting to just try to "be reasonable and talk" you aren't dealing with someone who is reasonable. They want you to stop filming. They may be very angry and emotional and lash out without warning.

This can be shocking if you watch too many TV cop dramas.

You are our eyes and ears. The things you film could vanish forever so don't get drawn in to a back and forth.

@thorsheim Um, can we not get into quantum woo bullshit? There is utterly zero chance that "harvest now, decrypt later" will break anything secured with present day acceptable key sizes in the next 50 years, and maybe 0.1% chance over the next millennium. The motives for spooks doing it are a mix of hopes that keys will be leaked (not broken), FUD against classical to be used for pushing non-hybrid "PQ" that will easily be broken, and just outright cluelessness.

@zwol @hipsterelectron @navi This reflects a problem of stratification. In theory you could have a transactional framework for a filesystem that exists only in a namespace the kernel itself won't need to inspect. But you can't in global namespace because of circular dependency issues.

@zwol @hipsterelectron @navi What is the kernel supposed to do when an unbounded time transaction is holding up access to the path it's supposed to load a module from, and the module load request is coming from an operation that's part of the transaction?

@xgranade We really need to complain to get practices to stop doing this. Patients don't need infuriatingly stupid punditry increasing stress while dealing with medical issues. It sets folks up for an unproductive meeting with doctor, mind clouded with fury at something unrelated.

@zwol @hipsterelectron @navi That's a different meaning of cross privilege domain than being able to block forward progress in kernel and other userspace tasks not engaging with a limited protocol.

@zwol @hipsterelectron @navi Database ppl aren't doing it cross privilege domain.

It just pisses me off as I keep re-remembering every 5 minutes that Schumer’s sad little list of demands were the negotiation •starting• position that’s going to get watered down.

I’m getting offline for a bit here. Bah.

"I spend my days piloting a meat suit, connected, but not a part of it, but it's painful, but it's the only way I can survive"

I know, Shinji, I used to feel that way, too. Just take the estrogen already and go defeat those angels. You'll feel better, I promise.

@AnarchoNinaWrites There's a reason I call it a tankie rag.

@blogdiva If victors had done their jobs at the end of WW2, he would never have been born.