<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chaps</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chaps</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:36:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chaps" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chaps in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That doesn't make it any less important to recognize when it happens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452818</link><dc:creator>chaps</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chaps in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same. Was thinking the other week what would be the smallest llm one could make that is able to figure out tooling in its local environment and build something that can then expand out to other hosts, build more of itself, etc.<p>1MB?</p>
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<p>who's you?</p>
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<p>Summarized happened.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391108</link><dc:creator>chaps</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chaps in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One that wants to teach Greek mythology but can't because no child left behind forced teachers to teach the standardized tests over all else.</p>
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<p>There's a lot of truth to this, but....... fuck they did a great job disincentivizing it.<p>In high school we had to read <i>and annotate</i> this 900p Greek mythology book during our summer break. Our grade reflected how well we annotated it. I didn't do any of it (thanks Ultima Online).<p>The very first in-class assignment we had that year took about an hour and had about a 25% bigger impact on our grade than annotating did.<p>Not saying that grades are the end goal but it felt like a slap in the face that the exploration of such a deep topic just.. didn't matter.</p>
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<p>Are you okay?</p>
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<p>Fucking yikes, bro.</p>
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<p>You literally said, "It's also important to note that Flock is just a license plate reader."<p>You're spreading misinformation about what these things are and aren't. It's fucked up. But I'm hopeful that you can do better.<p>Also, please, for your sake -- submit a FOIA request for footage taken from a public camera. It'll get denied because public records laws consider this sorta information private. Your oversimplification is intellectually silly.</p>
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<p>Friend, even after listening to that interview you still insisted on saying that flock ONLY does ALPR and only now that you've been given an example of where you were wrong, you suggest that I listen to the thing that clearly didn't inform you enough?<p>Your goalposts are quite mobile.</p>
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<p>Flock is not just a license plate reader. They have many products. Here's an article today that includes a decent deep dive into the code of one of its new projects that's... definitely more than just license plate reading.<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:52:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366351</link><dc:creator>chaps</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chaps in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everybody should submit FOIAs. If that makes me an advocate for public records, then sure, I'm an advocate.<p>And of course those things count, but it's arguably only focused on your immediate surroundings. I've done some pretty significant cleanup of parks in my area. It's very rewarding.<p>Are you interested in being less antagonistic about basic civics?</p>
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<p>You're being needlessly antagonistic and it makes me think you haven't actually explored local options. Let's start elsewhere: what sort of civic engagement are you involved with? Have you ever submitted a FOIA request? Been to a community advocacy group?</p>
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<p>It does matter and you're lying to yourself if you think it doesn't.</p>
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<p>Mannnnn.... I've done similar and have NOT had the same experience. The problems I've had are usually because I'm loading stuff in a weird disk-memory-cpu trifecta and they all <i>really</i> want to push the remaining 30GB stuff into a database. Then it's off to ctrl-alt-f5 to wait for gnome to crash so I can auth in and kill the ravaging process.</p>
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<p>Quick: give us 10 correlative reasons why this could be that don't include surveillance tech.<p>You'll do great.</p>
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<p>Okay but can you give me an article that's relevant to the use of surveillance that speaks to your central claim?</p>
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<p>That's creepy as fuck.<p>Also, show proof.</p>
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<p>This reduction is happening across the board and isn't "because of flock".</p>
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<p>People who like Flock: is this a surprise?</p>
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