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Glyph Protocol for Terminals

citruscomputing — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:33:52 +0000

Article URL: https://rapha.land/introducing-glyph-protocol-for-terminals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096377

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New comment by citruscomputing in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

citruscomputing — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:15:30 +0000

In Denver, they'll be expanding once they have budget. Also as soon as Axon finishes developing their integrations with civilian cameras into their Fusus product. They've also got natural-language queries in the pipeline ("find red trucks near here"), and they already have integration with the hundreds of existing non-ALPR LEO cameras. It's not better.

New comment by citruscomputing in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

citruscomputing — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:11:44 +0000

It's different. The primary harms of flock come from their horizontal integration into a nationwide surveillance network, working with ICE etc. Axon (formerly Taser) has strong vertical integration, which is new and we haven't thought through as much yet. (This is the position of city councilmember Sarah Parady, who's been part of a working group to research+draft ordinances about surveillance technology, and whose speech at the meeting voting on the contract I really respected. I think it's available online.)

The Axon contract is smaller than the Flock one, 50 cameras instead of >100, but that's because it's all they could get budget for, and they want to expand. DPD owns the data and is theoretically not supposed to share it with federal agencies, but there are lots of legal ways to make them comply. They're setting a 21-day retention period for data that's not part of an ongoing investigation, but I think that's missing the point, and it's not codified into law. The Axon cameras can be switched into a mode where DPD can view live feeds. Most of the contract provisions that the mayor's office added because of significant public outcry I would call "token." They're not addressing the real issues, and it's still contributing heavily to the development of the surveillance state.

Overall, it's an improvement, in the sense that breaking your leg is better than breaking both your legs. But don't get me wrong, they're coming for the other one as soon as they can.

New comment by citruscomputing in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

citruscomputing — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:53:38 +0000

Hi, I'm in Denver. They're already doing this over on Colfax. It's a significant change vs the existing halo cameras, because they use the drones to follow people.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

citruscomputing — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:22:44 +0000

Well yeah, that's what "alignment" means...

New comment by citruscomputing in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

citruscomputing — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:27:17 +0000

We have ceded too much ground in this debate. When I say "trans women are women" I mean that, ontologically, it is really true that trans women are a subcategory of the general class "women."

Like you say, we are searching for outliers. We don't cut women that are too strong or too tall. We shouldn't cut out women that happen to be trans. If all the top levels of women's sport end up dominated by trans athletes (something I don't see occurring, and that isn't supported by the data), then good, outliers found. We love to see women succeed.

(To avoid perverse incentives, though, the HRT requirement is critical. Otherwise you have trans women having to choose between being more competitive and receiving necessary medical care.)

New comment by citruscomputing in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

citruscomputing — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:07:52 +0000

It's being built as we speak. I attended at a city council meeting yesterday, discussing approving a contract for ALPR cameras. I learned about a product from the camera vendor called Fusus[0], a dashboard that integrates various camera systems, ALPRs, alerts, etc. Two things stood out to me: natural-language querying of video feeds, and future planned integration with civilian-deployed cameras. The city only had budget for 50 ALPRs, and they stressed how they're only deploying them on main streets, but it seems like only a matter of time before your neighbor is able to install a camera that feeds right into the local PD's AI-enabled systems. One council member raised concerns about integrations with the citizen app[1] specifically (and a few others I didn't catch the names of). I'm very worried about where all this is heading.

[0]: https://www.axon.com/products/axon-fusus [1]: https://citizen.com/

New comment by citruscomputing in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

citruscomputing — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:14:01 +0000

It's already happening. Someone local to me seems to be spray-painting over ring cameras and leaving flyers about the ring-flock-ice connection. I can't say I agree with the methods, but it is sending a message.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

citruscomputing — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:36:22 +0000

Oh, this will be very useful. My current solution is incredibly hacky, I run an unauthenticated SSH server on the Kindle (key-based wasn't working), port scan to find it, and SFTP new files. At home, at least, I have a static IP. The whole system falls apart enough that I usually just connect to calibre's remote server and send books that way, though. I wonder what the battery impact of running tailscale on a Kindle is.

New comment by citruscomputing in "A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life"

citruscomputing — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:26:13 +0000

Hm. Not the biggest fan of the "parasite" framing given how little we know. I feel the default should be something more like lichens.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

citruscomputing — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:36:55 +0000

This applies to fashion as well. Hackers should tinker with their clothes and jewelry more.

New comment by citruscomputing in "30 minutes with a stranger"

citruscomputing — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:55:58 +0000

Right now the solution that makes the most sense to me is intentional communities. If anyone reading this has experience living in one, I'd love to chat. Email is in profile.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

citruscomputing — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:48:53 +0000

As important context, it gained popularity in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

New comment by citruscomputing in "The year I didn't survive"

citruscomputing — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:55:43 +0000

> I got the distinct feeling that she really died and that I was just in a very long dream in which she survived, and that I would wake up very soon to a world of sorrow.

This is how I've felt every time a friend has tried and failed to commit suicide. I'm so sorry.

New comment by citruscomputing in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

citruscomputing — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:09:25 +0000

Similar story to you with non-celiac gluten sensitivity: I was having disabling flank pain for months, but after ruling out a couple things they shrugged and gave me an IBS diagnosis and a prescription for a drug with bad long-term side effects. Someone suggested cutting out gluten, which I tried and the pain went away. Intentional and unintentional reintroduction of gluten leads to the pain coming back within a few hours.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

citruscomputing — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:30:59 +0000

if not for the work requirement, at 80gb you could likely do what I do: use syncthing to make there be a full copy of the files on your phone. I've got a media terminal, my laptop, and my phone each keeping each other up to date. it's never broken or been frustrating. it works offline perfectly.

New comment by citruscomputing in "How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home"

citruscomputing — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:13:09 +0000

can't forget

> The music video is fantastic too and so, so beautiful except for the rap part which I don't like.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers"

citruscomputing — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:59:32 +0000

I highly recommend reading this article about how Israel has been using AI: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

It really brought home for me the real, existing harms this type of technology is already doing in the "defense" space.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria"

citruscomputing — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:54:58 +0000

It's a real shame tattoo ink isn't regulated in the US, at all.

New comment by citruscomputing in "Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system"

citruscomputing — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:04:52 +0000

Jade roller/gua sha? Also look up "post ffs lymphatic massage" or similar. This helps me when my immune system is acting up. Not sure if it'd help with the CSF specifically, but this is how to move lymph out of the head.