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New comment by rsingel in "Waymo Premier"

rsingel — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:55:34 +0000

Actually blocking a road in SF can get you a felony conspiracy count with this DA, especially if they don't like your message

San Francisco’s Case Against Pro-Palestinian Activists Who Blocked Bridge Heads to Jury | KQED https://share.google/4RstsRSYbqY2lEdhn

New comment by rsingel in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

rsingel — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:16:51 +0000

I miss Pivotal Tracker

New comment by rsingel in "Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)"

rsingel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:09:20 +0000

Maybe count this in the "feature,not a big" column?

Github is making engineers more productive by turning off distracting fake work tools

New comment by rsingel in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

rsingel — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:16:34 +0000

The kicker on this story is glorious

New comment by rsingel in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

rsingel — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:27:22 +0000

Former. She stepped down

New comment by rsingel in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

rsingel — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:14:18 +0000

This is a great behind-the-scenes look at the NSA-Hepting case.

Can't wait to read Cohn's book.

Also RIP Mark Klein. A true American hero who never tried to turn his whistle-blowing into becoming a celebrity.

New comment by rsingel in "Brands got worse on purpose"

rsingel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:59:07 +0000

Love Pendleton but they have moved some production to Mexico and other spots. Check before you buy

For example, Pendleton Ganado Matelassé Blanket | Belk https://share.google/0QaaEXgLnNu0EKClr

New comment by rsingel in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

rsingel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:25:32 +0000

https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...

New comment by rsingel in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

rsingel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:25:00 +0000

You can read the defamation complaint. Sure looks like Jones did way more than talk about other people's theories.

https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...

New comment by rsingel in "Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702"

rsingel — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:16:34 +0000

Close but a lot of this, as Sen Wyden points out, turns on how NSA and DoJ lawyers define terms. So you get situations where bulk collection of communications of Americans to Americans into a data center isn't considered interception until a human looks at it. There's so much we don't know because the policies/legal interpretation and the FISA court rulings on them are secret. Sen Wyden tries to warn but he can only hint at the real dangers and policies

New comment by rsingel in "Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702"

rsingel — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:10:18 +0000

Nah, they just finally decided to stop hanging out at the fascist playground. Seems like you like it there though

New comment by rsingel in "Tax Wrapped 2025"

rsingel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:21:03 +0000

You can't meaningfully calculate the budget including social security. This is a trust fund that you get back depending on how much you made and how long you live. And whether the outlays are taxed or not depends on your income at payment.

The whole site would be way more informative if social security was broken out.

Even better if it included how much you and your employer spend on health care, because most people are literally spending more because there is no universal health care.

The only thing useful in the whole thing is how much tax money goes to "defense"

New comment by rsingel in "Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI"

rsingel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:22:12 +0000

If you thought Slack logs were damning in discovery, wait til someone suing or prosecuting you figures out that everything you typed and looked at, etc., is in the cloud

New comment by rsingel in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

rsingel — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:48:41 +0000

It was too early and a bit of a dangerous design, but the StokeMonkey was built for torque and worked great at low speeds.

Some pedicab folks in Austin used to use them.

Hill climbing video YouTube https://share.google/iLrHXvjAKMO4esAux

Design info https://share.google/iLrHXvjAKMO4esAux

New comment by rsingel in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

rsingel — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:02:27 +0000

R.I.P. Sheldon

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/sheldon-brown-w/

New comment by rsingel in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

rsingel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:17:40 +0000

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New comment by rsingel in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

rsingel — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:43:50 +0000

These are increasingly harder to get, sadly. My credit union won't anymore. I have to keep a debit card locked

New comment by rsingel in "Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation"

rsingel — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:14:01 +0000

The video for that song uses excerpts from the movie version of Johnny Got His Gun. I don't know if the songwriting was inspired by it but the video certainly was. Because the video relied so much on the excerpts the band ended up buying the rights to the movie just to not pay royalties.

Hilariously, I won a writing prize about this connection as a teenager in 1989. Fun to see you had a similar experience

New comment by rsingel in "Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T and the MGs, dies aged 84"

rsingel — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:45:37 +0000

What an amazing life

Booker T and the MGs also recorded one of the best Christmas albums of all time

https://tidal.com/browse/album/216317?u

New comment by rsingel in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

rsingel — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:12:24 +0000

I'd say too we aren't the only ones. Plausible Analytics is a great, mission-driven, open-soutce non-profit providing cookie-free web analytics.

And they let us bulk buy for our member publishers.

There's so much potential in what you are suggesting!