throwaway1090

Born on April 24, 2021•59 Karma

on April 24, 2021

•on: Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single sho...

One thing is that the murderers are not punished. They are instead rewarded with paid leaves, pensions etc. The other thing is that police brutality isn't only about murder. There is assault, including sexual assualt. Most are not punished. Even if one gets sentenced, they might get out soon like this fellow.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/202...

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Sisters with Transistors

Check what gary_0 posted above on Maria Anna Mozart.

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communi...

That's very interesting. Do they deliver internet through WiMAX ?

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: India orders Twitter to pull tweets criticizing it...

Crowds without mask don't transmit? Where have you been this past year!!!

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Irdest: Decentralised ad-hoc wireless mesh communi...

Remember the guy who rescued a lost hiker by deducing his location Sherlock-Holmes-style using a single photo? [1][2]. The story was trending on HN few days ago.

He's got a pinned tweet [3] that says "One of the key technologies which has helped in crowdsourced response to extreme weather disasters (fires floods hurricanes) these last years has been ability to monitor local emergency radio channels remotely. Let's get these everywhere. #raspberrypi #rtlsdr #scanner"

He (Benjamin Kuo) is a HAM Radio operator active during disasters.

It's different from what you wanted, but just putting it here.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/us/missing-hiker-found.ht...

[2] https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382371967618097157

[3] https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1085609599661617152

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Apple’s AirDrop leaks users’ PII, and there’s not ...

Discussion from 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889665

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single sho...

In addition to education, as per the article, "They hired more Black and brown officers" ; "required any officer who uses force in any way to report it in detail, and for the supervisor to review it". Resulting in "The bad cops were suddenly outed."

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Sisters with Transistors

It's not close to putting on a pedestal. They are just being given their fair share, no more, no less. Actually it's not even fair, as most of them are dead.

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: The Girl in the Kent State Photo

Many of these are addressed in the book 'Understanding Power' by Noam Chomsky. It's very readable. It's got hefty footnotes that are available as pdf [1].

Another book is 'How to Hide an Empire' by Daniel Immerwahr.

[1] http://understandingpower.org/

throwaway1090•

on April 24, 2021

•on: Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single sho...

That link shows that things are improving every year in Newark.