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  • bold_omi@lemmy.todaytoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•What you heardEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    Here are some useful resources that can be used to list ICE agents and serve as a record to hold them accountable:

    • Icepick comprises records on more than 40,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. The data consists of full names of employees and contractors; job titles, including roles tied to surveillance and forensics; work email addresses and email group memberships; work phones numbers; and office locations. No outlet in the fact base reports home addresses, Social Security numbers or financial data in the set. Data from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other organizations is included.
    • The Ice List is an independently maintained public documentation project focused on immigration-enforcement activity in the United States organised by Crust News. The TOR mirror of the site is here.

    It would help if people here were to voluntarily add some information from the Icepick list to the Ice List.

  • bold_omi@lemmy.todaytoProgramming@programming.dev•What are your programming hot takes?English
    11·
    6 hours ago

    From Following up on “Hello, World”, by Drew Devault (emphasis added):

    There has long been a trend in computing of endlessly piling on the abstractions, with no regard for the consequences. The web is an ever growing mess of complexity, with larger and larger blobs of inscrutable JavaScript being shoved down pipes with no regard for the pipe’s size or the bridge toll charged by the end-user’s telecom. Electron apps are so far removed from hardware that their jarring non-native UIs can take seconds to respond and eat up the better part of your RAM to merely show a text editor or chat application.

    The PC in front of me is literally five thousand times faster than the graphing calculator in my closet - but the latter can boot to a useful system in a fraction of a millisecond, while my PC takes almost a minute. Productivity per CPU cycle per Watt is the lowest it’s been in decades, and is orders of magnitude (plural) beneath its potential. So far as most end-users are concerned, computers haven’t improved in meaningful ways in the past 10 years, and in many respects have become worse. The cause is well-known: programmers have spent the entire lifetime of our field recklessly piling abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction. We’re more concerned with shoving more spyware at the problem than we are with optimization, outside of a small number of high-value problems like video decoding. Programs have grown fat and reckless in scope, and it affects literally everything, even down to the last bastion of low-level programming: C.

    Can abstractions be useful? Yes. But we must be extremely cautious of their scale so as to avoid an Electron situation.

  • bold_omi@lemmy.todaytoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•major data breachEnglish
    51·
    1 day ago

    This is the relevant section of the article:

    “Prawo Jazdy” was an alleged Polish criminal supposedly active in the Republic of Ireland. The name was listed on PULSE, a computer system used by the Garda Síochána, with at least 50 traffic violations, including speeding and parking violations, recorded across the country, but there were suspicious aspects such as each incident being associated with a different address. “Prawo Jazdy” was also listed as a name on the Fixed Charge Processing System (FCPS). An investigation was launched into this person whom the Gardaí considered to be Ireland’s worst traffic violator. An internal Garda memorandum in June 2007 revealed that, upon consultation with an online Polish–English bilingual dictionary, prawo jazdy was not a personal name, but instead the Polish term for ‘driving licence’, misidentified by Garda officers as the traffic violator’s name due to the phrase being printed at the top right-hand corner of Polish driving licences (with the licensee’s name and personal details printed beneath in a smaller text size). The error became public knowledge in February 2009. The Gardaí received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in literature in 2009 for the mistake, but did not attend the award ceremony. The prize was accepted by Karolina Lewestam, a Polish philosopher and writer, and a “holder of a Polish driver’s licence”. The situation was a source of embarrassment for the Gardaí. It generated discussion on issues such as cultural ignorance or institutional racism within the Gardaí as a result of changing ethnic demography in Ireland due to immigration from other European Union member states. In 2013, a common format for driving licences was implemented for all newly issued documents across the European Economic Area (EEA), of which both Ireland and Poland are part.

  • bold_omi@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•should we have tried to get off big tech earlier?English
    41·
    4 days ago

    I’m curious as to what issues IP and DNS caused that were so glaring.

    Internet Protocol makes addresses location-based, allowing for geoblocking and tracking. It’s also centralized by design, allowing for consolidation of power, censorship, and control. DNS is one of the greatest examples of that consolidation of power, and is the reason owning a web domain costs money. In a decentralized public commons registrar or some kind, this would be no issue; a decentralized public commons registrar works better with a decentralized protocol.

    I assume better methods were (and are) available for addressing and routing

    Look into Reticulum. It’s a good example of a better design.