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When a set of banal traffic observation cameras turn into surveillance of a particular individual, then you’re being unreasonably searched/tracked/stalked. This should require a probable cause and proper warrant "we want to identify this individuals movements because …"

This is a clear violation of the 4th amendment.


They undid public charge from my memory. It doesn’t exist anymore.

I looked it up, and we were required to complete form I-864 "Affidavit of Support Under Section 213A of the INA". My wife, her grandmother, and her grandfather all needed to complete one, and when considered together, prove that they earned 125% of the HHS poverty guidelines. As my wife didn't have provable income (we were moving together), we needed to dig into their social security income and complete the forms. I remember feeling sad that I needed to ask for such personal information from them.

My salary in the UK was many multiples of this guideline, but _earning potential_ is not considered. Pragmatism is not really a service offered by USCIS, it's too political. To be on-topic: this move will disincentivize smart but not-yet-wealthy people from immigrating to the "land of opportunity". It was already harder than it had to be.


How recently? As of about 2010, it was very much still there. I understand that is 16 years ago.

It has always existed, but how strictly it’s interpreted (i.e., just cash welfare, or also Medicaid, SNAP, and other means-tested benefits) has shifted between administrations. If you applied during Biden’s administration, I could believe the public charge rule was applied very laxly, particularly because it’s rare to get direct cash welfare in the US these days, and even less for an extended period.

In my world automotive/mechanical engineering we are also observing how much AI can help you build a mental model, fetch unstructured data and help shape your understanding of the system. Onboarding new engg. figuring out what is what in the system. It could have taken hours before to fetch right info, now we are able to do this in seconds.

Are you located in a country that is sanctioned by the US?


no - i'm in europe :/


Have you created multiple accounts? And possibly one of more or the others were banned before this?


Nope, I have an enterprise account that I use heavily during my day job.

I registered it for my personal business, using my business credit card and I see the payment has been reserved in my banking app, but it hasn't fully registered yet?

It was a Mastercard credit card, and I'm wondering if something along the likes of "3D Secure" credit card protection did this..


The only other explanation I have is that I was trying to connect Zed with Claude, so that redirected me to the Claude site, I registered an account and it said it needed a pro license, so I plugged in my CC details and off it went.

Upon returning the OAuth (or w/e auth it is) back to Zed; it logged me out and told me i was banned.


That's probably why. You're not allowed to use the subscription with any other coding harness other than Claude Code.


You may want to get Claude through either GitHub CoPilot or AWS Bedrock. Bedrock has the advantage of pay-as-you go.


Yes and yes


‘We threw the rule book out of the window’


Also worked very well for the Oceangate Titan submersible.


The ‘scene’ or warez sites are still up and running. Sharing cracked softwares, movies shows etc. through file hosting services. If say you wanted a Blu-ray movie with Dolby atmos sizing near 10 gig. Then you’d queue the file sharing site download links in jdownloader and let it automatically manage these downloads for you.


I guess it's been a while since I used those type of sites. I admit that I used to, and I do remember those sites like megaupload or whatever that had a timer.


This sent me down memory lane, what happened to warez-bb!


Very much doubt scene is using downloaders these days. ftp for the groups and torrent/usenet for the plebs


Shouldn’t we fix the laws instead of penalizing users for using cloud services? There should be freedom to use cloud services for our convenience without having to accept legal defeat. That should be the focus for fix.


Even if you fix the law today, the law can change tomorrow. As Bruce Schneier put it: "it's not enough to protect ourselves with laws. We must also protect ourselves with mathematics".


Also, the president of United States and his ICE Czar do not seem to care what law says. And no one seems to care to enforce the opposite.


American laws aren't something I can meaningfully influence.


In theory yes. In practice, the working class is competing with corporations that are flooding the political arena with billions. This was already a daunting challenge to deal with even before the oligarchy went mask off across all branches of government.


sure, except if you're Canadian like the man in question you can't do that for US law. Easier to use local-first software than influence the laws of every country where a service provider you could potentially one day use be based.


We could, but then these companies would just go on ignoring the law like they do now. The current state of American governance has made it very, very clear that following the law is strictly optional if you have enough money or power


waving any flag and thinking its us or them is equally blinding. the world is not vacuum and to coexist we need to put flags behind and work together.


If you can save a dollar on a part, and that part goes into millions of cars per year… then it will be on the chopping block. That cost and weight savings are then passed onto other things, better rear camera? More electrical current to charge your phone faster. Quicker HVAC operation? Everything is a compromise and tradeoff.

Source - I work in an OEM.


>If you can save a dollar on a part, and that part goes into millions of cars per year… then it will be on the chopping block.

Mate, they're saving fractions of a cent on a part, let alone a dollar. You're probably getting promoted to CEO if you manage to save a dollar on a part. I've seen them cut 2mm of copper wiring in the ECU for the cost savings. 2mm!

Also worked for an OEM.


>better rear camera? More electrical current to charge your phone faster. Quicker HVAC operation?

Modern vehicle luxury is disgusting and decadent.


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