An almost identical security issue in iterm2 reported 6 years ago:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical...

"They" is 1 guy (George Nachman) who has tirelessly maintained this app in his spare time for 15 years. This is an arms race that's simply impossible for solo devs or even small teams to win. It's going to have a real chilling effect. I've seen a few popular open source projects take themselves private recently (eg cal.com) due to this.

Nice idea, except the actual mapper site requires a google login to view.

Author here: it’s a cheap rate limiter and something we are looking to remove soon.

Actual rate limiting costs nothing.

The login gate is intentionally a login gate.

I can find only a single paper making this claim about marathoners. And that study has attracted a lot of criticism.

By that you mean the fines should be made much higher, right? Because traffic crashes have a huge economic cost.

Set the fines to any level, it doesn't matter.

I only mean that all revenues collected from the fines must be distributed to the public at large. They must never be treated as a revenue source for the government.

Sin taxes are meant to reduce bad behavior - or incentivize good behavior. Ideally you'd collect $0 in red-light fines because everyone's following the law. If some politician's budget or private company's revenue stream depends on traffic fines they have adverse incentives. I don't want my city council member voting against traffic safety initiatives because it makes people better drivers and that means less money for some other city program.

> they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently.

5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though.

Part of this judgement was that even though the law labels is as "civil" it looks and acts in fact like a criminal case, and so it doesn't matter what label they put on it, criminal standards apply.

For those who don't get the joke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpEF6QPSVJE

IANAL but she could also have a good case that it will be impossible for her to get a fair trial.

Some potential jurors will have seen these doctored photos. With the prosecution putting out obviously false info then it calls into question their credibility and any other evidence presented at trial.

Trust and transparency: https://betrusted.io

Possibly related:

https://badspot.us/Brown-Ring-of-Quality.html

Maybe I'm just missing the joke, but it feels worth pointing out that almost all of the logos on that page are clearly inspired by the ensō circle from Zen art.

Putting a circle around your logo is about as silly as putting a horizontal line under your signature.

Yes, but local permitting is a complete shitshow. For example, I should be able to plug in a simple balcony-solar system, but my PUC prohibits the technology.

Yes. Though that’s the current regime most capacity is installed under. And the companies building solar farms have more energy to navigate the process than me/you.

But it just goes to show you being involved in local government, showing up to advocate for green energy projects, etc at local levels is one of the best things you can do.