Yes, but we can always try to solve the inconviences of our world in multiple venues. Let's try politics and simultaneously use the ingenuity we have to solve the problem while politics resolves.
I'd bet by stopping the water supply (out), disabling wifi and power, we can solve the destruction of evidence issue which could warrant the police actions.
Additionally, we could send a robot in place to search for unsafe conditions prior to the entry by armed police.
What other issues do we need to solve make this not happen while we wait for politics to catch up?
Biggest issue is that the military suppliers that end up giving local PDs all this war tech are being paid federally on an untouchable military budget. They produce the flashbangs outside market conditions at all and under guaranteed federal contracts, and when the US military doesn't actually need more tanks, APVs, and flashbangs they get raffled off to police departments.
So build your personnel sensing flashbang, these PD's won't get them, they rarely pay for this stuff. Its mostly free, or at least its on a fixed grant they need to spend or lose. There is no real market for a police department to deploy tanks and SWAT in a town of a thousand people.
Given a jury without sufficient education and a case with as much technical nuance as this and then a reasonable doubt that the same technical nuance could indicate a frame job... Seems like an ok move...
I'm not sure how much competition Wikipedia has as a free online encyclopedia.
Any other encyclopedia and any wiki-formatted knowledge store could be considered close competition. Wikipedia's in the business of providing high-level (and often low) level information, and there are tons of players in that space - just perhaps not as generalized and overreaching.
Wikipedia is a non-profit. They don't really make more money by having more people use the site
Which doesn't mean that it can't compete with other entities, just that it does so under a special set of rules. It's still in the best interest of Wikipedia to keep up traffic.
> It's still in the best interest of Wikipedia to keep up traffic.
That interest is clearly not "making more money". Can you explicitly explain what those interests are? I may be naive in believing that Wikipedia's goal is "making all the world's information freely available to everyone". But if they have some other ulterior motive for expansion, I would like to know what that is.
At the very least, each of their employees' has a selfish reason to keep Wikipedia the de-facto encyclopedia. For instance, they have over $20 million in salary they need to pay every year and without traffic, they lose donations (over $45 million a year) and therefore could lose their jobs. Seems a monopoly would be in their interest.
It's amazing how much non-programming work is required to get an application release-ready. Add to that list domain acquisition, email configuration, staging environments, legal documentation, status pages, error tracking, user and subscription management and feedback mechanisms.
Our startup is tackling this domain, and we'd love to hear more of these "petty issues" web and mobile apps need to resolve before shipping - we've found that, while seemingly minor, they present a huge hindrance to the launch of developer side projects.
The mastermind group I'm has collectively learned that "shipping is a skill", just like programming or UI design. As you've discovered, there's an awful lot of steps between building some software and actually getting it into people's hands.
Do you recommend 'installing' config/environments/* information from a provisioning utility when you're dealing with configuration values that should remain secret and outside of version control?
I find the teams I work with generally end up transmitting secrets over untrusted centralized chat protocols. I'm glad to see folks stepping into this space and popularizing and simplifying this sort of security!
For environment-based configuration values and multi-member teams, I wrote conf_conf [1].
I've slowly been able to train my coworkers to use https://ezcrypt.it/ when sharing secrets rather than putting them directly into untrusted chat. Works great.
I'd bet by stopping the water supply (out), disabling wifi and power, we can solve the destruction of evidence issue which could warrant the police actions.
Additionally, we could send a robot in place to search for unsafe conditions prior to the entry by armed police.
What other issues do we need to solve make this not happen while we wait for politics to catch up?