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Officers must list the law being violated, provide a case number, and explain the suspicion tied to a specific vehicle or plate. Limit use only to suspected felonies. A warrant should be required for searches. Warrant exceptions: imminent threats to life, hot pursuit of a violent suspect. All non-warrant searches should be logged and flagged. The use of technology that identifies individuals by…

Moin, ich bin Stefan Winopal und ich liebe Design, vor allem wirklich gut gemachtes Branding mit Liebe zum Detail. Jeder der das von sich sagt, hat wahrscheinlich beruflich damit zu tun – so ist es auch bei mir. Seit rund 20 Jahren bin ich auf die eine oder andere Weise mit Design beschäftigt. Außerdem liebe ich schreiben, auch das habe ich schon professionell gemacht, aber Design lässt mich…

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Brazil's Central Bank, the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), is responsible for Pix. It is the country's instant payment rail, launched in November 2020, that reduced peer-to-peer transaction costs to zero and processed R$ 26.5 trillion in 2024 alone, a 54% increase over the prior year, across 63 billion transactions. Pix now moves more volume annually than Visa and Mastercard combined. It runs 24…

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the reckoning

I’m reopening Borderline Successful. Quick hello If you’re new here, hi. If you’ve been around before, hi again.

Most of us exist online as a jigsaw puzzle scattered across a table. A LinkedIn profile. A Bluesky account. An old Twitter handle. A forum username from 2009. The pieces are all there, but assembling them takes work, and that friction, it turns out, has been doing a lot of social work that nobody explicitly designed. The HTTP-era internet was never built with identity coherence in mind (or,…

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I've had a bio card for a while now - a couple of years at least and I've only updated it like twice so I thought while not a lot has changed about me that I want people to know on first meeting I did want to make some minor changes. So here it is. And because I'm trying to go harder on the whole YouTube creator thing I even made a little short you can watch of my process.…

De pequeño quería ser astrónomo, pianista, biólogo, meteorólogo y periodista; me fascinaba escribir, la música, los planetas y galaxias, la tecnología, y pintorrear manchas porque me aburría dibujar; luego me dio por la bioquímica, la geografía, la climatología y la publicidad. Sin embargo, de las matemáticas sólo me llegaron a divertir las integrales. Eran tan variadas mis preferencias que nunca…

I absolutely needed to make a new pinned post on BlueSky for 2026. So I decided to make some cute little graphics with some of my favorite colors (black and red) and my favorite shapes (hearts). Being an adult content creator, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite pictures, my most important links, the things I offer and a couple quick facts about me. I totally think I nailed my goals with…

Part 1 of 2. This piece covers the history of digital identity in Brazil and the data infrastructure that made industrial scale fraud possible. Part 2 covers how fraud co-evolves with digital infrastructure, and what that means for every country building digital infrastructure for identities today. We tend to talk about digital fraud as if it were a technology problem. A bug to patch, a model to…

As this is a micro-blogging site, which has few users, I may just use it to vent about what's happening on my journey to health, i.e. Slighe gu Slàinte.I suffer from multiple chronic conditions. Some days I'm fine, sometimes all are kicking me around, but mostly only one is having an impact. I never know which it's going to be, and the situation can change from minute to minute, hour to hour,…

My (completely biased) opinion is that most people who have a NAS at home own a Synology NAS. And I'm one of them! Take a moment to admire my DS716+II ! 🤩 A Synology NAS is the quiet workhorse humming in a corner somewhere, storing backups, media, half-finished side projects... When I realized I could run my own AT Protocol Personal Data Server (PDS), I had to try to put my trusty NAS to another…

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So I'm compulsive about signing up for new things and then not using them. Over the more than two decades that blogging has been a thing I've probably made more than twenty and not used them because there's something terrifying about the blank feed that could be anything. I always want it to be Important. And in my brain the barrier between Important and Pretentious is at best semipermeable. I…

bee need a youtube video to listen to this beautiful script? According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.