Ben Lee-Cohen

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MIMS 2010. Living in Western Mass. now and working as a PM at Tailscale.
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Ben Lee-CohenFeb 5, 2024
It is imperative that the US resume funding to UNRWA: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/31/gaza-suspending-unrwa-aid-risks-hastening-famine
Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Governments should continue funding the UN Relief Works Agency, (UNRWA), given its vital role in averting a humanitarian catastrophe and the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, while the agency investigates allegations that 12 of the agency’s staff were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel.

Human Rights Watch
Ben Lee-CohenFeb 5, 2024

Appreciating Monica Westin's essay on the invention of privacy in the American library system: https://syllabusproject.org/undercover-at-the-library/

Credit: https://www.monicawestin.com/

Undercover at the Library

Undercover at the library: spies, reference desks, and the invention of privacy by Monica Westin 1. Hotbeds of anarchy: The library book used as evidence to arrest Henry Melnek on his way home from…

Syllabus
Ben Lee-CohenDec 19, 2023
Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Dec 19, 2023

Well, this sucks.

The NJ legislature just passed a bill requiring low-speed electric bicycles to be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and to be insured.
[EDIT: apparently it passed committee; next will be put before the legislature for a vote.]

Somewhere, either a fossil fuel lobbyist or an insurance industry lobbyist got his wings.

#eBikes
#FossilLobby
#InsuranceScam

Ben Lee-CohenDec 15, 2023
Jason ScottDec 15, 2023
The Internet Archive officially appealed the publishers-hate-libraries court case today.
Ben Lee-CohenDec 8, 2023
@simon is there a llamafile for llava 1.5 13B? Your blog post is awesome, and now I'm hoping to try the larger model.
Ben Lee-CohenNov 8, 2023
Eric LawtonNov 8, 2023

"School-based law enforcement is likely ineffective for keeping schools safe, and it may even have detrimental consequences."

So I guess we'll stop doing it?

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-school-based-law-ineffective-schools-safe.html

School-based law enforcement is likely ineffective for keeping schools safe, finds analysis

A systematic review that analyzed the results of published studies concluded that school-based law enforcement (SBLE)—having sworn law enforcement officers stationed in schools on at least a part-time basis—is likely ineffective for keeping schools safe, and it may even have detrimental consequences.

Phys.org
Ben Lee-CohenJul 10, 2023
evacideJul 10, 2023

Apple has rolled out a rapid response patch for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS to fix a 0-day in WebKit that "may be actively exploited." Go patch your stuff.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213823

About the security content of Rapid Security Responses for iOS 16.5.1 and iPadOS 16.5.1

This document describes the content of Rapid Security Responses.

Apple Support
Ben Lee-CohenJul 10, 2023
Dustin VolzJul 10, 2023

Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers’ mobile devices in the state, in what would be a first-in-the-nation effort to rein in a billion-dollar industry.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-u-s-ban-on-sale-of-cellphone-location-data-might-be-coming-fbe47e53?st=fa01no823ring1k&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Selling Your Cellphone Location Data Might Soon Be Banned in U.S. for First Time

Massachusetts considers law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect consumer privacy

WSJ
Ben Lee-CohenJul 10, 2023
Oxide Computer CompanyJul 10, 2023

Building a new computer is much more than just the hardware and software in the artifact -- there is also an entire supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics operation that must be designed, developed and debugged. Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and @bcantrill will be joined by the Oxide operations team to hear of the many (many!) obstacles that they surmounted to get the Oxide rack shipped. Join live 5pm today!

https://discord.gg/6YP9v9Ne?event=1127996425435873323

Recorded, as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.

Discord
Ben Lee-CohenJul 7, 2023
Mihai ParparitaJun 30, 2023

The Verge has a great article about Google Reader (on the 10th anniversary of it being shut down): https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

And if you’re feeling nostalgic, https://readerisdead.com/reader/view/ is a snapshot from just before it went dark.

Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge