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Giving an opportunity isn't entrapment. It would be if someone said "hey dude, that girl there dropped her phone, do you want it?"

But yeah I get what you mean, and that's what I meant with "there's probably more impactful stuff they could be doing instead"... Because no one who does finders-keepers on someone else's personal belongings (when they can easily see the owner) is a good person tbh.

Normal people lose their stuff all the time; it's a good thing if opportunistic thieves think again before considering hurting an actual person, instead of just being a quota-filler.

Elaborate.

Because it actually works on a large number of people, apparently. That FOMO, "I save money by buying discounted stuff, even if I don't actually need it", etc.

I had a friend that was ordering stuff from there all the time, falling for those "coupons", convinced she was so smart because of how cheap it was... I can admit there were a couple cool things she got, but the majority was just useless garbage. And regardless, the few cool things ended up breaking within a couple months at the most, so what was the point of that? Such a waste.

We don't usually do it for fun, but I'm sure my teammate who has petitioned deploying a "chaosmonkey"-thingy to our prod clusters would love it 😁

⁠New York Personal Property Law § 252; it doesn't have any name, it's just an unclassified misdemeanor.

But we actually have a word for this type of offence in Sweden, "fyndförseelse" (discovery misdemeanor? Not very easy to translate). Basically, if you find something, you have to return it immediately (if you're aware of who the owner is), and if unknown you need to leave it to the police as soon as possible. But the fun part is, if the rightful owner doesn't make a claim within 3 months, you become the legal owner and can do what you want with it.

My apartment is right by several bars, and my backyard is one of the more secluded places in the area, so I end up finding stuff all the time; clocks, jewelery, etc, from people who think it's more appropriate to piss on my wall and grass instead of using the bar's toilet. Most of them claim their stuff, and that makes me happy, and the rest I can choose to sell or donate it to the government.

So if the NYPD isn't lying in that article, I don't see any "gotcha" with it... other than there's probably more impactful stuff they could be doing.

My team made the "mistake" that all new projects need to be built and approved on our dev clusters before we allow them to be deployed to the prod clusters. We're very explicit that dev is ephemeral, and that everything should be as code, so everything heals itself...

Despite this, whenever we reprovision the dev env, we always get emails from several different people saying that we wiped their prod databases and such. It's crazy.

There's ways to do that. And for those who block persistent storage, they wouldn't prefer an app as an alternative for that.

Everyone's talking about driving... but you actually can take a boat from Troy to Ithaca. Just take the Erie Canal west until you reach Montezuma, at the confluence proceed to the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, and continue south through Cayuga Lake, and at the end you'll reach Ithaca.

Easy enough and only takes a couple days at the most. I have no idea why they needed to make some movie about this.

Snowberry clearwing, maybe?

You're not missing anything. Mullvad and probably some of the others lets you download a client config and use it in whatever app you want.

The ones that don't allow that are probably shady or just don't care about your freedoms, behind a guise of "our app is more convenient/safe/etc".

The 2L bottle is for when the stuff on the top doesn't satisfy anymore.

So you'd also get screwed if you routinely are parked somewhere without any cellular access? Nice design.