Friendship is hard and requires a lot of energy, and it will not always pay off. You're going to get burned, ghosted, and bailed on. It's far too easy to push the hermit-mode button, and doomscroll your life away.

Social capital requires *active* participation. If you're willing to invest, put yourself out there. Be the person that kicks off the things that are interesting to you. You'll find that people are interested in things you thought were niche. As a mentor once told me: life is a body-contact sport; get out there.

That is a farily broad statement.

How would you reconcile your statement against state laws that require all-party consent for audio recordings? e.g. CISA, or FSCA

Those don’t apply to public spaces in the USA. This is super well-established law. If you needed consent to record in public there would be nearly zero YouTube videos recorded in public. And security cameras would generally not be allowed to record audio. And Tesla’s “Sentry mode” would be illegal.

In the USA, there is no right or legal expectation of privacy in public spaces, which includes fast food restaurants that are open to the public (indoors or outdoors)

Edit: Another commenter has made me aware that some states do ban non-consensual audio recordings in public: https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/massachusetts-recording-law

The laws prohibiting these recordings have neither been upheld nor overturned by the US Supreme Court.

Sentry mode doesn’t record audio.

IANAL, but to answer your question, maybe? The CFAA has a fairly broad scope. "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access and thereby obtains, information from any protected computer; " 1030(a)(2)(C)

Sandvig v. Barr tempers that a bit, with the DoJ now offering some guidance around good faith endeavors around security research.

I'd suggest Jane have a good lawyer on retainer, and a few years to spend in the tied up the legal system.

The other difference is that the creators also had his consent.

VMTouch may be helpful. https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

Just lock the file into memory using:

```vmtouch -l /path/to/binary```

Yahoo! Pipes was the 2002 future I envisioned. Come 2015, it was paired against reality.

From that point onwards, no longer was the OpenWeb the promise; but that of a walled garden.

While I mourn what might have been, I accept the reality of my new corpo future.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light!

big No on complacent appeasement here