I find it reassuring that some people are not proud of grabbing random people off the street to send them to their death with a smile.

The same way with iOS. At some point, the third-party service have a way to link a push to a device. It does not mean that you can link an user to a device, or a specific request to a device. You get a unique ID for the notifications, yeah. And someone could tell that the app server have these ID. But that’s not particularly different with iOS. It not being exposed to the app dev directly does not mean that this info does not exist on the third-party server, that can still get asked about it.

Unless Apple found a way to magically send a message to a specific device, from a specific external server, without anyone, anywhere, having any idea where the notification should go. Which, fair, could be done by sending every messages to everyone after encrypting it for a specific recipient, but that would be a bit inefficient at this scale. The trace for push notifications exists, whether you’re using Apple or Google as the backend.

I’d rather these laws be against abusing and exploiting child, as well as against ruining their lives. Not only that would be more helpful, it would also work in this case, since actual likeness are involved.

Alas, whether there’s a law against that specific use case or not, it is somewhat difficult to police what people do in their home, without a third party whistleblower. Making more, impossible to apply laws for this specific case does not seem that useful.

…almost none of what is said about Android push notification is true. A lot of apps uses firebase, which does not require the creation of user accounts or whatever to send push notifications to a device.

Either they’re completely unfamiliar with it, or they don’t want to do it, but what they claim is dubious at best.

Government: cd / && rg -l trans | xargs rm -f

I’m sure it’ll go well.

That’s an idea, but it requires the incentive to be more than people… let’s call it laziness. I see people drop their trash in front of an empty trashcan on the regular.

Regarding plastic bottle deposit, a quick search (https://www.statista.com/chart/22963/global-status-of-plastic-bottle-recycling-systems/) around 30 countries had such a system in place, with varying degrees of success, with only 10 US states. That’s not a lot. In France, we also had this for glass bottle. It was discontinued long ago but we’re looking to bring it back. Let’s hope this do motivate people, although I don’t have my hopes up.

It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.

Beyond the statistics, collecting bottles seems easier than collecting bottle caps. Since people can’t stop tossing their trash in the street, at least it makes it easier for people that clean up to get them.

I very rarely come across a labia minora either at work or at home, but maybe I’m not working in the right place or something.

The search still go on ✨

“remain”? They really don’t use their own service, do they?

In the list of things nobody cares about, you forgot “actually do what’s asked”. Use these tool for a very short while and be amazed at how bad it is to do things that are extremely well known and documented.

It doesn’t detract from the parent’s comment at all.

I’m going to use base π from time to time.

If there’s two things that have been consistent over time with the recent LLM and AI craze, is that it have some good, helpful applications for people with disabilities, and that none of the big players are looking into them. Some are actively working against them. Probably because it’s harder to monetize “living” from a PR perspective.

I’m curious, do they fire all sysadmins on days where everything goes smoothly and rehire new ones the day after?

Indeed. None of the crazy things that happened in the last few months stopped. Unfortunately.

Distracting people from what is happening is NOT what you want.

It’ll cost $25 to produce. Selling cost is another matter entirely.

I might be missing some piece of information, being outside the US and all that, but isn’t the Supreme Court stuffed with politically-biased people that are old, over conservative, showered in money on the regular, for life, with zero accountability for anything they do or don’t do?

Because I have no idea how anyone would see this as “politically neutral”.

Yeah, wayland good, etc etc.

Now we’re at the point where wayland is becoming the only option, while there are still some things that don’t work well, like showing up a modal, opening a context menu in a window that wasn’t in focus, copy/pasting from non foreground UI applications… All this under KDE, which is somewhat large in terms of good DE.

I understand the argument that if we have to move, we have to start the move at some point. But I’m not sure we have to move. People keep telling X is a messy dangerous unmaintained eldritch horror sucking on your souls every seconds, but as a user, if moving back to X fixes all the tiny weird issues and shows no obvious downside, it’s hard to justify the switch.