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- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 days ago:
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 days ago:
The Air Canada AI chatbot gave wrong policies to someone around bereavement flights, went to court, and lost having to refund the ticket price difference.
They tried to claim they weren’t responsible for the Ai.
cbc.ca/…/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416
So at least in Canada we have some precedent that if their AI pricing fucks up, it’s their own fault.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 days ago:
Delta CEO determined sales decline is related to costumers calling in with complaints and the call center not handling them to their satisfaction. Fires entire call center staff and replaces with AI.
- Comment on COVID-19 vaccine technology adapted to develop first mRNA defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria 5 days ago:
Clearly, the brainworms know they’re gonna be targeted by the tech in the future and need to stop it now.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 week ago:
might be better to have a bunch of gibberish with a few named places.
They might think it’s code and deploy there, and you’re not actually making a legitimate threat they could come after you for somehow.
- Comment on Tesla loses $68 billion in value after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party 1 week ago:
CNBC loves to hate on anything Musk.
They’re the ones who wrote a story about SpaceX polluting the area with high levels of mercury because of a conversion error / typo on the report.
I’m too lazy to look up exact figures, but it basically went like this in the report. (Smaller is better)
In 1 spot it said
Mercury test 1: 0.01 Mercury Test 2: 100
Then in another spot talking about the same values it said
Mercury Test 1: 0.01 Mercury Test 2: 0.01
I don’t think they ever retracted it, but the headlines were all SpaceX polluting massively over allowed thresholds kinda thing.
The reporting was either so sloppy they didn’t read the whole report or cross reference anything and just ran with it, or they knew and said fuck it we can get the clicks and it’s technically in the report.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
Try to make it on VEO3 and Google will come back saying it’s against the TOS.
Make anything else on the exact same basis except sub out rich people for anybody else… allowed!
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 2 weeks ago:
checks post, 9h
sets VPN to UK
“I support Palestine Action”
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
All push notifications go through APNS on apple. That’s Apple Push Notifications Service.
APNS requires the device to authenticate with it and can uniquely identify the device by an id. Its how it sends messages to devices.
Firebase cloud messaging acts the same way for true push notifications.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
Ya, for sure. My beef was just with people saying you can roll your own, but glossing over the reduced user experience and reliability if you do.
With those trade offs it’s absolutely doable.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
Ya, it can be brutal on battery.
I worked on an app once where delivery was critical, so we gave them the option of the active service+websocket, but for them the trade off was acceptable.
Pushes can be pretty flakey given all the shenanigans OEMs do on the device, even when marked as high priority correctly.
- Comment on How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust 2 weeks ago:
They don’t treat their people like shit, they treat them like slaves.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually not possible to build a push service like FCM or APNS on Android and have it function at the same level as FCM. FCM has special permissions to bypass certain stages on the device to ensure message delivery that nothing else can match.
The best you can do is approximate it with an always active websocket and a foreground service always running with battery optimizations disabled, but good luck not having that foreground service shut down on occasion as well. Devices are hostile to them for battery saving purposes.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
You don’t even need to audit a closed source app to know that Apple knows which devices its sending pushes to.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
I think he thinks HE had to store the information, and if he isn’t the one storing it, it’s anonymous.
Except, on Android, you can also do it where only google stores the information and he doesn’t have to store any. And there are no user name or passwords or accounts involved to listen to specific channels like he claims.
You can collection this information, and you’d be able to write a more custom push service, but it isn’t needed at all, but Google and Apple will always know who is getting the messages.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
Now GrapheneOS the privacy based Android OS is calling them out
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 2 weeks ago:
You left off the part where after you finish the bag of skittles the lay you off again.
- Comment on Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want 2 weeks ago:
Any of the games that aren’t fully on the cart, require a download to even function in the first place.
It’s looking like (TBD) that this is how a very large portion of the games are going to be delivered.
- Comment on Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want 2 weeks ago:
When the physical games require downloading to start using them, I think that starts crossing lines into bricking territory even if it’s not entirely accurate.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
Just figured I’d add Apples own documentation as well
…apple.com/…/registering-your-app-with-apns
Apple Push Notification service (APNs) must know the address of a user’s device before it can send notifications to that device. This address takes the form of a device token unique to both the device and your app. At launch time, your app communicates with APNs and receives its device token, which you then forward to your provider server. Your server includes that token with any notifications it sends.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re right, GOOGLE will take the device identifier, but him talking about how he would need to store it, and especially for channels where he talks about user names and passwords really makes me think that he thinks he has to do it.
Apple knows which devices have the app installed. They would be able to link that back to the device if it was demanded, even if it is a bit more obscured.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
How do you suppose APNS knows which device to deliver the notification to?
Something that… links it to the device? Like, a unique ID that Apple can identify?
It sounds like he thinks HE has to store this information, which is simply incorrect. It will obviously be stored by Google in Firebase, and by Apple wherever that gets stored.
I write apps for a living. I have users subscribe and unsubscribe to channels, and at no point is there a user account with password involved in either iOS or Android.
If you want the memory of which channels they have subscribed to to persist across uninstall/reinstalls or different devices, then yes, but for an app like this you don’t need to persist those settings.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need a user account or password to receive a push notification.
You just need to have the app installed and it can then be configured to receive push notifications.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 2 weeks ago:
Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.
It’s been inevitable since.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
LOL wasn’t expecting that.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Cop: WTF happened here?
Driver: It drove itself onto the tracks
Cop: Okay, but what about the other 49 feet of the 50 feet it’s on the tracks?
Driver: …
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
LOL right? Like deciding to see what the car will do ON RAILWAY TRACKS is absolutely fucking bonkers.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
How the fuck do you let any level 2 system go 40 to 50 fucking feet down the railroad tracks.
We’re they asleep?
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 4 weeks ago:
Oh I’ve totally forgotten about potatoes. I used to do that ages ago and it worked really well.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 4 weeks ago:
I do so many things with my air fryer, such a great appliance.