American MAGAs also don’t really want American greatness if it involves immigrants, minorities, or liberals having a good life there. Their love of America and goals for its greatness are VERY selective, all the way to founding values like freedom of speech, separation of powers, and separation of church and state.

It’s really just fascism. And fascism, for all its claims to be country-first, is an international reactionary effort.

On prem is cheaper by a wide margin for steady load, but cloud is good if you need burst processing.

Ellison’s wealth has surged after [Oracle], in which he owns a stake of 41%, reported better than expected financial results.

This is the most surprising information in this article. Oracle isn’t a company I’d expect a price surge at. They provide some commonly used software, but nothing that would have a sudden surge in value, and I’m someone who’s looked at cloud resources before, and they weren’t even in my list of places to check. A crowded market with limited potential for innovation just doesn’t seem like something that justifies a huge price surge.

Feels like the stock market isn’t a real place.

And they got into power because everyone was going “oh shit, we don’t want another Trump”, then just run full steam ahead into issues that will piss off their base. Someone who hasn’t been kept up to date could be excused for thinking the party restricted trans people and arresting peace protesters en masse was the more conservative party.

I wonder if it’s a one-off statement or they have plans for a response. Being on a government building kind of prompts this result, which may be part of the intention.

And they’re not even ruled by the conservative parties. This is the good outcome!

Getting the information in the first place is a targeted search. Unless Apple goes full collaborator they will require a court order. They have already made the decision (for whatever reason) to target you.

Why is the Secretary of State even the one making a statement? Was Hegseth too drunk?

It’s still a targeted search, which may be bullshit but isn’t a trawling operation. If they’re targeting you, a demerit for simply having ICEBlock installed is the least of your worries. And if Apple goes full collaboration, then any “improper” app install is going to be a danger regardless of whether it’s pushing.

How is this any better? From the site it appears to also be closed source with no security audit and using push notifications.

“They received an ICE block push” isn’t a meaningful piece of information compared to location. It’s already a targeted search. What do you think the government will do with that information?

I appreciate the link about the potential for push harvesting. That was not something I was aware of.

It doesn’t sound like they’re intercepting though, it sounds like they’re asking the platform to provide it. That should require a warrant unless Apple has gone full collaboration, but that does make it insecure to a targeted search. And paired with fake reports could potentially be used to geolocate someone to a rough area with some work.

Though I think if they have enough to compel cooperation from the platform they could also just get cell tower or direct GPS info. I’m not sure this really opens up a new vulnerability separate from the general risk of using a smartphone when the government can produce a warrant (which with the coopting of the judiciary may not be as high a bar as it once was).

The risk appears to be anxiety, not an active threat to their safety. The black box security analysis did not indicate any direct data leakage. We don’t know the app is safe, but we also don’t have any indication it’s doing anything particularly risky.

So what’s the complaint here, that he’s being rude? The only thing lost if people build an alternate app rather than being allowed to work on his app is him.

It sounds like he’s just a dev who’s in over his head but either doesn’t want anyone to take his baby or doesn’t want people to see his sloppy and possibly insecure code. It’s probably a hack job behind the scenes and he’s not really as sure of its security, so he might be opting for security through obscurity.

But this isn’t really taking up space. Someone else can make a better app. If this guy isn’t the one to really make a useful crowd sourced anti ICE app, that’s not a problem. Let’s get that OS crowd together and work with local groups and make something better. In the meantime, this is a statement.

Implied in this headline is that it wouldn’t be apology worthy if they killed a guilty prisoner by denying medical treatment.

This is embarrassing mysticism for a journal from a school of science. We may as well be taking about souls and spirits and the aether. In the same way that LLM hype (lately in service of scammy marketing) has generated irrational spiritual believers in coming machine god it has also caused opponents to lose their minds and make absolute statements about how nature must have some ephemeral essence that sets it apart from the artificial.

Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself. But consciousness is not in digital computers running software, even when they speak in tongues. Ever-more powerful machines will trade in fake consciousness, which will, perhaps, fool most. But precisely because of the looming confrontation between natural, evolved and artificial, engineered intelligence, it is absolutely essential to assert the central role of feeling to a lived life.

The headline writer did not read the story. Protests are being called music festivals, not raids.

I’m shocked that the convenient explanation for increased illness that just happened to be good for the economy turned out to not be well supported. Shocked.

Which, at a global scale, is important in your life when exactly? The only time I move at a global scale I’m flying, and then the projection makes it look like my pilot doesn’t know how to fly in a straight line.