Ulrich
@Ulrich@feddit.org
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 8 hours ago:
It’s still a targeted search
I’m telling you it’s not a “targeted search”, It’s an AI-generated output from a bullshit generator.
a demerit for simply having ICEBlock installed is the least of your worries
You don’t know that.
any “improper” app install is going to be a danger regardless of whether it’s pushing.
Also correct. But some apps are more sensitive than others.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 8 hours ago:
It’s better because you can download it directly from the site.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 8 hours ago:
“They received an ICE block push” isn’t a meaningful piece of information compared to location.
Quite the opposite. Getting notifications from ICEBlock shows that they are potentially “fugitives” or “aiding and abetting criminals” or “targeting law enforcement”. These are not my words, these are words from the current federal administration. A random location tells them nothing about any of that activity.
What do you think the government will do with that information?
We’ve reached the inevitable future where the govt is using any and all information they can get to target “criminals” and feeding them into databases and processing them with shitty AI in order to decide who they’re going to harass that day.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 9 hours ago:
That should require a warrant
Pretty meaningless in the context of our current dictatorship.
they could also just get cell tower or direct GPS info. I’m not sure this really opens up a new attack vector.
Cell towers and GPS info don’t provide any information about what the user is doing on the device.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 10 hours ago:
There are lots of better versions that exist. Unfortunately they haven’t received the same amount of traction, which is important for this type of app. Here’s one: fire-app.net
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 10 hours ago:
For the most part, we don’t know what the risks are, because the app is closed-source.
What we do know is that Apple logs the downloads of every account on their platform. That alone is enough to paint a target on the backs of vulnerable people.
We also know that the gov is intercepting notification data, in the form of " which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered. In certain instances, they also might also receive unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification."
You can bypass this data collection by using UnifiedPush on Android. Apple has no such alternative.
These are all things that I, a random internet dumbass with no development experience, knows, but somehow this fool does not, despite being educated over and over.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 15 hours ago:
No, the thing that’s lost is all the vulnerable people using an app filled with vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited by a vindictive government.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 19 hours ago:
The problem is that people are falling over themselves to help him and he keeps declining while looking at them like they’re the idiots.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 22 hours ago:
The first one seems irrelevant.
I agree. I’m just repeating what I read.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 23 hours ago:
- The creator is not an immigrant
- Nothing preventing malicious users from flooding the app with false reports
- Estimated 98% of reports are false positives, whether malicious or not
- Dev doesn’t seem to understand much about privacy or security
- Doesn’t distribute Android version due to previously-mentioned lack of understanding
- Overall does more harm than good
- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 1 day ago:
There will probably be DLC and soundtracks you can buy if you really just want to give them more money.
- Comment on Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming? 2 days ago:
PeerTube is unfortunately not terribly well configured for Livestreaming. There is a tremendous lag.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 4 days ago:
Probably invaluable if you’re intent on pumping out slop.
Video games are an art. If you outsource your art to shitty robots…what service is it that you’re providing? What are you doing that I can’t do my fucking self.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 5 days ago:
No, it means a whole lot.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 5 days ago:
I specifically said “exceptionally”
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 6 days ago:
Did you ever consider that you’ve worked with exceptionally unqualified individuals?
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 6 days ago:
There’s no way LLMs are correct as often as a human professional.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
High On Life
10/10 story-driven FPS game from the creators of Rick and Morty. Not excessively complicated or difficult. Your house is teleported to another planet. You have defend yourself with guns that are also talking aliens (gatlians). Not graphically intensive either so would be good for mobile gaming.
- Comment on Certain Android VPN apps are insecure, secretly tied to one Chinese company 1 week ago:
LOL what?
- Comment on Game recommendations 1 week ago:
Hop over to steam and search the tag “party games”
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
There’s no reason it shouldn’t be able to. The hardware has proven to be very adequate, better than Steam Deck.
- Comment on Certain Android VPN apps are insecure, secretly tied to one Chinese company 1 week ago:
Never heard of it.
- Comment on Certain Android VPN apps are insecure, secretly tied to one Chinese company 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t recommend any VPN other than Proton or Mullvad. You are tunneling all of your internet traffic through their server, which creates a database of a mountain of valuable information and almost no one is going to resist that temptation.
- Comment on Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears 1 week ago:
Get 'im!
- Comment on Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a “shift” so much as an expansion at this point. Although I feel it’s a waste of resources with the EU’s “chat control” coming around for the 3040398th time. Soon I fear it won’t be legal to be private anywhere.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 2 weeks ago:
LOL no it’s not, it’s very much a humanity thing.
- Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 2 weeks ago:
I really doubt they care.
- Comment on To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed 2 weeks ago:
Reddit has really plummeted in quality in recent years. And I mean the quality of its’ users, among other things.
- Comment on How to trick id verification 3 weeks ago:
Which accounts are being targeted?
- Comment on How to trick id verification 3 weeks ago:
It’s not getting to me. Have you tried a VPN?