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A previous version of this article stated that the White House app was actively tracking users’ GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes via OneSignal’s SDK. This characterisation, which circulated widely on X, including in posts that accumulated hundreds of thousands of views, has since been contested by independent technical analysis. Multiple developers who reviewed the decompiled code confirmed that while the GPS tracking constants exist within OneSignal’s bundled SDK, the app does not call that capability. No location permission prompt is issued to users upon installation, and OneSignal’s documentation states that location data is not collected unless a developer explicitly enables the feature. The GPS code is most likely residual from the SDK template rather than a deliberate implementation. This article has been updated to reflect that distinction.

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My wife is a wheelchair user. For one flight, we tried to arrive as quick as we could. The TSA agents processed us as fast as they could. Once done, a TSA agent grabbed my backpack and ran towards our plane so that I could push my wife’s wheelchair. Another agent had already gone to ask the flight crew to wait for us. We could have easily missed our flight. I wouldn’t call myself a TSA supporter but I know that they are good TSA agents out there.

Yes. Boost for Lemmy didn’t indicate what file format was used.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomatoInTheMirror seems similar.

I only see a blank image and an empty body.

This is a smaller community with seemingly slightly more accountability, or at a minimum, decency and respect for our fellow humans and internet citizens. The majority of the animals on reddit because behave like 10 year olds in a COD lobby - hiding behind internet anonymity to act like complete assholes, and be as rude and disrespectful as they possibly can, because they believe there will be no consequences.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22432016

Microsoft locked down their Discord server because people were being griefers with constantly using Microslop. I got called a shill and on Microsoft’s payroll because I didn’t defend/celebrate that behavior. I try to not bad-mouth a company on their “premises” and if I do and then get kicked out then I shouldn’t blame the company for doing so. I don’t have a right to be a jerk to “them” on their property, even if it’s not to an actual person.

Discord server, not Discord itself.

I could have sworn I used shill. I don’t know if it’s my fingers betraying me or if it’s autocorrect.

I’m using going to Microsoft HQ as an analogy. Going to their forums or groups or Discord server, etc., and causing grief should be treated like griefers anywhere. I’m not saying to not use Microslop at all, just that if you are causing grief somewhere it’s understandable if you get kicked out.

Don’t get me wrong. I believe that the ones at Microsoft responsible need to have an Ed Gruberman experience. I’m just going to behave myself while on their property.

4.20%. I was giving an example. I’m not jumping on the hate train to try to placate fanatics who obviously think that anything goes when they don’t like something. I don’t like or trust Microsoft (and have bad-mouthed them many times) but I will not go to their “properties” to insult them and I certainly don’t expect them to be fine with it. Call me a shrill if you want to but I get the impression that you just want to be an asshole and want others to be as well.

What you describe is like how the Mafia leaders claim that they never gave an order to commit a crime. Al Capone was very difficult to pin down.

Since Microsoft could decline the government’s “request”, then I suspect that technically First Amendment rights were not violated. It’s how companies have been getting away for essentially spying for the government.

That doesn’t mean that they have to tolerate it on their property. People (certainly here) seem to be expect that they can go anywhere and say anything and everyone is supposed to just take it. Companies are allowed to ban you unless it violates an applicable law and the First Amendment (in the USA) is for protection from the government, not a private business. If I talk trash about Walmart in one of their stores they can have me leave. I don’t have some special protection.

You keep focusing on “a person”. I don’t walk into Grease Monkey or Artic Circle and start insulting. I use Arsenic Circle off the premises.

Heh. I guess I’m more used to Barbara and never really listened to Barbra’s music.

I’m saying that if you insult a company on their property then don’t bitch if they kick you out. Just because you are not insulting a specific person doesn’t mean that they have to allow you to behave badly.

First: I’m not saying not to use Microslop. I’m saying to not go to their place(s) and insult them there. If you do, don’t bitch when they dropkick you out.

Second: I agree.

Third: You misspelled her name… How did you manage to do that?

Fourth: Don’t be an ass. I’m not a shill and I’m not on their payroll. Just because I say that you shouldn’t go to their property, insult them, and expect them to be fine and dandy with it, doesn’t make me a shill. I’m not going to be part of your groupthink/circlejerk. I’ll use Microslop myself but not on their property.

If you showed up at Microsoft HQ and started throwing out insults, why would that be acceptable? I’m not a fan of Microsoft but this seems to be a case of people being keyboard activists who would only act that way when they think they are anonymous. It reminds me, somewhat, of the guys in college who would harass girls online but act totally different in person.

One can protest without being insulting. I wouldn’t walk into a room at Microsoft HQ and start throwing insults. However, this is Lemmy. There’s a mentality here that justifies certain behavior.

This is like going to someone’s place and loudly and constantly insulting them. Would you put up with it if people were doing that to you? You don’t have to be a Microsoft fan to find that kind of behavior unacceptable. Just because it’s online doesn’t mean that it’s acceptable.

the Pentagon has said the contracts must allow the department to use the models as it sees fit, as long as those activities are lawful.

Who decides which activities are lawful? An official act by the President of the United States?

I suspect that the professor was trying to make it so that people would put some effort in instead of just giving up and lying.

There’s always a first civilization. Maybe that’s us.

Those in tech support wonder sometimes.