¿Por qué no los dos?

“I didn’t know how important something was until it negatively affected me and people I know,” Wes Virdell, probably.

From what I’ve been reading on this lately (since this started) on iOS a method exists for a service to send out a list of locations, or references list that exists on device (this can work with date/time triggers as well) that would trigger a notification and the local device itself handles notification of the user so the developer has no idea who has been notified for all they know they just shouted locations out into the void and the on-device location services handles the rest.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unlocationnotificationtrigger

The developer put up more specific details: https://www.iceblock.app/android

The post is up: https://www.iceblock.app/android

Turns out it’s about the notifications not the location, though it still indirectly is about location since the notifications are geographically specific.

TechCrunch did a traffic analysis: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

But if the user doesn’t create an account and the deviceID rotates frequently, is there any way to tie those coordinates at a specific time to a specific person in a large enough geographical area and provide notifications (also provided via on device only services)? That’s what it seems like the developer has said Apple facilitates better.

The also said they will have a more detailed post up July 2nd about android on their site.

See also: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

“Apple keeps most of your location history on your device: the bits of information stored in the cloud are either end-to-end encrypted, meaning only you can decipher them, or anonymized. As such, the risk of having your location history compromised by a data breach, or by a request from law enforcement to Apple for this data, is greatly reduced.”

In this case they are anonymized. The service can tell what device is where but not what user that deviceID matches and those identifiers are rotated to make it harder to match that data up.

From: https://privacyinternational.org/guide-step/5537/guide-keeping-your-mobile-phones-location-history-private

At this point my understanding from other sources is that they can’t distribute via the android App Store in a way that uses location tracking and notifications but is still anonymous where they can with iOS because location services is device side only.

What the fuck is this shit?

At this point, the show is based on the 1st novella only.

I just finished a re-read and I didn’t get a sense that secunits had an agender appearance, this was after Martha Wells asked online to find out where a bunch of people got the idea that Murderbot was femme-androgynous so it was top of mind to look for in the books.

My general head cannon for the discrepancies especially with the additions is that the books are written by Murderbot as a record and it has admitted to being an unreliable narrator including glossing over things that it’s not interested in or doesn’t understand the value of. The show is more of a third-person perspective so it’s entirely possible some of what we are seeing was those moments that Murderbot didn’t see fit to include.

Try this one; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zt7hAFFqfI&pp=ygUaV2hhdHMgd3Jvbmcgd2l0aCBqb2Ugcm9nYW4%3D

By having it disintegrate in the lower atmosphere just like the others?

The people getting the big money payouts in healthcare the US aren’t the doctors.

My wife is a physician, we have been discussing this too.

The lull after the spike could just as likely show a drop off in bot accounts active during the US election. But that’s immaterial because growth is not the same as success.

As long as it’s got an active returning user base that gets value from the product and is able to curate their own experience, it’s able to sustain itself based on the money it has/gains, people are building new tools to make it more engaging, and it’s not being taken over by undesirable actors so that active user base starts to look at another solution, and sites increasingly see Bluesky as a driver of traffic to their websites, it think that would qualify it as a objective success.

If you have a different metric, please feel free to share it.

Based on the chart that they are referencing, while the monthly uniques is lower than the spike, it’s still higher than the previous plateau.

Spikes are moments in time and less important than a sustained use which still shows growth.

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