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I decompiled the White House's new app

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Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by croes »

dijksterhuis wrote: post #29
iancarroll wrote: post #23

A bit skeptical of how this article is written as it seems to be mostly written by AI. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app and it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article. I've noticed Claude Code is happy to decompile APKs for you but isn't very good at doing reachability analysis or figuring out complex control flows. It will treat completely dead code as important as a co…

what version are you on? from the iphone app store: version 47.0.1 - minor bug fixes - 34 minutes ago while the parent posted 18 minutes ago they may have patched the location stuff as part of the “minor bug fixes”?

Isn’t it useless to talk about the iOS version if the article is about the Android app?

Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by tstenner »

matwood wrote: post #178
ghywertelling wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a new term "load-bearing" which is used a lot in my usage of AI. Has anyone else encountered this term being used a lot in their conversations? Or is it a quirk of personalization?

I use load-bearing all the time in conversation. People need to be careful that just because they don’t use certain phrases, it doesn’t automatically mean AI.

I use it all the time, but almost always sarcastically (as in "load-bearing tinyproxy instance").

Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by defrost »

array_key_first wrote: post #190
defrost wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only "out of your way" if you never learned to write gender neutral from the ground up. In the 1970s and 1980s it was the default in many Commonwealth locales to not assume that (say) Rob Owens writing mathematics and engineering papers was male (as it turns out, she isn't, the Rob is short for Robyn). So much correspondence was with people who had Initial Surname or abstract handles that didn't broadcast gender…

But if someone has the ability to broadcast their preferred pronouns and we built that in, and it costs nothing, then what's the problem? I guess I'm just not really understanding people getting upset at what I perceive to be completely made up problems. We have technology, we no longer have to assume gender neutral pronouns for everyone. They can just tell us the pronouns they want.

I cannot see the need for anything other than neutral pronouns when discussing permutations with either G.Egan or C.Praeger.

Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by beAbU »

KomoD wrote: post #44
somehnguy wrote: post #8

Interesting. The site is nearly unusable to me unfortunately. '19 MBP w/ Chrome - scrolling stutters really bad

Does it for me too, chrome on a thinkpad

> chrome on a thinkpad

This is akin to saying "browser on a computer". Need to be more specific.

Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by [deleted] »

iancarroll wrote: post #23

A bit skeptical of how this article is written as it seems to be mostly written by AI. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app and it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article. I've noticed Claude Code is happy to decompile APKs for you but isn't very good at doing reachability analysis or figuring out complex control flows. It will treat completely dead code as important as a co…

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Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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ghywertelling wrote: post #172
Mathnerd314 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a specific writing style for globalized English that AI's use. And then this post also had none of the stylistic flourishes that a real author might add. And then simple things like constructing a table of 68 libraries or whatever organized by relatively subjective categories. That is something that nobody is going to do by hand.

There is a new term "load-bearing" which is used a lot in my usage of AI. Has anyone else encountered this term being used a lot in their conversations? Or is it a quirk of personalization?

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Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by Anonasty »

nclin_ wrote: post #189
gdeglin wrote: post #159

OneSignal cofounder here. Posting since our service was mentioned in this article. For those concerned or curious about location data collection, we wrote an explanation of how it works: https://onesignal.com/blog/youre-in-control-how-location-act...

Dead link

Works for me.

Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by DonHopkins »

halJordan wrote: post #131
SoftTalker wrote: post #11

Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app architecure which includes location tracking code and the other stuff.

That's exactly what 45Press is. They won a 1.5mil contract to spit out this tripe (tbf the contract includes other wh.gov support).

To be fair, Kristi Noem shot the horse they rented, so there were a lot of expenses.

Re: I decompiled the White House's new app

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Post by rocqua »

ghywertelling wrote: post #172
Mathnerd314 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a specific writing style for globalized English that AI's use. And then this post also had none of the stylistic flourishes that a real author might add. And then simple things like constructing a table of 68 libraries or whatever organized by relatively subjective categories. That is something that nobody is going to do by hand.

There is a new term "load-bearing" which is used a lot in my usage of AI. Has anyone else encountered this term being used a lot in their conversations? Or is it a quirk of personalization?

I've heard it a lot from podcasts that are towards the abundance movement. I think its common within the rationalise movement.

Personally I really like it for "load-bearing assumptions". Because it let's you work with assumptions whilst pointing out the potential issues of that assumption.

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