Any of the games that aren’t fully on the cart, require a download to even function in the first place.

It’s looking like (TBD) that this is how a very large portion of the games are going to be delivered.

When the physical games require downloading to start using them, I think that starts crossing lines into bricking territory even if it’s not entirely accurate.

Just figured I’d add Apples own documentation as well

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/registering-your-app-with-apns

Apple Push Notification service (APNs) must know the address of a user’s device before it can send notifications to that device. This address takes the form of a device token unique to both the device and your app. At launch time, your app communicates with APNs and receives its device token, which you then forward to your provider server. Your server includes that token with any notifications it sends.

No, you’re right, GOOGLE will take the device identifier, but him talking about how he would need to store it, and especially for channels where he talks about user names and passwords really makes me think that he thinks he personally has to do it, with his own backend storing it. (edit: The point is, that he doesn’t HAVE to do it this way. You can, and it gives you more control, but you can let Google do it all. It’s never anonymous with anyone though.)

Apple knows which devices have the app installed. They would be able to link that back to the device if it was demanded, even if it is a bit more obscured.

Tornado Cash is a smart contract. It’s not anything that can be compromised. It’s code. It’s cryptography. Its immutable and can never be altered.

It’s unstoppable short of making using it against the law, and the US government tried that, and lost their court case.

Edit: Just further clarity - Once you deposit money into it, you get cryptographically signed response that says you have the right to withdraw that much money, but the response has no link to you. The money you get back is mixed with millions of other peoples money, and you withdraw someone elses money.

How do you suppose APNS knows which device to deliver the notification to?

Something that… links it to the device? Like, a unique ID that Apple can identify?

It sounds like he thinks HE has to store this information, which is simply incorrect. It will obviously be stored by Google in Firebase, and by Apple wherever that gets stored, but HE does not have to store it.

I write apps for a living. I have users subscribe and unsubscribe to channels, and at no point is there a user account with password involved in either iOS or Android. If you want the memory of which channels they have subscribed to to persist across uninstall/reinstalls or different devices, then yes, but for an app like this you don’t need to persist those settings.

At any point the government could subpoena who’s received pushes (or at least, who’s registered to) from both Google and Apple.

You wanna go to jail hosting that server? You want to be extradited from another partnering country to the USA for inciting violence? For accessory to murder if something went wrong?

How is the link indelible when it’s anonymous? This isn’t money that can be traced back to you once it goes through Tornado Cash, or if it was done on something like Monero.

Edit:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-warns-092112825.html

“Our ICE agents, all of our federal agents who are working hand in hand on these task force[s] — our federal agents from the Justice Department could be injured,” Bondi said Monday on “Hannity.”

“He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are. And he cannot do that. And we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out, because that’s not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country.”

This dudes life might be fucked now.

But sure, no reason, just trying to shove blockchain into everything.

It’s a cool tech. Just to help others out, a very brief TLDR on it

You can only submit certain denominations like 0.01 Ethereum, which then gets shuffled amongst everyone else submitting the same 0.01 Ethereum.

Then you can’t trace back who’s 0.01 is who’s.

You can leave the money in the smart contract as long as you want to increase anonymity before withdrawing it.

Because the government can’t take it down, and the government will want to take it down, and the government would even try to issue arrest warrants for people who made it outside the US to try and punish them. This dude who wrote this is in danger now.

Web browsers are capable of self checking a smart contract for new transactions, it is totally possible.

Who reported it would be anonymous if they used something like Tornado Cash, or if a service was able to be built ontop of a privacy coin like Monero.

Edit: Sorry I’m wrong about the web browser, you’d have to run your own node outside the browser or trust someone else’s node, and then the browser would hit the node. On phones you’d need to use a mobile app which can be a light client, or connect to your desktop’s node.

This is actually a spot where I think a public blockchain could work and it’s censorship resistant properties will be crucial one day.

The server is the blockchain, so it’s not hosted anywhere specific and can’t be taken down. It’s also a smart contract which ended up working in favor of the devs of TornadoCash (A coin mixing service that provides privacy) where a judge overturned the sanctions on it since it was just immutable public code, not owned by anyone.

Now that Tornado Cash isn’t sanctioned, you could mix your coins through it to then pay the sub cent fee to post the sighting on one of the layer 2s like Arbitrium (the fee which will also help combat spam)

The app could then be open source (web/android/iphone) and monitor the blockchain for the sightings in your area.

The problem still becomes push notifications if it’s all being done locally… It would need to be your device itself monitoring. Apple is also bad about background processing, but it’s a better on Android, and especially easier if you don’t deploy to the store and can bypass some of the requirements.

This way incurs no hosting costs for the developer, no load balancing, nothing to be seized etc.

It’s also harder to set up than what you listed, so even fewer people could do it.

It does require adoption of something like Ethereum though.

Edit: Some clarity, but also to post that transactions fees for example on Arbitrium today are $0.00087 for a 15 second confirmation. Add on a very tiny similar cost to post some GPS coordinates and a small description.

New Drug: Worm Eggs.

Effects: Allows worms to hatch in brain which turn populace into dumb fucks

Eligibility: Everyone, delivered at birth to stave off personal growth.

AI: APPROVED!

I don’t buy it. There a small handful of them like her, and they just trade off who gets to act more centrist, but always leaving enough votes to pass the BS they want to pass. Its a ruse so they can keep winning their seats so people can say, see, she’s better than others.

What the actual fuck.

Not quite the same level as McConnell filibustering his own bill after the Dems supported it, but it’s close.

You don’t need a user account or password to receive a push notification.

You just need to have the app installed. The app can be configured by the developer to receive push notifications.

Did you know that Jaywalking is against the law in places?

Colorado for example

https://www.jacobyandmeyers.com/blog/fatal-pedestrian-crash-study/

Colorado has the highest proportion of fatal jaywalking accidents among all pedestrian-related accidents, with 56%. The second highest is Arizona with 45% in addition to ranking second for the highest total count, at 539 fatalities.

Not only are you committing a crime, but you are potentially traumatizing perfectly peaceful citizens on the roadways when you do it.

That is a morally bankrupt thing to do.

YOU’VE NOW BEEN DENATURALIZED AND DEPORTED.

Elon has armed security guards… things won’t go well if masked men with no ID try to kidnap him…

Should be a spectacle.

You can get a DrinkMate which can carbonate anything, no need to dilute. It has a built in pressure release, and is easily cleanable by design.

Don’t use a sodastream, it’s not meant for anything but water. It’d make a mess and be very hard to clean.

He also likely has a shit ton of data from all the siphoning DOGE did that could be weaponized.

You wouldn’t be able to access twitch. You’d have to buy cable TV or an antenna for the free channels. Either way media wins via commercials.

I’m actually against a wealth tax, but think one of the only ways that taking their unrealized assets can work is if we do as you suggest.

If you own stock in something, taxing unrealized gains isn’t good. it’s not like were going to pay them for unrealized losses.

But we MUST stop them from being able to actualize those unrealized gains without taxing them like when they use their unrealized assets as collateral. It’s like a loophole for the ultra wealthy where they can just borrow against their assets for their entire life without paying taxes on it.

And really… who cares if this way might be more expensive to do, they’re rich as fuck, and can pay for it as part of that tax. Also assets can be very nebulous and hard to know what they actually have. But when you see that new house, new yacht, donation to a SPAC or whatever, the IRS can come knocking and be like how’d you pay for that.