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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To pull this off, the Raspberry Pi is programmed to act as a router. Any lookups that are associated with Google’s push service are redirected to a nonexistent IP and blocked from reaching your phone. When the mailbox door is opened and you place a phone inside, an ESP-32 is activated which sends a notification to the Pi that it’s okay to allow push notifications through.

I'm not well versed in networking, but this reads to me as it blocks and sends all notifications to the void and then while in the box the Pi allows new ones through.

The question then is do push notifications need an ACK and if they fail to receive one do they try again? I know cell carriers can tell when you're out of connection and can delay notifications and packets until you reconnect but this is slightly different.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

With how this routes push notifications to an invalid IP, will they be resent or are they lost? When you put your phone is the box will you get all your missed notifications or just ones coming in while it's in the box?

Also your guests will think their phone is broken or your Wi-Fi is down.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

It's not like anyone ever got them to clean them up anyways. Cities tired of this shit should just drive around with a dump truck, tossing all the Bird litter in and depositing it at the Bird HQ or local office. Then send them the bill for collection.

I can't just abandon a bicycle or throw trash on the ground, why is Bird and all of their customers allowed to?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

How do you use it for bots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I remember when doge coin was a joke and was worth nearly nothing. sigh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Yep. The goal was to kill all the apps to normalize using their crap. Same thing Google is doing with youtube: make adblockers difficult so that paying for YT red is normalized.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, an AI telling you your post will get deleted sounds like a great way to suppress specific information. Political ideas the mods/admins don't like? Pushing back against right-wing hate? Calling out blatant advertising? I can think of lots of ways this will probably be abused to steer conversations into advertiser-friendly topics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I mean...stairs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Maybe she didn't have the funds to buy out an expensive car.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Should be a fine of $10,000 per customer whose data was breached. Plus any costs associated from each customer for stolen identities. Plus cost for identity protection services for each customer.

Comcast: we'd go out of business!

Good. Then the government can auction off your infrastructure (really the US's since we paid for most of it) and the next company won't fuck around with data.

Oh, and if the company tries to hide data breaches, it's a $1M fine per customer breached plus 10% yearly gross revenue as a fine, on top of the above.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (7 children)

There's way WAY too many generic and store brands for them all to just be QC rejects.

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