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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.

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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.