The only things I block are legit spam, and hexbear. And the only reason I block hexbear is because I’m banned from their instance and can’t interact with it anyway.

Let’s say notifications are like walkie-talkies. You push a button, it sends an alert or your voice to the paired device. Neither one is storing the information, they are just relaying to each other. Now, in this case the government has issued a court order stating that a third party be given a walkie-talkie with the ability to understand the information transmitted by the first. There is still no storage being done, but a second party now receives all the information being broadcast.

It’s not about not having the information. You don’t actually need to store it anywhere to facilitate communication, at least beyond it being in memory which most would agree doesn’t constitute storage in this situation.

Now, could that third party store the information? Absolutely.

Capture and relay have nothing to do with storage. You can absolutely add storage, but it is in no way a necessary step.

My friend, did you read what the article you linked says? That isn’t storing the data, that’s capturing the data and relaying it, as directed by court order.

Source on the legality change? I’ve never heard about a law that would apply to this.

You clearly don’t understand what’s going on.

Just as an addition, it also lets you lock down remote usage, toggle the lights, and check for motion.

An issue a lot of people don’t think about is placement. If you’ve got the fob directly next to a device that’s broadcasting WiFi, you’re gonna have a bad time. Similarly, if it’s surrounded by thick wood or metal, you’re not going to have decent signal.

$30 could definitely fix those issues.

Wait, your argument is that these things are so inaccurate that within stabbing distance they still miss their target?

What level of accuracy do you need when you’re within a few feet?

Leave your beef out on the counter for a day and I assure you, the expiration date will be useless.

Expiration dates are 99/100 times a baseline for guessing if an item is safe to consume. If you’re not using your brain and actually checking, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Their first problem is asking for a cover letter. I’ve applied to hundreds of jobs while looking, you think I’m going to hand write 100+ cover letters, customized for each and every job? Hell no.

It croaks multiple times a day!

1Password is an option. It’s all stored in one place, sure. But you need the encryption key and password to access it. No one but you has that key, and if you lose/forget it you lose your passwords forever. Not even the company can recover your passwords from that.

K bye

No no, he’s “smelling a suspicious odor” and about to ask the citizen to step out of the car.

A soft delete is about the only sane way to handle this kind of information, to be honest. People already used the delete feature for harassment, but imagine if there was no way to see the deletions on Reddits side, a report of the harassment would mean nothing.

Yes, the right to be forgotten exists, but it’s much more in depth to create an account, harass someone in comments so it reaches their notifications, then request a deletion of the account. Vs just deleting the comment and doing it again and again.

I have something similar, but added user names to the mix. “names_iphone” works for “alert name” and similar.

Email is generally considered the one thing you never want to self host, so that hope is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Apps (almost) always take upgrades into consideration when it comes to migrating data. However they (almost) never take downgrades into consideration.

This is part standard across all software. Migrating forward can already be difficult, but backwards can be impossible, especially if data was lost in the move forward.