Eyes Up’s purpose is to “preserve evidence until it can be used in court.” But it has been swept up in Apple’s attack on ICE-spotting apps.
Why can’t this be a web app that uses web notifications? Why does it even need to be an on-device app? That’s building in a vulnerability that doesn’t need to be there.
Make it a site. Go to the site. Pin the site. Allow notifications from site. Done.
Yes, Apple and Google are in the wrong, but why are we relying on them for this at all? Not everything needs to be a fucking app.
What’s even stopping them from just uploading to archive.org?
Cause tech illiterate people need as much friction removed as possible.
this is why we need to install apps without their approval or verification.
security my ass, they want to stop us from controlling our computers.
They want to stop us controlling anything.
i was talking about phones, but yeah. we will own nothing and be happy.
Send Apple feedback. They need to hear how unpopular working with Trump will make them.
OR stop buying ANY of their products
Well, both, really.
Make sure they know you won’t be buying their process anymore because of these policies.
Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don’t tell them their actions are irredeemable and they’ve lost you for life.
If you tell them you’ll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You’re essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don’t mind them bending the knee.
or both
If you are still using an apple phone in times like these then you are not taking your life serious enough. Big techs power will absolutely fuck things up in the coming series of purges in the US and people are totally unprepared for it.
How does one prepare for it without sitting around being a bored luddite all day? Idk how to tell you this, but the rot is total, and Americans simply aren’t willing to meet the moment
Can you not have fun without big tech platforms? There is so much stuff out there to do. So many hobbies both digital and physical to entertain yourself with.
For tech things there is the open source nerds that continue to make it possible to remove the influence of our tech overlords from our lives while still making use of the hardware we already have.
For climate change there are local groups in many cities (at least in Germany) with the specific idea of creating future proof communities that will survive supply chain collapse for food, water, electricity, etc.
A strongly worded letter
They’re based in the USA, they have to work with the government or they’ll be targeted/taken over/shut down, surely?
They could try to escape the USA and move all their operations to Europe, but I think they’re just going to stick where they are and do whatever the fascists want them to do. So long as they’re getting paid why should they care?
It would be better for the economy to commit suicide than to comply, and we as consumers have the power to make them if only we organized
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“Which side did you choose when authoritarianism came to your doorstep?”
Looks like Tim Apple has chosen.
Beholden to the AAPL ticker.
We really need a Linux phone… It’s like the future of democracy depends on it…
Future of democracy in the US relies on the people being vaguely intelligent as a group. Right now tens of millions of people there are straight-up worshipping an obvious fascist as god-king and a sizeable portion of the other chunk is still desperately clinging to the idea of being “moderate”.
A linux phone would be nice but it’s not going to save the world if the people are still dumb and cowardly.
Future of democracy in the US relies on the people being vaguely intelligent as a group.
Yeah, it’s fucked.
I’m glad the google play store never censors apps, oh wait. It’s almost as if big corporations and now governments have no citizens best interests in mind, mind blowing.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini
People need to realize. There is no fair access to technology. You either bend the knee or have to create your own marketplace.
Time to smash the looms.
Its why I have linux PC / laptops, and GrapheneOS on my phone (may get a fairphone next time)
Or start breaking things.
Corpos are not your friends. In fact they are usually the enemy.
they are
usuallyalways the enemyBetter though than Framework who donate to bad open source developers. Hail big corporate! /s
(This isn’t directed at you, I’m more frustrated by the people in the Framework controvery threads who somehow thing buying Apple or Dell is a more ethical choice).
My camera can record videos of ICE abuse. Are they gonna ban that?
I can’t think of a reason why, with client side scanning, they couldn’t in the near future implement a filter similar to this. Pictures and videos deemed “problematic” could magically disappear. And of course, your iPhone will send a helpful report to the local Gestapo branch. Eventually, “Sorry, network permission is required to run the camera app. You may not capture images of law enforcement activities per executive law. The camera will now be disabled until you comply.”
This… Is a very possible future
If only there were such thing as cameras that weren’t integrated into smartphones.
They actually did try the years ago. The idea was a signal could be sent to deactivate cameras and microphones on all phones in a vicinity. It was being pitched as a way to stop people from recording a live events like concerts but there was enormous outcry over the potential for abuse so it was dropped.
States and cities try to criminalize recording police all the time.
That’s what AI is for
I banned Apple from my life a long time ago.
We need to spread the word of lemmy reddit mods are banning everything
I get it. Pomme bad. But why does this even need to be an “app”? Is it just a wrapper for a website?
Because people are stupid. We had a new client whose employees were asking for an app to access their payroll. I told the manager we didn’t have one but our website was optimized for mobile. Also told her I can show them how to put a shortcut on their home screen.
“They’re just not going to be able to handle that. If they can’t download from the app store they’re helpless.”
“But they’ll have an icon to click, just like an app.”
She just shook her head. I ended up wrapping the site in an app and putting it in the Play Store.
Offices really played a part in killing tech literacy. it departments should’ve never fixed bkau problems
18 U.S.C. § 1519 – „Destruction, Alteration, or Concealment of Evidence“ ?
Thus solidifying my scorched earth policy with apple.
I don’t want your naziPhone.
