

“I didn’t know how important something was until it negatively affected me and people I know,” Wes Virdell, probably.
Nerd; Board, Card, Pencil & Paper Gamer; Avid Reader; to find me in other places: https://lnk.bio/JaymesRS
“I didn’t know how important something was until it negatively affected me and people I know,” Wes Virdell, probably.
From what I’ve been reading on this lately (since this started) on iOS a method exists for a service to send out a list of locations, or references list that exists on device (this can work with date/time triggers as well) that would trigger a notification and the local device itself handles notification of the user so the developer has no idea who has been notified for all they know they just shouted locations out into the void and the on-device location services handles the rest.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/unlocationnotificationtrigger
The developer put up more specific details: https://www.iceblock.app/android
The post is up: https://www.iceblock.app/android
Turns out it’s about the notifications not the location, though it still indirectly is about location since the notifications are geographically specific.
TechCrunch did a traffic analysis: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/
But if the user doesn’t create an account and the deviceID rotates frequently, is there any way to tie those coordinates at a specific time to a specific person in a large enough geographical area and provide notifications (also provided via on device only services)? That’s what it seems like the developer has said Apple facilitates better.
The also said they will have a more detailed post up July 2nd about android on their site.
“Apple keeps most of your location history on your device: the bits of information stored in the cloud are either end-to-end encrypted, meaning only you can decipher them, or anonymized. As such, the risk of having your location history compromised by a data breach, or by a request from law enforcement to Apple for this data, is greatly reduced.”
In this case they are anonymized. The service can tell what device is where but not what user that deviceID matches and those identifiers are rotated to make it harder to match that data up.
At this point my understanding from other sources is that they can’t distribute via the android App Store in a way that uses location tracking and notifications but is still anonymous where they can with iOS because location services is device side only.
There’s a lot of great advice and reassurance in here already. It sounds like you’re doing all right to me too.
A more uncommon suggestion that fits in here is that we see evidence that reading to kids no matter the age, yes even this young has benefits later in life. Your local library may have a 1,000 books before kindergarten program (they are pretty common) and it’s never too early to enroll.
By having it disintegrate in the lower atmosphere just like the others?
The people getting the big money payouts in healthcare the US aren’t the doctors.
My wife is a physician, we have been discussing this too.
I don’t expect other people to understand this but I do expect you to understand this. We started this journey together.
[OhNoAnyway.gif]
My voice is my passport, verify me.
Can you pull up a bookmarked item to read when you don’t have an active network connection? If yes, that’s a “read it later” service. If no, then that’s why they are useful.
In the states I’ve lived in, Junior High and Middle school are both synonymous with grades 6-8
That was what I was referring to. I was being a bit hyperbolic, but a year in national service (beyond just the military) to do community service and gain skills in general not a new proposal. Pete Buttigieg suggested it after HS as part of his candidacy during the 2020 democratic primary.
That’s fair. In my district your insurance is covered if you qualify for assistance, but intentional damage isn’t included in insurance.
In my school we will still replace the Chromebook though (barring admin or district saying otherwise), and the financial impact will be fought by others at the district level. It’s above my pay grade.
¿Por qué no los dos?