ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

Glad to see Apple's leaders showing so much courage.

I'm sure their founders, and the historical heroes they love to quote on their homepage on important dates, would've been so proud of the courage and values they practice today.

https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

Loops is the ethical TikTok alternative the fediverse needs.

Unique safety features, mental health protections, and user controls you've never seen before.

Open source launch coming later this month - and you'll see why we took the time to get this right ✨

https://loops.video

#loops #tikTok

A key part of the New York City mayoral races was Ranked Choice Voting.

I'm not seeing many news articles mention this yet (correct me if I'm wrong though!).

Ranked choice let's us vote first for who we actually want.... and then put in backup votes for "good enough" candidates and allows us to compromise and find common ground.

It destroys the concepts of "lesser of two evils" and "throwing away your vote".

I hope we see Ranked Choice voting everywhere.

#newYork #NYC #NYCMayor #ZohranMamdani

The HDR adjustment feature on the Switch 2 is a bit wonky. Here's the best advice I've seen on how to set it for your TV. Unfortunately, it's a bit involved, but it's not hard to actually do once you figure out what you have to do for your specific TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BmkMcaqpX8

Apple love to preach "the UI gets out of the way of your content" with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let's compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I've added a red line for emphasis.

It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.