It's true that FCM will result in more reliability and a better UX than other ways to implement notifications. Doing something else is still the right choice for certain use cases, such as those where privacy or keeping the entire codebase open source are top priorities.

It's so blatant as if theyre using an instruction manual or something

Worse still it's not even clear what is being discussed. It implied "violence" but that is a wide range from just pushing to serious shooting.

% can also be misleading when a scale is arbitrary. A temperature increase measured in Fahrenheit will be a rather different % when converted to Kelvin.

Stephen Miller is basically a Nazi

She said that there's been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just "trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from... communities."

Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.

It makes me suspect they’re not talking about the stock systems OEMs ship.

The developers of GrapheneOS, an independent, security-oriented Android distribution are probably not only talking about stock OEM Android. What they're saying is true about stock OEM android though.

That's a separate issue from whether users are forced to get all their software from a specific source, which is also separate from whether users will actually use other sources when given the option.

On Android, developers can offer users a way to install an app that isn't easily traced to their identity and on iOS they can't. Furthermore, an Android app can be both on the Play store and available from other sources; there's no exclusivity.

You don't even need to audit a closed source app to know that Apple knows which devices its sending pushes to. It works because they know.

Stephen Miller is basically a Nazi

"He's giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are," Bondi said. "...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."'

Actually, I believe it is protected speech. There are apps that let people know where speed traps are. You mean it's not constitutionally protected to say to someone "hey, did you see the cop down on the corner?" Ridiculous. Of course, what she means to say is that the constitution doesn't matter and laws are made up now, and they're just going to do whatever the fuck they want. They're just not quuuuuite ready to go through the trouble of literally setting the constitution on fire yet.

Federation is an overly complicated solution it's not required. It also wouldn't actually help, they can still take it off the app store there'd be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.

The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There's no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that's a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that's probably unnecessary

You got that "tracked to their identity" opposite around.
The reason why there is no Android App is, if the phone gets "found" the data about the user/owner is an open book.

This is not true.
https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lt2prfb2vk2r

And how would they know that?
That would mean push notifications would go via an Apple Server. Wich
a) makes no sense
b) can be masquerade so that the server does not know who talks to whom
c) the meta information and the notification can be deleted timely

On the other hand, I guess most Android "low level" peer to peer apps go via FireBase?

Well, who knows what is true and what not.
I never knew that Push Notifications go via Apple, and not via the network operator.
Definitely wrong is GraphenOS's claim that Android does not allow access to the device id.
Of course it does. For what reason would the ID exist if it does not?
No idea if you need it for a FB message/notification though.

She said that there's been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just "trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from... communities."

Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.

It is definitely not constitutional protected free speech.
Because constitution has nothing to say in this matter.
On the other hand there is no law restricting such speech either.
Making a law against it, that is valid under the constitution, would be tricky however.

Facepalm. If the App does not store the data in a 5 mile radius ... how do you at least see the latest status when the power and internet is down?