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Why does Android need this? Does the OS not let you control notifications?


Android does, at the level of "Allow notifications from app X" and "Block notifications from app X".

DoNotNotify gives granularity and rules (which a specific app may have chosen not to implement).

For example:

    "Allow <budget airline app X> to display notifications of gate changes"
    "Block <budget airline app X> from displaying advertising notifications"


Android 15/16 does allow you to control notifications even lower, at the level of notification category, but indeed the app must have chosen to use them.


Most apps that are in need of notification control either:

a) bundle everything in one category, from critical notifications without which the app can't fulfill its purpose to "HEY YOU HAVEN'T USED ME IN A DAY, USE ME NOW" spam

b) create a new category for spam every time they feel enough users have turned off the previous one, which is often


Companies do it with email unsubscribe categories to, which is skirting laws for sure.


I wish app review checked for this. It's hostile anti user behavior.


OEMs like Samsung turn off that ability by default unless you toggle it in "advanced settings". Thank you Samsung!


Yeah the problem is a lot of apps dump their ads in the wrong category if they even use categories :(


To give you an example of what this is form, some apps like to bundle notification categories in such a way that the Tracking notification is the same as the "Buy this item on sale" notification and you can't granularly turn it off. It's 100% intentional.


I assume this allows more granularity. Many apps avoid you blocking their marketing by not using the notification categories system. It's all or nothing. This app would presumably allow me to differentiate between the two if it can't be done with notification categories.


It does, but this appears to have a lot more granularity. You don't always want to block an entire app, sometimes you just want to block some of the notifications from a specific app.


Anyone organizing your neighborhood and events keep inner circle chats to only people you have personally vetted and use a new group chat for every event/topic and delete the groups for past events.

Be mindful of what you share in a big group chat where you don’t know everyone


Considering ICE is executing people in the streets and were already breaking laws before this something little like free speech won’t help


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Your causality is reversed.

The dude was literally just standing there on a public sidewalk with his hands up. He never initiated the altercation or otherwise impeded any lawful investigation.

The agent chose to initiate the altercation during which the victim was pepper sprayed, pinned to the ground by six people, disarmed, and then shot ten times.


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Not what happened.


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Because I was baselessly accused of lying, here's one video taken from the sidewalk (there are probably more copies of this with more views, but it's what came up in my search):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsWCDbnMW4

The man coming into frame at :09 is Pretti. As can clearly be seen a few frames later, he is already on the road at this point and walking towards the middle of the road. By :14, as the camera backs up, we can see that the crack in the road he straddled right after coming into frame was in fact in the main traffic lane, not the lane with the stopped white car. (I do not say "parked" because there appears to be a woman sitting behind the wheel who might have the intent to leave, but for the altercation in front of her.) At :22 the camera turns back to Pretti (whose location could be inferred in the interim from his shadow) and he is standing over the median.

From :26 he can be seen making hand gestures, either to direct traffic or otherwise communicate with drivers, such as the one coming into frame and honking a horn. The fact that the horn is honked implies that the driver perceives Pretti as being in the way, and at :28 we can see that car swerve slightly to accommodate him. At :35, as the officer pushes a woman while they are both in front of the stopped car, Pretti is still also in the road. He can then be seen approaching the officer and physically interposing himself between the officer and the woman, and raising an arm to block the officer. He is at this point on the road shoulder, not the sidewalk. As he helps the woman up, both of them get sprayed; at :42 he again physically interposes, as if to shield the woman. He is then pulled up (and presumably already under arrest) and eventually separated from the woman, which he clearly physically resists; then he resists the officers who attempt to wrestle him to the ground. This "ground" is squarely in front of the stopped car. There is an extended scuffle; it takes until :59 for him to be disarmed (although it doesn't appear that any other officer would be able to see that this has happened), and the first gunshot is audible at 1:02.

Regardless of any mitigating factors in Pretti's conduct, or reasons why the shoot would be unlawful (and I have now seen analyses by many lawyers that appear very well reasoned, and there is much less consensus among them than there was in the Good case), the video inarguably shows all the things I claimed:

* He was in the street the entire time.

* He was physically attempting (and mostly successful) to get in between the officer and the woman.

* Because the woman is still in the street, and her interaction with the officer didn't start there (as seen in other video) it is entirely plausible that the officer intends to arrest her for obstruction.


I mean if you see anything in that video other than an ICE "officer" that needs to be in jail I'm very sad to presumably share a country with you. You can argue with me about how cool it is to mace a guy trying to keep a goon from manhandling a woman (don't give a fuck what you think about an "arrest" you are probably incorrectly assuming will happen, he should be in jail for that alone) all you want, but I'm not licking boots with you.


Unless you are in Canada you do not in fact share a country with me.

I told you what I saw. I posted evidence to prove that someone else's statements were false. Now you are shifting the goalposts.

Comments like yours blatantly violate HN posting guidelines.


Ok. I'm comfortable with calling a convenient narrow interpretation and over-simplification of the actions of the secret police force "not what happened" regardless of your play-by-play. Technically correct is not actually the best kind of correct.

And remember, they are called "guidelines" for a reason. But thanks for doing your best at policing the tone here, very important work you're doing.

Trying to tone it down here, I appreciate you are providing an outside perspective but these events are very stressful, like I'm watching my country fall apart, and so are a bunch of us here. So expect some serious vitriol even if you are presenting what you consider factual or reasonable analysis.


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This character has spent a few thousand words now on this and holds fast in spite of all the contrary evidence, at some point you have to wonder what is going on but I'm happy it's not my problem. He just won't stop, just keeps on digging. Check comment history if you won't believe me it is about as wild as it gets on HN.


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Congrats on being able to recount the official version of events.


I am recounting the events that I personally witnessed on video from multiple angles and which can clearly be seen by any impartial viewer. If you think anything I said is untrue, quote it, and provide actual evidence of it being untrue.

I also did not violate HN guidelines in my comment and it should not have been flagged.


Why is it so important for you to defend government killing citizens? Let’s say they broke the law, neither did anything that would deserve a death penalty much less instant execution by some racist coward wearing a mask.


I agree and didn't flag you


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She was stopped by the ICE pigs and the pig who was “in front” literally walked in front of the car and wouldn’t have been in the way even had she driven off as he was on her front left and she had her wheels turned all the way to right.

Only one having bad faith are you MAGA clowns


Fed


Ah yes, there is the uncomfortable feeling deep in your gut that you suppress, but a part of you knows it can happen.

I hope you realize that civil unrest is coming. Maybe not in a month. Maybe not even in a year. But at some point, after Trump fucks with elections and installs himself as a 3d term president, and the economy takes a nose dive as companies start pulling out of US, peoples savings are destroyed, and states start being more separationist, you are gonna see way worse things.



i know what fedposting means.

Im just saying your reaction to it is predictable


Three letter agencies do three letter agency things


Yep


You are talking about Microslop. They have never been against government and in fact have always been anti consumer and in war with any hacker ethos.

There was no “back in the day” where big tech was on our side. Stop being a poser


No one should be surprised by this. If you are doing anything on a computer and don’t want it to be readily available to governments or law enforcement you have to use Linux


For simple stand alone things it works


Sorry but I don’t believe you about em dashes. I don’t recall ever seeing them in online content or comments before LLM’s got popular. Normal dashes for sure, but no one actually dug out special character for it


Who cares? Top results are anyway paid ads


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