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That mystery cigar is Blackened Cigars by Drew Estate S84 Shade to Black. It will land on shelves later this month.
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The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant.
The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Apple and Google demanded that the companies hand over information on accounts identified by push tokens linked to alleged supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group.
But the practice was not widely understood until December, when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, said an investigation had revealed that the Justice Department had prohibited Apple and Google from discussing the technique.
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Unlike normal app notifications, push alerts, as their name suggests, have the power to jolt a phone awake—a feature that makes them useful for the urgent pings of everyday use. Many apps offer push-alert functionality because it gives users a fast, battery-saving way to stay updated, and few users think twice before turning them on.
But to send that notification, Apple and Google require the apps to first create a token that tells the company how to find a user’s device. Those tokens are then saved on Apple’s and Google’s servers, out of the users’ reach.
The article discusses their use by the FBI, primarily in child sexual abuse cases. But we all know how the story goes:
“This is how any new surveillance method starts out: The government says we’re only going to use this in the most extreme cases, to stop terrorists and child predators, and everyone can get behind that,” said Cooper Quintin, a technologist at the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“But these things always end up rolling downhill. Maybe a state attorney general one day decides, hey, maybe I can use this to catch people having an abortion,” Quintin added. “Even if you trust the U.S. right now to use this, you might not trust a new administration to use it in a way you deem ethical.”
The Appflow team is excited to announce the GA release of a new, Capacitor-based Live Updates SDK that unlocks significant performance improvements in the Live Updates product suite. Teams of all sizes can instantly deploy code updates to Capacitor apps using this powerful feature of Appflow, Ionic’s mobile CI/CD platform.
Appflow Live Updates lets you deploy web code changes directly to users’ installed apps without requiring them to download a new version from the app stores. Think of it as a silent upgrade in the background that can fix bugs, introduce new features, and optimize performance.
This makes for a much better user experience and is a powerful tool to react quickly to user feedback or issues. Because you are only deploying changes to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, these updates are app store compliant and allow for strategies like A/B testing, rollbacks, and more.
The SDK has been rewritten from the ground up using native mobile technology, offering a variety of enhancements.
This is only the start of more improvements to come.
Whether you were beta testing the SDK or are brand new, begin by installing the most recent package:
npm @capacitor/live-updates@latest
npx cap sync
From there, follow the robust installation guide to configure the SDK, pick the correct live update strategy for your app, and ship some updates to your users!
Using the original Cordova-based SDK? Follow the guide for a seamless migration process.
A special thanks to the Ionic Community for their testing and feedback during the Live Updates SDK beta period. Your valuable feedback was instrumental in shaping the initial version. Stay tuned for more innovative updates to come!
Live Updates are available on all Appflow plans. Get started with a free account today!
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Normally when you run git branch
on a repository, you get your list of branches in alphabetical order, which can be very annoying if you have a lot of them (unless you have a very rigid naming system by ticket number or something).
You can change that now!
In your repo, if you do:
git branch --sort=-committerdate
This will sort all of your branches by the date of their last commit!
You can sort by:
authordate
committerdate
creatordate
objectsize
taggerdate
Plus, you can also do this globally if you want to always do it by one of these, like so:
git config --global branch.sort -committerdate
Or, you could set an alias:
git config --global alias.brcd "branch --sort=-committerdate"
Now go on and git committing!
Forgive the S bomb in this tweet, but I think the full effect of these stats needs to be felt.