Oops… the fact that the Ukrainians are attacking defenses that have been built in-depth tells me that the Russians had a pretty good idea where the Ukrainians were going to attack - this does not bode well for Ukraine.
I think there are a few key paragraphs in this article that provide important context to the post title:
“Russia’s military has displayed “professional qualities” by preventing Ukrainian forces from “advancing quickly”.”
So they’re advancing, just not quickly enough for someone’s timeline?
“The Institute for the Study of War says Ukrainian forces appear to have broken through “certain pre-prepared Russian defensive positions”.”
So the Ukrainians are advancing, even through readied russian defenses.
“So far there’s little evidence that Western supplied tanks and armoured vehicles have been able to tip the balance decisively in Ukraine’s favour.”
So there’s no context for what they mean by decisively, But since we know that the Ukrainians are advancing because of these tanks and even breaking through pre-prepared Russian defenses, the armored vehicles are clearly tipping the battle in Ukraine’s favor.
I remember when they first announced this tech & had totally forgotten about it. They should pull engineers from the web DRM scheme & the manifest v3 teams to look into this.
Idk… Tbh I am not sure what they aree talking about.
Here in Spain and I think applies to Europe aswell the government can sent alerts per region or globally for any reason , Android and iOS handle it but I wouldn’t exactly call it a Google alert of course if Google fuck it up it wouldn’t work on Android phones. That said until recently at least here it had been barely tested, recently they did tests and finally seems to work fine but initially some phones didn’t receive anything, but as far as I know it was ISP provider issues, again not sure how the delivery is done so you get the alert
Okay, thanks. I got some quake alerts in Japan before, but I also thought that was a network message, not a specifically Google alert.
I’m just curious why Google is specifically taking the blame here, like if they took responsibility or announced intention to report on future quakes and then dropped the ball or something.
Google is not taking any blame. Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system, it did not work, and they’re claiming it did.
No one asked for such a system in the first place from them, and while it’s nice they’d go about doing something like that in Earthquake prone parts of the world, if it doesn’t work they probably shouldn’t get up and start declaring “No no, it totally did work, dunno what those survivors are on about.”
Is this something Google regularly does? Release alerts about earthquakes? Is it specific to Turkey or global?
From the article (which you should read, it’s quite short):
Google’s Android Earthquake Alert System was announced in Turkey in June 2021. The system is operational in dozens of countries around the world. The company describes the ability to send quake alerts as a “core” part of its Android service.
Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system
If you read between the lines of their ‘earthquake system’, it is obviously polling your phone on a very short and granular basis and pulling movement data, which is something no one seems to be talking about. This is the kind of data collection that pisses me off, and they get away with this by trying to pass this off as some sort of wonderful life saving system that I bet no one even knew they were contributing data to.
I hope everyone you know is doing okay but I don’t think Google is really flexing that the alert system didn’t work. Tech isn’t perfect but the system has worked with other earthquakes. If anything we can hope the tech gets better because this event will highlight gaps.
Google’s product lead on the system, Micah Berman, insisted it had worked. “We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts,” he told the BBC. However, the company did not provide evidence that these alerts were widely received.
Personally I don’t think they have any responsibility to build such a system, or even have it function properly. By “weird flex” I was specifically referring to the “We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts” line.
Obviously my view is anecdotal (especially the whole “No one got any sort of alert” part of my original comment), so take what I say with a grain of salt!
It’s nice that an ad company lets us know when we might accidentally die but, yeah, not a first line of defense. Local government should be beating commercial sources to the punch every time vital information needs to go out.
Nah. Relying on an ad subsidized service to alert you of danger is a bad idea both for the end user and the local government.
There is a already an emergency alert system baked into every iPhone and Android device, the government is responsible for using it regardless of whether there is commercial service working in parallel to theirs.
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So… their gonna just level up their normal business model then? Churn out an endless stream of garbage in hopes something sticks then cancel it or ruin it when it somehow does stick?
Mrs Scott was unable to free herself and, as Cliff drove away, she was dragged under the Go North East vehicle and remained pinned under its rear wheels for almost an hour.
That’s the part that horrified me the most. An hour?! That’s an eternity. And somehow nobody noticed her despite the bus being in service? I kinda hope she was at least noticed quickly and the delay was something like first responders not being sure how best to remove her, because the alternative of being active dragged for that long with nobody noticing is even worse (as if it wasn’t bad enough).
Wait… ALL pensioners? Not just the ones that worked X hours, it did this, it whatever? It’s just she based? WHY would they even need a pass to begin with? Just check the age on her id.
Well, it’s all residents. Tourists from abroad still have to pay. So from a system-point-of-view, the bus passes do make sense (since it’s easier/quicker to check a bus pass than a passport plus proof of residency or something). But from a human standpoint there is no point to this.
As far as I know, there is no standards ID card that everyone has to carry in the UK. And it’s (thankfully) not like countries where everyone is expected to have a driver’s licence to identify themselves, since a fair number of people don’t drive in the UK (and that assumption sucks anywhere).
You can get a state ID, sure but most people don’t. Drivers licenses are the primary form of ID here. I wouldn’t say it’s “expected” but, depending on where you live, it would be unusual to not have one as your primary form of ID if you’re of driving age. And prior to that age you usually don’t have a need for ID
Sure, you are correct, but nobody bats an eye if you present an id card instead of a driver’s license. Hell most people probably don’t even notice the difference. OP was implying that not having a driver’s license is somehow more difficult than having one and that’s completely false for the US
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