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>as it seems to be mostly written by AI.

Is there something in particular that made you conclude that or are you going just with how it felt?

For what it's worth, it didn't seem to me.

There's a specific writing style for globalized English that AI's use. And then this post also had none of the stylistic flourishes that a real author might add. And then simple things like constructing a table of 68 libraries or whatever organized by relatively subjective categories. That is something that nobody is going to do by hand.

There is a new term "load-bearing" which is used a lot in my usage of AI. Has anyone else encountered this term being used a lot in their conversations? Or is it a quirk of personalization?

been getting a lot of "load-bearing" and "roll your own" lately.

us humans, even if kinda trash at many things, are pretty rad at pattern recognition.

I use load-bearing all the time in conversation. People need to be careful that just because they don’t use certain phrases, it doesn’t automatically mean AI.

I use it all the time, but almost always sarcastically (as in "load-bearing tinyproxy instance").

just what an AI bot would say! ;)

I've heard it a lot from podcasts that are towards the abundance movement. I think its common within the rationalise movement.

Personally I really like it for "load-bearing assumptions". Because it let's you work with assumptions whilst pointing out the potential issues of that assumption.

There are also fashions. So people could be using "load-bearing" more because it's fashionable. Like "lets double-click on that", or "spinning rust", etc

Both you and parent are making a lot of load-bearing assumptions.

As someone who likes to use a lot of em dashes in writing -- the 'heuristics' that AI 'hunters' like to use need a lot of further refinement before I would trust them with anything. And yet there are legions of anti-AI crusaders out there wielding them like weapons.

These folks are reinforcing a bias against all kinds of people, particularly those who are not native English speakers and were very likely taught 'globalized' English in their language training.

Perhaps the apparent hallucination they mentioned in their comment?

Apparently just like OP, you didn't read the article either. Just because the app doesn't ask for permission in the manifest doesn't mean it can't be acquired at runtime. It's very publicly documented [0].

So, no. Not a "hallucination".

[0] https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/location-opt-in-...

How certain are you of that?

That appears to be about providing a message to the user before requesting permissions.

However, it appears even permissions you allow your app to request still need to be declared beforehand? https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...

Regardless, people are reporting mixed info on whether the app declares location access: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557010

I checked all versions. Maybe, just maybe, the app was changed in response? Hmmm, I wonder...

https://imgur.com/a/SNJL4XO

This is incorrect. On Android, you must do BOTH to actually get location APIs to work.

Well, I will argue that you are incorrect and do one better and ask why a Huawei SDK [0] is embedded in the app beyond the location tracking?

[0] https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spywa...

You mean fabrication?

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