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Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app ar

Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app architecure which includes location tracking code and the other stuff.

charcircuit 8mo ago
And r8 which does tree shaking to remove dead code is not smart enough to understand react native so it won't strip it out without extra work from the developer. Cross referencing these different things in the article to other apps that exist was my first thought as these seem pretty generic and probably reused from somewhere else.
- miki123211 8mo ago
  The Polish covid quarantine app was famously adapted from some app for store inspectors or something, as it already implemented most of the required functionalities, like asking for photos via push at random times, sending them along with a location etc. They likely did a search-and-replace on the brand name, so you had strings like 'your invoices from Home Quarantine inc' in the code. Not a bad thing per se, getting the app out the door asap was definitely a priority in that project for understandable reasons, but funny nonetheless.
jclardy 8mo ago
The location tracking code is within the OneSignal SDK - which is just a standard messaging platform for sending emails/push messages to users. It doesn't have some magical permissions bypass, the app itself has to request it.
halJordan 8mo ago
That's exactly what 45Press is. They won a 1.5mil contract to spit out this tripe (tbf the contract includes other wh.gov support).
- DonHopkins 8mo ago
  To be fair, Kristi Noem shot the horse they rented, so there were a lot of expenses.
- irishcoffee 7mo ago
  Shockingly, still better than baltimore: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/city-in-crisis/baltimores-website-project-ends-with-no-website-taxpayer-funds-wasted https://foxbaltimore.com/news/city-in-crisis/baltimores-webs... I think its cost over $5mm at this point, and the website doesn't exist. Oh, the company that built the site is owned by, I think the spouse of a council member, or something of that ilk. Edit: 2.2mm, initial bid of 300k.
pseudohadamard 8mo ago
"Visit TrumpRx.gov" Holy crap, the grift never ends! Is he even allowed to do that, use a .gov address to peddle dodgy meds?
- iAMkenough 8mo ago
  Hatch Act won't be enforced until the next administration and next DOJ.
  - extraduder_ire 8mo ago
    At least. I'm not hopeful.
    - nielsbot 8mo ago
      [flagged]
      - throwawayqqq11 7mo ago
        Thank god there are still republicans left. But snark aside, the next elections will be decided around damage control. Yes, the old school dems are pretty spineless (corrupt) but i guess even they feel the temptation of revenge and taking out political opponents for good. I really hope the new generation of democrats succeeds and breaks the corruption ties.
        nielsbot 7mo ago
        Thank you for understanding. I'm pointing things like Obama "looking forward not backward" and not punishing Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Condi, etc for war crimes and illegal warmongering which leads directly to today's current illegal Iran invasion. We will need actual punishments for everyone who illegally defunded (or funded) programs, got us into the Iran invasion, embezzled and lined their pockets with corruption etc etc etc.
  - AbstractH24 7mo ago
iAMkenough 8mo ago
If only the US Digital Service still existed as an agency to do this right. Too bad it's now been hollowed out to be DOGE, subject to multiple active lawsuits. What are your taxes paying for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
- thegreatpeter 7mo ago
  have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/ https://ndstudio.gov/
  - a11yauditfailed 7mo ago
    "Accessibility Matters" they chortle between giant images of text https://ndstudio.gov/posts/accessibility-matters https://ndstudio.gov/posts/accessibility-matters

charcircuit 8mo ago

And r8 which does tree shaking to remove dead code is not smart enough to understand react native so it won't strip it out without extra work from the developer. Cross referencing these different things in the article to other apps that exist was my first thought as these seem pretty generic and probably reused from somewhere else.

miki123211 8mo ago
The Polish covid quarantine app was famously adapted from some app for store inspectors or something, as it already implemented most of the required functionalities, like asking for photos via push at random times, sending them along with a location etc. They likely did a search-and-replace on the brand name, so you had strings like 'your invoices from Home Quarantine inc' in the code. Not a bad thing per se, getting the app out the door asap was definitely a priority in that project for understandable reasons, but funny nonetheless.

jclardy 8mo ago

The location tracking code is within the OneSignal SDK - which is just a standard messaging platform for sending emails/push messages to users. It doesn't have some magical permissions bypass, the app itself has to request it.

halJordan 8mo ago

That's exactly what 45Press is. They won a 1.5mil contract to spit out this tripe (tbf the contract includes other wh.gov support).

DonHopkins 8mo ago
To be fair, Kristi Noem shot the horse they rented, so there were a lot of expenses.
irishcoffee 7mo ago
Shockingly, still better than baltimore: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/city-in-crisis/baltimores-website-project-ends-with-no-website-taxpayer-funds-wasted https://foxbaltimore.com/news/city-in-crisis/baltimores-webs... I think its cost over $5mm at this point, and the website doesn't exist. Oh, the company that built the site is owned by, I think the spouse of a council member, or something of that ilk. Edit: 2.2mm, initial bid of 300k.

pseudohadamard 8mo ago

"Visit TrumpRx.gov" Holy crap, the grift never ends! Is he even allowed to do that, use a .gov address to peddle dodgy meds?

iAMkenough 8mo ago
Hatch Act won't be enforced until the next administration and next DOJ.
- extraduder_ire 8mo ago
  At least. I'm not hopeful.
  - nielsbot 8mo ago
    [flagged]
    - throwawayqqq11 7mo ago
      Thank god there are still republicans left. But snark aside, the next elections will be decided around damage control. Yes, the old school dems are pretty spineless (corrupt) but i guess even they feel the temptation of revenge and taking out political opponents for good. I really hope the new generation of democrats succeeds and breaks the corruption ties.
      - nielsbot 7mo ago
        Thank you for understanding. I'm pointing things like Obama "looking forward not backward" and not punishing Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Condi, etc for war crimes and illegal warmongering which leads directly to today's current illegal Iran invasion. We will need actual punishments for everyone who illegally defunded (or funded) programs, got us into the Iran invasion, embezzled and lined their pockets with corruption etc etc etc.
- AbstractH24 7mo ago

iAMkenough 8mo ago

If only the US Digital Service still existed as an agency to do this right. Too bad it's now been hollowed out to be DOGE, subject to multiple active lawsuits. What are your taxes paying for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

thegreatpeter 7mo ago
have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/ https://ndstudio.gov/
- a11yauditfailed 7mo ago
  "Accessibility Matters" they chortle between giant images of text https://ndstudio.gov/posts/accessibility-matters https://ndstudio.gov/posts/accessibility-matters