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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • For the curious:

    Dude choked a woman at a public storage place. She later went to the hospital with bruises around her neck from the strangling. I imagine there will be video evidence since storage places have tons of cameras.

    https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/york-star/2024/10/29/maine-state-rep-lucas-lanigan-accused-of-strangling-woman/75917806007/

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    Riddle said he investigated the matter and learned that the woman went to meet Lanigan at Springvale Safe Storage on River Street earlier that afternoon at 12:45 p.m.

    When she arrived, she saw Lanigan there with another woman, with whom Lanigan had allegedly been having an affair, according to the affidavit.

    The woman began yelling at the other woman. She confronted Lanigan about the alleged infidelity.

    According to the affidavit, the woman said Lanigan then “grabbed her around the neck with both hands and choked her for approximately 20 seconds.”

    The woman was able to get away from him, and she went home, where she called two of her friends, the affidavit states.

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    First responders brought the woman to Maine Medical Center in Sanford to be treated.

    The victim “has bruising on the left and right side of her neck,” according to the affidavit.

    As a result of the alleged strangulation, she also had spots on her face and nose and inside her mouth, according to the affidavit.







  • The way this article is framed sounds like bullshit to me. 18.1 was released less than 2 weeks ago. Any phone running this version of iOS would have had to already been in custody and somehow upgraded to this version, or otherwise brought into custody very recently—too recently for this to have already posed such a problem that law enforcement is “freaking out” and reporting it to the media.

    A non-insignificant amount of people have been running the public betas because of Apple intelligence, RCS / iMessage toys, UI customization, etc. For example, MixPanel reported about 2% of the iOS install base running 18.0 before 18.0’s launch. IMHO, that’s pretty crazy for a beta OS.

    https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_18



  • IMHO, the novelty of the feature isn’t what makes this headline worthy. This is noteworthy because of the scale. iOS is over a quarter of phones on earth, and in English speaking countries and Japan, you’re looking at numbers that are often over 50%.

    This will impact a LOT more investigations than Graphene, and I imagine Apple will be back in court fighting cops who want to remove privacy and security features. Hopefully this stuff stands up to the autocrats coming into power in the states.