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Why is the app asking for location services and why collecting cell phone number
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262 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 14h

I thought about this, and I think that the past 2 years, someone would put 1 sentence into chatgpt and give everyone a slop post about this new great idea, and everyone would say "eww slop". Now someone puts 1 sentence into a code app, gives everyone a slop repo, and it gets upvoted.

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😆Murdering vibe coded application dreams one repo at a time

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74 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 13h

Only the nightmares

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Hahaha

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Something like rideshares needs that to coordinate people, no?

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True but it gets embedded on a nostr relay and once it’s out there who knows what can happen.

I am assuming the data is encrypted with your nostr key but if that key ever leaked you are screwed.

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I get it. I'm not sure how else this can work though. Maybe you could just manually input a location to see what jobs are available there without it permanently associating that location with you.

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p2p networks are extremely hard. While uber has all of our location data if something was to happen due to a leak maybe you can sue uber.

I think it might be better to go back to a taxi call service where you share your location one time for pick up via a signed message. That way you can control what location data you share and you make sure it’s not continuing to share throughout the ride.

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I can see that working early on, when there are very few riders and drivers to coordinate.

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Yeah but it doesn’t scale like Uber’s on demand system with real time pricing.

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58 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 14h
how else this can work
  1. Drop a pin on a map when you're listing something
  2. Client-side filtering

If spam is an issue, nostr has a hashcash like protection that you can (probably) filter on the relay with.

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