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by ElFitz 5y ago
Having things server side is an optional feature that has some value. But not being able to trust the device itself makes it pretty much useless.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Perhaps via some monad, like Swift optionals? Unless it isn’t a monad and I still haven’t understood those?
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> In the others, maybe. Win 51% of the districts with 51% of the vote, and lose the other 49% without getting any votes. To help with it, many countries regularly redraw their districts based on population size (census data). How is it i
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by ElFitz 5y ago
My biggest issue with Xcode breakpoints, especially with the conditional "Automatically continue after evaluating actions" ones, is how much they can slow down the app.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Most democracies do indeed elect their representatives per voting district, with each vote inside said district having the same voting power, and each district electing one representative. Then, for those where a prime minister rules, the p
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Because you only have to express it for it to be respected. Which is the bare minimum if you want others to be able to even consider respecting it. The default choice being, in the absence of any information, the one that increases chances
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by ElFitz 5y ago
There’s a reason why they strongly encourage people to make their preference clearly known to family & friends. Because most often, when there’s even the sliver of a doubt on the deceased one's wishes, the corpse will keep all it’s
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by ElFitz 5y ago
And that’s how you get a stack overflow. Always remember your exit condition when doing recursion, folks!
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Also, a cognitive bias isn’t necessarily a fallacy. It’s only a prism that deforms our perspective of the world. Fallacies are a different beast altogether.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> Authoritarian countries are the least of the worries. That really depends. And is quite a strange, perhaps worrying, take. Because, for many people, copyright strikes are the least of their problems. Not that I disagree on it being an
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Those already doing far worse than banning a consumer electronics company's products? And, in all honesty, there's a lot of those.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
China just hung it's biggest tech companies out to dry. Do you really think they would care in the slightest about banning iPhone? Or that Putin cares more about people not being able to buy what amounts to a luxury item, than being
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by ElFitz 5y ago
The least of the biases at play, here, is the change aversion bias. Making things "opt-out", without even making it hard, dramatically increases the number of people who opt-in. It can be used for many reasons. For example, the UK
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Oh, there’s a lot more where that came from. Just an example. During a heatwave some summer over a decade ago, many elderly people died. So what did the government do? They instituted a "day of solidarity", of course! What does it
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Yes, hash collisions definitely occur. There is no such thing as collision-free hashes, and MD5 is definitely broken. Even though the author says they were 3 million MD5 hashes the second time, the first one he calls them SHA1 and MD5 hash
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by ElFitz 5y ago
And that’s how France still has VAT & revenue taxes. Revenue tax? Have to pay for that expensive WWI war effort, you understand? For all the good it did. Same with the VAT. Have to rebuild after WWII, you understand. We also have an &qu
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Quite funnily and disturbingly, one the databases of "known CSAM" hashes also apparently includes a picture of a clothed man holding a monkey[1] [1]: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives&
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Here in France, law enforcement & probably some intelligence agencies used to monitor P2P networks for child pornography & content terrorists like to share with one another. Now we have the expensive and pretty much useless "HA
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Hers: Homomorphically Encrypted Representation Search (2020)(hal.cse.msu.edu)
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America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization (2020)(bpr.berkeley.edu)
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Quite funny: looking for some figures, it seems I wasn’t the first one to do so, and that finding anything even remotely reliable isn't easy at all. See - https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114485422875624000 - https
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> Catching CP hoarders does little to help the children being exploited in the first place If there is no market for it, there might be less incentive to produce any more of it. Not that I believe we should all be continuously spied by p
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> We’re talking about actual material in real life, being shared by users and abusers. And, more importantly, material that has been and will be produced through the actual abuse of real children. The spreading of which encourages the pr
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> iPhones require an iCloud account Nope. I have several dev devices. None of which have an iCloud account setup. Didn’t do anything special; just skipped it at setup.
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Like always with Apple. But at least they’re saying they are doing it and supposedly detailing how. Regarding the amount of secrecy on the how, it’s the way they do everything. As for "sharing" the database of "forbidden cont
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by ElFitz 5y ago
That’s the problem with closed-source software in general, and one that can be remotely updated in particular. And I am writing that as a (now formerly?) happy iPhone user. It’s just that I don’t trust it or Apple as much anymore. And altho
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by ElFitz 5y ago
> This is how iOS and apps in general work - you don't really control the amount of data you're using, and you never did. Downloading a changeset of a hash database is not a big deal; I'd wager you get more push notificati
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by ElFitz 5y ago
The one on which a social network used by nearly 3 billion people worldwide (Facebook) bans pictures of centuries old world famous paintings containing naked women, as if it were pornography. The one on which a video hosting platform used b
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by ElFitz 5y ago
True. But, first, it also means anyone, anywhere, as long as they use iOS, is vulnerable to what the US considers to be proper. Which, I will agree, likely won’t be an issue in the case of child pornography. But there’s no way to predict
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by ElFitz 5y ago
Quite thoughtful. Thank you!

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