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by dilap 4y ago
I don't think you're correct -- the phone uploads security vouchers from photos, any photos , to Apple's servers. If enough of the vouchers match the image database, Apple can decrypt the vouchers to a low-rez version of the
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by dilap 4y ago
Sure, if the law requires it, then the company must do it. At that point, you are living under a rather intrusive government!
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by dilap 4y ago
As far as I know, it's not legally required, at least in the US, though I wouldn't be surprised if suggestions from gov behind the scenes were the inspiration for this. I guess the EU is in the process of trying to mandate somethi
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by dilap 4y ago
Well, there is another option: Apple could actually respect your privacy, support end-to-end encryption, and not scan your content at all.
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by dilap 4y ago
But results about matches don't stay on the phone, which I think is clearly a violation of the statement (unless you are interpreting it in an extremely literal way).
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by dilap 4y ago
Yes, that's fair and true -- they promised the scanning would self-limit to content being synched with iCloud. But I think that's pretty thin gruel, since now you're just a feature-flag (or even a bug) away from all content b
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by dilap 4y ago
It was quite a thing to see Apple's huge "What Happens on iPhone, Stays on iPhone" billboards up around town, at the exact same time they were announcing the rollout of a new content-side illegal-material scan-and-notify syst
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by dilap 4y ago
I think that quote can often be the source of misguided beliefs like "it's OK to scan the whole Documents directory". 'Cuz why waste time doing something harder? Premature optimization and all that. Honestly, in my exper
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by dilap 4y ago
Yeah it's funny that every cross-platform UI kit seems to suck, but both Unity and Sublime have in-house custom things that are good. Que pedo, wey.
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by dilap 4y ago
That's a promise you can only keep if almost no one buys anything, though. :-)
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by dilap 4y ago
Ah, interesting, thx!
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High Natural-Gas Prices Push European Manufacturers to Shift to the U.S.(wsj.com)
1 points by dilap 4y ago|0 comments
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by dilap 4y ago
Don't forget stealing Europe's industrial base! https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-natural-gas-prices-push-eu... Honestly as evil as it is, for once the US foreign meddling seems to make sense from a purely st
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U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines, Says Former Polish Defense Minister(forbes.com)
5 points by dilap 4y ago|0 comments
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by dilap 4y ago
Fit and finish has absolutely collapsed in recent Apple software. Glitches and bugs all over the place. It's almost enough to tempt one to see if this really is, finally, the year of Linux of the desktop. Almost. I would disagree about
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by dilap 4y ago
Hopefully something like this catches on w/ smaller podcasters. Listening to shit-quality compressed internet audio in a podcast interviewing someone really interesting is just such a shame!
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by dilap 4y ago
Both good points! I do feel coffee is remarkably subtle. You can easily make a pour-over twice, using exactly the same method and same beans, and have different results. Which is crazy, but true. So there's a lot of room for technique.
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by dilap 4y ago
two things: (1) depending on how good you are, you'll be better than X% of the coffee shops out there. but the converse applies too: somewhere out there, i'd bet, there is a coffee shop making coffee as good or even better than yo
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by dilap 4y ago
I did a quick google and found > The total number of teenagers who recently experienced depression increased 59% between 2007 and 2017. The rate of growth was faster for teen girls (66%) than for boys (44%). ( https://www.pewre
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by dilap 4y ago
Ah, my bad on the timing. Thanks for the correction. Still, I think my logic still holds; if they banned him out of the blue right as the winds changed, it would be obviously political; by waiting for a casus belli (as it were), they can cr
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by dilap 4y ago
Even if in your heart-of-hearts you wanted to ban Trump, I don't think you'd do it then -- seems like bad strategy w/ the various legal challenges to the election still in play.
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by dilap 4y ago
As Bob Dylan sang, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." They banned Trump when he was on the way out, and an administration still very hostile to him and his supporters was on the way in.
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Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?(tabletmag.com)
422 points by dilap 4y ago|758 comments
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by dilap 4y ago
used to be bothered by the same thing but have since adopted one of those "quickly position window" utilities -- so e.g. you can quickly move the whole window to a reasonable column-width in the middle of the screen i use "re
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by dilap 4y ago
Well, I'd take that bet. Perhaps one of the laid-off employees will sue and we'll get to find out. (Meta/off-topic: Someone flagged your comment, so I vouched for it. Viewpoint moderation is dumb and inhibits good conversatio
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by dilap 4y ago
I agree the statement is ambiguous. However, it does seem to be hinting at something . What do you think "layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens" means? Like, what concrete actions do you think
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by dilap 4y ago
Bram Cohen had an interesting twitter thread on this https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1567173122289442824
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by dilap 4y ago
This story is fantastic. It's great because the ending is so unexpected, but then on second thought, exactly what you should've expected. Perfect.
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by dilap 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it was regionally common/"not weird", but I don't know! A personal data-point: I'm a native English speaker from norcal/oregon, and my wife is a native Spanish speaker from Monte
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by dilap 4y ago
Username "barbacoa" strongly suggests they live in TX/MX. I'd guess it's the influence of Spanish, which uses "a" (~ "to" in English) for almost everything.

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